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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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Libertarians on Immigration
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ChatGPT: Stop Asian Hate, the movie; Meta.ai: Blackpill Poetry about Emily Dickinson; Keeping and Revealing Secrets in ChatGPT
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Selected Facebook Posts from March 2020
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Pattern? List of IDs/SKUs on STDIN
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Down the Rabbit Hole: Traditionalism, Nationalism, Falun Gong, Shen Yun
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Machine Learning Notes
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70% of Project Homekey Vacant; Chinatown Tenant Wins; Affordable Housing
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Everyone Hates ICE
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Chesa Boudin Recall Aftermath
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Polls; Macron Coup?; ICE Detainees Strike; Technofeudalism
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Anti-Vaccine Mandate “Debate” Goes Weird Real Quick
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Recent Studies Look for Actual Spread of SARS-CoV-2 the COVID-19 Virus
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On the Vice Asian American, Model Minority and Asian Hate, Panel Video
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Turn Audio Links into inline audio players
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The Book Trust – an attempt to monopolize cheap book production in the 1800s
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Prompt Engineering References and Programming
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Opening a Dozen Email Boxes? Use Mozilla Thunderbird (and Donate)
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Selected Posts from Facebook from May 2020
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Downshiftism
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There Are No Urban Design Courses on Race and Justice, So We Made Our Own Syllabus
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Selected Posts from Facebook from January 2020
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Crossword Puzzle Tool
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Chili History
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Political Nerdmaxing: Q: Why Are Asians so Right Wing?
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Ethnic and Unhoused
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The Mirror
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On the Precipice of Another Great Depression
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Brainwashing and Abuse
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Do All Asian American Political Orgs Look the Same? (Bing AI confuses two organizations)
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Tom Bradley Speech, Draft: The Citizen: Power and/or Powerlessness
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How to Add a REST API to an Existing Django Project
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Selected Posts from Facebook from February 2020
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An Argument for the Abolition of the Electoral College
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Study Page for Feasibility and Strategy
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Computer Shopping
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Trump’s ICE War on Los Angeles
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Brief Review of Migrating from Gmail and Outlook.com to Proton