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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, 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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Old Articles about anti-Zionism and Zionism by Jewish Communists
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2024 Election Battlegrounds
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Tom Bradley Speech, Draft: The Citizen: Power and/or Powerlessness
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Erasing Racism with Revisionist History about Ichimatsu Dolls
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WordPress AntiSpam Plugin, Configuring Alpine Linux to Send Mail
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Lock File Location for OpenOffice LibreOffice when it says File is Locked for Editing
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Anti-Vaccine Mandate “Debate” Goes Weird Real Quick
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First COVID-19 Post
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Gin and Tonic, Imperialism, and COVID-19
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Debian and Ubuntu Networking Configuration /etc/network/interfaces with a Static IP Address
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Beach Cities IMC
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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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More Little Tokyo Redevelopment, 1969
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Statement from Montanans for Immigrant Justice and Missoula Rises re: Trump’s Pending Executive Order to Stop Separating Families
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DALL-E and Commas that Matter, “young people fighting the war on drugs”, SFW->NSFW
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YIMBY is Anti Rent Control; Polio in Gaza; Archive.org Lawsuit Effects; Chol Soo Lee; Sergio Mendez
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Computer Programmers Labor Union
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Good Summary on Bastard Urbanism
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How to Buy Windows 10 Cheap
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Copyright, “Copyleft”, Creative Commons, Public Domain, Anti-Copyright
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Instagram Censorship Algorithm Failure
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Long Beach Rent Control Research and Links
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China and Least Developed Countries Free Trade; Cal Gig Worker Law; Running Down the Walls
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California Migration Trends and Dianne Feinstein
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Ghost Kitchens and Food Marketing
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Justice for the Roques
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Some Yelp Reviews
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February Links
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Trolling and Gloating: Masks for COVID-19
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Inventing Black and White
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The Anti Nazi Parade – history of anti-fascism in Los Angeles (and some fascism)
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(a)political violence; Luigi Mangione’s Manifesto; Propaganda of the Deed
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1908 Anarchist Terrorist Plot by Japanese in America Against the Emperor of Japan!
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2010s Gentrification, Protests, Boyle Heights, Arts District
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Eviction of Seniors to a COVID-19 Impacted Facility
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Political Nerdmaxing: Q: Why Are Asians so Right Wing?
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What are Lateral Violence and Vertical Violence?