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Schwarzenegger Votes for Harris/Walz

I don't really do endorsements. I'm not shy about sharing my views, but I hate politics and don't trust most politicians.

I also understand that people want to hear from me because I am not just a celebrity, I am a former Republican Governor.

My time as Governor taught me to love policy and ignore politics. I'm proud of the work I did to help clean up our air, create jobs, balance the budget, make the biggest infrastructure investment in state history, and take power from the politicians and give it back to the people when it comes to our redistricting process and our primaries in California.

That's policy. It requires working with the other side, not insulting them to win your next election, and I know it isn't sexy to most people, but I love it when I can help make people's lives better with policies, like I still do through my institute at USC, where we fight for clean air and stripping the power from the politicians who rig the system against the people.

Let me be honest with you: I don't like either party right now. My Republicans have forgotten the beauty of the free market, driven up deficits, and rejected election results. Democrats aren't any better at dealing with deficits, and I worry about their local policies hurting our cities with increased crime.

It is probably not a surprise that I hate politics more than ever, which, if you are a normal person who isn't addicted to this crap, you probably understand.

I want to tune out.

But I can't. Because rejecting the results of an election is as un-American as it gets. To someone like me who talks to people all over the world and still knows America is the shining city on a hill, calling America is a trash can for the world is so unpatriotic, it makes me furious.

And I will always be an American before I am a Republican.

That's why, this week, I am voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.

I'm sharing it with all of you because I think there are a lot of you who feel like I do. You don't recognize our country. And you are right to be furious.

For decades, we've talked about the national debt. For decades, we've talked about comprehensive immigration reform that secures the border while fixing our broken immigration system. And Washington does nothing.

The problems just keep rolling, and we all keep getting angrier, because the only people that benefit from problems aren't you, the people. The only people that benefit from this crap are the politicians who prefer having talking points to win elections to the public service that will make Americans' lives better.

It is a just game to them. But it is life for my fellow Americans. We should be pissed!

But a candidate who won't respect your vote unless it is for him, a candidate who will send his followers to storm the Capitol while he watches with a Diet Coke, a candidate who has shown no ability to work to pass any policy besides a tax cut that helped his donors and other rich people like me but helped no one else else, a candidate who thinks Americans who disagree with him are the bigger enemies than China, Russia, or North Korea - that won't solve our problems.

It will just be four more years of bullshit with no results that makes us angrier and angrier, more divided, and more hateful.

We need to close the door on this chapter of American history, and I know that former President Trump won't do that. He will divide, he will insult, he will find new ways to be more un-American than he already has been, and we, the people, will get nothing but more anger.

That's enough reason for me to share my vote with all of you. I want to move forward as a country, and even though I have plenty of disagreements with their platform, I think the only way to do that is with Harris and Walz.

Vote this week. Turn the page and put this junk behind us.

And even if you disagree with me, vote, because that's what we do as Americans. http://vote.org

OpenVibe on Android

Oh nice! OpenVibe on Android now combines Mastodon, Bluesky, and Threads! I've been using it for a while now for BlueSky and Mastodon, and today I opened it to see they added Threads.

Doesn't look like I can view just the Threads timeline, though it is merged into my main feed.

"Vanishing Culture: A Report on Our Fragile Cultural Record"

In today's digital landscape, corporate interests, shifting distribution models, and malicious cyber attacks are threatening public access to our shared cultural history.

• The rise of streaming platforms and temporary licensing agreements means that sound recordings, books, films, and other cultural artifacts that used to be owned in physical form, are now at risk—in digital form—of disappearing from public view without ever being archived.
• Cyber attacks, like those against the Internet Archive, British Library, Seattle Public Library, Toronto Public Library and Calgary Public Library, are a new threat to digital culture, disrupting the infrastructure that secures our digital heritage and impeding access to information at community scale.

When digital materials are vulnerable to sudden removal—whether by design or by attack—our collective memory is compromised, and the public's ability to access its own history is at risk.

Vanishing Culture: A Report on Our Fragile Cultural Record (download) aims to raise awareness of these growing issues. The report details recent instances of cultural loss, highlights the underlying causes, and emphasizes the critical role that public-serving libraries and archives must play in preserving these materials for future generations. By empowering libraries and archives legally, culturally, and financially, we can safeguard the public's ability to maintain access to our cultural history and our digital future.

Directly download the PDF of the report

Meeting the Duke on Sunday

Five months ago we said goodbye to Elwood, our nine year old great dane. His health had been in decline for a while and he finally crossed into the realm of suffering more than we were able to help with, and so we sent him off across the rainbow bridge.

We always knew we'd be bringing another big dog into our house, eventually. And a month or so ago we realized we were ready for another.

Earlier this week, a friend of ours, sent over a 2 year old Dane in Petfinder. We've made contact and will be going to see 'Duke' on Sunday. He's a big boy, even bigger than Elwood. E was roughly 120lbs, and Duke is reportedly 170lbs.

I can't wait. Fingers crossed.

Trick.is, my Linktree

A quick project this evening. I picked up the domain a few months ago, finally set it up as a quick an easy link directory style page.

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Chess For the Day

Record: 5-0-5
Net Elo Change: +8

Games Played

• - LOSS
• Serabs - WIN
• Dr_BIL - LOSS
• Dwaynea - LOSS
• Elginburg - WIN
• Igorrivne - WIN
• mhdizadh - LOSS
• asm1974 - WIN
• velja1965 - LOSS
• Alexlor9 - WIN

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