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Gray’s Music: Over the Telegraph - JSTOR Daily
Inventor of the telephone Elisha Gray also pioneered the world’s first purpose-built electric musical instrument.Matthew Wills (JSTOR Daily)
Honda New Zealand’s first pure-EV: e:N1, full pricing and specification confirmed
Honda New Zealand has launched its first-ever pure-electric vehicle, the e:N1. It's a compact SUV that looks a lot like the HR-V (it does actually share manyBYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
With 100,000 people in The Hague to demonstrate for peace in Gaza. All dressed in red, to tell the Dutch government it had crossed a red line in its failure to address genocide.
We passed the Peace Palace, housing the International Court of Justice. And the 18th century lawyer in front of the Dutch Supreme Court had received a 🍉 umbrella.
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A giant banner featuring Donald Trump’s photo just went up at the front of the Department of Agriculture.
A military parade is being planned for his birthday, which coincides with the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army.
His cabinet members shower him with praise every time they have a meeting.
These are not the kinds of things that normally happen in the United States.
It’s more in line with how autocratic leaders display their power in oppressive nations like North Korea and Iran to constantly remind people who’s in charge.
But now that it’s starting to happen here, we have to acknowledge it and recognize it as a sign that America is sliding into autocracy
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Big Donald Is Watching You: Sliding into autocracy under Trump 2.0
A giant banner featuring Donald Trump’s photo just went up at the front of the Department of Agriculture. A military parade is being planned for his birthday, which coincides with the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army.MSNBC
Students and the Wealthy Drive Growth in Japan’s Chinese Community
Chinese people living in Japan have become a growing presence, with the total population rising to 870,000 as of the end of 2024—2.6 times higher than inBYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
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After UK spends hundreds of millions, several say existing systems are better
Some English hospitals doubt Palantir's utility: We'd 'lose functionality rather than gain it'
: After UK spends hundreds of millions, several say existing systems are betterLindsay Clark (The Register)
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Israël arrête le podcasteur américain Eric Maddox alors qu'il documentait les attaques des colons israéliens contre les Palestiniens en Cisjordanie.
#LibertéDePresse #Censure #Israël
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"Onder de aanwezigen zijn mensen als Jessica Durlacher, Barbara Barend, Hans Teeuwen, Fidan Ekiz, Wierd Duk, Maarten Boudry. " [...]
Minister Mona Keijzer (BBB) zit in de zaal, net als Kamerleden Diederik Boomsma (NSC) en Ulysse Ellian (VVD). En in tandem met een videobericht van de Israëlische president Yitzhak Herzog, verschijnt premier Dick Schoof in een felicitatievideo, waarin hij „namens de Nederlandse regering” zijn „grote waardering” voor het CIDI uitspreekt."
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‘De Israëlische regering had eigenlijk nergens iets beter kunnen doen’, klinkt het op het 50-jarige jubileum van CIDI
Jubileum CIDI: Op de dag dat duizenden Nederlanders demonstreerden tegen de regeringssteun voor Israël, hield de pro-Israël lobbygroep CIDI een symposium met de omgekeerde boodschap.Eva Peek (NRC)
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GREAT NEWS
There are FOUR spots available to join the workshop the first edition of the Knuth Bigelow Incubator program, powered in partnership with Stanford's SILICON and @letterformarchive
The workshop for the South East Asian group will be lead by @typespecimint
The 2-sessions workshop is available on its own at 220€.
It begins in about a month already (we know it's super short notice...)
More info and tickets at wordsoftype.com/
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Words of Type
Words of Type Events offer a series of lectures and workshops with various topics about typography and typeface design, in English and other languages, hosted on the WoT community.wordsoftype.com
South Korea’s presidential debate highlights economic challenges
18th May 2025 – (Seoul) South Korea’s presidential candidates clashed in their first televised debate on Sunday evening, 18th May, as the nation prepares forBYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
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ABC News
ABC News provides the latest news and headlines in Australia and around the world.Shannon Pearce (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Biden has been diagnosed with prostate cancer, his office says
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Biden has been diagnosed with prostate cancer, his office says
Former President Joe Biden has been diagnosed with prostate cancer, his office said Sunday.PBS News
The image shows two identical tickets for the "Rock im Park" festival, laid side by side on a wooden surface. The tickets have a blue and black background with a textured surface resembling a cosmic or underwater scene. The top of the ticket prominently displays the festival's name, "Rock im Park," in large, metallic silver letters with lightning bolt accents. Below the name, the dates "6.-8. Juni 2025" and the location "Nürnberg" are printed in white.
The tickets are labeled as "Weekend Festival Ticket" and include additional information such as "Gilt v.5 - 9.6. als VGN-Fahrkarte (2. KL. ICE/I)" and "Festival Ticket GREEN CAMPING." The ticket price is listed as "EUR 278.00," and there are details about parking and camping, including check-in times and contact numbers. The bottom of the ticket features the logos of the event organizers and the ticketing company "eventim."
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Egypt’s Grill Giant Aboushakra Is Going Through a ‘Split’
One of Egypt’s most recognisable restaurant names enters a new chapter under second-generation leadership.BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
Speed Up Arduino with Clever Coding
We love Arduino here at Hackaday; they’ve probably done more to make embedded programming accessible to more people than anything else in the history of the field. One thing the …read more
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Speed Up Arduino With Clever Coding
We love Arduino here at Hackaday; they’ve probably done more to make embedded programming accessible to more people than anything else in the history of the field. One thing the Arduino ecosy…Hackaday
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