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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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ChatGPT on Nationalism
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I Think There’s Under Counting of Covid-19
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Crossplatform Keyboard Mappings for MacOS, GNOME, and Windows
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How to Add a REST API to an Existing Django Project
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AI Machine Learning and Bias Articles
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COVID-19 Vaccination Inequality
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Umeboshi Misadventures
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Redlining was Part of the System of Segregated, Whites-Only Communities
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Draft: Unions Should Own LLM Models
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Etsy Helps Create Microbusiness Caucus, a Challenge to Labor Organizing
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1966 Denial of a Conditional Use for 11339 Dronfield, Pacoima, for Yoshito R. and Michiko Matsuda
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Instagram Censorship Algorithm Failure
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L.A. History: A Mexican Perspective
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Fantasy Vernacular Architecture
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The Independent Progressive Party
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DIY Dustpan or Daspan
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Hikes, Walks, and Bookstores
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The Return of Public Housing
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Ezra Klein Discussion with Bhaskar Sunkara of Jacobin
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Programming Assistant LLMs
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WordPress Plugin: Corrections 6
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Rabbit Hole – the Western Fascination with Asian Fascism – Trans and STR8 WMAF Fetish – Racist Mass Murder – and the Rosemead movie
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Repairing Earpad on M98 Headset
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Problems Importing CSV into Google Contacts
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Health Insurance; Prisoner Laborers; Macron Shits on the Left, Appoints Right Winger PM
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Little Tokyo Urban Renewal 1972, Urban Renewal Researcher from Japan 1968, Gentrification Notes
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Marxist Feminism
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What are Lateral Violence and Vertical Violence?
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Google Shuts off Ads on Ukraine War Content, Demonetizing Political Pages
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Israel General Strike; IDF Shoots FilAm “Amado Sison”; Labor Zionism and South African white workers
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Prompt Collection
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Fruit Updates
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Umeboshi and Maesil Rot
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SARS-CoV-2 in the Air
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There Are No Urban Design Courses on Race and Justice, So We Made Our Own Syllabus
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Racist Housing Policy Made Your Neighborhood
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Magic Folder to Convert DOC and OpenOffice to PDF