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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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Prunus Mume, lost in translation
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Configuring Regolith i3xrocks
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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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Draft: The Disinformation Landscape, MRAsians, and the Left Avoiding Discussions of Some Issues of Interest
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Copyright, “Copyleft”, Creative Commons, Public Domain, Anti-Copyright
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January 2018 Links
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IP Address Change, DNS, Icecast2, Ezstream
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WSJ Election-Hype Poll about Perceptions of Prejudice Excluded Asians
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Lock File Location for OpenOffice LibreOffice when it says File is Locked for Editing
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What Are You Shooting For? by Roberto Rubalcava et. al. 1993
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ChatGPT on Nationalism
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A simple refutation of the “Supply and Demand” argument about how new apartment construction will lower rents.
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Polls; Macron Coup?; ICE Detainees Strike; Technofeudalism
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Columbusing: Eastside
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The New Normal – Fresh Food Costs More
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Downshiftism
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Selected Posts from Facebook from February 2020
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Using Flatpaks, Doctrine ORM is Meta, Talking Union, and Indexing Free Blogs
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Ezra Klein Discussion with Bhaskar Sunkara of Jacobin
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Alice Johnson is Out, but what about Street Dealers?
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Root Shell Called Web Shell by oRb
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Asian American Media Representation, Recommending Feminism
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Links About the Insanity Plea and Housing
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Update for June 18, 2019
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The Lotto and Voting Machine Meme is Bugging Me
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Turn Audio Links into inline audio players
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Machine Learning Notes
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Google Shuts off Ads on Ukraine War Content, Demonetizing Political Pages
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How do I fix the buzzing and electricity sound when recording on my iPhone?
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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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Crossplatform Keyboard Mappings for MacOS, GNOME, and Windows
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Anti-Pedo Fascists
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Gone Missing from the Keyboard
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Gin and Tonic, Imperialism, and COVID-19
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Chili History
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DALL-E as Cheese Hegemon and Destroyer of Words: Hamburgers and Pizzas with Mandatory Cheese, and Erasure of Pigs in Blankets
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Cascading Failures Due to Failing RAID1 on Linux