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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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Orientalism: Music, Edward Said, Hello Kitty, US CIA in Japan, 1 Year of the Israel-Gaza War
(Before digging into this, I’m not going to pretend I’m not an ignorant Orientalist. I have been for most of my life, and I’m listening and reading to overcome this racism. Just because I’m “an Oriental” doesn’t mean I am not Orientalist. -jk) Monterey Park Library Announces Kawaii Kitty Art Contest – Rafu Shimpo One…
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Do All Asian American Political Orgs Look the Same? (Bing AI confuses two organizations)
Searching for “asian american advocacy fund”, with the intent of looking for The Asian American Advocacy Fund, which is an organization in Georgia that activates AAPI voters, brought up references to The Asian American Foundation, aka TAAF, a recent astroturf project to represent the interests of centrist, rich Asian Americans. The AI wrote a summary…
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Crossword Puzzle Tool
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70% of Project Homekey Vacant; Chinatown Tenant Wins; Affordable Housing
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California Proposition 1, 2018
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Ezra Klein Discussion with Bhaskar Sunkara of Jacobin
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Rosemead Police/HSI/or ICE Bust
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That “A cluster randomised trial of cloth masks compared with medical masks in healthcare workers” Article the Anti-Mask People are Passing Around, and Getting it Wrong
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There Are No Urban Design Courses on Race and Justice, So We Made Our Own Syllabus
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What are Lateral Violence and Vertical Violence?
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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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Trump, Hydroxychloroquine, Zinc, Quercetin, ECGC Catechins, AYCE KBBQ
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Instagram Censorship Algorithm Failure
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AI Machine Learning and Bias Articles
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February Links
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Dodging
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Copyright, “Copyleft”, Creative Commons, Public Domain, Anti-Copyright
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Selected Posts from June 2020
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On High Rates of Infection in the Latino Communities
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How to Use the New AI Chatbots, ChatGPT and Bing Chat AI
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New “Yellow Peril” Fear Mongering Laws; Objectification; Newsom Vetoes AI Bill
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Brainwashing and Abuse
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Nationalist Right-Wing anti-Imperialism, Curry, Kare, Colonization
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Eviction of Seniors to a COVID-19 Impacted Facility
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UK Race Riots and Organizing; Tipping; Masking in Our Community Spaces; Video Channel Links
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Health Insurance; Prisoner Laborers; Macron Shits on the Left, Appoints Right Winger PM
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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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Beach Cities IMC
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Anti-Vaccine Mandate “Debate” Goes Weird Real Quick
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Protected: Who Killed Vincent Chin, Blaming Gascon or any District Attorney, and Lame Politics
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Protected: Getting Up in AI Models
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Historic Palestinian Documents at the Lady Izdihar Archive
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Tom Bradley Speech, Draft: The Citizen: Power and/or Powerlessness
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DALL-E and Commas that Matter, “young people fighting the war on drugs”, SFW->NSFW
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Asian American Media Representation, Recommending Feminism
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Los Angeles Typographical Union ITU 174 at Angelus Rosedale Cemetery
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Protected: What the Heck is Wrong?
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Capitalism, Socialism, Cars, Fascism; Asiaphobia in the Black Community; Tipping; Masking; Kamala