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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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Asian American Media Representation, Recommending Feminism
This is a video essay, with a lot of references, bringing together different ideas about representation, race swapping in portrayals, and desirability and gender. It’s pretty good. I can’t evaluate beyond that, because I haven’t studied this too much. Discussion where I found it: https://www.reddit.com/r/aznidentity/comments/1j44s67/representasian_asian_desexualization_race/ Original Post: 2023-03-10 I made a tiktok that recommended feminism…
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What are Lateral Violence and Vertical Violence?
These two terms came up during the discussions about the Monterey Park shooting. It was also raised in the murder of Tyre Nichols, and the mass shooting in Half Moon Bay. The following definitions are from the Canadian Race Relations Foundation:
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Research Sparse about Less Educated Asian American Men in the Labor Market
This article has moved to this niche blog.
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Links to MLK Speeches and Writings
These are the sources for a few memes I created.
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Misunderstanding the Purpose of the Model Minority
People are upset about stereotypes, and often conflate the Model Minority Myth with the stereotype that Asians are good at math. So, to “challenge” the stereotype, an Asian person will say they aren’t good at math. They misunderstand the point of the MMM stereotype.
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Recent Studies Look for Actual Spread of SARS-CoV-2 the COVID-19 Virus
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Links to MLK Speeches and Writings
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Protected: ULA: United to House LA
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AOC, Gaza; Disappearing Japantowns; Ilhan Omar and Uncommitted
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Fruit Updates
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Two Errors I’ve Made Interpreting COVID-19 Data, that Others are Also Making
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2010s Gentrification, Protests, Boyle Heights, Arts District
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Making a Graduated Cylinder Measuring Cup from a Jar
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2024 Election Battlegrounds
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Selected Facebook Posts from March 2020
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History of the annoying PC “beep”. It’s called a “bell”.
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Google Shuts off Ads on Ukraine War Content, Demonetizing Political Pages
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SARS-CoV-2 in the Air
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Draft: Unions Should Own LLM Models
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Getting Meta’s AI, Imagine, to Produce NSFW Images
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Tech Bazillionaires Paid for Anti-Unhoused Anti-Camping Law in San Francisco in 2016
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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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Art Spiegelman: golden age superheroes were shaped by the rise of fascism
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Pattern? List of IDs/SKUs on STDIN
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Capitalism, Socialism, Cars, Fascism; Asiaphobia in the Black Community; Tipping; Masking; Kamala
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WSJ Election-Hype Poll about Perceptions of Prejudice Excluded Asians
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Conservative Hopelessness about Anti-Asian Violence
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Eviction of Seniors to a COVID-19 Impacted Facility
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Python Data Science Study
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Enshittification for AI Training; Bisan Owda
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January 5, 2019 Update
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Ghost Kitchens and Food Marketing
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Inventing Black and White
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SARS-CoV-2 on a Fishing Boat, Seroprevalence in Spain
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How is that Asian students both international and Asian Americans are so good in college?
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Should Prisoners Have the Vote?
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Protected: Who Killed Vincent Chin, Blaming Gascon or any District Attorney, and Lame Politics
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Root Shell Called Web Shell by oRb
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Libertarians on Immigration
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Magic Folder to Convert DOC and OpenOffice to PDF
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(a)political violence; Luigi Mangione’s Manifesto; Propaganda of the Deed