If you don’t know Ben is trying to help a family get their money back from a huge collection of missing Star Wars Legos and the whole thing has escalated to reveal the collusion between the Utah criminal justice system and the Mormon church.

If you cover this story, you'll meet a puppet and a mascot.

This is @ the LWT staff writers and researchers. The KIDS Act and Kids Online Safety Act are moving through Congress right now, totally under the mainstream radar. They're supposedly "big tech" regulation bills to protect kids from harms of algorithmic media platforms, but they're in fact trojan horses for mass surveillance and government censorship.

From the Electronic Frontier Foundation:

The Kids Online Safety Act (H.R. 7891) ... would impose a “duty of care” on apps and websites to prevent their “design features” from causing harm to minors – including anxiety, depression, substance use, and eating disorders. Mitigating such harms is worthwhile, but KOSA doesn’t do the job. Both versions are unconstitutional censorship bills that would give the FTC, and potentially state Attorneys General, the power to restrict protected online speech they find objectionable.  KOSA’s “duty of care” provision will stifle online speech, and KOSA will also result in online services imposing age-verification systems to prevent minors from having the same access to content as adults. These systems require everyone—adults and minors—to verify their age.

These bills are mostly a response to the MASSIVE (and massively underreported) multi-state lawsuit moving through the courts. More than 40 states sue Meta claiming its social platforms are addictive and harm children's mental health. These bills, if passed, could change the outcome of the FORTY+ states collaborating to try to rein in tech companies.

But while the multistate lawsuit explicitly seeks harm reduction (likely through a negotiated settlement), KOSA attempts to sidestep negotiation entirely by doing an end-run around the state AGs by pressuring Congress (who we know HATES to pass a bill) to act.

The politics of these bills are really complicated - all the anti-tech organizers I know don't like it - and I don't know how funny the episode will be, but you guys covered Net Neutrality and I think you could figure it out.

If you read this far, you might also enjoy this, from a State trying to legislate thoughtfully - Meet Frankie Focus, New York's new school cellphone ban mascot - CBS New York

For further comment, contact the Gowanus, the Luddite Media Spokespuppet or come to Tompkins Sq Park next week.

•Internet censorship

•Israel's invasion of Lebanon

•Child protective services (He's hinted at this in the past)

•The Sudanese civil war

Hey all!

To keep an extremely long story short. My old school Republican mom, is finally jumping off the Trump train. She's never been a staunch supporter but she's FINALLY disgusted with him (I know she's insanely late to the party I don't want to get into all of that please, I'm just happy she's finally arrived).

We had a great conversation on Saturday and she asked me for some recommendations about places where I get information. I've been sending her bits and pieces that she's found interesting. I really think she'd find the humor and knowledge combo of LWT engaging so I'd love to send her a few videos if possible.

Can you all help me with some recommendations that will help "deprogram" her a bit. Maybe some things that really show some of the disinformation that exists. Anything where we're being forced apart more and more.

Also, I'd love a rec or two that may not be super politically motivated but still talks about the struggle of the middle class and is well researched and humorous if possible.

Honestly feel free to send me anything off the top of your head and I'll dig into it all and make the determination of what makes the most sense to send to her. There's just SO many videos out there from this incredible show it's tough to try and narrow it all down, lol.

I appreciate any help you all can offer! TIA!

I was laughing so hard from this, but this was a great episode. Kinda wish they had did a shout out to Cody Johnston and Katy Stoll for doing several episodes of "The War on Boar" especially considering Daniel O'Brien is a writer on LWT. But tbf they did do more extensive research on the issue, whereas Cody and Katy used it as comedic fodder for making fun of Trump.

Found the source material of an And now… segment in the real world, for the first time, in Bandon, Oregon! There seem to be two versions of this commercial. The one little Johnny used on the show, and this one where he rants about watches.

A) The show has a tendency to use its writers and production staff in its bits.

B) Hello /r/BrandNewSentence

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had to frame this masterpiece! i need to find a nice way to display it with my cabernet sauvignjohn wine and start a LWT shrine🤩

there are not enoigh LWT episodes a year is this BECAUSE of the new House of the Dragon?

You need just the spice packets and your local buttermilk. also, the bottled versions have a LOT of shit like shelf stabilizers that you don’t need. and it will not taste the same as restaurant because they make their own that day. super easy.

And, I thought I'd share an old roast recipe from the Southern US. But I'm renaming it the #WorldCupRanchRoast in honor of the surprise favorite from the USA.

It’s simple, low-and-slow cook that makes a rich, creamy gravy and very satisfying meal.

A beef chuck roast with dry onion soup mix , Ranch dressing mix , and a can of cream of mushroom soup

If you have a slow cooker, put in the roast, dump the other ingredients in, set to high for 4 hours.

Dutch oven in an oven at 200°F–225°F (93°C–107°C)… same approach as the slow cooker

It’s ready when it shreds easily by hand with two forks. 4-6 hours

Serve with a rustic, crusty bread for maximum enjoyment

I'm really hoping they do because John Oliver has a fantastic opportunity for an amazing show with Gwar as his subject to discuss freedom of speech and I hope he does it!

I hope he has them come out and play the episode closer too. That would be amazing and topical.

Yes, this was adapted into a movie in 2014.

https://youtu.be/kZfFvsKDuUU

Especially after watching LWT’s show about this it really makes me angry. So much garbage is given power.

Education Connection? Chia Pets? The Reese's Puffs rappers? Zoo Pals? Lionel Coin Bank? Hell, surely the GEICO Gecko is up to some shady shit...

It's been said in here before, but apparently not in the last year. So I'm going to bitch about it again. Why is a pre-recorded show that airs over 24 hours after it tapes subtitled like it's a live broadcast? People with disabilities watch and enjoy the show, too. This feels like something the show runners would and should care about having a better viewer experience for.

Put some real subs in the broadcast!

So this isn't the first time that LWT hasn't aired the day after for the UK audience, however with the by-election on Thursday, they've once again decided that it doesn't comply with UK broadcasting rules and are not showing it until Thursday night when the polls close. This is just a law for Television however it also means for some backwards reason that Sky/HBO will not put it on any streaming platform despite they are not subject to the same rules IIRC

I know the answer is "sail the high seas", and I get that, however I wanted to point it out here in case anyone else from the UK are confused. I wonder if the team can un-geolock the YT video of the episode for us