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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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Copyright, “Copyleft”, Creative Commons, Public Domain, Anti-Copyright
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Gin and Tonic, Imperialism, and COVID-19
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Commissar-General Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at the End of America
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Redlining was Part of the System of Segregated, Whites-Only Communities
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Mid90s and Redlining
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Conservative Hopelessness about Anti-Asian Violence
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Selected Posts from June 2020
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Historic Palestinian Documents at the Lady Izdihar Archive
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Israel General Strike; IDF Shoots FilAm “Amado Sison”; Labor Zionism and South African white workers
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Treasure Chest, Robert Louis Stevenson Jr. High School Yearbook, 1939
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Black Removal in South Central Los Angeles
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Brainwashing and Abuse
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Chesa Boudin Recall Aftermath
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There Are No Urban Design Courses on Race and Justice, So We Made Our Own Syllabus
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Hillside Villa; NoTechForApartheid
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Political Nerdmaxing: Q: Why Are Asians so Right Wing?
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The KKK of the 1920s, and Fascism
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What Are You Shooting For? by Roberto Rubalcava et. al. 1993
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The New Normal – Fresh Food Costs More
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Los Angeles Typographical Union ITU 174 at Angelus Rosedale Cemetery
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Marxist Feminism
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Old Articles about anti-Zionism and Zionism by Jewish Communists
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Enshittification for AI Training; Bisan Owda
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Good Summary on Bastard Urbanism
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Erasing Race and Gender at the Naval Academy; Inventing Black and White; Erasing History at the National Archives
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UK Race Riots and Organizing; Tipping; Masking in Our Community Spaces; Video Channel Links
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Professions in Decline, and Some Growing
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ChatGPT: Discovers a “Memory Hole” or makes up sources
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Columbusing: Eastside
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May 1, 2025 March and Rally for Immigrant Rights
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Fantasy Vernacular Architecture
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Prompt Collection 1
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The End of Facebook
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Brief Review of Migrating from Gmail and Outlook.com to Proton
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California Cogged Stones: International Trade and Exchange
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The Lotto and Voting Machine Meme is Bugging Me
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On the Precipice of Another Great Depression