Clara Listensprechen @ClaraListensprechen4@qoto.org

X fails to avoid Australia child safety fine by arguing Twitter doesn’t exist https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/10/x-loses-appeal-of-400k-australia-child-safety-fine-now-faces-more-fines/

Stop living for the approval of strangers who are miserable and dissatisfied with their own lives and looking for things to nitpick about you in order to make themselves feel superior.

Start living for the strangers who might see you and think you’re pretty cool and ⭐️ all your posts and secretly wish you could be best friends but don’t want to make things awkward by saying so.

Ken Paxton sues TikTok for violating new Texas social media law | AP News

https://apnews.com/us-news/social-media-ken-paxton-texas-lawsuits-general-news-d2356da92aaf61646886beced76d70fe

Picture you in a fairy-tale moment
Picture me as I was always meant to be
Picture us rolling through green meadows
Picture everybody happy.

In my life of quiet desperation
I still try to find the time to dream
Look at us, we’re quite a combination
Wonder if we’ll be happy.

Picture love as quiet desperation
Picture life as where we have to be
Picture time away from aggravation
Picture everybody happy.

Panicking Trump Begs CNN to Bully Harris in Her First Interview
https://newrepublic.com/post/185481/donald-trump-kamala-harris-cnn-interview

#EndTrump #GOPWeirdos #TrumpWillLose2024 #TrumpIsUnwell #Project2025 #KevinRoberts #HeritageFoundation #NoRepublicansEverAgain #FuckFascists #VoteBlue #USPol

Only because I could post stuff like this all day and never tire of it.

Via Simon Rosenberg:

Trump campaign = a rollicking, daily dystopian shitshow.

Aaron Rupar:

#Trump fans are getting desperate as Trump is approaching 70 minutes late for his speech in #Michigan

Serbia Acquires 12 Dassault Rafale Jets in €2.7B Deal
- By Agency France-Presse

https://www.ladepeche.fr/2024/08/29/la-serbie-conclut-lachat-de-12-avions-de-combat-francais-rafale-en-presence-demmanuel-macron-12166421.php
More: https://hype.aero/defense/?story=1c8ac10a-3882-4c64-8874-2e54c7a2cb7d #defense

This spider uses trapped fireflies to lure in more prey https://www.sciencenews.org/article/spider-fireflies-lure-venom-web

Nancy Mace is doing all her speaking through an LLM.

https://mastodon.social/@GottaLaff/113047226041801247

The old season is dying and the new season struggles to be born. Now is the time of very small spiders

“Moving a case to a hearing without interviewing students for their version of events is an unprecedented move, and likely a sign that the university is caving to external pressure from Congress, said Katherine Franke, a professor at Columbia Law School. She has spent the summer advising students facing discipline for protests.”

_Unprecedented_!

#gaza #StudentProtests #activism #law #ColumbiaUniversity

https://theintercept.com/2024/08/29/columbia-campus-protests-gaza-subpoena/

“The conflation of these two types of studies is problematic because it does not make sense to consider a 5-minute exposure to Facebook measuring momentary mood with a 3-week abstinence from social media measuring risk of clinical depression on a validated scale to be measures of the same effect.”
https://www.afterbabel.com/p/the-case-for-causality-part-1

NPR: In most states, children and teenagers can waive their right to a lawyer during police questioning. Some states are now requiring that they speak to an attorney first.#news #NPR https://www.npr.org/2024/08/29/nx-s1-4917976/juvenile-miranda-rights-police-interrogations

Intimidation, hatred, anger and threats work to keep people from reporting crimes, keep people from voting, keep the press from accurate/hones reporting. The orange fat bastard use all to his advantage and will ramp up the threats and intimidation through his supporters and goons as the election approaches. That is how he wins.

We have to find a way to stand up to the threats and intimidation, make them back off, and make sure everyone has a chance to vote. That is how we win. The fat bastard and his people are bullies and cowards - turn on the light and expose their tactics. If we cannot do this, and win, the next knock at the door may well be the equivalent of the brown shirts, and death squads.

#HarrisWalz2024 #StopProject2025 #StopTrump

You think indirection is only a computer problem? Pshaw.

I spent 30 minutes on the phone to Lowe's customer service which entailed the customer service rep filling out a form to submit to a customer response team who had to contact a search team to find a customer service rep who knew how to find someone who might be able to handle the problem.

Earth’s Temperature Could Increase by 25 Degrees: Startling New Research Reveals That CO2 Has More Impact Than Previously Thought
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GlobalWarming #climatechange #climatecrisis

https://scitechdaily.com/earths-temperature-could-increase-by-25-degrees-startling-new-research-reveals-that-co2-has-more-impact-than-previously-thought/

More on the nuts and bolts of what Mastodon for Harris fundraising pays for: organizing on college campuses throughout the country and youth engagement more generally. News coverage at https://www.npr.org/2024/08/27/nx-s1-5090804/harris-gen-z-voters

Donate to Harris for President via Mastodon for Harris at https://secure.actblue.com/donate/mastodon-for-harris

@GottaLaff Thanks “a Bunch” for all the excerpts: convenient because my free views access dried up with them. Tried to subscribe weeks ago but the Philly Observer’s circulation department seemed unable to process Canadian postal codes. As noted yesterday, I found cancelling NYT and WaPo worked out as they counter with a cut-rate 1-year offer at something like $2 a month. Similar with the Economist: their cheapie Espresso version is a third of the price of the full Economochilada .