Clara Listensprechen @ClaraListensprechen4@social.cleverlibre.org

Today I received a $7.70 check as my share of the settlement in the In re Google Referrer Header Privacy Litigation case 🤑 I thank the plaintiffs' class action lawyers for ensuring that I am so richly compensated for my harms

As California begins to dry out from its latest atmospheric river event, residents are preparing for a likely much stronger storm beginning Sunday, lasting into Wednesday. https://t.co/5iUA4yQHyV

Something interesting that came up several times today in the Zoom for Palestine was that #India’s government is closely watching what happens in #Palestine so they may start developing the same sort of settlements in #Kashmir, and activists speaking out in India for #Gaza are being severely punished.

Permission for genocide will spread quickly and we have our own governments to blame.

It’s either a little early for caturday, or really late. Ha

“We believe the coalition model is the answer towards getting major projects developed…”

The National Coalition of Chiefs is holding its Clean Energy Summit, which is expected to bring together more than 90 chiefs. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is a headliner, with other First Nations representatives discussing such opportunities as LNG and nuclear..

https://windspeaker.com/news/windspeaker-news/summit-bring-pro-development-chiefs-together-pursue-clean-energy-initiatives

#Indigenous #cleanenergy #industry #economy

"A federal court in California has ruled that Israel’s military campaign in Gaza “plausibly” amounts to genocide"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/01/genocide-gaza-israel-california-court

#NASA to 'wiggle' broken #Ingenuity #Mars #helicopter's blades to analyze damage.
Mission managers revealed all four of Ingenuity's blades were damaged during a rough landing on Red Planet.
The helicopter was initially designed to make just five flights — its mission ended after number 72. The fact that Ingenuity was able to fly in the thin Martian atmosphere and carry out as many sorties as it did is true testament to JPL's expertise and could foreshadow future missions. https://www.space.com/nasa-mars-helicopter-ingenuity-tribute

First atomic-scale 'movie' of microtubules under construction, a key process for cell division https://phys.org/news/2024-02-atomic-scale-movie-microtubules-key.html #science

TIL A couple bought a home in an Edmonton suburb in 1974 after hearing talk about a potential train line from their realtor. The 13km light rail connecting their community to downtown in 30 minutes finally opened in 2023

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/valley-line-southeast-open-to-passengers-1.7018586
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1agmjyi/til_a_couple_bought_a_home_in_an_edmonton_suburb/

Zoom is cutting about 150 jobs, or close to 2% of its workforce https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/01/zoom-layoffs-company-cuts-150-employees-2percent-of-workforce.html

Oh no! Washington DC is turning into shoplifting desert!

Pressley slams Walgreens closures: ‘Racial and economic discrimination’

Pressley said on the House floor this week. “These closures are not arbitrary, and they are not innocent. They are life-threatening acts of racial and economic discrimination."
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4442318-pressley-slams-walgreens-closures/

Tether Reports Record $2.85B Profit as Biggest Stablecoin Nears $100B Market Cap
L: https://www.coindesk.com/business/2024/01/31/tether-reports-record-285b-profit-as-biggest-stablecoin-nears-100b-market-cap/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39222062
posted on 2024.02.01 at 17:00:34 (c=0, p=3)

FREE E-BOOK OF THE MONTH FROM UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS

Buying Power: A History of Consumer Activism in America

By Lawrence B. Glickman

"Glickman reminds us that consumer activism ‘has been a consistent and long-standing element of American political culture,’ extending back to the 18th Century. . . . [Buying Power is] a rich, provocative, and—given the explosion of consumer activist campaigns in recent years—timely study whose insights into the successes, failures and meanings of consumer activism its practitioners would do well to consider."—Chicago Tribune

I'm not sure if the link will work (you'll have to enter your e-mail for the download link), but--

https://press.uchicago.edu/books/freeEbook.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=DOWNLOAD&utm_campaign=Free_e-book_February_2024

Continuing the tradition of all the best thinkers and artists and activists being 'cancelled' in Germany.

"Laurie Anderson ends German professorship after criticism of Palestine support"

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/feb/01/laurie-anderson-ends-german-professorship-pro-palestine-letter

9/9 "In the end, the person who bears full responsibility for killing Michael Mohn is his son. But the people who stood behind Justin Mohn whispering all kinds of nonsense — for clicks or votes or whatever they need to prop up their own mediocrity — are splattered with the blood."

Please read the entire column.

8/ "We don’t talk nearly enough about the things we could do to end some of the unfairness in American society — the broken system of educating, or not educating, our young people when they turn 18, and the loss of good job opportunities for those who don’t win the college lottery — that could bring true equity and reduce the fever among angry young white men.

But we also don’t talk enough about how politicians like Dan Patrick block solutions because demagoguery is easier."

7/ "...Society is partly to blame — from the decades of outsourcing good-paying middle-class jobs to make billionaire investors a quick buck, or the slow death of vocational education.

But the bigger problem is an unwillingness to surrender the cultures of patriarchy and white privilege to the majority of Americans they’ve locked out...t’s also this warped mindset that craves a Trump “Red Caesar” dictatorship, to end their losing streak in the culture wars.."

6/ "Why is Swift the ideal vessel for this? ... it’s not just her success but her sisters-are-doing-it-for-themselves message that terrifies Dude-Bro Nation...

How else to explain the much more consequential freakout against all forms of diversity, equity, and inclusion — DEI — on college campuses or in the workplace? Right-wingers have even pushed the fact-free claim that the recent mid-air blowout aboard a Boeing-manufactured jet is result of Black pilots"

5/ "Much more common is the lower-grade fever, which can produce a cold sweat and the bizarre delusion that Taylor Swift is the diabolical architect of a modern-day “Da Vinci Code” that binds her once-in-a-century pop superstardom with an intricate plot to rig the NFL to reelect President Joe Biden in November.

In the far-right freakout that’s launched a thousand hot takes..."