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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: 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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Ethnic and Unhoused
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Racist Housing Policy Made Your Neighborhood
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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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Alice Johnson is Out, but what about Street Dealers?
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Selected Posts from Facebook from January 2020
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Anti-Vaccine Mandate “Debate” Goes Weird Real Quick
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Should Prisoners Have the Vote?
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What are Lateral Violence and Vertical Violence?
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The End of Facebook
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Good Summary on Bastard Urbanism
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Pee Commerce
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Katsuo Carl Imakyure, in Los Angeles 1940
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Dodging
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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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Wong Kim Ark in Smithsonian
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First COVID-19 Post
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About This Blog
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Imperial Japan and Islam; Uncommitted; Hillside Villa
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ChatGPT: Discovers a “Memory Hole” or makes up sources
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Kats Kunitsugu in the Kashu Mainichi
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Mass Narcolepsy
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Statement from Montanans for Immigrant Justice and Missoula Rises re: Trump’s Pending Executive Order to Stop Separating Families
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More Little Tokyo Redevelopment, 1969
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Enshittification for AI Training; Bisan Owda
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Down the Rabbit Hole: Traditionalism, Nationalism, Falun Gong, Shen Yun
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Selected Posts from Facebook from April 2020
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On High Rates of Infection in the Latino Communities
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Little Tokyo Urban Renewal 1972, Urban Renewal Researcher from Japan 1968, Gentrification Notes
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California Proposition 1, 2018
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Fantasy Vernacular Architecture
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Gin and Tonic, Imperialism, and COVID-19
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California Migration Trends and Dianne Feinstein
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1908 Anarchist Terrorist Plot by Japanese in America Against the Emperor of Japan!
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Tom Bradley Speech, Draft: The Citizen: Power and/or Powerlessness
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Protected: RIP Mark
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I’m a Trollaholic
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Selected Posts from Facebook from February 2020