It looks like they were wrong in exactly the same way and Trump outperformed. Assuming the few outstanding states go the way they are currently leaning, he’ll win something like 311 to 227. That is not a dead-heat, it’s a trouncing. But you’re right, human decency definitely lost.

• 2016 polls: Hilary by a landslide | 2016 results: Trump outperforms, wins
• 2020 polls: Biden by a ton | 2020 results: Trump outperforms, Biden ekes out a win
• 2024 polls: Dead-heat | 2024 results: 😬

And he sat a ton of federal judges…I mean it will get worse, but this ship has basically sailed.

There are way more options than playing or forfeiting when you find out the game is rigged…like flipping over the table chasing the dealer with a whip. Jesus style.

Late stage capitalism is to blame for both.

I mean…it gave him an opportunity to demonize the Chinese, so he did the Trumpy thing: prioritize race-baiting over the welfare of even a single American

Oh and Invidious link because damn the man. https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=mTnRsyJMxrc

Media needs to stop sane-washing these people.

“Election criminals are fraudulently…” FTFY

Addd to this list: Upload & I’m a Virgo

Amazon really loves co-opting anti-capitalism.

FTA: "While this is a win on paper, it’s unlikely that the publishers will get paid by the LibGen operators, who remain anonymous. "

Certainly not a pump and dump…nope…nope…no way

She couldn’t be bothered to go to – or even send staffers to – Michigan. https://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/michigan-hillary-clinton-trump-232547 Then repeat basically the same laziness with Pennsylvania and Wisoconson https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/11/trumps-road-to-victory/507203/ because she assumed the Rust Belt would just vote for her.

She demonstrably phoned it in.

And most of the remaining 23% give their money to their own charities so they can use it to influence policy, educational institutions, and medicine to further enrich themselves.

Next we’ll be shocked to hear Temu uses Uyghur slave labor 😐

You are not wrong: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/07/is-chatgpt-getting-worse-over-time-study-claims-yes-but-others-arent-sure/ and also https://duckduckgo.com/?q=chat+gpt+4+getting+worse

The more LLMs get exposed to data, the more they get exposed to wrong data. There’s also a vicious cycle problem that once LLMs spit out bad information, that bad information gets incorporated into LLMs new data sets, which makes them more wrong, so on and so forth.

Duke admin 1: We need a commencement speaker…preferably a genocide denier and a pedo.

Duke admin 2: Jerry Seinfeld is available

Duke admin 1: Perfect!

Probably how it went down.

Reminder that nothing will change without public pressure.

If you’re in the US, you can easily find and write your elected reps here: https://www.270towin.com/elected-officials/

You can also find local groups like the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (in the UK) https://palestinecampaign.org/get-involved/ or the DSA (US) https://www.dsausa.org/chapters/ organizing protests you can participate in as our voices are louder in numbers.

Another good reason not to use Google products

Yeah, Mailspring is what I use currently, but the sidebar pretty much just shows the list of e-mails, no other data, but it is the best of what I’ve found on my own.

Simon Caine makes the best videos revealing the crazy shit big tech does. I’m looking forward to the companion videos on Zuckbook and Twitter