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Καλοκαιρινές διακοπές 2025

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Lang werd de legendarische fototentoonstelling 'The Family of Man' uit de jaren vijftig weggezet als sentimentele Koude Oorlog-propaganda. Hoe kijken we er nu naar? groene.nl/artikel/de-enige-uni…

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Génocide à Gaza : la Slovénie interdit le commerce d’armes avec Israël et somme l’UE de faire de même - L'Humanité humanite.fr/monde/armement/gen…

#israel




This month's Distributed Proofreaders blog delves into the newly uploaded "Newton's Principia."

"In it, Newton expounds, with mathematical proof, what is now the bedrock of modern physics: his groundbreaking laws of motion and universal gravitation, and his explanations of the motion of planets, moons, comets, tides, fluids, and other physical phenomena."

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Newton's Principia at PG:

gutenberg.org/ebooks/76404

#physics #mathematics #books #dp

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“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

#MeaningOfLife #civilization




The Internet Archive's Open Library only digitally "lends" each book to one person at a time. But the IP Absolutists insist on blocking event that! torrentfreak.com/belgium-bans-…




Griffin: “We have to distinguish between the cliché of a group of powerful, arrogant CEOs, from those doing the actual programming. While the latter do compartmentalise, in my experience, they realise that they have ethical agency and they face dilemmas around that.” maastrichtuniversity.nl/news/a…


AI trading agents formed price-fixing cartels when put in simulated markets, Wharton study reveals byteseu.com/1246866/ #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Markets #PriceFixing #wharton


Joint venture completes first Newark climate-controlled storage facility byteseu.com/1246864/ #Climate #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming


"Columbia’s capitulation has turned a university that was once a site of free inquiry and learning into a shadow of its former self, an-anti university"
I spent decades at Columbia. I’m withdrawing my fall course due to its deal with Trump
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Alumni need to punish the Institutions which have let them down. It's disgraceful how they've bent the knee, and they should know better too, they should know where this all leads.....it's nothing new.

#Universities #USPOL #Fascism

in reply to Jeff Jarvis

institutions will always capitulate to a dictator in order to maintain their own power structure. you know this. none of this is really surprising if you know history.


Well folks! That's another month of #pixel_dailies prompts in the can, so here's the prompts for this month if you want to catch up! Keep on posting cool #PixelArt!


Nog maar eens in de herhaling, petitie van Vluchtelingenwerk. De Eerste Kamer kan de onmenselijke asielwetten nog tegenhouden. Laat weten dat ze dat ook moeten doen!

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Het Register van Overheidsorganisaties (ROO) wordt onderdeel van het Federatief Datastelsel.
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in reply to NRC

deze zo ik gelijk boosten, als er alt tekst voor was