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May 1, 2025 March and Rally for Immigrant Rights
Join the Rosemead Tenants Union Contingent! Go to the rosemeadtu.org site and sign up for the group, and you’ll eventually get some info.
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2010s Gentrification, Protests, Boyle Heights, Arts District
Recently found photos about Boyle Heights and Arts District gentrification, and added them to this old post, also about the same topic.
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Replacing the Washers in an Old 1960s Price Pfister Two-Faucet Shower
This was a minor pain in the ass, and I’ll go into some detail about the problems I had. I’m complaining a lot in this post.
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Inventing Black and White
Original post on Nov 8, 2024 Inventing Black and White – Learn how Bacon’s Rebellion became a turning point for the way the laws of colonial Virginia distinguished people of different races. (Note that the two classes – poor vs. indentured/slaves – united, but it was to continue the expansion of the colonies into indigenous…
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Getting Off of Big Tech
Messaging Signal and Signal Groups johnk’s haha, a meme and humor group – https://signal.group/#CjQKICj66MMGy-SZzQAflDFLUvPTZex7Hih49TtaEjbq8_5lEhBpaXvFlKR2DFKDw-ph7Thn Signal – a messaging app similar to Messenger, WhatsApp, SMS, Telegram, Line, KakaoTalk. Nonprofit based in the US. Telegram – business based in Russia. Others Matrix / Element – similar to Slack or Discord, but not as smooth. Alternatives to Google…
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Crossword Puzzle Tool
The world was just too depressing for a while, so I didn’t have time to curate the stories I was reading. I just posted a bunch to my bluesky account, @johnkawakami. Instead, I messed around with this crossword puzzle tool. Other Ones Black Reconstruction Racism
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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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Repairing Earpad on M98 Headset
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React Practice
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Study Page for Feasibility and Strategy
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Selected Posts from Facebook from January 2020
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(a)political violence; Luigi Mangione’s Manifesto; Propaganda of the Deed
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The Commodity Fetish
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Draft: Unions Should Own LLM Models
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2010s Gentrification, Protests, Boyle Heights, Arts District
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Creating Email Messages with Clickable Links that Add Events to Your Calendar
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How to take a “tour” of how much damage COVID-19 has done, using the LA County surveillance dashboard.
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Async PHP Libraries and Frameworks
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Redlining was Part of the System of Segregated, Whites-Only Communities
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How is that Asian students both international and Asian Americans are so good in college?
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WordPress Custom HTML Block Strips the LINK and SCRIPT Tags; Workaround with WP-Coder
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ChatGPT Polemics with Style
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Alcohol Didn’t Fix the Mold
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Dodging
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Israel General Strike; IDF Shoots FilAm “Amado Sison”; Labor Zionism and South African white workers
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How do I fix the buzzing and electricity sound when recording on my iPhone?
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DALL-E and NSFW Content, How to Make Your Own
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Imperial Japan and Islam; Uncommitted; Hillside Villa
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Downshiftism
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How to Remove Rusty Scale From Your Toilet Bowl
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Watching COVID-19: The OC
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PHP Attributes Overview, plus Symfony, Doctrine ORM, laravel-php-attributes
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Audacity Recording Problems Choosing an Input Source on Linux Mint
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May 1, 2025 March and Rally for Immigrant Rights
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SARS-CoV-2 in the Air
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On the Precipice of Another Great Depression
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Magic Folder to Convert DOC and OpenOffice to PDF
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Selected Posts from Facebook from May 2020
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More Little Tokyo Redevelopment, 1969
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Birds Eye View of the Government Takeover and Repsonse to Trump
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Professions in Decline, and Some Growing
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Protected: Who Killed Vincent Chin, Blaming Gascon or any District Attorney, and Lame Politics
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Programming Assistant LLMs
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Crossword Puzzle Tool