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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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Magic Folder to Convert DOC and OpenOffice to PDF
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1959
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DIY Dustpan or Daspan
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The Purpose of Antisemitism in White Supremacy
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DALL-E has Problems with “Race Mixing”
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Los Angeles Typographical Union ITU 174 at Angelus Rosedale Cemetery
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Meta-Assited WordPress Plugin: Corrections 4
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Etsy Helps Create Microbusiness Caucus, a Challenge to Labor Organizing
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First COVID-19 Post
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Asian American Media Representation, Recommending Feminism
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The Book Trust – an attempt to monopolize cheap book production in the 1800s
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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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Trump, Hydroxychloroquine, Zinc, Quercetin, ECGC Catechins, AYCE KBBQ
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More Little Tokyo Redevelopment, 1969
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Gubernatorial Candidate Villaraigosa Should Love Ranked Choice Voting (Upd. Jun. 7)
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The Current Effort to Deny Citizenship to Undocumented Immigrants or Spouses Has a Precedent
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New COVID Vax; Oceans Overflowing; Tech Ain’t Fixing the Climate; 4Chan->GOP
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Workstyles and Productivity
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Misunderstanding the Purpose of the Model Minority
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ChatGPT on Nationalism
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Good Summary on Bastard Urbanism
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Fixing a Broken Rattan Chair
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Orientalism: Music, Edward Said, 1 Year of the Israel-Gaza War
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Capitalism, Socialism, Cars, Fascism; Asiaphobia in the Black Community; Tipping; Masking; Kamala
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Umeboshi and Maesil Rot
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Quick Installer for Woocommerce
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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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Redlining was Part of the System of Segregated, Whites-Only Communities
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Political Nerdmaxing: Q: Why Are Asians so Right Wing?
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Machine Learning Notes 2
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Racist Housing Policy Made Your Neighborhood
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May 1, 2025 March and Rally for Immigrant Rights
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Selected Posts from Facebook from May 2020
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What Are You Shooting For? by Roberto Rubalcava et. al. 1993
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Old Articles about anti-Zionism and Zionism by Jewish Communists
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Websocket Chat Server Examples
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2010s Gentrification, Protests, Boyle Heights, Arts District