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Nationalist Right-Wing anti-Imperialism, Curry, Kare, Colonization
How Japanese curry (kare) intersected with a right wing anti-Western, anti-imperialist movement.
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The KKK of the 1920s, and Fascism
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.
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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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Professions in Decline, and Some Growing
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Fruit Updates
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Hikes, Walks, and Bookstores
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My Top Favorite Conspiracy Theories
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Protected: Who Killed Vincent Chin, Blaming Gascon or any District Attorney, and Lame Politics
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Protected: ULA: United to House LA
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70% of Project Homekey Vacant; Chinatown Tenant Wins; Affordable Housing
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WordPress Plugin: Corrections 6
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How to Remove Rusty Scale From Your Toilet Bowl
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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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Update for June 18, 2019
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Mid90s and Redlining
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The Return of Public Housing
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Etsy Helps Create Microbusiness Caucus, a Challenge to Labor Organizing
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Workstyles and Productivity
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DALL-E has Problems with “Race Mixing”
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Prompts to Discover an LLM’s Training about the Anti-Chinese Movement
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1908 Anarchist Terrorist Plot by Japanese in America Against the Emperor of Japan!
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Get an Oauth2 Token in a Command Line Program
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IP Address Change, DNS, Icecast2, Ezstream
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About This Blog
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Make Meme/LOLCats Text with the GIMP
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Trolling and Gloating: Masks for COVID-19
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Draft: The Disinformation Landscape, MRAsians, and the Left Avoiding Discussions of Some Issues of Interest
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Machine Learning Notes 2
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CalCare, AB1400, Single Payer Insurance Readings
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On High Rates of Infection in the Latino Communities
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California Cogged Stones: International Trade and Exchange
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December 18, 2018 Update
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Mass Narcolepsy
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The End of Facebook
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Ghost Kitchens and Food Marketing
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Justice for the Roques
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MS Access: VBA CRC32 Function
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ChatGPT Polemics with Style
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Prompt Collection