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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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DALL-E has Problems with “Race Mixing”
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I’m a Trollaholic
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Selected Posts from Facebook from April 2020
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USCIS New Anti-Immigrant Mission Statement
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Down the Rabbit Hole: Traditionalism, Nationalism, Falun Gong, Shen Yun
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ChatGPT: Discovers a “Memory Hole” or makes up sources
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Wong Kim Ark in Smithsonian
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Imperial Japan and Islam; Uncommitted; Hillside Villa
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On the Vice Asian American, Model Minority and Asian Hate, Panel Video
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WSJ Election-Hype Poll about Perceptions of Prejudice Excluded Asians
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Brief Review of Migrating from Gmail and Outlook.com to Proton
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California Cogged Stones: International Trade and Exchange
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Civil Rights Unionism
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Asian American Media Representation, Recommending Feminism
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The Independent Progressive Party
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Gin and Tonic, Imperialism, and COVID-19
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Fantasy Vernacular Architecture
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The Return of Public Housing
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COVID-19 Vaccination Inequality
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Rosemead Police/HSI/or ICE Bust
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Reading Up on Gang Stalking
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Chesa Boudin Recall Aftermath
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Letter to Garcetti about Shipping Container Homes
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COVID-19 Hits Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Communities the Hardest; this Paper Has Lessons for All of Us
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Ghost Kitchens and Food Marketing
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ChatGPT on Nationalism
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About This Blog
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Turn out for #JusticeForRoques May 1
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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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Some Yelp Reviews
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Little Tokyo Urban Renewal 1972, Urban Renewal Researcher from Japan 1968, Gentrification Notes
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Protected: RIP Mark
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Protected: What the Heck is Wrong?
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May 1, 2025 March and Rally for Immigrant Rights
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Political Nerdmaxing: Q: Why Are Asians so Right Wing?
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Draft: Unions Should Own LLM Models