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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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Prunus Mume, lost in translation
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Tech Bazillionaires Paid for Anti-Unhoused Anti-Camping Law in San Francisco in 2016
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Mid90s and Redlining
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February Links
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Fruit Updates
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Enshittification for AI Training; Bisan Owda
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Israel General Strike; IDF Shoots FilAm “Amado Sison”; Labor Zionism and South African white workers
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USCIS New Anti-Immigrant Mission Statement
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NSFW Perplexity AI
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ChatGPT: Stop Asian Hate, the movie; Meta.ai: Blackpill Poetry about Emily Dickinson; Keeping and Revealing Secrets in ChatGPT
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Polls; Macron Coup?; ICE Detainees Strike; Technofeudalism
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Exiting Amazon (Again)
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The KKK of the 1920s, and Fascism
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Everyone Hates ICE
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Racism: NatGeo, Housing, Crossword
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The Lotto and Voting Machine Meme is Bugging Me
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Cascading Failures Due to Failing RAID1 on Linux
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Ezra Klein Discussion with Bhaskar Sunkara of Jacobin
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Redlining was Part of the System of Segregated, Whites-Only Communities
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Set Up an HP P1102w Printer on Ubuntu Linux
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Pee Commerce
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Replacing the Washer on a Price Pfister 3H – 8 Series Stem Cartridge
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Art Spiegelman: golden age superheroes were shaped by the rise of fascism
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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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Protected: Getting Up in AI Models
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Trump’s ICE War on Los Angeles
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DALL-E has Problems with “Race Mixing”
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The New Normal – Fresh Food Costs More
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The Current Effort to Deny Citizenship to Undocumented Immigrants or Spouses Has a Precedent
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Trolling and Gloating: Masks for COVID-19
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w32tm reports the computer did not resync because no time data was available
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BBB System Configuration Testing Script
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What Are You Shooting For? by Roberto Rubalcava et. al. 1993
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Turn out for #JusticeForRoques May 1
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Down the Rabbit Hole: Traditionalism, Nationalism, Falun Gong, Shen Yun
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On Andrew Yang’s So-Called Human Centered Capitalism
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Prompts to Discover an LLM’s Training about the Anti-Chinese Movement