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An Argument for the Abolition of the Electoral College
Why does a candidate sometimes win the popular vote, but lose the Electoral College vote? There are some misconceptions floating around about this. I’ll note them in parentheses in my explanation below: The people’s votes do not directly choose the president. The Electoral College (EC) makes the final decision, following its own rules and the…
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Study Page for Feasibility and Strategy
I went down a rabbit hole after I needed to learn about feasibility; so this is a self-education page about that, organizing, and strategy. Since I don’t have expertise in this, I’m just listing some things I’ve found, or recalled. I’m including business and community and political organizing resources. If you aren’t up for reading,…
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How to Use the New AI Chatbots, ChatGPT and Bing Chat AI
This is a beginner guide to learning these new tools. What are these, and why would we want to know or use these technologies? AI chatbots are computer programs that generate text based on prompts, which are text you type into the chat dialogue.
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Turn out for #JusticeForRoques May 1
It’s one day after the hearing, and I’m still mad. The arraignment is on May 1. Show up. The organization I’m with, PANA, is preparing a statement, but I’ll share my online links below. Before that, I will share several videos from my stories. They had similarities: working class people of color suffering violence. All…
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ChatGPT: Discovers a “Memory Hole” or makes up sources
This was weird. I asked ChatGPT to do this: compare the reddit groups r/asianamerican to r/aznidentity It did, and wrote a few paragraphs. Then I asked it: what are your sources for the last answer? and got this: What the hell were those headlines about?! I just found out about these porn subs this past…
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ChatGPT: Stop Asian Hate, the movie
One of the problems of being an internet hermit is that I don’t know what the hell is happening in pop culture. So I asked the AI to generate a funny script that kind of explains it to me. This prompt took a while to write, but it was a fun process.
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ChatGPT on Nationalism
I asked ChatGPT to write briefs on how different groups view nationalism. By nationalism, I mean what Marxists would call bourgeois nationalism or chauvinism – that is basically what liberal Americans think of when we say “nationalism”.
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ChatGPT: who writes about late 20th century neoliberalism and the national question
The material below was written by the ChatGPT program. Do not take it at face value. ChatGPT often writes something that’s incorrect, but sounds convincing. This is because the AI model is being used to generate semi-random text that conforms to patterns in existing texts. It also appears to have a level of conceptual abstraction…
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Wong Kim Ark in Smithsonian
Smithsonian Magazine has a good article about Wong Kim Ark, who fought to assure birthright citizenship for all Americans. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-the-fight-for-birthright-citizenship-reshaped-asian-american-families-180981866/
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China and Least Developed Countries Free Trade; Cal Gig Worker Law; Running Down the Walls
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Anti-Vaccine Mandate “Debate” Goes Weird Real Quick
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ChatGPT: Discovers a “Memory Hole” or makes up sources
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Get in Touch
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Pee Commerce
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Political Nerdmaxing: Q: Why Are Asians so Right Wing?
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Fantasy Vernacular Architecture
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Gubernatorial Candidate Villaraigosa Should Love Ranked Choice Voting (Upd. Jun. 7)
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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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That “A cluster randomised trial of cloth masks compared with medical masks in healthcare workers” Article the Anti-Mask People are Passing Around, and Getting it Wrong
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Fascism Videos (Explaining It)
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Mass Narcolepsy
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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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Some Yelp Reviews
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Should Prisoners Have the Vote?
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There Are No Urban Design Courses on Race and Justice, So We Made Our Own Syllabus
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Facebook Memories
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L.A. History: A Mexican Perspective
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Down the Rabbit Hole: Traditionalism, Nationalism, Falun Gong, Shen Yun
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USCIS New Anti-Immigrant Mission Statement
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Historic Palestinian Documents at the Lady Izdihar Archive
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Medium Paywall Blocking Posts
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Los Angeles Typographical Union ITU 174 at Angelus Rosedale Cemetery
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Trolling and Gloating: Masks for COVID-19
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Turn out for #JusticeForRoques May 1
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Protected: What the Heck is Wrong?
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Redlining was Part of the System of Segregated, Whites-Only Communities
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Marxist Feminism
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ChatGPT: compare and contrast the different forms of slavery in the different regions
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Brief Review of Migrating from Gmail and Outlook.com to Proton
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CalCare, AB1400, Single Payer Insurance Readings
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Recent Studies Look for Actual Spread of SARS-CoV-2 the COVID-19 Virus
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Ezra Klein Discussion with Bhaskar Sunkara of Jacobin
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SARS-CoV-2 on a Fishing Boat, Seroprevalence in Spain
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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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On Andrew Yang’s So-Called Human Centered Capitalism
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Tom Bradley Speech, Draft: The Citizen: Power and/or Powerlessness