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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.…

  • Ghost Kitchens and Food Marketing

    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…

  • Plastic Tubing Leak Repair Lifehack

    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…

  • 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…

  • Making a Graduated Cylinder Measuring Cup from a Jar

    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?

  • An Argument for the Abolition of the Electoral College

    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…

  • 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,…

  • Protected: Getting Up in AI Models

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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.

  • 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…