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Civil Comment about the Civil War
I made this TikTok about Thomas Nast cartoons about white immigrant opposition to Chinese immigration, and part of it discussed the Draft Riots, which were part of the composition in a cartoon. user6041026417578 wrote: I made a long video, but it was boring and I wasn’t certain my interpretation was correct, so I am going…
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Nationalist Right-Wing anti-Imperialism, Curry, Kare, Colonization
How Japanese curry (kare) intersected with a right wing anti-Western, anti-imperialist movement.
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The KKK of the 1920s, and Fascism
This is a revised and updated repost of an older post about US support for Nazis during the 1930s. Now it’s a closely related post about the rise of the 1920s KKK. This post needs some rewriting, and more detail.
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Rosemead Police/HSI/or ICE Bust
I don’t know if this is Homeland Security, but the video says it is. Is it ICE? This happened in Rosemead on Encintas and Mission up in the north side. The cops broke the surveillance camera before breaking in. (If the creator needs to reach me, my tiktok is @johnisveryboring.) My sentiments exactly. This is…
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Draft: Unions Should Own LLM Models
During the WGA strike of 2023, I was shitposting saying the WGA should have their own AI, because studios were threatening to use AI to eliminate writer jobs. Though I was a newbie with Large Language Model (LLM) chatbots, and I’d only read cursory descriptions about how they worked, it was pretty obvious that they…
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Fantasy Vernacular Architecture
Exploring fantasy buildings made of cinder blocks or earth, in a pyramid-inspired shape. Meta Imagine. Some of the images look like adobe/Southwestern indigenous architecture, Mexican architecture, or Southeast Asian architecture.
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(a)political violence; Luigi Mangione’s Manifesto; Propaganda of the Deed
Remembering History: the Era of Assassinations Luigi Mangione is not an anarchist, but his assassination attack reminds me of the historic period of anarchist bombings and assassinations in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Propaganda of the Deed was an ideology promoted by Mikhail Bakunin, during the mid to late 19th century, when labor…
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A simple refutation of the “Supply and Demand” argument about how new apartment construction will lower rents.
Generally, the law of supply and demand operates. Supply of something goes up, and there’s downward pressure on the price of it. However, ask any real estate agent about what determines value, and many will say “location, location, location”. Location obviously matters. Beverly Hills apartments will cost more than East LA apartments, because the location…
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Brief Review of Migrating from Gmail and Outlook.com to Proton
I have been listening to Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff, and Surveillance Valley by Yasha Levine, so I’m extra paranoid these days. I’m moving my work to Proton and Cryptpad.fr. This document describes how well it’s going. What’s migrating? Email Protonmail has built-in importers for Gmail and Outlook.com (the online email aka Hotmail, not the…
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Mass Narcolepsy
These images were generated using Meta Imagine, and the prompt “mass narcolepsy at” and the location. The theme is many people falling asleep at inopportune moments. Relax, America.
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ChatGPT: who writes about late 20th century neoliberalism and the national question
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Prompts to Discover an LLM’s Training about the Anti-Chinese Movement
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Research Sparse about Less Educated Asian American Men in the Labor Market
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Google Shuts off Ads on Ukraine War Content, Demonetizing Political Pages
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DALL-E as Cheese Hegemon and Destroyer of Words: Hamburgers and Pizzas with Mandatory Cheese, and Erasure of Pigs in Blankets
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AI Machine Learning and Bias Articles
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Etsy Helps Create Microbusiness Caucus, a Challenge to Labor Organizing
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I’m a Trollaholic
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SARS-CoV-2 on a Fishing Boat, Seroprevalence in Spain
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The End of Facebook
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Katsuo Carl Imakyure, in Los Angeles 1940
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Tom Bradley Speech, Draft: The Citizen: Power and/or Powerlessness
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The Lotto and Voting Machine Meme is Bugging Me
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Medium Paywall Blocking Posts
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CalCare, AB1400, Single Payer Insurance Readings
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Nationalist Right-Wing anti-Imperialism, Curry, Kare, Colonization
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My Top Favorite Conspiracy Theories
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New COVID Vax; Oceans Overflowing; Tech Ain’t Fixing the Climate; 4Chan->GOP
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COVID-19 Vaccination Inequality
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Beach Cities IMC
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Gubernatorial Candidate Villaraigosa Should Love Ranked Choice Voting (Upd. Jun. 7)
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Protected: What the Heck is Wrong?
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On the Precipice of Another Great Depression
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Height Discrimination
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Indigenous Identity Fraud; Zionist Cultural Theft; Can the subaltern speak?
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The New Normal – Fresh Food Costs More
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Social Media
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Fascism Videos (Explaining It)
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Downshiftism
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February Links
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WSJ Election-Hype Poll about Perceptions of Prejudice Excluded Asians
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Civil Rights Unionism
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First COVID-19 Post
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The Return of Public Housing
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The Purpose of Antisemitism in White Supremacy
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Reporting Anti-Asian Racist Content to Meta