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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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70% of Project Homekey Vacant; Chinatown Tenant Wins; Affordable Housing
EXCLUSIVE: After Spending $550 Million, Over 70 Percent of Los Angeles County’s Project Homekey Homeless Rooms Vacant – Westside Current Jamie Paige, Chris LeGras – Part 3 of an ongoing Westside Current investigation into the challenges and failures of Project Homekey ->->-> Chinatown tenant wins court battle over eviction from “affordable” unit – LA Public…
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Mossad Pager Bomb Murder Plots; Sanders Arms Block Speech
‘Israel’ clearly intended to target Lebanese civilians: The Guardian Mossad’s history with explosive technology Infamous Israeli spy agency has not claimed responsibility for Hezbollah’s exploding pagers but has ‘decades-long’ list of remote assassinations ->->->
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Indigenous Identity Fraud; Zionist Cultural Theft; Can the subaltern speak?
Nada Elia, Food, art and literature: How Israel is stealing Arab culture (Opinion piece is from 2018) Israel has expanded the reach of its cultural theft beyond the historic borders of Palestine, to various Arab countries around it ->->-> (Asian) Pretendianism I’m Asian, so I’m down to call out some Asian pretendians. Maylei[1] Blackwell[2] of…
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China and Least Developed Countries Free Trade; Cal Gig Worker Law; Running Down the Walls
Next week is Running Down The Walls 5K WHAT: Running Down the Walls – 5k Run/Walk/Jog/Roll // WHEN: 10:00am-1:00pm, Sunday, September 15th, 2024 // WHERE: 751 Echo Park Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90026 // COST: We are asking for $20 registration fee. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. Donation link
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YIMBY is Anti Rent Control; Polio in Gaza; Archive.org Lawsuit Effects; Chol Soo Lee; Sergio Mendez
How a disease the world (mostly) vanquished reared its head in Gaza by Abdallah Fayyad Israel’s attacks on Gaza created conditions for polio to spread. Now, a vaccination campaign is racing against time. ->->-> Scientists are closing in on the true, horrifying scale of death and disease in Gaza by Devi Sridhar The discovery of…
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Prompt Collection
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Computer Programmers Labor Union
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Enshittification for AI Training; Bisan Owda
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ChatGPT Rewrites with Style
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DALL-E and NSFW Content, How to Make Your Own
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Conservative Hopelessness about Anti-Asian Violence
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Inventing Black and White
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Programming Assistant LLMs
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The End of Facebook
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The Return of Public Housing
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I’m a Trollaholic
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Research Sparse about Less Educated Asian American Men in the Labor Market
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Anti-Vaccine Mandate “Debate” Goes Weird Real Quick
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Replacing the Washers in an Old 1960s Price Pfister Two-Faucet Shower
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How to Add a REST API to an Existing Django Project
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Hikes, Walks, and Bookstores
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The Size of Mayan Civilization Compared to the Size of Los Angeles, CA
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Henry George’s Racist Screed Against Chinese People in California, New York Tribune, May 1, 1869
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An Argument for the Abolition of the Electoral College
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Linux Nautilus Trash Folder Stopped Working
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Problems Importing CSV into Google Contacts
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Reading Up on Gang Stalking
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Marxist Feminism
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My Home Backup System (Triple Backups)
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Racism: NatGeo, Housing, Crossword
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L.A. History: A Mexican Perspective
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DIY Dustpan or Daspan
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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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Justice for the Roques
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Fantasy Vernacular Architecture
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Prompts to Discover an LLM’s Training about the Anti-Chinese Movement
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February Links
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Study Page for Feasibility and Strategy
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Crossplatform Keyboard Mappings for MacOS, GNOME, and Windows
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Set Up an HP P1102w Printer on Ubuntu Linux
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Protected: What the Heck is Wrong?
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Selected Posts from Facebook from February 2020
