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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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Meta-Assisted WordPress Plugin: Corrections 5
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Re: Oakland’s Homeless Americans Die Uncounted As Mayor Protects Illegal Immigrants
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Henry George’s Racist Screed Against Chinese People in California, New York Tribune, May 1, 1869
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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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Asian American Media Representation, Recommending Feminism
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Quick Installer for Woocommerce
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Los Angeles Typographical Union ITU 174 at Angelus Rosedale Cemetery
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December 18, 2018 Update
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Gubernatorial Candidate Villaraigosa Should Love Ranked Choice Voting (Upd. Jun. 7)
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Historic Palestinian Documents at the Lady Izdihar Archive
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Conservative Hopelessness about Anti-Asian Violence
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Using Flatpaks, Doctrine ORM is Meta, Talking Union, and Indexing Free Blogs
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Civil Comment about the Civil War
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Kats Kunitsugu in the Kashu Mainichi
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Lifehacks Here
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Facebook Memories
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Umeboshi and Maesil Rot
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Nationalist Right-Wing anti-Imperialism, Curry, Kare, Colonization
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Imperial Japan and Islam; Uncommitted; Hillside Villa
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Dead Pages, Alpine, Docker, Cloud
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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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USCIS New Anti-Immigrant Mission Statement
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Turn Audio Links into inline audio players
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Selected Posts from Facebook from February 2020
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More Little Tokyo Redevelopment, 1969
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The Lotto and Voting Machine Meme is Bugging Me
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Responsive Design + Mobile First = Automated Layouts
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Civil Rights Unionism
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Prunus Mume, lost in translation
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Libertarians on Immigration
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SARS-CoV-2 on a Fishing Boat, Seroprevalence in Spain
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Beach Cities IMC
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SARS-CoV-2 in the Air
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Chesa Boudin Recall Aftermath
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Do All Asian American Political Orgs Look the Same? (Bing AI confuses two organizations)
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Israel General Strike; IDF Shoots FilAm “Amado Sison”; Labor Zionism and South African white workers
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Professions in Decline, and Some Growing