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Facebook 2009, Part 1
I was participating only lightly in Facebook before 2009. I had gotten a job that required more social media interaction, so I started to post partisan political material on my account. I had some before, but, that’s been deleted. Now I’m deleting this old stuff. February 24, 2009 I don’t check this account often. Please…
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Ezra Klein Discussion with Bhaskar Sunkara of Jacobin
I hadn’t listened to this show before, and my first introduction was the episode before this one. Titled “How Democracies Die”, it irked me, not only in the big picture idea that the center holds things together, but in the particulars of how they picked out Hugo Chavez as their example of an anti-democratic demagogue,…
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Facebook Memories
Every day, Facebook shows you an old post, hoping you will retweet it. I usually delete the originals, and ignore it forever. Now, I’ll archive some of them, here. Return and refresh for updates.
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The End of Facebook
It’s not the end of Facebook, but it’s been increasingly unsatisfying for the past year or so, and I cannot quite pinpoint why. Perhaps it’s the weird feeling of annoyance I get when a post surfaces three days late, or I poke around profiles, and see interesting stuff, while my feed is not always that…
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The Book Trust – an attempt to monopolize cheap book production in the 1800s
Back in 1889, John W. Lovell was attempting to create a “book trust”, or a cartel of book publishers to control prices by limiting competition between the publishers.
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Etsy Helps Create Microbusiness Caucus, a Challenge to Labor Organizing
Congress now has a Microbusiness Caucus, but does it represent workers? I’d say “no”. It’s for Etsy and those other companies, first, and only secondarily for people who sell on Etsy, and, lastly, for all the workers involved in producing for the Etsy marketplace platform.
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Chili History
https://www.texasmonthly.com/food/heyday-chili-con-carne/ Two interesting things I noticed: there’s a Chinese grocery store in the photo. “…one of the Chili Queens’ many forced migrations back and forth across San Antonio—from Military Plaza to Alamo Plaza, Market Square to Haymarket Square, Milam Park back to Military Plaza, and so on. When city fathers decided to “improve” a square,…
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L.A. History: A Mexican Perspective
Link: A Legendarily Censored Chicana Mural Finds Itself Shielded From View Once Again I don’t understand how this mural is “controversial” or “negative”. There’s nothing on there that hasn’t been seen in some TV public affairs programming from the 1970s or 1980s. It’s just what people call LA history. (I don’t even understand how it’s …
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More Little Tokyo Redevelopment, 1969
I went to visit my mother, and she had this old copy of the Nisei Week 1969 program. She was in it! She, my grandma, and I were in a photo. You couldn’t see me, because I was swaddled in a blanket. They weren’t even captioned, because it was a photo of someone else. Anyway,…
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Little Tokyo Urban Renewal 1972, Urban Renewal Researcher from Japan 1968, Gentrification Notes
I’ve been going through the hoard and stumbled on a couple unrelated things that, today, seem related. Gentrification has swept across downtown LA, and it recalls, for some people older than I, Urban Renewal. Urban Renewal was criticized and mocked as really “Negro Removal”. These photos show a couple articles and a letter that all…
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Government Takeover
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Pee Commerce
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Long Beach Rent Control Research and Links
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Old Articles about anti-Zionism and Zionism by Jewish Communists
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There Are No Urban Design Courses on Race and Justice, So We Made Our Own Syllabus
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DALL-E has Problems with “Race Mixing”
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ChatGPT: Stop Asian Hate, the movie
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Prompt Collection 2
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COVID-19 Vaccination Inequality
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Chili History
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Exiting Amazon (Again)
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California Proposition 1, 2018
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Black Removal in South Central Los Angeles
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About This Blog
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Los Angeles Typographical Union ITU 174 at Angelus Rosedale Cemetery
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Professions in Decline, and Some Growing
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Civil Rights Unionism
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Village Scale Epidemic Management in Japan
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Selected Posts from Facebook from January 2020
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The Commodity Fetish
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Selected Posts from Facebook from May 2020
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(a)political violence; Luigi Mangione’s Manifesto; Propaganda of the Deed
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Ghost Kitchens and Food Marketing
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Wong Kim Ark in Smithsonian
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Draft: Unions Should Own LLM Models
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ChatGPT: The Ghost of Marx
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The Purpose of Antisemitism in White Supremacy
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Facebook 2009, Part 1
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Imperial Japan and Islam; Uncommitted; Hillside Villa
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Prompt Collection 1
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What Are You Shooting For? by Roberto Rubalcava et. al. 1993
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Links to MLK Speeches and Writings
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On Andrew Yang’s So-Called Human Centered Capitalism
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Henry George’s Racist Screed Against Chinese People in California, New York Tribune, May 1, 1869
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Prompt Collection 3
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Trolling and Gloating: Masks for COVID-19
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How to take a “tour” of how much damage COVID-19 has done, using the LA County surveillance dashboard.