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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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Workstyles and Productivity
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Pattern? List of IDs/SKUs on STDIN
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China and Least Developed Countries Free Trade; Cal Gig Worker Law; Running Down the Walls
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2010s Gentrification, Protests, Boyle Heights, Arts District
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The Return of Public Housing
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How to Add a REST API to an Existing Django Project
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Configuring Regolith i3xrocks
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How is that Asian students both international and Asian Americans are so good in college?
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Everyone Hates ICE
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Should Prisoners Have the Vote?
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Social Media
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December 18, 2018 Update
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Get an Oauth2 Token in a Command Line Program
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Redlining was Part of the System of Segregated, Whites-Only Communities
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Fantasy Vernacular Architecture
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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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Good Summary on Bastard Urbanism
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SARS-CoV-2 in the Air
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Reporting Anti-Asian Racist Content to Meta
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Async PHP Libraries and Frameworks
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Repairing Earpad on M98 Headset
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Make Meme/LOLCats Text with the GIMP
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Mid90s and Redlining
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BBB System Configuration Testing Script
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Indigenous Identity Fraud; Zionist Cultural Theft; Can the subaltern speak?
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Trump, Hydroxychloroquine, Zinc, Quercetin, ECGC Catechins, AYCE KBBQ
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AI Machine Learning and Bias Articles
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Long Beach Rent Control Research and Links
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Historic Palestinian Documents at the Lady Izdihar Archive
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Art Spiegelman: golden age superheroes were shaped by the rise of fascism
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Umeboshi Misadventures
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Etsy Helps Create Microbusiness Caucus, a Challenge to Labor Organizing
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Mass Narcolepsy
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Problems Importing CSV into Google Contacts
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The Anti Nazi Parade – history of anti-fascism in Los Angeles (and some fascism)
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70% of Project Homekey Vacant; Chinatown Tenant Wins; Affordable Housing
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Chili History