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I was looking at numbers for #CA39 in the Orange County Registrar, assuming that it would have the quickest turnaround. Then I found a Twitter account that was showing numbers consistently lower than the OC Registrar, and it hit me: each county registrar reports only on their own county’s results. So CA39 shows up in three county’s reports separately.

I see the Korean Press was only looking at OC numbers as well, as they reported the difference as 55% vs 45% (even at the time of the reporting last night, the district-wide difference was actually 53/47).

Still, Republican candidate Young Kim holds a lead over Gil Cisneros, at 51.3 vs 48.7% (4,000 votes difference) without including the late ballots. It’s not impossible, but it will be pretty tough to reverse the trend in late ballots.

Late ballots estimate from NYT:

I think Trump said “if Dems win the house, there will be a wave of crimes, alien invasions, and violence.. lots of violence. And it’s gonna be your fault, not mine.”.

Tremendous success tonight. Thank you to all!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 7, 2018

Holy shit those Prop 10 numbers

https://vote.sos.ca.gov/returns/ballot-measures

This newspaper is funny:

• Friday ad, strongly attacking Trump -> inserts small disclaimer “may not reflect opinions of our newspaper”
• Wednesday ad, more uplifting tone, not as aggressive -> no disclaimer
• Friday ad, strongly attacking -> inserts small disclaimer

the sad state of my Instant Messenger accounts

I mostly use SMS, Slack and KakaoTalk for my daily messaging. Colleagues use Slack; us-based contacts use SMS and I get them via Hangouts, but for the past 4 years I haven’t been able to figure out how to set Hangouts (instead of Android’s built-in “Messages” app) as the default program for outgoing SMS, so I can’t integrate it with my address book or recent calls log. (I prefer Hangouts because I can type from the computer as well) Unless I’m responding to a recent incoming convo, to initiate an SMS convo I need to scroll through all my chat history to find the thread that belongs to the person or group, or manually type the number. I have no idea why sometimes some messages would be receives by Messages instead of Hangouts. Remaining Korean contacts are on KakoTalk.

I then have:

• A WeChat account made because a friend was traveling through China. I have 2 contacts on the app.
• A WhatsApp account made because most of the people I contacted to practice the language only had a WhatsApp account (which reveals your cell phone number.. what he heck?)
• A Telegram account made for the sole purpose of participating in a hobby-related group notification list. I have no contacts in the account (My contacts from 5 years ago seem to not have been reestablished when I refused to share my address book)
• A Signal account made for the sole purpose of talking with one person for work
• I never agreed to make a Facebook Messenger account, but Facebook made one anyway and someone kept messaging me time-sensitive stuff through the Messenger account

I can’t delete any of these accounts because they do have a marginal use case, and they sit on the phone consuming data, storage and RAM.

Excellent.

So I keep hearing about this mythical “reasonable and afraid” crowd who we can establish reasonable conversations with.

Let’s see:

• I see how the Korean media covers their activities and their positions, and I want to throw up. It’s disgusting.
• I go to their website, and I want to puke. It’s worse in online spaces.
• Same with their flyers.

Look, if we were leading a movement and a sympathetic media outlet was posting racist shit, we would condemn it and talk with the business in question so they would immediately stop the hate speech. If the media outlet refuses to collaborate, we would publicly announce that we do not consider them our allies.

Have the antis done that? If so what hopes do we have of establishing reasonable conversations with these people?

Are we sure that by using the “latinx” term we are not further reinforcing the misguided notion of people who don’t care that “people from latin america” are “latin people”? Unless people are engaged in intentional identity conversations, “latinx” can easily pass as a typo of “latin”.

Evolution of routers

You can’t gather up a group of people who are wholeheartedly convinced that something is wrong and they have every right to say that it’s wrong and tell them that they ought not to say what they believe, and instead convince them to say “oh i think it is very good, it’s just that.. XYZ.. so yeah, let’s fix that, and let’s do it”. Because pretending to not want what you actually want can only go so far. The lack of message discipline is almost humorous. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The WeChat “Sure” flan animated emoticon is a stroke of genius

I think we broke their product recommendation algorithm..