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isol (isol@mastodon.au)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 18:36:23 JST

isol

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If you remove the advertising/financial connotations from the word "influencer", then I have been influenced more by people on Mastodon than any prior social media:

I now often go for bike rides when the weather is not perfectly wonderful, because of a guy who rides every day.

I've found, looked at, and intend to swim in the local ocean baths, because of a lady up the coast who frequently swims and posts pictures which make her ocean baths look pretty wonderful.

I've read several books because of people here waxing lyrical about them.

I've made a chilli dipping sauce, because a lady on here suggested that to me.

So, for me, the influencing on Mastodon is more … "authentic"?

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Hrefna (DHC) (hrefna@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 07-Nov-2024 08:13:03 JST

Hrefna (DHC)

@ElusiveConfection

Oh, I'm a lot more than a "little rude." But that is a proportional—and in fact a muted—response to, for example, people like you showing up to explain things to me.

So for you also: Fuck off.

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solarbird (solarbird@solarbird.net)'s status on Saturday, 02-Nov-2024 03:35:53 JST

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this looks to me like what we call a “tell”

“Scoop: What Trump is hearing about his chances in a tight 2024 race,” writes Axios. I’m not linking it, because I think it’s shenanigans.

What he’s supposedly hearing is that he pretty much has the election pretty much in hand, better position than 2020, blah blah blah blah [fart noises].

I’m calling bullshit on the whole story, because this “internal” memo that they “scooped” is using as its thesis data from fucking Real Clear Politics, an absolutely canonical clown car, and if they had real, actual, good internal data showing what they’re talking about, they’d be using it. And they’re not.

Given that even Trump should know that, I’m thinking much less “this was a scoop” and a lot more “This was propaganda written to be ‘scooped’ up and reported as a ‘scoop,'” and Axios happened to be the ones who bit.

Further – I think it’s a tell. Between that and Trump going all in on telling his cult that he has a truly massive lead that can only be overtaken by fraud, what I’m actually hearing is that the Trump campaign thinks they’re losing.

I think they know something very bad about their numbers, and I think I know what it is, and I think it’s more than one thing. 1: I think the gender gap is higher than they or pollsters have been thinking it is; 2: I think likely voter composition is different than they think it is and pollsters haven’t caught up either (this is, however, reflected in enthusiasm numbers); 3: I think Trump has failed to get past his hard upper limit of 47% and thanks to that racist hatefest in New York, Latino men who had been leaning towards not voting for a woman got a big slap of reality in the face, and finally…

4: People who don’t math very well are saying that Harris’s wide lead in early polling just reflects how Democrats always turn out more for early voting than Republicans, and that her lead is not even as good as Biden’s was in 2020, but that ignores that this time, Republicans are in fact turning out in early polling, and way more than they have for a while, and Trump’s even been encouraging them.

A lot of people don’t seem to be catching on to that, and it matters.

And while a lot of these numbers are shaky at best – there’s one set of numbers going around that is in fact from a decent polling agency but the question it’s hanging on is kind of fucked up so I don’t think it’s reliable – Harris’s lead appears to be bigger than the party turnout differential.

And what that means is that some of those early-voting registered Republicans are voting for her.

Mostly women, no doubt. But still, I have seen some numbers that make me go holy shit. And not just in Kansas.

I’m wondering whether the Trump campaign have figured all that shit out. Particularly with their panic about Republican women not voting the way their men want them to, and talking about how maybe women shouldn’t be voting at all and maybe the 19th Amendment needs to go away so that women can’t vote.

Their reaction to losing is always to prevent the people who vote against them from being able to vote at all. I see no reason for this time to be different. If they’re saying women shouldn’t be voting at all, that tells me they’re being absolutely brutalised by women voters – as they damn well should be.

So now they’re moving forward on their Plan B of setting up the faithful for mass rejection of the results and a second coup attempt.

Another thing I said a very long time is that to get through this without major violence, we need the fascists to think that they’re on the very cusp of victory throughout, and not to believe they’re actually going to lose until they literally can’t win.

That’s what 2024 has always been about, and I think they may’ve just figured out they can’t win.

I really would’ve preferred them not figuring this out for another few days, but, well… four days beforehand, that’s not so bad. One day after would’ve been ideal, of course, but four days before? We can work with that.

Keep up the pressure, team. Stay at your posts, or if you’re not at your post, get to one and start pushing us across the finish line. If these numbers confuse you, forget about them all – in fact, ignore all the polls entirely. I could be so very, very wrong. I don’t think I am and my history is good, but in the fog of war, anyone can be fooled, including me.

So stay on target. First we have to win this, then we have to keep it. And we can’t leave anything “on the field,” because this is – as I have said many, many times – for all the marbles.

Eyes. On. The. Prize.

3 days remain.

[link] #politics #USPol #fascism #politics #uspolitics

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Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Saturday, 26-Oct-2024 19:56:14 JST

Aral Balkan

I feel you’re all being terribly unfair to Google. Google spends half a billion dollars of its hard-earned cash every year to fund Mozilla and do they even hear a “thank you” from you ungrateful lot?

Nope!

Just “so glad Firefox isn’t made by Google” over and over again.

Well I guess I’m just not as humble as Google ‘cos, guess what, if I paid you half a billion dollars a year to make something I’d damn well expect you to credit me.

So, c’mon, thank Google for Firefox.

#ThankGoogleForFirefox

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Kelvin n0mql EN35ld (kelvin0mql@mastodon.hams.social)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Oct-2024 01:57:13 JST

Kelvin n0mql EN35ld

@jima

If ipv6 requires decent-career-level of expertise, it's not for me.

So far, nothing has come up that has made me need nor want to touch ipv6, and I'm hopeful it will remain that way until I die.

That is, if I HAVE to use ipv6, I hope it's someone else's problem, and free/transparent to me.

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Keith Ammann @ PAX Unplugged (keithammann@dice.camp)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Oct-2024 12:59:08 JST

Keith Ammann @ PAX Unplugged

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My father spent the first dozen years of his life living under right-wing authoritarian rule and its aftermath … and I'll be damned if I'll allow that to happen to my daughter.

Everything—EVERYTHING—takes a backseat to that for me.

So this year's elections mean a lot. 2/10

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