Opinion: Trump wins 2024 election. America needs to admit it's not 'better than this.'
Donald Trump won, and I never want to hear the words 'America is better than this' again. I never want to be told about America's better angels., USA TODAY (USA TODAY)
I don't blame Harris for this result. First and foremost I blame mis and disinformation. We currently have the strongest economy in the world. Inflation is down under 3%. Low unemployment. Yet a whole lot of voters seem to think the economy is terrible and that because prices haven't gone down, inflation is still high (a basic misunderstanding of economics).
Secondly, I think there's a lot of misogyny and racism in the US.
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If you’re wondering what to do right now, give. Help people around you because a lot of folks are hurting.
Look up #mutualaid and help where you can. There’s a ton of work that still needs to be done and we can start by meeting people’s needs today.
The fedi raised millions for Harris.
Imagine if we put that same effort into satisfying immediate needs right now.
That would be a massive step forward and a good way to start building our collective capacity outside of politics.
We can do that right now.
It's time for my periodic reminder that VPNs do not magically increase security or privacy.
They take your network traffic and deliver it to someone else on your behalf, then deliver the responses back to you. That is all they do. That's what a VPN is.
The only time this helps with privacy is when you don't want your ISP to know where the traffic is going, *but you're okay with the VPN operator knowing*. If your use case does not fit into that very specific description, including the caveat, a VPN will not help you with privacy.
(Inspired by a friend asking me VPN questions this morning, because "everyone was talking about VPNs so I assumed that's a thing we're supposed to be doing now".)
Another one of fan artist Blatherskite's awesome ASL character posters to distract you in these troubled times! This time it's the remarkable and fascinating T'Lyn! 
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I’ve said for a long time the greatest threat to the US is white Americans and they proved that yet again by coming out in force for a charlatan that repeats the lies they want to hear.
Personally, I don’t feel much about it because my existence has always been an uphill struggle. Hell, if you’ve been following me for awhile, you know how contentious the environment has been on the fedi and my fight to push this place past its racist inclinations.
I get how people feel pretty down at the moment. Do what you need to do to take care of yourself.
But as a person that has been fighting for a long time, don’t dwell in the despair. Don’t let the doom consume you. This is just a moment in time and it will pass.
And it’s a great opportunity to decouple your idea of progress from the state that has proven time and time again it does not give a fuck about your wellbeing.
Now is the time for ideas. Now is the time to create.
We are far from helpless.
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One of the main reasons I do what I do is because I envision a world where our communities are so well organized and connected that it doesn’t matter what politicians do because we have us.
I’ve worked under this premise for years and it has led me to a purpose that has sustained me through all of the hate and dehumanization people have constantly thrown at me in my years on the fedi.
I gave up on the state being a catalyst for progressive societal change a long time ago. Yesterday was just another confirmation that the US is dedicated to its own destruction and decline and is determined to bring us all down with it.
Our job is to refuse to die with the empire. Our shared goal is to disconnect from it and let it kill itself.
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AMD’s Ryzen 7 9800X3D is now the best gaming CPU. The successor to the 7800X3D is now more capable of non-gaming workloads, too.Tom Warren (The Verge)
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removing the drive in use seems to have really irritated them, despite the fact that writing to unencrypted drives is forbidden by our systems anyway and the file I wanted was happily sat in RAM.
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Hey würde jemand Lust verspüren sich beim Betrieb eines deutschen #panoramax Servers einzubringen? Streetview Photos unter CC und für OSM 
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Deutscher Panoramax Server?
Wenn es um das Problem des Hostens der Bilder geht könnte man vielleicht gucken, dass man die Bilder einfach auf Wikimedia Commons speichert und Panoramax nur als Viewer für die auf den Wikimedia Servern liegenden Fotos nutzt.OpenStreetMap Community Forum
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Desokupa se ofrece a desahuciar a Joe Biden de la Casa Blanca
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Desokupa se ofrece a desahuciar a Joe Biden de la Casa Blanca
Daniel Esteve, responsable de Desokupa, ha celebrado hoy la victoria de Donald Trump y ha anunciado que se desplazará mañana mismo a Estados Unidos para poner a disposición del partido republicano los servicios de su empresa, que tiene «mucha experie…www.elmundotoday.com
Canadian legal information database sues company behind AI chatbot
The Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLII) has taken the makers of an AI chatbot to court over what it says are a violation of its terms of service, due to the chatbot scraping CanLII's database in bulk. #press
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