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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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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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California Proposition 1, 2018
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Rosemead Police/HSI/or ICE Bust
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2010s Gentrification, Protests, Boyle Heights, Arts District
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ChatGPT: Stop Asian Hate, the movie; Meta.ai: Blackpill Poetry about Emily Dickinson; Keeping and Revealing Secrets in ChatGPT
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Protected: Who Killed Vincent Chin, Blaming Gascon or any District Attorney, and Lame Politics
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Art Spiegelman: golden age superheroes were shaped by the rise of fascism
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Beauty Calculator Results show AI Training Bias
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Selected Posts from Facebook from April 2020
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Hillside Villa; NoTechForApartheid
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2024 Election Battlegrounds
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Capitalism, Socialism, Cars, Fascism; Asiaphobia in the Black Community; Tipping; Masking; Kamala
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Reupholstering an Old Chair’s Seat with Scrap Fabric
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Taking Over “Public School”
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Letter to Garcetti about Shipping Container Homes
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Kats Kunitsugu in the Kashu Mainichi
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Israel Arms Embargo Popularity; Israel Collapse; Trans Dehumanization; Local Lists
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NSFW Perplexity AI
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The Western Gender Binary
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Los Angeles Typographical Union ITU 174 at Angelus Rosedale Cemetery
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Links About the Insanity Plea and Housing
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Henry George’s Racist Screed Against Chinese People in California, New York Tribune, May 1, 1869
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UK Race Riots and Organizing; Tipping; Masking in Our Community Spaces; Video Channel Links
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ChatGPT: who writes about late 20th century neoliberalism and the national question
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Fantasy Vernacular Architecture
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What are Lateral Violence and Vertical Violence?
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Eviction of Seniors to a COVID-19 Impacted Facility
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Indigenous Identity Fraud; Zionist Cultural Theft; Can the subaltern speak?
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Tech Bazillionaires Paid for Anti-Unhoused Anti-Camping Law in San Francisco in 2016
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Trolling and Gloating: Masks for COVID-19
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Protected: RIP Mark
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Mass Narcolepsy
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How is that Asian students both international and Asian Americans are so good in college?
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Research Sparse about Less Educated Asian American Men in the Labor Market
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California Migration Trends and Dianne Feinstein
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Ezra Klein Discussion with Bhaskar Sunkara of Jacobin
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Conservative Hopelessness about Anti-Asian Violence