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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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COVID-19 Hits Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Communities the Hardest; this Paper Has Lessons for All of Us
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Turn Audio Links into inline audio players
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On the Precipice of Another Great Depression
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Ghost Kitchens and Food Marketing
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Links to MLK Speeches and Writings
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Henry George’s Racist Screed Against Chinese People in California, New York Tribune, May 1, 1869
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2024 Election Battlegrounds
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An Argument for the Abolition of the Electoral College
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Gone Missing from the Keyboard
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Eviction of Seniors to a COVID-19 Impacted Facility
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WSJ Election-Hype Poll about Perceptions of Prejudice Excluded Asians
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The Lotto and Voting Machine Meme is Bugging Me
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Lifehacks Here
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Facebook 2009, Part 1
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UK Race Riots and Organizing; Tipping; Masking in Our Community Spaces; Video Channel Links
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ChatGPT Rewrites with Style
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Mass Narcolepsy
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Dodging
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Taking Over “Public School”
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On the Vice Asian American, Model Minority and Asian Hate, Panel Video
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USCIS New Anti-Immigrant Mission Statement
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How is that Asian students both international and Asian Americans are so good in college?
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Do All Asian American Political Orgs Look the Same? (Bing AI confuses two organizations)
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Gemini-Assisted WordPress Plugin: Corrections 2
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DALL-E has Problems with “Race Mixing”
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Facebook Memories
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How to take a “tour” of how much damage COVID-19 has done, using the LA County surveillance dashboard.
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Some Yelp Reviews
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How to Add a REST API to an Existing Django Project
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Wong Kim Ark in Smithsonian
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DALL-E and Commas that Matter, “young people fighting the war on drugs”, SFW->NSFW
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How to Remove Rusty Scale From Your Toilet Bowl
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Historic Palestinian Documents at the Lady Izdihar Archive
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Crossword Puzzle Tool
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Libertarians on Immigration
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COVID-19 Vaccination Inequality
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Commissar-General Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at the End of America