The actual outcome of this election with •the whole US population• as the denominator:

22% voted for Harris
23% voted for Trump
<1% voted for other
26% eligible but did not vote*
28% not eligible to vote

* (whether by choice or by voter suppression)

Numbers might shift a tiny bit as last votes are counted, but this is close to the final tally.

Just sit with that for one quality minute. Think about what stories people are telling about this election. Then think about what stories are true.

Yesterday's news leads me to forecast the next big thing in SF/F genre fiction: the Cosy Dystopia—a future or fantasy setting in which the backdrop is ghastly but the sympathetic protagonists are running a tea shop in the borderlands.

Think Warhammer 40,000 space marines, with added knitting. (Narrative focus STRONGLY on the knitting.)

I am not hopeful. I am quite sad.

Elon Musk essentially bought the election when he bought Twitter.

Journalists could have left Twitter, and had it go the way of MySpace. Instead, they continued to legitimize it, thereby giving it life.

For the next four years, decentralized social media will be needed – if only as an alternative to the faux-progressive media that seek to control the public square.

The world is becoming more and more authoritarian, and we need an antidote.

暫時最後一個美國大選 post：

既然大抵應該是川普勝出（雖然賀錦麗未正式宣佈自己落敗），可以集中討論第二個川普任期的美國施政和國際格局（理論上應該在大選期間比較兩名候選人的政綱，但這裏只是一個還有其他工作要做的香港人營運，所以除了無論誰當選總統都只有一個結果的對華政策，我不想浪費時間討論一個將會落敗的人如何施政）

很多香港網絡評論節目談論過，南華早報也略有報導：川普在10月底一個播客節目表示，會要求中國釋放黎智英

播客主持 Hugh Hewitt 當時問川普，他如果上台，會否跟習近平說，釋放黎智英，川普的回答是：
＂100%會，我會讓他出來，他會很容易就能出來，但我們（拜登政府/美國政壇）連談及這一點的人都沒有＂

我有其他工作要做（如果我沒有其他freelance工作賺錢的話，你應該要更懷疑這個page有什麼居心），所以暫時不更新美國選舉了，可能到美國星期三中午前不久才再更新一下

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