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Repairing Earpad on M98 Headset
Symptoms: The earpad came off. The rubber peeled off, and a lot of facial oil was in the earpiece. The foam part slipped off, and underneath, there was a lock ring, which holds the earpad onto the earpiece. Explanation: the plastic band that held the foam part onto the lock ring, by making the edge…
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DIY Dustpan or Daspan
This is the best DIY dustpan video so far. He makes it from a canister, and cuts the canister in a way that will take advantage of the bends and corners already molded into the canister. He uses wood for the handle, and attaches it with screws; I hope he’s using washers. The design is…
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Fruit Updates
An update of the project status. I’ve been busy health issues, and been going into a slow mode. June 2 Updates I checked the ume on May 27, and this was the ongoing status. The two bleach-treated batches were moldy, and the one that cleaned off better was less moldy. So neither overcame their mold.…
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Alcohol Didn’t Fix the Mold
I pulled out the plums from the batch that I tried to “cure” with alcohol, called 3rd 2. It was soaked in weak sake that had been diluted a bit, and then salted, and it was way too hard. The alcohol killed off too much of the plum, and left it unable to ripen. I’m…
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Prunus Mume, lost in translation
All over the web, there are people asking what to do with umeboshi, or the green fruit, prunus mume, aka, ume, aka Japanese plum, aka xi muoi, aka, maesil, aka Korean green plum, aka muoi, aka mume. Here in the San Gabriel Valley, nearly everyone eats something connected to this plant. Mexicans use chamoy sauce,…
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Umeboshi and Maesil Rot
I opened up the two pressing vessels and repacked them into jars. One was seven days old, and the other was six days old. They both had some moldy plums, so I pulled the moldy ones. The mold problem wasn’t that serious. It was very little bread mold, and small spots of black mold. So,…
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Umeboshi Misadventures
We had a big crop of ume this year – only around 10-15 pounds, but that’s good to me. Here are the results so far. My mom and I clashed over how to do this. She was of the “press large batches”, don’t clean too much, and salt enough school of thought. I’m of the…
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Lifehacks Here
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China and Least Developed Countries Free Trade; Cal Gig Worker Law; Running Down the Walls
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Prompts to Discover an LLM’s Training about the Anti-Chinese Movement
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Los Angeles Typographical Union ITU 174 at Angelus Rosedale Cemetery
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Orientalism: Music, Edward Said, Hello Kitty, US CIA in Japan, 1 Year of the Israel-Gaza War
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The Purpose of Antisemitism in White Supremacy
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Enshittification for AI Training; Bisan Owda
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The Book Trust – an attempt to monopolize cheap book production in the 1800s
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Two Errors I’ve Made Interpreting COVID-19 Data, that Others are Also Making
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More Little Tokyo Redevelopment, 1969
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On Andrew Yang’s So-Called Human Centered Capitalism
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On the Vice Asian American, Model Minority and Asian Hate, Panel Video
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Brief Review of Migrating from Gmail and Outlook.com to Proton
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Beach Cities IMC
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The Murder of Ee Lee
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The Mirror
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On High Rates of Infection in the Latino Communities
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COVID-19 Vaccination Inequality
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Draft: Unions Should Own LLM Models
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Watching COVID-19: The OC
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The Return of Public Housing
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Indigenous Identity Fraud; Zionist Cultural Theft; Can the subaltern speak?
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70% of Project Homekey Vacant; Chinatown Tenant Wins; Affordable Housing
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ChatGPT: who writes about late 20th century neoliberalism and the national question
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Art Spiegelman: golden age superheroes were shaped by the rise of fascism
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First COVID-19 Post
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Letter to Garcetti about Shipping Container Homes
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Pee Commerce
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There Are No Urban Design Courses on Race and Justice, So We Made Our Own Syllabus
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Instagram Censorship Algorithm Failure
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DALL-E has Problems with “Race Mixing”
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Reupholstering an Old Chair’s Seat with Scrap Fabric
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Lifehacks Here
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Brainwashing and Abuse
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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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Libertarians on Immigration
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Katsuo Carl Imakyure, in Los Angeles 1940