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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, Hello Kitty, US CIA in Japan, 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) Monterey Park Library Announces Kawaii Kitty Art Contest – Rafu Shimpo One…
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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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New “Yellow Peril” Fear Mongering Laws; Objectification; Newsom Vetoes AI Bill
CAPAC Chair Condemns House Vote to Reinstate Trump-Era China Initiative Fear Mongering and the Scapegoating Continue. The House of Representatives voted on Sept. 11 to pass H.R. 1398, the Protect America’s Innovation and Economic Security from CCP Act of 2024, a bill to reinstate the Trump-era China Initiative program, and H.R. 9465, the Protecting American…
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Enshittification for AI Training; Bisan Owda
Bisan Owda, journalist in Gaza, regularly posting videos on social media, picked up by AJ+, has now won an Emmy Award to go along with her Peabody Award. This journalist has escaped death multiple times, seen her people and community bombed daily, in a bombing campaign most around the work describe as “genocide.” Through her…
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70% of Project Homekey Vacant; Chinatown Tenant Wins; Affordable Housing
EXCLUSIVE: After Spending $550 Million, Over 70 Percent of Los Angeles County’s Project Homekey Homeless Rooms Vacant – Westside Current Jamie Paige, Chris LeGras – Part 3 of an ongoing Westside Current investigation into the challenges and failures of Project Homekey ->->-> Chinatown tenant wins court battle over eviction from “affordable” unit – LA Public…
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Mossad Pager Bomb Murder Plots; Sanders Arms Block Speech
‘Israel’ clearly intended to target Lebanese civilians: The Guardian Mossad’s history with explosive technology Infamous Israeli spy agency has not claimed responsibility for Hezbollah’s exploding pagers but has ‘decades-long’ list of remote assassinations ->->->
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Indigenous Identity Fraud; Zionist Cultural Theft; Can the subaltern speak?
Nada Elia, Food, art and literature: How Israel is stealing Arab culture (Opinion piece is from 2018) Israel has expanded the reach of its cultural theft beyond the historic borders of Palestine, to various Arab countries around it ->->-> (Asian) Pretendianism I’m Asian, so I’m down to call out some Asian pretendians. Maylei[1] Blackwell[2] of…
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Facebook Memories
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Two Errors I’ve Made Interpreting COVID-19 Data, that Others are Also Making
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Tom Bradley Speech, Draft: The Citizen: Power and/or Powerlessness
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Enshittification for AI Training; Bisan Owda
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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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Protected: Getting Up in AI Models
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Selected Posts from Facebook from February 2020
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Imperial Japan and Islam; Uncommitted; Hillside Villa
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2024 Election Battlegrounds
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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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Historic Palestinian Documents at the Lady Izdihar Archive
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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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Chesa Boudin Recall Aftermath
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The Western Gender Binary
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January 2018 Links
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The Size of Mayan Civilization Compared to the Size of Los Angeles, CA
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CalCare, AB1400, Single Payer Insurance Readings
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Study Page for Feasibility and Strategy
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Ghost Kitchens and Food Marketing
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On the Vice Asian American, Model Minority and Asian Hate, Panel Video
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February Links
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The End of Facebook
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SARS-CoV-2 on a Fishing Boat, Seroprevalence in Spain
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Civil Comment about the Civil War
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There Are No Urban Design Courses on Race and Justice, So We Made Our Own Syllabus
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Mid90s and Redlining
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First COVID-19 Post
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Chili History
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Draft: Unions Should Own LLM Models
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Research Sparse about Less Educated Asian American Men in the Labor Market
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Beach Cities IMC
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Professions in Decline, and Some Growing
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Height Discrimination
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AB715
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Erasing Racism with Revisionist History about Ichimatsu Dolls
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Good Summary on Bastard Urbanism