Category: Social Sciences
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Why Kamala Lost
I have no clear idea, because I didn’t keep up on the campaign, but I am reading some long-winded arguments that don’t always hold water.
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Inventing Black and White; Erasing History at the National Archives
Inventing Black and White – Learn how Bacon’s Rebellion became a turning point for the way the laws of colonial Virginia distinguished people of different races. (Note that the two classes – poor vs. indentured/slaves – united, but it…
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Do All Asian American Political Orgs Look the Same? (Bing AI confuses two organizations)
Searching for “asian american advocacy fund”, with the intent of looking for The Asian American Advocacy Fund, which is an organization in Georgia that activates AAPI voters, brought up references to The Asian American Foundation, aka TAAF, a recent…
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Artificial Intelligence Reader 1; Timnit Gebru
This is a slapdash list of resources to read, put together as a cram session reading list to get an overview of some aspects of the collision of AI, existing IP, and society. Timnit Gebru
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Political Nerdmaxing: Q: Why Are Asians so Right Wing?
A: We aren’t right wing. We actually vote more for Democratic Party candidates than every other group, except for African Americans.
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Explanation of Anti-Asian Racist Content
I was reading Asians With Attitudes and they had this racist post up, all mad. They didn’t link to it, so I found it: It’s lowbrow racism, but people think it’s funny, so they repost it, but added an…
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ChatGPT: compare and contrast the different forms of slavery in the different regions
While slavery existed in various regions across the globe, there were differences in the forms and practices of slavery in different areas. It’s important to note that the institution of slavery was diverse, and variations existed within regions and…
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Historic Palestinian Documents at the Lady Izdihar Archive
Lady Isdihar runs an archive of USSR era documents and some Palestine documents. This page links out to several of contemporary interest.
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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.