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Libertarians on Immigration
I was reading some random web pages, and came across an article (not linked) advocating that libertarians should support immigration controls. It was a baffling article, and stuck in my craw, because the old school libertarians were for open borders. They’re way past where the Democrats and some socialists are. They’re way over in anarchy-land.
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The Size of Mayan Civilization Compared to the Size of Los Angeles, CA
The mapping of around 60,000 buildings in the Mayan Biosphere Reserve of Guatemala has revealed a civilization much larger than previously estimated, at an estimated 10 million people. See how this compares to Los Angeles County, an area with 10 million people.
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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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Responsive Design + Mobile First = Automated Layouts
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February Links
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Conservative Hopelessness about Anti-Asian Violence
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On High Rates of Infection in the Latino Communities
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California Proposition 1, 2018
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Adding Google OAuth Authentication to the Symfony HWI OAuth Bundle
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Websocket Chat Server Examples
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Etsy Helps Create Microbusiness Caucus, a Challenge to Labor Organizing
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Crossplatform Keyboard Mappings for MacOS, GNOME, and Windows
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How is that Asian students both international and Asian Americans are so good in college?
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Get in Touch
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A simple refutation of the “Supply and Demand” argument about how new apartment construction will lower rents.
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Mid90s and Redlining
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Tech Bazillionaires Paid for Anti-Unhoused Anti-Camping Law in San Francisco in 2016
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Kats Kunitsugu in the Kashu Mainichi
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Replacing the Washers in an Old 1960s Price Pfister Two-Faucet Shower
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Inventing Black and White
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On the Vice Asian American, Model Minority and Asian Hate, Panel Video
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Fixing a Broken Rattan Chair
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Beauty Calculator Results show AI Training Bias
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Political Nerdmaxing: Q: Why Are Asians so Right Wing?
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Umeboshi and Maesil Rot
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Imperial Japan and Islam; Uncommitted; Hillside Villa
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Gone Missing from the Keyboard
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Computer Shopping
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Indigenous Identity Fraud; Zionist Cultural Theft; Can the subaltern speak?
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2010s Gentrification, Protests, Boyle Heights, Arts District
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Set Up an HP P1102w Printer on Ubuntu Linux
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Israel Arms Embargo Popularity; Israel Collapse; Trans Dehumanization; Local Lists
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Eviction of Seniors to a COVID-19 Impacted Facility
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Polls; Macron Coup?; ICE Detainees Strike; Technofeudalism
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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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AB715
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China and Least Developed Countries Free Trade; Cal Gig Worker Law; Running Down the Walls
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Make Meme/LOLCats Text with the GIMP
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Replacing the Washer on a Price Pfister 3H – 8 Series Stem Cartridge
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Magic Folder to Convert DOC and OpenOffice to PDF