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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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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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Artificial Intelligence Reader 1; Timnit Gebru
This is a slapdash list of resources to read, put together as a cram session reading list to get an overview of some aspects of the collision of AI, existing IP, and society. Timnit Gebru
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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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Protected: What a Year (Written August 27, 2019)
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Long Beach Rent Control Research and Links
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Imperial Japan and Islam; Uncommitted; Hillside Villa
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History of the annoying PC “beep”. It’s called a “bell”.
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Fruit Updates
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COVID-19 Vaccination Inequality
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Civil Comment about the Civil War
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Recent Studies Look for Actual Spread of SARS-CoV-2 the COVID-19 Virus
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Etsy Helps Create Microbusiness Caucus, a Challenge to Labor Organizing
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Dodging
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Selected Facebook Posts from March 2020
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The Independent Progressive Party
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WP-CLI: wp wc product update images
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Umeboshi and Maesil Rot
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Eviction of Seniors to a COVID-19 Impacted Facility
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Pattern? List of IDs/SKUs on STDIN
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Letter to Garcetti about Shipping Container Homes
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Alice Johnson is Out, but what about Street Dealers?
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WSJ Election-Hype Poll about Perceptions of Prejudice Excluded Asians
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February Links
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After do-release-upgrade Name Resolver Stops Working
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1959
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January 2018 Links
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(a)political violence; Luigi Mangione’s Manifesto; Propaganda of the Deed
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California Proposition 1, 2018
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Changing Emails is Hard
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2010s Gentrification, Protests, Boyle Heights, Arts District
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Black Removal in South Central Los Angeles
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Ethnic and Unhoused
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WordPress Plugin: Corrections 6
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The KKK of the 1920s, and Fascism
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The Current Effort to Deny Citizenship to Undocumented Immigrants or Spouses Has a Precedent
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Misunderstanding the Purpose of the Model Minority
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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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Treasure Chest, Robert Louis Stevenson Jr. High School Yearbook, 1939
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Getting Off of Big Tech
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The Purpose of Antisemitism in White Supremacy