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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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2024 Election Battlegrounds
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Village Scale Epidemic Management in Japan
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Fixing a Broken Rattan Chair
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COVID-19 Vaccination Inequality
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Magic Folder to Convert DOC and OpenOffice to PDF
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This War Does Not Exist
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ChatGPT Rewrites with Style
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Mid90s and Redlining
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The Book Trust – an attempt to monopolize cheap book production in the 1800s
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Indigenous Identity Fraud; Zionist Cultural Theft; Can the subaltern speak?
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The Purpose of Antisemitism in White Supremacy
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Two Errors I’ve Made Interpreting COVID-19 Data, that Others are Also Making
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Taking Over “Public School”
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Fascism Videos (Explaining It)
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Selected Posts from Facebook from April 2020
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ChatGPT on Nationalism
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PHP Attributes Overview, plus Symfony, Doctrine ORM, laravel-php-attributes
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That “A cluster randomised trial of cloth masks compared with medical masks in healthcare workers” Article the Anti-Mask People are Passing Around, and Getting it Wrong
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Columbusing: Eastside
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Root Shell Called Web Shell by oRb
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How Long Does SARS-CoV-2 (Coronavirus) Last on Surfaces
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Trump, Hydroxychloroquine, Zinc, Quercetin, ECGC Catechins, AYCE KBBQ
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Update for June 18, 2019
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Prompts to Discover an LLM’s Training about the Anti-Chinese Movement
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How is that Asian students both international and Asian Americans are so good in college?
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SARS-CoV-2 in the Air
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Rabbit Hole – the Western Fascination with Asian Fascism – Trans and STR8 WMAF Fetish – Racist Mass Murder – and the Rosemead movie
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Tech Bazillionaires Paid for Anti-Unhoused Anti-Camping Law in San Francisco in 2016
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Chesa Boudin Recall Aftermath
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1966 Denial of a Conditional Use for 11339 Dronfield, Pacoima, for Yoshito R. and Michiko Matsuda
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California Migration Trends and Dianne Feinstein
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Audacity Recording Problems Choosing an Input Source on Linux Mint
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w32tm reports the computer did not resync because no time data was available
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On Andrew Yang’s So-Called Human Centered Capitalism
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ChatGPT: Discovers a “Memory Hole” or makes up sources
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Trolling and Gloating: Masks for COVID-19
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Beach Cities IMC