Clara Listensprechen @ClaraListensprechen4@social.cleverlibre.org

A fuel and his money are soon partnered.

#AutoCorrectAPoemSayingOrCatchPhrase
#HashTagGames

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Ok. So when fediverse is suddenly quiet, it's not because of
*weather
*meal times
*nap times
*my comments
*cocktail hour
It's because there is a football game!
Got it
😂
#fediverse #Mastodon #Laggtime

"Today’s Gaza demo was massive, with only nine arrests. Hundreds of thousands marched in London as part of over a hundred huge protests worldwide." This kind of detail has always fascinated me ever since I marched with a million-or-two others in London on February 15th, 2003 and police just faded away before us: if our "hate marches" are full of ill-intended, inherently violent protesters, then why are there so few arrests when the numbers are bigger? By the logic of political rhetoric, the more of us demonstrators, the more violence and therefore arrests there would be. But no - in fact, of course, smaller groups make it easier for cops to target, harass, intimidate, attack, and indeed arrest protestors. I find that very telling.

ICYMI: Immigration Takes Center Stage: Can Congress Avoid Shutdown in 2024? https://www.natlawreview.com/article/immigration-takes-center-stage-can-congress-avoid-shutdown-2024?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Since the #MIAvsKC is only on Peacock, any posts I make about the game, I'll refer to the channel as The Cock.

It'll be exciting to see what happens in The Cock tonight.

@nfl

I ended my time on Duolingo in the #NewYear, after finding out they sacked a bunch of translators and are now relying on AI to generate sentences for learning. Essentially, they are just generating the content via AI and having a limited number of translators "check the work" before putting it up into their programs.

I also noticed that, the longer I went on in my Duolingo program, the quality of the learning seemed to decrease dramatically, and after learning about the AI thing, it started to dawn on me that this could be part of the reason for that. But even if it isn't related, the fact that they are making this move toward AI only means in the future, the learning WILL decrease in quality whether we like it or not, and that's no fun at all.

So No Thanks, #Duolingo. So long, and thanks for all the fish.

#language #learning #linguistics #NewYear2024 #ArtificialIntelligence #Sacked #Fired #Jobs #Creators #Translators

It's probably a good thing to stop now anyway, after I got this lovely message in my inbox before the New Year:

ISRAEL IS NOT ABOVE INTERNATIONAL LAW #ICJ

Aileen Cannon refusing Jack Smith request in Donald Trump case sparks fury

https://www.newsweek.com/aileen-cannon-sparked-backlash-after-she-refused-jack-smiths-request-1860499

#Newsweek #AileenCannon #JackSmith #DonaldTrump #refusingrequest #sparksfury #Politics #News

I say this as someone who was once a 17-yr-old girl with filthy men making comments as I just walked down the street or just standing at a bus stop. :(

If you are over 18 and are singing "I Saw Her Standing There," you just may be a scumball perv who should never be near a 17-yr-old girl.

I didn’t think the “leopards eating people’s faces” would ever eat my face. 🤦‍♂️

https://news.yahoo.com/bill-o-reilly-furious-own-181240858.html

#BookBans #BookBanning #books #law #justice #FLpol

AFAIK there's no media access at Vandy for Starlink launches, but NASASpaceflight.com is planning some kind of coverage. I won't be online for it.

SpaceX - Starlink Group 7-10
F9 B1061.18 from VSFB SLC-4E

NASASpaceflight.com webcast:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8Wmd_YLlBg

#LaunchInformation #SpaceX #Starlink

Will cities last?
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/thousands-of-u-s-cities-could-become-virtual-ghost-towns-by-2100/

hamster levels are 09% and rising

(09%) ■□□□□□□□□□

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Your Holocaust guilt should not condone Netanyahu announcing he will not respect the Genocide Convention even if the Hague attempts to make him. #ICJ

Far-Right grifters such as Charlie Kirk of Turning Point USA, disgraced Tucker Carlson writer Blake Neff, and Jack "Pizzagate" Posobiec are preparing a campaign around attacking Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Act.

Echoing decades of propaganda by neo-Nazis and white supremacists, Turning Point USA is now claiming that Americans have been fed a “fake history" of MLK.

As the GOP doubles down on pushing the white nationalist conspiracy theory of the "Great Replacement," racist trolls like Kirk and Posobiec are going to continue to spoon feed misinformation to their base in an effort to mainstream outright white supremacy.

Read the article in Wired here: https://www.wired.com/story/charlie-kirk-tpusa-mlk-civil-rights-act/

Republican says the quiet part out loud
HuffPost: GOP Congressman Stands By Accusation Some Fellow Members Have Been Compromised
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tim-burchett-stands-by-allegation-members-blackmailed_n_65a1bd3fe4b06444b222dee3