At least they’re doing some things right

Good. Pirate it all if it makes the product FOSS and more efficient.

Maybe not in a vacuum, but compared to pretty much any other government in the world right now, they are still very much worthy of admiration lol

Finally a proper good open source model as all tech should be

Waiting for them to rename it to XikXok

“A law banning TikTok has been enacted in the U.S. Unfortunately, that means you can’t use TikTok for now. We are fortunate that President Trump has indicated that he will work with us on a solution to reinstate TikTok once he takes office. Please stay tuned,” a message to users attempting to use the app said.

They weren’t lying about political pressure. Dems are not winning the next election either lmfao

Specially funny with Rednote taking off. This is just a big self-own

It’s actually pretty good. The algorithm prefers new users while making it hard to be ridiculously popular.

Needs some translation features though, and I imagine alot of English speakers aren’t gonna be used to China’s content moderation.

Shame it’s Duolingo though. HelloChinese and DuChinese are way better for actually learning the language.

I don’t get it. He seems to understand the dems will never be a working-class party. Why’s he still in there instead of an actual socialist org like the PSL or FRSO?

The most relevant paragraph imo

Bernie’s coalition was filled with the exact type of voters who are now flocking to Donald Trump: Working class voters of all races, young people, and, critically, the much-derided bros. The top contributors to Bernie’s campaign often held jobs at places like Amazon and Walmart. The unions loved him. And— never forget — he earned the coveted Joe Rogan endorsement that Trump also received the day before the election this year. It turns out, the Bernie-to-Trump pipeline is real! While that has always been used as an epithet to smear Bernie and his movement, with the implication that social democracy is just a cover for or gateway drug to right wing authoritarianism, the truth is that this pipeline speaks to the power and appeal of Bernie’s vision as an effective antidote to Trumpism. When these voters had a choice between Trump and Bernie, they chose Bernie. For many of them now that the choice is between Trump and the dried out husk of neoliberalism, they’re going Trump.

It’s worth noting that “fascism” specifically is a eurocentric — or even more specifically a 20th century-centric — ideology. You could argue the US has always been “fascist”, just that the fascism has been focused on people outside it — the countries it constantly wages wars on. Still a good way to describe the direction declining capitalist states are headed to, I guess.

Shame to see this shit from torvalds

Third time’s the charm?

Unironically this would be a great thing. Most manufacturing happens in BRICS nations anyway; countries would speed up dedollarisation if the US is this desperate.

A small nation that’s been getting bombed for the past few years by Saudi with US and UK backing at that. Other countries should take notes.