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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 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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On Andrew Yang’s So-Called Human Centered Capitalism
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Henry George’s Racist Screed Against Chinese People in California, New York Tribune, May 1, 1869
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Jimmy Dore Coddles Fascists
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Letter to Garcetti about Shipping Container Homes
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Indigenous Identity Fraud; Zionist Cultural Theft; Can the subaltern speak?
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Wong Kim Ark in Smithsonian
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COVID-19 Vaccination Inequality
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There Are No Urban Design Courses on Race and Justice, So We Made Our Own Syllabus
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Black Removal in South Central Los Angeles
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Enshittification for AI Training; Bisan Owda
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DALL-E has Problems with “Race Mixing”
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Inventing Black and White
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ChatGPT: Stop Asian Hate, the movie; Meta.ai: Blackpill Poetry about Emily Dickinson
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Turn out for #JusticeForRoques May 1
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First COVID-19 Post
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Village Scale Epidemic Management in Japan
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The KKK of the 1920s, and Fascism
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USCIS New Anti-Immigrant Mission Statement
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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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1908 Anarchist Terrorist Plot by Japanese in America Against the Emperor of Japan!
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Getting Off of Big Tech
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Beauty Calculator Results show AI Training Bias
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Height Discrimination
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On the Vice Asian American, Model Minority and Asian Hate, Panel Video
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The Current Effort to Deny Citizenship to Undocumented Immigrants or Spouses Has a Precedent
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1966 Denial of a Conditional Use for 11339 Dronfield, Pacoima, for Yoshito R. and Michiko Matsuda
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Conservative Hopelessness about Anti-Asian Violence
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Google Shuts off Ads on Ukraine War Content, Demonetizing Political Pages
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About This Blog
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Rosemead Police/HSI/or ICE Bust
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The Book Trust – an attempt to monopolize cheap book production in the 1800s
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Imperial Japan and Islam; Uncommitted; Hillside Villa
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Medium Paywall Blocking Posts
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2010s Gentrification, Protests, Boyle Heights, Arts District
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Nationalist Right-Wing anti-Imperialism, Curry, Kare, Colonization
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The Independent Progressive Party
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Two Videos of People with COVID-19, from Early 2020