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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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WSJ Election-Hype Poll about Perceptions of Prejudice Excluded Asians
Every once in a while, I get upset by something AWA puts up, especially anything that discourages Asian American participation in politics. This time, it was a poll about how the two parties differ in who they think suffers discrimination.
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Treasure Chest, Robert Louis Stevenson Jr. High School Yearbook, 1939
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Links About the Insanity Plea and Housing
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Protected: What the Heck is Wrong?
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January 5, 2019 Update
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Online Editors with Compilers for Different Computer Languages
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Hillside Villa; NoTechForApartheid
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Erasing Racism with Revisionist History about Ichimatsu Dolls
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Brief Review of Migrating from Gmail and Outlook.com to Proton
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Fascism Videos (Explaining It)
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Imperial Japan and Islam; Uncommitted; Hillside Villa
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Marxist Feminism
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Tech Bazillionaires Paid for Anti-Unhoused Anti-Camping Law in San Francisco in 2016
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Protected: What a Year (Written August 27, 2019)
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Selected Posts from Facebook from February 2020
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Black Removal in South Central Los Angeles
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Libertarians on Immigration
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My Home Backup System (Triple Backups)
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Trolling and Gloating: Masks for COVID-19
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Lifehacks Here
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WordPress Admin Emails Not Getting Through to Gmail addresses, Docker Container Based WordPress with BusyBox
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Israel General Strike; IDF Shoots FilAm “Amado Sison”; Labor Zionism and South African white workers
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Reporting Anti-Asian Racist Content to Meta
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Downshiftism
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SARS-CoV-2 on a Fishing Boat, Seroprevalence in Spain
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December 18, 2018 Update
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Prompts to Discover an LLM’s Training about the Anti-Chinese Movement
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Gemini-Assisted WordPress Plugin: Corrections 3
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IP Address Change, DNS, Icecast2, Ezstream
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Israel Arms Embargo Popularity; Israel Collapse; Trans Dehumanization; Local Lists
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Birds Eye View of the Government Takeover and Repsonse to Trump
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Responsive Design + Mobile First = Automated Layouts
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Exiting Amazon (Again)
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Chesa Boudin Recall Aftermath
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Two Errors I’ve Made Interpreting COVID-19 Data, that Others are Also Making
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Root Shell Called Web Shell by oRb
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Copyright, “Copyleft”, Creative Commons, Public Domain, Anti-Copyright
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On Andrew Yang’s So-Called Human Centered Capitalism