Category: Society
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1433 Tamarind Ave in Hollywood
You’ve probably seen this photo. It’s been mis-captioned as something after Pearl Harbor, or simply as a photo from California. It’s from the 1920s. The specifics are still not clear to me, but it’s related to the Hollywood Protective Association, a racist organization opposed to Japanese living in Hollywood. Larry Harnisch, a writer retired from…
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AI Optimizes Monkeys Typing Shakespeare
Only 900,000 human children required.
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The 2026 Midterms, California, LA County, SGV
The Democrats don’t have a known good strategy to limit Trump’s authoritarian power grab, irrational wars, or even to deliver a coherent anti-fascist message. Despite this, they keep trying. Here are some key issues. SoCal Midterm Battleground Races See Ballotpedia Battlegrounds I’m including only well funded rivals in these lists, compiled from the Ballotpedia information.…
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Computer Programmers Labor Union
I had a page on here with that title, and it got a little traffic. This was back in the 2000s. Times have changed a bit, and there are now a lot of programmers with union contracts. Here’s a blast from the past, 2010: https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/9481/are-there-any-unions-for-software-developers Here’s a brief outline of what I recall reading that…
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Rabbit Hole – the Western Fascination with Asian Fascism – Trans and STR8 WMAF Fetish – Racist Mass Murder – and the Rosemead movie
I’ve marked some of the links on this page with Trigger Warnings for Extreme Racism (TW:EXR) and Racism (TW:R). Reading these can be emotionally disturbing. Take breaks if you’re reading the links. This past month, I stumbled into a weird corner of the internet where people have fully internalized the racial hierarchy, and white supremacy’s…
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ACP and MAGA Communism
Connects ACP, Haz, Duginism, LaRouche. Quite entertaining.
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Trump’s ICE War on Los Angeles
I started this a month ago, intending to fill it up, but the actual labor of learning to spot ICE, and how to react, and rearranging society to contend with this war, has diverted me. So, first, a message to those of us privileged enough to be doomers, a post from Teka: https://www.facebook.com/brickbatrevue/posts/pfbid02z9MZL2Tr6mqhLJAUWrBATwJEn5dM9oKUtdZd6uaqJHFoetCu7aDJ4fidTSJTnXphl The post:…
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Birds Eye View of the Government Takeover and Repsonse to Trump
This hasn’t been updated in a long time due to lack of time and the breadth of the changes. Please see the two links to get an overview: Issues This table’s a list of topics I’m reading related to it. To suggest things for this list, please fill out this form. Scientific Research Banning DEI…
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AB715
For updates, see: Coalition for Liberated Ethnic Studies. For status, see: AB 715 at Calmatters Currently, the bill is in the Senate Education Committee and Judicial Committee. Letter to Sasha Renee Perez SRP is the State Senator for my district. — to be written — Protests A small group of people in AD49 protested against…
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May 1, 2025 March and Rally for Immigrant Rights
Join the Rosemead Tenants Union Contingent! Go to the rosemeadtu.org site and sign up for the group, and you’ll eventually get some info.