admin
-
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.
-
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…
-
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.
-
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.
-
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,…
-
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 …
-
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,…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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/
-
Adding Google OAuth Authentication to the Symfony HWI OAuth Bundle
-
How is that Asian students both international and Asian Americans are so good in college?
-
A simple refutation of the “Supply and Demand” argument about how new apartment construction will lower rents.
-
Polls; Macron Coup?; ICE Detainees Strike; Technofeudalism
-
Gemini-Assisted WordPress Plugin: Corrections 3
-
How Long Does SARS-CoV-2 (Coronavirus) Last on Surfaces
-
w32tm reports the computer did not resync because no time data was available
-
WordPress and JSON Schemas Noob Notes
-
Turn out for #JusticeForRoques May 1
-
Trump’s ICE War on Los Angeles
-
The Western Gender Binary
-
Selected Posts from Facebook from April 2020
-
Hillside Villa; NoTechForApartheid
-
Good Summary on Bastard Urbanism
-
Mid90s and Redlining
-
Commissar-General Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at the End of America
-
Opening a Dozen Email Boxes? Use Mozilla Thunderbird (and Donate)
-
Reading Up on Gang Stalking
-
Google Shuts off Ads on Ukraine War Content, Demonetizing Political Pages
-
Links to MLK Speeches and Writings
-
DALL-E as Cheese Hegemon and Destroyer of Words: Hamburgers and Pizzas with Mandatory Cheese, and Erasure of Pigs in Blankets
-
ChatGPT: Stop Asian Hate, the movie; Meta.ai: Blackpill Poetry about Emily Dickinson; Keeping and Revealing Secrets in ChatGPT
-
How to Add a REST API to an Existing Django Project
-
Conservative Hopelessness about Anti-Asian Violence
-
Protected: What the Heck is Wrong?
-
WP-CLI: wp wc product update images
-
Getting Meta’s AI, Imagine, to Produce NSFW Images
-
Rosemead Police/HSI/or ICE Bust
-
USCIS New Anti-Immigrant Mission Statement
-
UK Race Riots and Organizing; Tipping; Masking in Our Community Spaces; Video Channel Links
-
Statement from Montanans for Immigrant Justice and Missoula Rises re: Trump’s Pending Executive Order to Stop Separating Families
-
Fascism Videos (Explaining It)
-
California Proposition 1, 2018
-
Protected: Who Killed Vincent Chin, Blaming Gascon or any District Attorney, and Lame Politics
-
Magic Folder to Convert DOC and OpenOffice to PDF
-
Copyright, “Copyleft”, Creative Commons, Public Domain, Anti-Copyright