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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…

(a)political violence; Luigi Mangione’s Manifesto; Propaganda of the Deed

Remembering History: the Era of Assassinations Luigi Mangione is not an anarchist, but his assassination attack reminds me of the historic period of anarchist bombings…

Programming Assistant LLMs

This is just a list of links I’m reading. I haven’t evaluated them for quality. It’s just my first whack at learning more tools, and…

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…

Brief Review of Migrating from Gmail and Outlook.com to Proton

I have been listening to Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff, and Surveillance Valley by Yasha Levine, so I’m extra paranoid these days. I’m moving my…

Machine Learning Notes 2

Unifying the Perspectives of NLP and Software Engineering: A Survey on Language Models for Code (Long meta study) Mapping Language to Code in Programmatic Context…

Mass Narcolepsy

These images were generated using Meta Imagine, and the prompt “mass narcolepsy at” and the location. The theme is many people falling asleep at inopportune…

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…

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…

2024 Election Battlegrounds

Polling in Battleground States Harris and Trump are very close in the battleground states (obviously – that’s the definition of a BG). Florida is usually…