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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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The Book Trust – an attempt to monopolize cheap book production in the 1800s
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The Lotto and Voting Machine Meme is Bugging Me
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WSJ Election-Hype Poll about Perceptions of Prejudice Excluded Asians
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On the Precipice of Another Great Depression
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Magic Folder to Convert DOC and OpenOffice to PDF
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The Commodity Fetish
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Online Editors with Compilers for Different Computer Languages
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Dead Pages, Alpine, Docker, Cloud
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This War Does Not Exist
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Machine Learning Notes 2
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December 18, 2018 Update
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Social Media
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California Migration Trends and Dianne Feinstein
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DIY Dustpan or Daspan
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Draft: Unions Should Own LLM Models
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Alcohol Didn’t Fix the Mold
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February Links
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Racism: NatGeo, Housing, Crossword
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Two Errors I’ve Made Interpreting COVID-19 Data, that Others are Also Making
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MS Access: VBA CRC32 Function
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Brainwashing and Abuse
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Turn Audio Links into inline audio players
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Tom Bradley Speech, Draft: The Citizen: Power and/or Powerlessness
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The Mirror
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Study Page for Feasibility and Strategy
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On Andrew Yang’s So-Called Human Centered Capitalism
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Gin and Tonic, Imperialism, and COVID-19
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The KKK of the 1920s, and Fascism
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Gemini-Assisted WordPress Plugin: Corrections 2
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Crossplatform Keyboard Mappings for MacOS, GNOME, and Windows
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How to Add a REST API to an Existing Django Project
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Ghost Kitchens and Food Marketing
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How to Buy Windows 10 Cheap
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Commissar-General Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at the End of America
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AB715
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Run a Shiny Server with the rocker/shiny and Docker-Compose on Debian or Ubuntu
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Ezra Klein Discussion with Bhaskar Sunkara of Jacobin