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Fixing a Broken Rattan Chair
Here are some photos. I’ll explain below. The orange thing is called a ratcheting strap. It’s a strap that has a ratched thing that tightens it up. The ends of the strap have hooks. It basically replaces rope, and lets you tighten it. The brown product is epoxy. I had some of this left over.…
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Ghost Kitchens and Food Marketing
I’m really enjoying reading What’s it Like Working in a Ghost Kitchen. It’s interesting how I don’t really think of retail restaurants correctly – I think that the shop is producing all the products sold there. They aren’t. They are producing the final product – the food in the bag – but the components might…
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Plastic Tubing Leak Repair Lifehack
If you have any amount of plastic tubing, like the 1/4 plastic tube used to feed the water fountain on the sink, or the icemaker and water dispenser on the refrigerator, you should get one of these coupling joints, part number PP040WD, PL-3000, SKU 707102. It’ll save you a lot of headache when the plastic…
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The Western Gender Binary
This page is going to become a list of links to articles about the ideas of Judith Butler, and some feminist texts. History: I was intending to do a reading group for Gender Trouble, but this seems to not be in favor in the group at this time, which is during the Israeli retaliation bombing…
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Making a Graduated Cylinder Measuring Cup from a Jar
Have you ever needed a measuring cup, but didn’t want to use your cooking measuring cups, because you were going to measure something like an automotive fluid?
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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 Polemics with Style
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Alice Johnson is Out, but what about Street Dealers?
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w32tm reports the computer did not resync because no time data was available
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Update for June 18, 2019
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Ghost Kitchens and Food Marketing
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Kats Kunitsugu in the Kashu Mainichi
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Village Scale Epidemic Management in Japan
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DALL-E and Commas that Matter, “young people fighting the war on drugs”, SFW->NSFW
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New “Yellow Peril” Fear Mongering Laws; Objectification; Newsom Vetoes AI Bill
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China and Least Developed Countries Free Trade; Cal Gig Worker Law; Running Down the Walls
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Racism: NatGeo, Housing, Crossword
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Medium Paywall Blocking Posts
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Protected: What the Heck is Wrong?
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How to Remove Rusty Scale From Your Toilet Bowl
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The Current Effort to Deny Citizenship to Undocumented Immigrants or Spouses Has a Precedent
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Two Errors I’ve Made Interpreting COVID-19 Data, that Others are Also Making
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Downshiftism
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Brief Review of Migrating from Gmail and Outlook.com to Proton
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Python Data Science Study
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How do I fix the buzzing and electricity sound when recording on my iPhone?
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Gemini-Assisted WordPress Plugin: Corrections 2
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Jimmy Dore Coddles Fascists
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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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Historic Palestinian Documents at the Lady Izdihar Archive
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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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Misunderstanding the Purpose of the Model Minority
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2010s Gentrification, Protests, Boyle Heights, Arts District
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Exiting Amazon (Again)
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(a)political violence; Luigi Mangione’s Manifesto; Propaganda of the Deed
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Down the Rabbit Hole: Traditionalism, Nationalism, Falun Gong, Shen Yun
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Art Spiegelman: golden age superheroes were shaped by the rise of fascism
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Reupholstering an Old Chair’s Seat with Scrap Fabric
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First COVID-19 Post
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ChatGPT: compare and contrast the different forms of slavery in the different regions
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Enshittification for AI Training; Bisan Owda
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Claude-Assisted WordPress Plugin: Correction 7
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Links About the Insanity Plea and Housing