Eric Karkau

CTO at Columbia Academy - private preK-12 school. Christian, husband, father, friend, technologist, consultant, Innov8r, non-box thinker. Blazing new paths!

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I heard #14's a beast! https://t.co/rJ3bLWm7Dp

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@JDVanceNewsX Yes'

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@KashPatelX Absolutely

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

For my British and European friends who are "shocked" and "surprised", here are 10 reasons you didn't see this coming.

Read this short post and then read the replies from our American friends who will confirm what I'm saying.

1. Americans love their country and want it to be the best in the world. America is a nation of people who conquered a continent. They love strength. They love winning. Any leader who appeals to that has an automatic advantage.

2. Unlike Europeans, Americans have not accepted managed decline. They don't have Net Zero here, they believe in producing their own energy and making it as cheap as possible because they know that their prosperity depends on it.

3. Prices for most basic goods in the US have increased rapidly and are sky high. What the official statistics say about inflation and the reality of people's lives are not the same.

4. Unlike you, Americans do not believe in socialism. They believe in meritocracy. They don't care about the super rich being super rich because they know that they live in a country where being super rich is available to anyone with the talent and drive to make it. They don't resent success, they celebrate it.

5. Americans are the most pro-immigration people in the world. Read that again. Seriously, read it again. Americans love an immigrant success story. They want more talented immigrants to come to America. But they refuse to accept people coming illegally. They believe in having a border.

6. Americans are sensitive about racial issues and their country's imperfect history. They believe that those who are disadvantaged by the circumstances of their birth should be given the opportunity to succeed. What they reject, however, is the idea that in order to address the errors of the past new errors must be made. DEI is racist. They know it and they reject it precisely because they are not racist.

7. Americans are the most philosemitic nation on earth. October 7 and the pro-Hamas left's reaction shocked them to their very core because, among other things, they remember what 9/11 was like and they know jihad when they see it.

8. Americans are extremely practical people. They care about what works, not what sounds good. In Europe, we produce great writers and intellectuals. In America they produce (and attract) great engineers, businessmen and investors. Because of this, they care less about Trump's rhetoric than you do and more about his policies than you do.

9. Americans are deeply optimistic people. They hate negativity. The woke view of American history as a series of evils for which they must eternally apologise is utterly abhorrent to them. They believe in moving forward together, not endlessly obsessing about the past.

10. America is a country whose founding story is one of resistance to government overreach. They loathe unnecessary restrictions, regulations and control. They understand that freedom comes with the price of self-reliance and they pay it gladly.

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@dobler_alec @crosstalksol @TMobile I have 3 of them. Love them; however, in using for a school WAN failover, it gets too saturated.

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"Cable management" is such an ambiguous term.....

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@crosstalksol Just my size! DMing you...

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YALB (Yet Another LastPass Breach). Read more: https://t.co/Stpse78xcR

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Tubi just won the internet - best and smartest SuperBowl commercial! Had all of us scrambling for the remote control. #TubiForTheWin https://t.co/ZlJhmHl6T8

[Rachel Tobac @RachelTobac]

To reach the ~youth~ we're going to have to make infosec sea shanties, aren't we? Guess so!
Behold the tale of kid who reuses their passwords & ends up pwn'd, then learns how to stay safe. We're on a mission to encourage unique passwords stored in a password manager with MFA on.

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T-mobile admits to 37 million records stolen by hackers, with plenty of time for plunder. https://t.co/RrJpjDsdzQ

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ChatGPT cheating. Excellent slideshow! https://t.co/IfHfS1w1WS

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Yes, LastPass had a breach. No, your passwords were not decrypted. It would take millions of years to do so if you followed their directions and NEVER re-used your master password. Read the ENTIRE article. https://t.co/A1jrCT94Aq

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50 years ago today, inventor and engineer Douglas Engelbart received the patent for an “X-Y Position Indicator For A Display System”—the first computer mouse.

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If you’re not an influencer, celebrity, or politician, why do you care about verification. Y’all quit making mountains out of molehills.

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Microsoft has discovered malware used to attack Ukraine hours before the invasion: https://t.co/m3VZpxKIkT

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Elon Musk says Starlink satellite service is activated in Ukraine, where the Russian invasion has caused internet disruptions #SmartNews https://t.co/zHVz9sQwnR