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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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On High Rates of Infection in the Latino Communities
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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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Online Editors with Compilers for Different Computer Languages
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Async PHP Libraries and Frameworks
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2010s Gentrification, Protests, Boyle Heights, Arts District
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Old Articles about anti-Zionism and Zionism by Jewish Communists
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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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Configuring Regolith i3xrocks
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BBB System Configuration Testing Script
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Pee Commerce
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WSJ Election-Hype Poll about Perceptions of Prejudice Excluded Asians
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Libertarians on Immigration
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Social Media
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Brief Review of Migrating from Gmail and Outlook.com to Proton
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Protected: Getting Up in AI Models
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Computer Shopping
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Umeboshi Misadventures
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Debian and Ubuntu Networking Configuration /etc/network/interfaces with a Static IP Address
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Health Insurance; Prisoner Laborers; Macron Shits on the Left, Appoints Right Winger PM
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Alice Johnson is Out, but what about Street Dealers?
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Computer Programmers Labor Union
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The Independent Progressive Party
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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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Fantasy Vernacular Architecture
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Reupholstering an Old Chair’s Seat with Scrap Fabric
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Selected Posts from Facebook from February 2020
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The New Normal – Fresh Food Costs More
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Selected Posts from June 2020
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Statement from Montanans for Immigrant Justice and Missoula Rises re: Trump’s Pending Executive Order to Stop Separating Families
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Lifehacks Here
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COVID-19 Vaccination Inequality
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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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More Little Tokyo Redevelopment, 1969
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The End of Facebook
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AI Machine Learning and Bias Articles
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Gone Missing from the Keyboard