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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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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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Do All Asian American Political Orgs Look the Same? (Bing AI confuses two organizations)
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Facebook Memories
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Orientalism: Music, Edward Said, Hello Kitty, US CIA in Japan, 1 Year of the Israel-Gaza War
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The New Normal – Fresh Food Costs More
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WordPress and JSON Schemas Noob Notes
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Imperial Japan and Islam; Uncommitted; Hillside Villa
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Getting Meta’s AI, Imagine, to Produce NSFW Images
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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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Wong Kim Ark in Smithsonian
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First COVID-19 Post
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Indigenous Identity Fraud; Zionist Cultural Theft; Can the subaltern speak?
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YIMBY is Anti Rent Control; Polio in Gaza; Archive.org Lawsuit Effects; Chol Soo Lee; Sergio Mendez
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Meta-Assited WordPress Plugin: Corrections 4
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The Mirror
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Claude-Assisted WordPress Plugin: Correction 7
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Kats Kunitsugu in the Kashu Mainichi
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The Purpose of Antisemitism in White Supremacy
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Google Shuts off Ads on Ukraine War Content, Demonetizing Political Pages
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Get an Oauth2 Token in a Command Line Program
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How to Add a REST API to an Existing Django Project
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Problems Importing CSV into Google Contacts
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Links to MLK Speeches and Writings
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California Migration Trends and Dianne Feinstein
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Downshiftism
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California Cogged Stones: International Trade and Exchange
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Replacing the Washer on a Price Pfister 3H – 8 Series Stem Cartridge
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MS Access: VBA CRC32 Function
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Fantasy Vernacular Architecture
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Statement from Montanans for Immigrant Justice and Missoula Rises re: Trump’s Pending Executive Order to Stop Separating Families
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Computer Shopping
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Columbusing: Eastside
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Using Flatpaks, Doctrine ORM is Meta, Talking Union, and Indexing Free Blogs
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IP Address Change, DNS, Icecast2, Ezstream
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Political Nerdmaxing: Q: Why Are Asians so Right Wing?
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Chili History
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AI Machine Learning and Bias Articles
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Workstyles and Productivity