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I believe it’s called Red Book.
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The top 3 apps in the store are TikTok replacement.

I don’t think the Chinese ones will take off mainly because American are gonna learn Mandarin (though funnily enough Duo Lingo saw an uptick in mandarin since Red Book moved up the chart).

Eventually an American alternative will surface (we are still pretty good at developing software in this country) and everyone will migrate over there.

All of this is just projection and noise. Let’s see were this all sits 6 months from now and if the band goes into place (and the company isn’t sold) by this time next year TikTok will be an afterthought.
Also, the law was written broadly enough that that could easily take action to ban other apps if they have have the same exposure to foreign adversaries China, North Korea, Russia, Iran, etc…
 
One thing NPR said, YouTube shorts or Instagram Reels are not going to be where people move too to fit the void of not having TikTok. Many TikTok users are already on those platforms and repost their TikTok's on them. They don't feel these platforms have the magic that TikTok has and vastly prefer TikTok.
 
I believe it’s called Red Book.
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The top 3 apps in the store are TikTok replacement.

I don’t think the Chinese ones will take off mainly because American are gonna learn Mandarin (though funnily enough Duo Lingo saw an uptick in mandarin since Red Book moved up the chart).

Eventually an American alternative will surface (we are still pretty good at developing software in this country) and everyone will migrate over there.

All of this is just projection and noise. Let’s see were this all sits 6 months from now and if the band goes into place (and the company isn’t sold) by this time next year TikTok will be an afterthought.
I saw this yesterday, there is an app called HeyGen that uses AI to translate into Mandarin, and syncs to your mouth movements.

 
I don't know if anyone else in the United States, hell globally too, is feeling like the world is going to explode on Friday, but reading about Biden's farewell address has me feeling worse than ever. He raised so many massive problems that we've been beating the drum on for years and yet he did nothing to combat these issues while in office. Biden was the most inefficient and boneheaded Democratic president in generations. His legacy will be of doing nothing to prevent the end of democracy.

Arguably, in his 50 years in office, he's largely responsible for most of the problems we have now. Oh now you're worried about an oligarchy? Get fucking bent.
 
President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday announced actors Jon Voight, Mel Gibson and Sylvester Stallone would be “Special Ambassadors” to Hollywood, California.

“They will serve as Special Envoys to me for the purpose of bringing Hollywood, which has lost much business over the last four years to Foreign Countries, BACK—BIGGER, BETTER, AND STRONGER THAN EVER BEFORE!” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social.

Voight has been a longtime Trump supporter and backed the president-elect’s first run for office in 2016. In 2019, Trump awarded Voight the National Medal of Arts.

Gibson told TMZ he was backing Trump in October 2024 and insulted Vice President Kamala Harris’ intelligence. He more recently has been spreading conspiracy theories about the California wildfires on Fox News after his house burned down.

Stallone endorsed Trump late in the 2024 campaign and introduced the president-elect at the America First Policy Institute Gala in November, calling Trump “the second George Washington” and “a really mythical character.”


Source: CNN
 
Dems will beat the drum about how concerned they are about whatever, not give up a single shred of self-interest to fix it, and then say to our faces they've done all they can. I hate these people. At least Republicans are like yep, we're 100% evil and going to do evil shit lol and what're you gonna do about it.

Dude was the last president with the opportunity to do something before full on fascist oligarchy and his biggest imprint is 200k dead in Gaza. He can be the 3rd this week as far as I give a shit.
 
President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday announced actors Jon Voight, Mel Gibson and Sylvester Stallone would be “Special Ambassadors” to Hollywood, California.

“They will serve as Special Envoys to me for the purpose of bringing Hollywood, which has lost much business over the last four years to Foreign Countries, BACK—BIGGER, BETTER, AND STRONGER THAN EVER BEFORE!” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social.

Voight has been a longtime Trump supporter and backed the president-elect’s first run for office in 2016. In 2019, Trump awarded Voight the National Medal of Arts.

Gibson told TMZ he was backing Trump in October 2024 and insulted Vice President Kamala Harris’ intelligence. He more recently has been spreading conspiracy theories about the California wildfires on Fox News after his house burned down.

Stallone endorsed Trump late in the 2024 campaign and introduced the president-elect at the America First Policy Institute Gala in November, calling Trump “the second George Washington” and “a really mythical character.”


Source: CNN
James Woods is having a bad couple weeks, first his house burns down and then he gets left off this new bullshit Trump committee. Can’t that guy catch a break.
 
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