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So far, Americans using RedNote have said they don't care if China has access to their data. Viral videos on TikTok in recent days have shown Americans jokingly saying they will miss their personal "Chinese spy," while others say they are purposefully giving RedNote access to their data in a show of protest against the wishes of the U.S. government.

"This also highlights the fact that people are thirsty for platforms that aren't controlled by the same few oligarchs," Quintin said. "People will happily jump to another platform even if it presents new, unknown risks."

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Instagram announced a new video creation app Sunday amid legal struggles faced in the U.S. by TikTok, another social media platform with a focus on visual content.

“Today we’re announcing Edits, a brand new app for making videos on your phone,” Instagram head Adam Mosseri said in a video posted on the platform. 

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The original was posted on /r/steamdeck by /u/Wild_Struggle922 on 2025-01-21 04:19:47+00:00.


I bought the PS5 2 years ago and then bought the steam deck a few months ago.

Unfortunately the only game I stuck with was stardew valley, probably played close to 40 hours but eventually I got bored.

I bought the Star Wars jedi survivor, found it to be boring. Same with hogwarts legacy, the shadow of Mordor, Skyrim, Diablo 4, etc they all felt like a chore

I also tried god of war, resident evil, and cyberpunk. Same deal

I don’t know what it is but Wow was pretty much peak gaming for me, ive played off and on over the past 2 decades. It feels like home.

The problem is that my PC doesn’t have good specs to run it well and it seems impossible to run on the steam deck given all the hoops you need to jump through (proton, installer, console ports).

I hate how I wasted my money on PS5 and Steam deck and it feels like a chore for me to play.

I’m going through a mid life crisis and I’m having trouble accepting the fact that I either suck at gaming and/or just don’t like gaming like my friends do.

I’m just here to get some advice on what can give me that spark that WoW gave me when I first started playing.

There’s GW2 but I never really got into it and plus I already bought the game through arena net, not steam, which means I’d have to download the dumb installer

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“I’ve never seen anything burn so quick,” said Almanza, 42, recounting the first day of the Eaton fire near Pasadena, California. “Our captains have to make the hard decisions: get yourselves killed or let the house burn.” His eyes welled up recounting the properties devoured as his crew had no choice but to retreat: “I was just so sad and emotional, because there was nothing we could do.”

Almanza is one of thousands of first responders who have put their lives on the line battling the historic windstorm-fueled fires that have ravaged LA.

Almanza is incarcerated and currently serving a state prison sentence, making up to $10.24 in daily wages fighting the wildfires, with $1 hourly bonuses while on the frontlines. Since last week, the California department of corrections and rehabilitation (CDCR) has deployed more than 1,100 incarcerated firefighters to the LA infernos, which have become some of the deadliest and most destructive in the region’s history.

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cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/53183051

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The original was posted on /r/pcmasterrace by /u/Puzzled_Adeptness_60 on 2025-01-21 17:45:24+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/worldnews by /u/senfgurke on 2025-01-21 14:41:14+00:00.

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[...]rather than studying the world as it is in an empirical sense, identifying problems, and proposing solutions, Trumpism starts with “solutions” consistent with its racist and xenophobic worldview—extrapolated from slogans like “Make America Great Again,” “Build the Wall,” “Drain the Swamp”—and then goes in search of “real” problems to justify their implementation.

The press and Democratic Party have, unfortunately, gamely played along—denouncing Trumpism’s false statements of fact but largely conceding the underlying “problems” as worthy policy debates. For example, outlets like the Atlantic and New York Times insist on pretending that gender nonconformity among children is a serious “problem” worthy of national political debate when less than 0.1 percent of U.S. minors take gender-affirming medication.

The same goes for immigration. Mainstream newspapers and cable outlets have largely narrated as a “crisis” the Biden administration’s mismanagement of a dysfunctional asylum process—dysfunction, worth noting, that was deliberately sown by Republican governors to justify their racist anti-migrant policies. This crisis framing has been readily adopted by “Blue State” Democrats like New York City mayor Eric Adams and New York governor Kathy Hochul to obfuscate their own mismanagement of the issue.

Journalists, as Stuart Hall and his collaborators once argued, are “secondary definers.” Their commitment to “objectivity” means that they can’t weigh in on matters of public policy directly. Instead, they rely upon experts and public officials as “primary definers.” “Effectively, the primary definition sets the limit for all subsequent discussions by framing the what the problem is,” Hall and colleagues wrote.

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The article discusses the trend of "gender-coding" in politics and how politicians and corporations (namely Facebook in this case) often use it to distract from the problems they cause for society.

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The original was posted on /r/mapporn by /u/ellatino230 on 2025-01-21 17:31:55+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/mapporn by /u/Beautiful-Rough2310 on 2025-01-21 17:25:01+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/mapporn by /u/Agreeable-Bowler8077 on 2025-01-21 16:52:17+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/mapporn by /u/mickey117 on 2025-01-21 16:48:05+00:00.

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Trump has offered tech a way to buy itself out of consequences.

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Are the democrats ever not Obungling it?

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