The original DOS game, online: https://oregontrail.ws/

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• Trump Admin Giving $1M to Group Studying Crime Against White South Africans
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• Flooding in Gaza Destroys 70,000 Tents as Israel Continues to Block Aid
• As AI Threatens Tech Workers, Their Workplaces Become Sites of Class Struggle
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• The election is over. Here’s how to keep fighting for change in LA
• ICE arrests and sightings across LA County, Nov. 1–5
• Karen Bass is out. Nithya Raman will be LA’s mayor
• Despite ICE fears, voters in South, Southeast LA show up to cast ballots
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• Boyle Heights Residents Hold Q&A About Aftermath of Lineage Fire With Mayoral Candidate Nithya Raman
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• Community Organizations Call For Abolition and Community Care on National Police Brutality Day
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I’m starting this tag feed that simply highlights different progressive news sites mainly covering LA County, and the State of California. I’ll be including a bunch of different resources, mainly links to other blogs including, but not limited to: labor law, civil rights, labor, racism, lgbt rights, feminism, politics, tenants rights, housing, single payer healthcare,

This tag feed provides content to the “Los Angeles Progressive News” chat group on Matrix. The address on Matrix/Element.io chat is: https://matrix.to/#/#los-angeles-progressive-news:matrix.org

I also started the Los Angeles County News chatroom, that features several RSS feeds from mainly mainstream news sources. It’s a quick way to scan the headlines, and you can comment and chat. The address is: https://matrix.to/#/#losangelescountynews:matrix.org

These are part of the Los Angeles Area “space”, which is a collection of chat rooms. The address is: https://matrix.to/#/#los-angeles-area:matrix.org

If you are a business that wants to get a post here, and get added to the chatroom feed, fill out the restaurant form on Riceball Restaurants (Onigiri, Musubi). There is no charge for this at this time.

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You can play the game at: ELIZA X ELIZA

It’s not a very good game, but is pretty eerie. It sometimes has interesting exchanges because one bot will dig into the other bot’s scripts to find keywords, and insert them into its responses, and will trigger a better response in turn.

Building it

I just asked Work (which is OpenCode) to build it. It failed due to some problems with writing large javascript files, so I decided it needed to be factored into multiple scripts.

To do this, I asked Work to tell me about ELIZA, and then to study the original code. It turns out people are recovering the sources of ELIZA. See ELIZA Archaeology Project.

I assumed this reading stuffed the context with enough information to do a better job writing code.

It then produced the application, script by script.

It produced an ELIZA that was in javascript. That, in itself, wasn’t novel, and has been done before.

Then, I asked it to make a two-pane version of ELIZA, with a feature that would turn the output of the first chat, into the input of the second chat.

Going dark

Then, I asked it to make three new personalities: a sex therapist, an incel, and a redpiller.

The LLM made up scripts for each of these personas, and made the persona selectable.

The conversations were boring, so I added a feature to seek out keywords in the other bot’s scripts, and insert them into the conversation.

(What might work better would be to write responses that include keywords to trigger interesting responses from other bots.)

Reading scripts

It’s more fun to read the bot guts than using the bot:

incel.js

doctor.js

sextherapist.js

redpill.js

I wonder how the LLM pulled these phrases out of its model.

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Larry Harnisch, a writer retired from the Los Angeles Times, has a great blog post about it.

The property in the article, 1433 Tamarind, looks like it’s in good repair, and still the original form, more or less. It’s eligible for historic preservation.

https://historicplacesla.lacity.org/report/689c3a46-6bd9-41de-b041-7d9be989d5d7

Boarding Houses

Mentioned in the article are the many boarding houses in the area. Here’s a story about the last of the boarding houses:

https://www.laconservancy.org/learn/historic-places/ozawa-boarding-house-obayashi-employment-agency-and-joyce-boarding-house-ozawa-residence

Aiso

Also mentioned is Frank Tokichi Aiso, who was father to John Aiso, a judge who has a street named for him, in Little Tokyo (it’s the northern end of San Pedro St.) Here’s an article about his home on Tamarind:

https://www.hhprc.org/asian-pacific-american-heritage-month

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Only 900,000 human children are required.

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