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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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Enshittification for AI Training; Bisan Owda
Bisan Owda, journalist in Gaza, regularly posting videos on social media, picked up by AJ+, has now won an Emmy Award to go along with her Peabody Award. This journalist has escaped death multiple times, seen her people and community bombed daily, in a bombing campaign most around the work describe as “genocide.” Through her…
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Update for June 18, 2019
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Problems Importing CSV into Google Contacts
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Brainwashing and Abuse
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NSFW Perplexity AI
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(a)political violence; Luigi Mangione’s Manifesto; Propaganda of the Deed
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Birds Eye View of the Government Takeover and Repsonse to Trump
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Links About the Insanity Plea and Housing
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Dodging
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Mossad Pager Bomb Murder Plots; Sanders Arms Block Speech
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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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Replacing the Washer on a Price Pfister 3H – 8 Series Stem Cartridge
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Beauty Calculator Results show AI Training Bias
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Katsuo Carl Imakyure, in Los Angeles 1940
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The Murder of Ee Lee
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Selected Posts from Facebook from April 2020
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Long Beach Rent Control Research and Links
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Prunus Mume, lost in translation
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WSJ Election-Hype Poll about Perceptions of Prejudice Excluded Asians
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Machine Learning Notes
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Computer Shopping
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How to Add a REST API to an Existing Django Project
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Quick Installer for Woocommerce
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On the Precipice of Another Great Depression
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I Think There’s Under Counting of Covid-19
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Downshiftism
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Hillside Villa; NoTechForApartheid
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2024 Election Battlegrounds
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Root Shell Called Web Shell by oRb
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SARS-CoV-2 on a Fishing Boat, Seroprevalence in Spain
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Selected Posts from June 2020
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Eviction of Seniors to a COVID-19 Impacted Facility
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Google Shuts off Ads on Ukraine War Content, Demonetizing Political Pages
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Audacity Recording Problems Choosing an Input Source on Linux Mint
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January 5, 2019 Update
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Two Errors I’ve Made Interpreting COVID-19 Data, that Others are Also Making
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The Lotto and Voting Machine Meme is Bugging Me
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The Hose Bibb Flat Washer Conspiracy (000 15/32″ or 11mm)
