Category: Archive Posts
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Henry George’s Racist Screed Against Chinese People in California, New York Tribune, May 1, 1869
I was forwarded a paper that was published in a journal. I wondered what the journal was about, and found that they were looking to preserve the intellectual lineage of Henry George, a late 19th century philosopher and early Progressive reformer of capitalism. He wanted land to be held in common, and was known for…
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Selected Posts from Facebook from April 2020
I delete my Facebook posts occasionally, and archive selected posts. I lose the comments, unfortunately.
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Selected Posts from Facebook from April 2020
I delete my Facebook posts occasionally, and archive selected posts. I lose the comments, unfortunately.
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Selected Facebook Posts from March 2020
These are posts from March 2020. I remove posts from Facebook periodically. To preserve the old posts, I copy some of them to this blog.
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Selected Posts from Facebook from February 2020
These were deleted from Facebook!
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Selected Posts from Facebook from January 2020
I try to delete my posts from Facebook periodically, and archive some before doing so.
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First COVID-19 Post
I’ve been obsessed with it for over a month. I’ll be copying things from my Facebook feed here, and going back in time to find early posts. This document shows some plots of the daily numbers coming out of Los Angeles County. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ubPGZiw90C2dgI1bYTyWcJiNZ2NwWvZSIcgt4EJuRgI/edit?usp=sharing The news is both bad, and good. It’s terrible that we’re nearly…
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February Links
This took a couple hours, but it was worth it. Many links from February’s facebook. I’m doing this as a part of a project to delete my posts from Facebook. Many of the links get copied, some text is copied, and it’s all saved into a regular blog post.
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Pee Commerce
This is based on a blog post from March 3, 2009. I got into a discussion about fertilizing with human manure, and defended the practice, mainly because my grandmother did it.
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January 2018 Links
I’ve been using a tool to delete most of my past history on Facebook, and it’s working well. The problem is that the links to interesting articles are lost. So, I’m going to archive some of the links I like before I delete them. http://www.rafu.com/2017/12/supporters-of-800-traction-artists-discuss-next-steps/ https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/12/suburban-poverty-and-recession/549350/ https://np.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/7o41rf/the_fcc_is_preparing_to_weaken_the_definition_of/ds6w3aw/ Text on the plaque about the Chinese Massacre…