Category: Society
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Fantasy Vernacular Architecture
Exploring fantasy buildings made of cinder blocks or earth, in a pyramid-inspired shape. Meta Imagine. Some of the images look like adobe/Southwestern indigenous architecture, Mexican architecture, or Southeast Asian architecture.
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A simple refutation of the “Supply and Demand” argument about how new apartment construction will lower rents.
Generally, the law of supply and demand operates. Supply of something goes up, and there’s downward pressure on the price of it. However, ask any real estate agent about what determines value, and many will say “location, location, location”. Location obviously matters. Beverly Hills apartments will cost more than East LA apartments, because the location…
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Orientalism: Music, Edward Said, 1 Year of the Israel-Gaza War
(Before digging into this, I’m not going to pretend I’m not an ignorant Orientalist. I have been for most of my life, and I’m listening and reading to overcome this racism. Just because I’m “an Oriental” doesn’t mean I am not Orientalist. -jk) Orientalism explained through Western ideas of what Eastern music sounds like. A…
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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 astroturf project to represent the interests of centrist, rich Asian Americans. The AI wrote a summary…
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New “Yellow Peril” Fear Mongering Laws; Objectification; Newsom Vetoes AI Bill
CAPAC Chair Condemns House Vote to Reinstate Trump-Era China Initiative Fear Mongering and the Scapegoating Continue. The House of Representatives voted on Sept. 11 to pass H.R. 1398, the Protect America’s Innovation and Economic Security from CCP Act of 2024, a bill to reinstate the Trump-era China Initiative program, and H.R. 9465, the Protecting American…
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70% of Project Homekey Vacant; Chinatown Tenant Wins; Affordable Housing
EXCLUSIVE: After Spending $550 Million, Over 70 Percent of Los Angeles County’s Project Homekey Homeless Rooms Vacant – Westside Current Jamie Paige, Chris LeGras – Part 3 of an ongoing Westside Current investigation into the challenges and failures of Project Homekey ->->-> Chinatown tenant wins court battle over eviction from “affordable” unit – LA Public…
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Mossad Pager Bomb Murder Plots; Sanders Arms Block Speech
‘Israel’ clearly intended to target Lebanese civilians: The Guardian Mossad’s history with explosive technology Infamous Israeli spy agency has not claimed responsibility for Hezbollah’s exploding pagers but has ‘decades-long’ list of remote assassinations ->->->
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Indigenous Identity Fraud; Zionist Cultural Theft; Can the subaltern speak?
Nada Elia, Food, art and literature: How Israel is stealing Arab culture (Opinion piece is from 2018) Israel has expanded the reach of its cultural theft beyond the historic borders of Palestine, to various Arab countries around it ->->-> (Asian) Pretendianism I’m Asian, so I’m down to call out some Asian pretendians. Maylei[1] Blackwell[2] of…
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China and Least Developed Countries Free Trade; Cal Gig Worker Law; Running Down the Walls
Next week is Running Down The Walls 5K WHAT: Running Down the Walls – 5k Run/Walk/Jog/Roll // WHEN: 10:00am-1:00pm, Sunday, September 15th, 2024 // WHERE: 751 Echo Park Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90026 // COST: We are asking for $20 registration fee. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. Donation link
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YIMBY is Anti Rent Control; Polio in Gaza; Archive.org Lawsuit Effects; Chol Soo Lee; Sergio Mendez
How a disease the world (mostly) vanquished reared its head in Gaza by Abdallah Fayyad Israel’s attacks on Gaza created conditions for polio to spread. Now, a vaccination campaign is racing against time. ->->-> Scientists are closing in on the true, horrifying scale of death and disease in Gaza by Devi Sridhar The discovery of…