Look, Trump got 2 million less votes than 2020. The problem was that Harris got 14 million less votes than Biden. Democrats lost because they failed to inspire and turn out their voters. Not because more people supported Trump this time than last.
Trump did his thing. But this was a failure of the Democratic party to do what it needs to do to win elections. You’ve got to run for something that can inspire people, not just against the other guy.
Off the top of my head the only policy I remember Harris advocating for that was unique was a $25k subsidy for first time homebuyers. That wouldn’t do a damned thing to make housing more affordable. Oh and she’ll continue to fund the wars in Gaza and Ukraine.
Trump promised all sorts of crazy things like mass deportation, tariffs, no taxes on tips, and stopping imaginary in school trans surgeries. Doesn’t matter that the deportations are cruel, the tariffs and exemptions for tips are bad economic ideas and kids aren’t getting gender affirming care in schools. Hell, even project 2025 shows there’s a ton of proactive policies. Not good ones or ones i want, but lots exist.
I supported Harris and followed the election but can’t think of what she’d do if elected differently than Biden. She failed to get people to vote for her. That’s the long and short of it.
Yeah but even if he matches 2020, basically Trump turned out the same base as last time and didn’t convince many new people to vote for him.
Biden went back on his promise to run just once, prevented a real primary, failed at the debate, and left the party with the only option of running Harris. I’ve never been a fan of her politics, but her campaign just didn’t do what it needed to do, which was inspire her base to vote for her.
Yeah Biden promised to only serve one term then got greedy and reneged on that promise. That was the original sin of the Democratic Party this cycle.
Then there were stupid things like branding high inflation and economic anxiety as Bidenomics.
Yeah i think the assassination attempts were violent crazy guys and not something Trump would have risked. And yes he seemed particularly incoherent in the last few weeks of the race. And yet he still won easily. I’d bet he doesn’t live the full four years, he’s old.
I went through a weird path via the Edmund Hillary Fellowship, but the best way is an employer sponsored visa which is relatively easy to get in comparison to other countries.
@Shreyan Jain has a good write up comparing the two protocols.
ATprotocol can be open but it’ll never be permissionless. There is an approval process for each PDS connection to each relay and every kind of content will need its own appview server. The hard enforcement of schema validation means new data types don’t work on the network unless they go through a kind of standards process and then explicit support is added to the client, PDS, and appview amongst other places.
Their name system was supposed to be a temporary bridge to an open system, it’s called did placeholder, but they know decided they’re keeping it because they do want a control over usernames.
The last bit is that PDS’s control your keys and there is no way to request or move your keys. You can only migrate with a manual process that the PDS provider does on your behalf. If your PDS provider, which is 99.99% of the time Bluesky inc, doesn’t let you go then they own your account and all of your data.
Lastly Bluesky isn’t going to do encryption. The dm system is an unencrypted centralized system where Bluesky has everyone’s private messages. They have no plans on changing that or adding encrypted groups.
Bluesky has made a bunch of decisions which have helped it grow and in building these systems there are always tradeoffs.
While I think voting and democracy are important I’m pretty sure most people around the world are not dreaming of the broken American political and social systems. Most people I talk to outside the US assume the country is a violent dangerous place with a crazy system of elections and broken healthcare system. It’s been at least a decade since I heard people say much admirable about the US.
You really think that? The US accepts a relativity low % of immigrants in comparison to other developed countries. People are much more likely to go to Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the Gulf, etc… maybe decades ago the US was the preferred destination. But the world has changed. People who have ties to the US through community and family still move there but even with Mexico the immigration flow is from the US to Mexico not the other way around.
I’m confused. What is gay about a big bearded NFL superbowl winner dating the most famous and popular women in pop music? Isn’t this the straightest celebrity relationship possible?
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/taylor-swift-reacts-jason-kelces-153058423.html
Is it gay because Taylor Swift is successful woman who is wealthier than her also rich and successful football star boyfriend?
That’s not really actually how slurs work. While you might joke around with your straight friends about it, it’s in fact the homophobia in the term which gives it the edge that makes it an insult to your straight friends.
I think we’re going to increasingly see people hand over decisions to their AI. I’m not sure it’s good, but it seems like it’s inevitable.
https://archive.is/gxm9g
I don’t know about a stream, i can’t find one searching, they are recording the talks but if last year’s any indication it might take a few months for them to post them online.
https://www.youtube.com/@LABITCONF/videos
It’s an incredibly profitable and sustainable business model. I think the inability to do subscriptions in Nostr and bitcoin is a major blocker to our getting a sustainable business model.
This is the best piece I’ve read about the elections in the US if you care a lot about the genocide in Gaza. We need to be strategic and understand the system within which we live while we work to change it.
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We still get situations like this person who joined and was scared away by enthusiastic bitcoiners pushing him to setup wallets and learn a ton of stuff he isn’t interested in.
@nobody
It’s not that the people replying weren’t friendly and welcoming. And we have lots of people who are interested in music or photography on Nostr. It’s how he felt “this place isn’t for me” rather than, “oh this is how I find the music and photography people”
And I think all of the replies made Nostr seem complicated and overwhelming. Just like how most people never change a single setting in the software they use. We’re a community of tinkerers and early adopters. Folks who want something that “just works” aren’t going to want to read more onboarding instructions or spend a bunch of time learning how nostr works.
Nostr folks aren’t just interested in bitcoin but that is the largest community of users. One of my projects is to make it easier to find and cultivate many different kinds of communities on Nostr.
What kind of music do you compose?
@mmasnick has a new essay about what is bringing people to decentralized social protocols. He calls them Elon Musk Events (EVM’s) which drive people to leave one platform and try alternatives.
He wrote the essay, Protocols, Not Platforms which really pushed forward the idea of social media protocols as a viable alternative to centralized platforms.
The latest one on adopting social media protocols is somewhat focused on Bluesky but it talks about Nostr and other protocols. The point is we need to keep exploring and trying things to figure out what are the killer features that decentralized can do which isn’t easy or possible with centralized systems. Nostr has so much experimenting going on that it’s hard to keep track of which is amazing. We need to do a better job at talking to new and potential people in order that they are invited in and see value in staying.
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/10/29/some-slightly-biased-thoughts-on-the-state-of-decentralized-social-media/
It’s come up a few times, but clearly the name confuses people. Nos.today is its own thing not affiliated with nos.social. It’s cool, but one of my projects.
While i believe it’s fully the intention of the creators that ATprotocol and Bluesky end up being a fully open permissionless protocol, the decisions they’re making around how to build and fund it means they’re going to face a lot of pressure to not actually open up. Twitter was incredibly open and even at one point federated via XMPP, but the constraints of running a VC backed platform caused the company to enclose the commons and walk away from the open network.
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Why aren’t we doing more stuff with Nostr and Tidal? It’s really cool, they launched it back in June, I’ve seen it pop up a few times but we should do more with it.
Like make ‘share a song’ more a feature in the app and auto login with your nsec when you see events with Tidal content.
https://developer.tidal.com/blog/tidal-embeds-the-other-stuff-transmitted-by-nostr
I mean yes but you can only vote for federal office and you do it from the last random place you lived before moving overseas. Oh and the ballots arrive after Election Day. That too.
Yeah Meta decided to suppress all political and electoral content. It means that there’s a whole group of people who are essentially unaware and if the election.
ActivityPub is very instance / server centric, it’s more about community powered than people. Users within the fediverse have very limited agency, they don’t own their name or followers or data. Some instances let users leave with a forwarding address, some don’t.
While I admire the attempt this is far from a TikTok competitor. Videos don’t load, the player blocks swiping while playing, there’s no interaction without registering, and as far as I can tell no algorithm.
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