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There Are No Urban Design Courses on Race and Justice, So We Made Our Own Syllabus
Black students at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design say there are no design courses that consider race and justice. Here’s an outline for one. Source: There Are No Urban Design Courses on Race and Justice, So We Made Our Own Syllabus
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The Return of Public Housing
Bookmarking to read later; Statement in Opposition to Sb 827 – Luxury Development for the Rich, Displacement and Dispossession for the Poor
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The New Cognitive Property
This looks promising: The New Cognitive Property It’s about intellectual property and something they call “cognitive property” which fits in between IP and the data we produce as workers or consumers. Sharing before reading…
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Ad Targeting Allows Racial Discrimination in Housing Advertisements
Facebook is being sued by a prominent civil rights group for alleged discrimination in advertising. The plaintiffs say Facebook allowed landlords to exclude women and people with children from seeing housing ads. Source: No women or families: Facebook sued over ‘insidious’ housing ads — RT US News
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About that shocking video of hundreds of homeless people in Orange County
People need to be ready to be stunned by what they see.
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Letter to Garcetti about Shipping Container Homes
Mr. Mayor: Thank you for finally doing something to help house the homeless people around the Plaza. It’s gone out of control, with rents rising, and whatnot. People don’t think it’s a big deal to live out of a tent or their car, anymore. That’s where we’re at, as a city and country, and I…
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Your own Twitter virtual troll army
I need to assemble one of these: How A Twitter Fight Over Bernie Sanders Revealed A Network Of Fake Accounts She had a virtual army of trolls. She got some real accounts, and probably made a lot more, and then used Buffer to control them. Meanwhile, the Bernie side was like the opposite. We’d call…
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National Geographic want you to accept their apology for being racist AF
Dustin Seibert wrote about his personal experiences with the Nat Geo: Why the colonizers at National Geographic want you to accept their apology for being racist AF – theGrio Let me see if I can find the photos I have of a 1930s issue of the Nat that I had, before I threw it out.…
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Re: Oakland’s Homeless Americans Die Uncounted As Mayor Protects Illegal Immigrants
Source: Oakland’s Homeless Americans Die Uncounted As Mayor Protects Illegal Immigrants I found that article on an aggreagtor, and replied to it, rather than the original. So I posted the response here, figuring it wouldn’t get approved. I then found the original, and looked at the comment section. Zerohedge commenters are a bunch of libertarians…
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Recent Mean and Hateful Comments on YouTube Anti-Gentrification March Video
I don’t know why, but there is so much hate and rage on YouTube. I have a video from a Defend Boyle Heights anti-gentrification march, and there are some pretty mean comments.
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Gubernatorial Candidate Villaraigosa Should Love Ranked Choice Voting (Upd. Jun. 7)
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Kare, Curry, anti-Imperialism, Colonization
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Libertarians on Immigration
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John Brown by W.E.B. DuBois Book Club
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Rosemead Police/HSI/or ICE Bust
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Beauty Calculator Results
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Slow Progress on the Flooded Apartment
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1959
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Professions in Decline, and Some Growing
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ChatGPT: Marx on Quality and Quantity
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Letter to Congress about DeJoy
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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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SpaceHey, Liker
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California Proposition 1, 2018
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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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Selected Facebook Posts from March 2020
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Health Insurance; Prisoner Laborers; Macron Shits on the Left, Appoints Right Winger PM
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Draft: Unions Should Own LLM Models
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February Links
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AI Generated Image of Itself
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Selected Posts from June 2020
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Government Takeover
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Height Discrimination
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Housing and Market Forces
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Jimmy Dore Coddles Fascists
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DALL-E and NSFW Content, How to Make Your Own
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Prompts to Discover an LLM’s Training about the Anti-Chinese Movement
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There Are No Urban Design Courses on Race and Justice, So We Made Our Own Syllabus
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The Anti Nazi Parade – history of anti-fascism in Los Angeles (and some fascism)
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Cutting the Avocado Tree
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On High Rates of Infection in the Latino Communities
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Erasing Racism with Revisionist History about Ichimatsu Dolls
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Katsuo Carl Imakyure, in Los Angeles 1940
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Village Scale Epidemic Management in Japan
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Little Tokyo Urban Renewal 1972, Urban Renewal Researcher from Japan 1968, Gentrification Notes
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Decoupage with Old Newsprint
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The New Normal – Fresh Food Costs More