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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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Kats Kunitsugu in the Kashu Mainichi
I came across this column, and read it, and was moved. I searched for a clipping (shown above) that I was selling, of Kats Kunitsugu giving something to Ed Roybal to support his run for Lt. Governor in 1954. It was gone. I couldn’t find it. It was some East LA history there, and I…
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The Anti Nazi Parade – history of anti-fascism in Los Angeles (and some fascism)
https://barrioboychik.wordpress.com/2015/11/22/the-anti-nazi-parade-boyle-heights-1938/
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Civil Comment about the Civil War
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Text of Vladimir Putin’s Speech on Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine, and Text of Zelensky’s Address to the Russian People (all Translated to English)
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Turn out for #JusticeForRoques May 1
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How to Buy Windows 10 Cheap
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Katsuo Carl Imakyure, in Los Angeles 1940
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New COVID Vax; Oceans Overflowing; Tech Ain’t Fixing the Climate; 4Chan->GOP
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Taking Over “Public School”
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AI Machine Learning and Bias Articles
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Selected Posts from Facebook from April 2020
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Tech Bazillionaires Paid for Anti-Unhoused Anti-Camping Law in San Francisco in 2016
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Make Meme/LOLCats Text with the GIMP
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Gone Missing from the Keyboard
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1908 Anarchist Terrorist Plot by Japanese in America Against the Emperor of Japan!
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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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Copyright, “Copyleft”, Creative Commons, Public Domain, Anti-Copyright
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Get an Oauth2 Token in a Command Line Program
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ChatGPT: Stop Asian Hate, the movie; Meta.ai: Blackpill Poetry about Emily Dickinson; Keeping and Revealing Secrets in ChatGPT
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Brainwashing and Abuse
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Machine Learning Notes 2
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Root Shell Called Web Shell by oRb
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How do I fix the buzzing and electricity sound when recording on my iPhone?
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On the Vice Asian American, Model Minority and Asian Hate, Panel Video
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ChatGPT: Discovers a “Memory Hole” or makes up sources
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History of the annoying PC “beep”. It’s called a “bell”.
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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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Alice Johnson is Out, but what about Street Dealers?
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Letter to Garcetti about Shipping Container Homes
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Computer Programmers Labor Union
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Cascading Failures Due to Failing RAID1 on Linux
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How to Remove Rusty Scale From Your Toilet Bowl
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WSJ Election-Hype Poll about Perceptions of Prejudice Excluded Asians
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DALL-E and NSFW Content, How to Make Your Own
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Civil Rights Unionism
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Etsy Helps Create Microbusiness Caucus, a Challenge to Labor Organizing
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Kats Kunitsugu in the Kashu Mainichi
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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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Run a Shiny Server with the rocker/shiny and Docker-Compose on Debian or Ubuntu