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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, 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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Jimmy Dore Coddles Fascists
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Prompt Engineering References and Programming
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Racist Housing Policy Made Your Neighborhood
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Katsuo Carl Imakyure, in Los Angeles 1940
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Los Angeles Typographical Union ITU 174 at Angelus Rosedale Cemetery
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Justice for the Roques
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CalCare, AB1400, Single Payer Insurance Readings
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Trolling and Gloating: Masks for COVID-19
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Should Prisoners Have the Vote?
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Reporting Anti-Asian Racist Content to Meta
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Google Shuts off Ads on Ukraine War Content, Demonetizing Political Pages
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How to Add a REST API to an Existing Django Project
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Facebook Memories
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The Lotto and Voting Machine Meme is Bugging Me
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Protected: Getting Up in AI Models
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Erasing Racism with Revisionist History about Ichimatsu Dolls
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The Hose Bibb Flat Washer Conspiracy (000 15/32″ or 11mm)
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Computer Shopping
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Protected: What a Year (Written August 27, 2019)
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Responsive Design + Mobile First = Automated Layouts
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China and Least Developed Countries Free Trade; Cal Gig Worker Law; Running Down the Walls
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Statement from Montanans for Immigrant Justice and Missoula Rises re: Trump’s Pending Executive Order to Stop Separating Families
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Websocket Chat Server Examples
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Problems Importing CSV into Google Contacts
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January 5, 2019 Update
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DIY Dustpan or Daspan
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The Size of Mayan Civilization Compared to the Size of Los Angeles, CA
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Asian American Media Representation, Recommending Feminism
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React Practice
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Getting Meta’s AI, Imagine, to Produce NSFW Images
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Two Errors I’ve Made Interpreting COVID-19 Data, that Others are Also Making
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(a)political violence; Luigi Mangione’s Manifesto; Propaganda of the Deed
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Making a Graduated Cylinder Measuring Cup from a Jar
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Fruit Updates
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Tom Bradley Speech, Draft: The Citizen: Power and/or Powerlessness
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Lifehacks Here
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Pee Commerce