Jim Winstead
@jimwinstead.fyi
A software developer who used to own an art supply store in downtown Los Angeles.
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I was captivated by Salomón Huerta’s enigmatic still lifes of food and guns at Marc Selwyn. 🍊 The story behind them is wild. 🍊 And it’s the subject of this week’s Art Insider for @kcrw.com 🍊 Do not miss.
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December 17, 2025 at 1:24 AM
I was captivated by Salomón Huerta’s enigmatic still lifes of food and guns at Marc Selwyn. 🍊 The story behind them is wild. 🍊 And it’s the subject of this week’s Art Insider for @kcrw.com 🍊 Do not miss.
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We walk by the mural on Broadway all the time and I wondered how Chaka got up there to tag it. He used to buy spray paint from our store. He came in with a binder of spray-painted sign work he was doing. Glad to see him get recognition like this.
'Dodgers Rule': Graffiti artist Chaka and others draw inspiration — and murals — from World Series champs
'Dodgers Rule': Graffiti artist Chaka and others draw inspiration — and murals — from World Series champs
Legendary graffiti artist Chaka and Nike teamed for a massive mural project celebrating the Dodgers' repeat titles. You can find them, along with others, on a new online map that documents them.
www.latimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:17 AM
We walk by the mural on Broadway all the time and I wondered how Chaka got up there to tag it. He used to buy spray paint from our store. He came in with a binder of spray-painted sign work he was doing. Glad to see him get recognition like this.
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It looks like the lucky boxers worn by Yoshihiro Sonoda, Yoshinobu Yamamoto's interpreter since the start of the 2024 season, have worked again as the Dodgers take Game 2 of the World Series.
Commentary: Yamamoto’s interpreter almost quit after 2 days. Now he's hoping his underwear can help in World Series
Yoshihiro Sonoda has been Yoshinobu Yamamoto's interpreter since the start of the 2024 season. Sonoda's superstitions when Yamamoto pitches are only part of the story.
www.latimes.com
October 26, 2025 at 3:48 AM
It looks like the lucky boxers worn by Yoshihiro Sonoda, Yoshinobu Yamamoto's interpreter since the start of the 2024 season, have worked again as the Dodgers take Game 2 of the World Series.
Rode past this on the bus yesterday and wondered what the over/under was on it ever actually opening.
Check out a first look inside L.A.'s trippy museum of AI arts — and its opening date
Check out a first look inside L.A.'s trippy museum of AI arts — and its opening date
Refik Anadol is poised to open Dataland, the world's first museum of AI arts, at the Grand L.A. complex in downtown L.A. this spring. Here's a first look at some of the imagery.
www.latimes.com
October 24, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Rode past this on the bus yesterday and wondered what the over/under was on it ever actually opening.
Automatic Noodle is a very good novella. http://trainedmonkey.com/2025/10/12/automatic_noodle
October 12, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Automatic Noodle is a very good novella. http://trainedmonkey.com/2025/10/12/automatic_noodle
I’m late to becoming a Dodgers fan, but if a theme for me this year has been embracing Los Angeles, it has been an important part of that. http://trainedmonkey.com/2025/09/27/go_dodgers_
September 27, 2025 at 8:03 PM
I’m late to becoming a Dodgers fan, but if a theme for me this year has been embracing Los Angeles, it has been an important part of that. http://trainedmonkey.com/2025/09/27/go_dodgers_
Took a picture a few months ago, went to a night market last night, and let the two collide in thoughts about Chinatown in Los Angeles. http://trainedmonkey.com/2025/09/01/chinatown,_at_night
September 1, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Took a picture a few months ago, went to a night market last night, and let the two collide in thoughts about Chinatown in Los Angeles. http://trainedmonkey.com/2025/09/01/chinatown,_at_night
I finished another book, finally. (A few weeks ago, actually.) http://trainedmonkey.com/2025/09/01/the_martian_contingency
September 1, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I finished another book, finally. (A few weeks ago, actually.) http://trainedmonkey.com/2025/09/01/the_martian_contingency
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Last week, Border Patrol agents massed outside of a @governor.ca.gov news conference. They wound up arresting Angel Rodrigo Minguela Palacios, a strawberry delivery driver with no criminal record and just there to drop off fruit to a tea room.
This is his story
www.latimes.com/california/s...
This is his story
www.latimes.com/california/s...
He was delivering strawberries in L.A. when Border Patrol stopped him. 'The wrong place at the wrong time'
Angel Rodrigo Minguela Palacios was delivering strawberries to a tearoom in Little Tokyo when Border Patrol agents massed nearby where Gov. Gavin Newsom was holding a news conference. Minguela ended u...
www.latimes.com
August 20, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Last week, Border Patrol agents massed outside of a @governor.ca.gov news conference. They wound up arresting Angel Rodrigo Minguela Palacios, a strawberry delivery driver with no criminal record and just there to drop off fruit to a tea room.
This is his story
www.latimes.com/california/s...
This is his story
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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an @lataco.bsky.social x @msnbc.com crossover is something I've been wanting to make happen for months. so much respect and admiration for what @eltragon.bsky.social and the team have been doing all summer documenting ICE raids in L.A. honored to have him on while I'm filling in for Steph this week.
August 20, 2025 at 12:38 PM
an @lataco.bsky.social x @msnbc.com crossover is something I've been wanting to make happen for months. so much respect and admiration for what @eltragon.bsky.social and the team have been doing all summer documenting ICE raids in L.A. honored to have him on while I'm filling in for Steph this week.
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How a strawberry delivery driver was caught in a fight between Newsom and Trump
How a strawberry delivery driver was caught in a fight between Newsom and Trump
Angel Rodrigo Minguela Palacios was delivering strawberries to a tearoom in Little Tokyo when Border Patrol agents massed nearby where Gov. Gavin Newsom was holding a news conference. Minguela ended up caught in the middle.
www.latimes.com
August 20, 2025 at 1:06 PM
How a strawberry delivery driver was caught in a fight between Newsom and Trump
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We are outraged and deeply distressed that armed federal agents came onto our campus—making arrests on the very ground where, in 1942, Japanese American families were forced to board buses bound for concentration camps. It was a deliberate act of provocation and intimidation.
August 18, 2025 at 4:37 PM
We are outraged and deeply distressed that armed federal agents came onto our campus—making arrests on the very ground where, in 1942, Japanese American families were forced to board buses bound for concentration camps. It was a deliberate act of provocation and intimidation.
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I can’t say it enough: U.S. culture is scam culture. It pervades everything we do. We don’t notice it because it’s the water we swim in. A party would do well to remind everybody how awful this is and propose to fix it.
I think Democrats should offer voters a broadly defined anti-fraud platform. Yes, obviously, start with Trump’s influence peddling, but don’t stop there. Online fraud is massive, almost every phone call you get is a scam, and the solution has to be federal or it just won’t work.
Still, more than 7-in-10 U.S. adults have been a victim of an online scam or attack like credit card fraud, ransomware or online shopping scams. www.pewresearch.org/...
August 7, 2025 at 1:13 PM
I can’t say it enough: U.S. culture is scam culture. It pervades everything we do. We don’t notice it because it’s the water we swim in. A party would do well to remind everybody how awful this is and propose to fix it.
This week I finally figured out how to do something in #Django that had frustrated me before. I am still fighting my way through discovering how to compose things out of Django's constituent parts. http://trainedmonkey.com/2025/07/26/using_autocompleteselect_in_a_django_admin_form
July 26, 2025 at 5:58 PM
This week I finally figured out how to do something in #Django that had frustrated me before. I am still fighting my way through discovering how to compose things out of Django's constituent parts. http://trainedmonkey.com/2025/07/26/using_autocompleteselect_in_a_django_admin_form
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Andre the Giant has a posse.
July 25, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Andre the Giant has a posse.
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These California metro areas are among the most AI-ready in the nation
These California metro areas are among the most AI-ready in the nation
A new report from the Brookings Institution think tank examines AI adoption, talent and innovation in 387 metropolitan areas.
www.latimes.com
July 16, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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The important thing to understand about the current state of affairs is that Andreessen hired a partner at the most influential VC firm in the tech industry solely on the basis that the man strangled a Black man to death in my neighborhood.
oh, we have some straightforward gutter racism. “the blacks and the browns are the reason white people can’t get ahead” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
July 12, 2025 at 4:11 PM
The important thing to understand about the current state of affairs is that Andreessen hired a partner at the most influential VC firm in the tech industry solely on the basis that the man strangled a Black man to death in my neighborhood.
The claim by the owner of these businesses that their products come from liquidators is interesting. This story and store is at the intersection of a lot of the pervasive fraud and fraud-adjacency of the current economy. I can't remember if it has a Bitcoin ATM but it seems likely.
In made-for-TV scenes of chaos, crowds of masked vandals have swarmed shopping centers, running off with armloads of purses, iPhones and anything else they could grab.
Police are cracking down.
Police are cracking down.
$1 million in cash in a downtown L.A. bodega: Inside the crackdown on retail theft 'fences'
In Los Angeles County, there is a black market for 'anything and everything,' said Capt. Calvin Mah, who leads the Sheriff's Department's Major Crimes Bureau.
www.latimes.com
July 6, 2025 at 5:08 PM
The claim by the owner of these businesses that their products come from liquidators is interesting. This story and store is at the intersection of a lot of the pervasive fraud and fraud-adjacency of the current economy. I can't remember if it has a Bitcoin ATM but it seems likely.
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This is incredibly beautiful storytelling.
June 21, 2025 at 5:23 PM
This is incredibly beautiful storytelling.
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it is funny how many people affiliated with the secret police have had to say "stop making fun of the secret police, the guy in the tac vest that covers him like a training bra is a hero, he tracked down and subdued two hospice orderlies using only the W-2 forms they file annually"
June 21, 2025 at 4:49 AM
it is funny how many people affiliated with the secret police have had to say "stop making fun of the secret police, the guy in the tac vest that covers him like a training bra is a hero, he tracked down and subdued two hospice orderlies using only the W-2 forms they file annually"
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Seems like a good time to re-up this clip from @lataco.bsky.social youtu.be/pwk9yrOVcSI?...
The Smooth Tortilla Rolling Senator
YouTube video by L.A. TACO
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June 12, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Seems like a good time to re-up this clip from @lataco.bsky.social youtu.be/pwk9yrOVcSI?...
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wow I wonder if the cops who lied about the sitting senator even though everything they did was on tape are also being less than honest about the presence of violent agitators at the protests in los angeles. they might even not have told the entire truth about other protests
June 12, 2025 at 8:06 PM
wow I wonder if the cops who lied about the sitting senator even though everything they did was on tape are also being less than honest about the presence of violent agitators at the protests in los angeles. they might even not have told the entire truth about other protests
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My favourite one like this is Don Henley getting Brian to autograph a copy of Pet Sounds. Brian signed it "thanks for all the great music" then thought for a second, crossed out "great", and wrote "good"
My favourite Brian Wilson story was when Bono kneeled at his feet backstage & waxed lyrical about his influence, the power of music, transcendent, etc.
After several minutes of this he interrupted Bono by saying “Say, could you go get me a Coke?”
(In fairness, he apparently did)
After several minutes of this he interrupted Bono by saying “Say, could you go get me a Coke?”
(In fairness, he apparently did)
June 11, 2025 at 5:40 PM
My favourite one like this is Don Henley getting Brian to autograph a copy of Pet Sounds. Brian signed it "thanks for all the great music" then thought for a second, crossed out "great", and wrote "good"
That's my CVS! They usually put down the roll-down gate behind the windows in the evening, and what you don't see is that the windows only start about five feet above street-level. Also, that corner is filthy. There's a very active bus stop just around the corner (to the left).
Spoke with BBC Radio this morning alongside @acatwithnews.bsky.social to discuss the continued demonstrations and deployment of federal law enforcement and the military in Los Angeles.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
BBC OS - White House deploys more military troops to Los Angeles - BBC Sounds
California's governor Gavin Newsom says the deployment is a 'blatant abuse of power'.
www.bbc.co.uk
June 10, 2025 at 5:34 PM
That's my CVS! They usually put down the roll-down gate behind the windows in the evening, and what you don't see is that the windows only start about five feet above street-level. Also, that corner is filthy. There's a very active bus stop just around the corner (to the left).