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Rosemead Police/HSI/or ICE Bust
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…
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Draft: Unions Should Own LLM Models
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…
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Fantasy Vernacular Architecture
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.
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(a)political violence; Luigi Mangione’s Manifesto; Propaganda of the Deed
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…
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A simple refutation of the “Supply and Demand” argument about how new apartment construction will lower rents.
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…
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Brief Review of Migrating from Gmail and Outlook.com to Proton
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…
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Mass Narcolepsy
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.
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Orientalism: Music, Edward Said, 1 Year of the Israel-Gaza War
(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…
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Do All Asian American Political Orgs Look the Same? (Bing AI confuses two organizations)
Searching for “asian american advocacy fund”, with the intent of looking for The Asian American Advocacy Fund, which is an organization in Georgia that activates AAPI voters, brought up references to The Asian American Foundation, aka TAAF, a recent astroturf project to represent the interests of centrist, rich Asian Americans. The AI wrote a summary…
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2024 Election Battlegrounds
Polling in Battleground States Harris and Trump are very close in the battleground states (obviously – that’s the definition of a BG). Florida is usually up in play, but this year, it’s going for Trump. Georgia usually goes Republican, but this year, it’s up in play; likewise Arizona. ->->-> Harris continues to win the national…
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ChatGPT: who writes about late 20th century neoliberalism and the national question
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Birds Eye View of the Government Takeover and Repsonse to Trump
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Re: Oakland’s Homeless Americans Die Uncounted As Mayor Protects Illegal Immigrants
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Village Scale Epidemic Management in Japan
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Copyright, “Copyleft”, Creative Commons, Public Domain, Anti-Copyright
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Downshiftism
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Tech Bazillionaires Paid for Anti-Unhoused Anti-Camping Law in San Francisco in 2016
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Machine Learning Notes
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Exiting Amazon (Again)
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Meta-Assited WordPress Plugin: Corrections 4
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Watching COVID-19: The OC
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Prompts to Discover an LLM’s Training about the Anti-Chinese Movement
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Conservative Hopelessness about Anti-Asian Violence
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Crossword Puzzle Tool
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Professions in Decline, and Some Growing
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Repairing Earpad on M98 Headset
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Racism: NatGeo, Housing, Crossword
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New “Yellow Peril” Fear Mongering Laws; Objectification; Newsom Vetoes AI Bill
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COVID-19 Hits Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Communities the Hardest; this Paper Has Lessons for All of Us
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Get an Oauth2 Token in a Command Line Program
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Gone Missing from the Keyboard
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YIMBY is Anti Rent Control; Polio in Gaza; Archive.org Lawsuit Effects; Chol Soo Lee; Sergio Mendez
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DALL-E has Problems with “Race Mixing”
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Problems Importing CSV into Google Contacts
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Rosemead Police/HSI/or ICE Bust
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Websocket Chat Server Examples
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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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Misunderstanding the Purpose of the Model Minority
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w32tm reports the computer did not resync because no time data was available
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Beach Cities IMC
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WP-CLI: wp wc product update images
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Study Page for Feasibility and Strategy
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Selected Posts from June 2020
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WordPress Plugin: Corrections 6
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Gemini-Assisted WordPress Plugin: Corrections 3
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Some Yelp Reviews
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Replacing the Washers in an Old 1960s Price Pfister Two-Faucet Shower