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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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California Cogged Stones: International Trade and Exchange
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2010s Gentrification, Protests, Boyle Heights, Arts District
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Online Editors with Compilers for Different Computer Languages
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WordPress AntiSpam Plugin, Configuring Alpine Linux to Send Mail
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The Book Trust – an attempt to monopolize cheap book production in the 1800s
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Prompt Collection
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Turn out for #JusticeForRoques May 1
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Misunderstanding the Purpose of the Model Minority
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Problems Importing CSV into Google Contacts
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Computer Shopping
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AI Machine Learning and Bias Articles
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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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Selected Posts from June 2020
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DALL-E and Commas that Matter, “young people fighting the war on drugs”, SFW->NSFW
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Study Page for Feasibility and Strategy
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Jimmy Dore Coddles Fascists
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The Return of Public Housing
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(a)political violence; Luigi Mangione’s Manifesto; Propaganda of the Deed
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I Think There’s Under Counting of Covid-19
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SARS-CoV-2 on a Fishing Boat, Seroprevalence in Spain
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Google Shuts off Ads on Ukraine War Content, Demonetizing Political Pages
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Etsy Helps Create Microbusiness Caucus, a Challenge to Labor Organizing
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Websocket Chat Server Examples
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Selected Posts from Facebook from May 2020
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The Hose Bibb Flat Washer Conspiracy (000 15/32″ or 11mm)
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Trump’s ICE War on Los Angeles