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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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AB715
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The Purpose of Antisemitism in White Supremacy
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Fruit Updates
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On Andrew Yang’s So-Called Human Centered Capitalism
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1966 Denial of a Conditional Use for 11339 Dronfield, Pacoima, for Yoshito R. and Michiko Matsuda
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Computer Programmers Labor Union
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AOC, Gaza; Disappearing Japantowns; Ilhan Omar and Uncommitted
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California Cogged Stones: International Trade and Exchange
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Workstyles and Productivity
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Dodging
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Protected: Getting Up in AI Models
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Trump, Hydroxychloroquine, Zinc, Quercetin, ECGC Catechins, AYCE KBBQ
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February Links
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What are Lateral Violence and Vertical Violence?
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Good Summary on Bastard Urbanism
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Lock File Location for OpenOffice LibreOffice when it says File is Locked for Editing
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On the Precipice of Another Great Depression
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The Book Trust – an attempt to monopolize cheap book production in the 1800s
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How to Use the New AI Chatbots, ChatGPT and Bing Chat AI
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Trump’s ICE War on Los Angeles
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Reading Up on Gang Stalking
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Quick Installer for Woocommerce
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Political Nerdmaxing: Q: Why Are Asians so Right Wing?
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Racist Housing Policy Made Your Neighborhood
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Indigenous Identity Fraud; Zionist Cultural Theft; Can the subaltern speak?
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Draft: Unions Should Own LLM Models
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Prompt Collection
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My Top Favorite Conspiracy Theories
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Misunderstanding the Purpose of the Model Minority
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Should Prisoners Have the Vote?
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WordPress Admin Emails Not Getting Through to Gmail addresses, Docker Container Based WordPress with BusyBox
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Two Errors I’ve Made Interpreting COVID-19 Data, that Others are Also Making
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Machine Learning Notes 2
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CalCare, AB1400, Single Payer Insurance Readings
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There Are No Urban Design Courses on Race and Justice, So We Made Our Own Syllabus
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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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Changing Emails is Hard