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Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

mozilla is having another wee purge on the foundation side

this shit reads exactly like corporate raider playbook

[–] [email protected] 2 points 44 minutes ago (1 children)

Its times like these which make me happy I switched to Librewolf.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 38 minutes ago

last I saw that wasn't really well-insulated from upstream's bullshit

one of the recent things moz pulled ended up enabled in librewolf on basically the same day/timeline

[–] [email protected] 4 points 45 minutes ago

Fuck it, off-the-cuff prediction: I expect resistance to Silicon Valley is gonna turn violent during Trump's term.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 hours ago (4 children)

re: election results. unfortunately i'm not surprised or even disappointed by now. it makes me feel sad for my 2015 self and her naivete. she didn't understand what a disgusting and evil culture she lived in

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

Yeah this is fucked up. I feel so bad for everybody (esp the Americans, but this will hurt the world). Shit this prob means I should start looking into seriously helping out locally when all this explodes into more international shit. (Which imho is the best you can do anyway, do things locally, build a bit of a support network for your community).

(Note I'm not American, but I think this will end badly, just the fucker stepping out of the paris accord for example, and all the weird blowhard fascists this will make feel emboldened to do more politics locally).

E: I really hope the people who go 'this is the same as in 2020, wait till all votes are counted' are correct and not on hopeium.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

i think they indeed are on hopium/copium

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

I can't tell, US elections have imho always been extremely dumb. (But, in the past decades+ ours have not been much better).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

both by electoral college and by popular vote trump has advantage, and worse than that house and senate are republican now

[–] [email protected] 5 points 23 minutes ago

Yeah, turns out this is the bad place.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

I don’t have too much coherent to say right now

fuck the fascists for what they’ve done and what they intend to do

fuck the neoliberals for doing their best to convince marginalized people that they shouldn’t defend themselves against a terrible fate

fuck the accelerationists for pumping shitheaded propaganda into the fediverse, for the victory lap they’re taking now, and for the general idea that their revolution is worth our deaths

shit’s about to get very hard and very weird and I can’t stress enough how important it is to be careful who you trust with your life

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I can’t stress enough how important it is to be careful who you trust with your life

strong agree

minor upside: it's going to be a good time to make lists of people who suddenly feel comfortable to mask off

fucking fuck this sucks

[–] [email protected] 5 points 41 minutes ago

minor upside: it’s going to be a good time to make lists of people who suddenly feel comfortable to mask off

correct. keep receipts.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

what a surprise, the thread all the leftist shitposters on mastodon boosted about how you’re a class traitor if you don’t vote for the Green Party (who I don’t buy as socialist) or “any other socialist party” (fucking who??? am I supposed to write “socialism” on my ballot in crayon???) conveniently went missing

anyway post your favorite fuckhead accelerationist here, mastodon’s a shooting gallery tonight

[–] [email protected] 4 points 29 minutes ago

i do love how the "anti-imperialist" protest vote against harris was a choice between like three or four putin apologists. the state of the US left is really fucked up and i don't want to look at it ever again.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 hours ago

anyway post your favorite fuckhead accelerationist here, mastodon’s a shooting gallery tonight

I've intentionally been avoiding feeds the last few days because I just do not have the headspace for it, but I quickly checked on shit now

and

fuck

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 hours ago

Not surprised, still very disappointed, I feel sick.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

are you US-based? very sorry, take care

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

yes, i am. i've been plotting to get out for years but i've been too depressed since my partner died to make any progress tbh. i've no idea what to do

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago

ugh that sucks, I'm sorry

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 hours ago

Bitcoin peaks as Trump is elected

(Article encrypted in Finnish, see spoiler for translation)

lightly fixed machine translationThe cryptocurrency Bitcoin climbed to a new high record on Wednesday as Republican Donald Trump seemed to be taking the lead in the US presidential election. Bitcoin went up by almost $6,000 and traded above $75,000. The previous record from March, when the rate settled slightly below $73,800?

Trump has previously branded cryptocurrencies a scam, but he changed his line and during his campaign has praised them and promised to make the United States the world's centers for bitcoin and cryptocurrencies.

“The price of Bitcoin has followed Trump’s position in opinion polls and the betting market. Investors estimate that the victory of the Republicans would increase the demand for digital currencies", says Russ Mold, an analyst at the financial company AJ Bell, to the AFP news agency.

In the United States, the stock exchanges in New York were on the plus side at the end of the trading day on Tuesday after the previous day's declines.

The technology-focused Nasdaq closed up by a percent 1.4, while the more general S&P 500 was up 1.2 percent. The Industrial-oriented Dow Jones, on the other hand, ended the day with a 1.0 percent increase.

The dollar is initially weakened against the euro, but began to rise in Asian markets against both the euro and the Japanese yen as Trump's lead. Stock exchange rates were also rising in various parts of Asia. In Tokyo, the Nikkei 225 index ended by a percent 2.4.

The presidential race is a struggle between Democrats Kamala Harris and Republican Trump.

Trump has proposed a combination of low corporate tax rates and looser regulation that would be boosted by corporate profits and tighten the stock market, experts told ABC News.

Dry heaving at the shameless public fellatio Trump performed on Musk in his speech.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 23 hours ago

Recently read Brian Merchant's latest piece on the upcoming election, and I felt like making a quick-and-dirty prediction:

If Harris wins, I expect there will be some pretty harsh regulation against Silicon Valley. Putting aside everything but simple political pragmatism:

  1. Elon Musk's election antics and Trump's support from tech billoinaires have shown SV holds a significant amount of power over politics - power which will almost certainly prove a constant thorn in Harris' side. As such, it'd be in her self interest to kneecap the Valley ASAP.

  2. Public opinion of Silicon Valley has taken a pounding over the years for a variety of reasons, with the AI slop-nami just the latest and most serious grievance the public has against them. Any tech regulation a Harris presidency makes (especially against AI) is gonna enjoy significant public support from day one.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Ubisoft’s NFT game is going great:

Ubisoft’s NFT game, which has about 6 active players, has a game breaking exploit where one player is winning every match.

“One player pointed out that the Paulstar111 account was top of the rankings with over 56,000 matches played. It’s not yet clear how the player has been able to connect to so many games and automatically win them”

[–] [email protected] 9 points 21 hours ago

unfortunately the six active players bit is a joke

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

a real web3 moment if there ever was one.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

In Arizona’s U.S. Senate race, Republican Kari Lake told Politico why she feels confident in her chances, despite recent polling showing her behind Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego: “Our polling is a little different. We take polling, but we also combine it with AI, which reads all of what’s happening on social media and across the Internet.”

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/mondays-campaign-11424-kari-lake-adds-ai-polls-rcna178681?icid=latestpost_bot

Edit: Found the map she's using:

https://xcancel.com/IwriteOK/status/1853647442740441289#m

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

I'm sure her results would be very accurate if troll farms could vote and chatgpt was doing the count.

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