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DALL-E and NSFW Content, How to Make Your Own
This is a note about ways I got DALL-E (Bing version) to produce images that are not necessarily NSFW, but are likely to be interpreted as NSFW, because they look like porn.
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DALL-E has Problems with “Race Mixing”
I was unable to crosspost or even link to this reddit post, so I’m replicating it here, for cross posting. I was trying to get around some filters, and making some pictures of satyrs in a band, or satyrs…
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Old Articles about anti-Zionism and Zionism by Jewish Communists
Articles from the Marxists International Archive about Jewish Communist and Socialist anti-Zionism, mainly from before 1948.
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Kare, Curry, anti-Imperialism, Colonization
How Japanese curry (kare) intersected with a right wing anti-Western, anti-imperialist movement.
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Ghost Kitchens and Food Marketing
I’m really enjoying reading What’s it Like Working in a Ghost Kitchen. It’s interesting how I don’t really think of retail restaurants correctly – I think that the shop is producing all the products sold there. They aren’t. They…
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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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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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Research Sparse about Less Educated Asian American Men in the Labor Market
I got into a discussion/argument about labor market discrimination against Asian American men in the working class.
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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…