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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…
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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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Protected: RIP Mark
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Links to MLK Speeches and Writings
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About This Blog
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The Current Effort to Deny Citizenship to Undocumented Immigrants or Spouses Has a Precedent
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Getting Off of Big Tech
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DALL-E as Cheese Hegemon and Destroyer of Words: Hamburgers and Pizzas with Mandatory Cheese, and Erasure of Pigs in Blankets
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Machine Learning Notes 2
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Set Up an HP P1102w Printer on Ubuntu Linux
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Getting Meta’s AI, Imagine, to Produce NSFW Images
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Exiting Amazon (Again)
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Run a Shiny Server with the rocker/shiny and Docker-Compose on Debian or Ubuntu
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Watching COVID-19: The OC
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Two Errors I’ve Made Interpreting COVID-19 Data, that Others are Also Making
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How do I fix the buzzing and electricity sound when recording on my iPhone?
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Responsive Design + Mobile First = Automated Layouts
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California Proposition 1, 2018
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WordPress Plugin: Corrections 6
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I’m a Trollaholic
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California Cogged Stones: International Trade and Exchange
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There Are No Urban Design Courses on Race and Justice, So We Made Our Own Syllabus
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Chili History
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Taking Over “Public School”
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The Return of Public Housing
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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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Trump, Hydroxychloroquine, Zinc, Quercetin, ECGC Catechins, AYCE KBBQ
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Machine Learning Notes
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Text of Vladimir Putin’s Speech on Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine, and Text of Zelensky’s Address to the Russian People (all Translated to English)
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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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WordPress and JSON Schemas Noob Notes
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February Links
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A simple refutation of the “Supply and Demand” argument about how new apartment construction will lower rents.
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Gin and Tonic, Imperialism, and COVID-19
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Health Insurance; Prisoner Laborers; Macron Shits on the Left, Appoints Right Winger PM
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1959
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Replacing the Washer on a Price Pfister 3H – 8 Series Stem Cartridge
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Meta-Assited WordPress Plugin: Corrections 4
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Make Meme/LOLCats Text with the GIMP