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The real reason the Trump administration is targeting California right now?
Its 52 congressional seats could decide control of the House.
And because counting every mail ballot there has historically taken weeks, Trump will have a window to try to interfere.
Marc Elias explains👇
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ALERT: Trump Reveals Details in Plot to Steal Election
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![So now, when we talk about high-tech culture, a lot of what we're talking about is really business-speculation culture, and a transplanted Midtown Manhattan advertising culture, or Wall Street financial culture. So, though we may use the words "high tech" these days to refer to this group, they're not all the same kind of person -- but they are finding lots of common ground.
Absolutely. I noticed that at some point in the mid-'90s, we got major culture-creep, when programmers and systems administrators all became covert stock traders on the Web.
Yes. It's horrifying. [laughs] Because -- and I'm not anti-technology or anti-geek -- what is really best about these people is what I call their "curious child" quality -- scientists have it -- that kind of noodling around with code, and zoning out for 36 hours at a time working on something. That's where the really good creative work can happen. But if you have one corner of your monitor that's constantly watching the stock market, or you'r](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:psqralexigiufgtswkszy6zr/bafkreic2klxsqffbku7jdvewrbjm2ulosrtfpy5mczn7nwm4z6nqvclrxa)
