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Nationalist Right-Wing anti-Imperialism, Curry, Kare, Colonization

Feb 25, 2025

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How Japanese curry (kare) intersected with a right wing anti-Western, anti-imperialist movement.

The KKK of the 1920s, and Fascism

Feb 24, 2025

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This is a revised and updated repost of an older post about US support for Nazis during the 1930s. Now it’s a closely related post about the rise of the 1920s KKK. This post needs some rewriting, and more detail.

Rosemead Police/HSI/or ICE Bust

Feb 18, 2025

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I don’t know if this is Homeland Security, but the video says it is. Is it ICE? This happened in Rosemead on Encintas and Mission up in the north side. The cops broke the surveillance camera before breaking in. (If the creator needs to reach me, my tiktok is @johnisveryboring.) My sentiments exactly. This is…

Draft: Unions Should Own LLM Models

Feb 13, 2025

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During the WGA strike of 2023, I was shitposting saying the WGA should have their own AI, because studios were threatening to use AI to eliminate writer jobs. Though I was a newbie with Large Language Model (LLM) chatbots, and I’d only read cursory descriptions about how they worked, it was pretty obvious that they…

Fantasy Vernacular Architecture

Feb 9, 2025

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in Image Generators, Micro Feature

Exploring fantasy buildings made of cinder blocks or earth, in a pyramid-inspired shape. Meta Imagine. Some of the images look like adobe/Southwestern indigenous architecture, Mexican architecture, or Southeast Asian architecture.

(a)political violence; Luigi Mangione’s Manifesto; Propaganda of the Deed

Dec 11, 2024

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Remembering History: the Era of Assassinations Luigi Mangione is not an anarchist, but his assassination attack reminds me of the historic period of anarchist bombings and assassinations in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Propaganda of the Deed was an ideology promoted by Mikhail Bakunin, during the mid to late 19th century, when labor…

A simple refutation of the “Supply and Demand” argument about how new apartment construction will lower rents.

Nov 20, 2024

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Generally, the law of supply and demand operates. Supply of something goes up, and there’s downward pressure on the price of it. However, ask any real estate agent about what determines value, and many will say “location, location, location”. Location obviously matters. Beverly Hills apartments will cost more than East LA apartments, because the location…

Brief Review of Migrating from Gmail and Outlook.com to Proton

Nov 14, 2024

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I have been listening to Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff, and Surveillance Valley by Yasha Levine, so I’m extra paranoid these days. I’m moving my work to Proton and Cryptpad.fr. This document describes how well it’s going. What’s migrating? Email Protonmail has built-in importers for Gmail and Outlook.com (the online email aka Hotmail, not the…

Mass Narcolepsy

Oct 16, 2024

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These images were generated using Meta Imagine, and the prompt “mass narcolepsy at” and the location. The theme is many people falling asleep at inopportune moments. Relax, America.

Orientalism: Music, Edward Said, 1 Year of the Israel-Gaza War

Oct 7, 2024

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(Before digging into this, I’m not going to pretend I’m not an ignorant Orientalist. I have been for most of my life, and I’m listening and reading to overcome this racism. Just because I’m “an Oriental” doesn’t mean I am not Orientalist. -jk) Orientalism explained through Western ideas of what Eastern music sounds like. A…