If you want a website that does a good job at listing open-source fonts, look no further than Uncut (no cookies, no ads & it links to original websites and doesn't host font files) https://uncut.wtf/
The wonders of human #languages:
> _“#ASL [American Sign Language] shares more with spoken #Japanese than it does with #English”_
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_intelligibility#Among_sign_languages
> _“#Spanish and #Portuguese are show the highest intelligibility, followed by Spanish and #Italian. #French is clustered further from the three mentioned above and #Romanian shows the smallest degree of intelligibility. However, for Romanian a high asymmetric intelligibility was measured. Romanians understand all the other Romance languages to a much higher extent than vice versa.”_
https://www.linguistics.fi/contact/Book_of_abstracts_10.7.2014.pdf#page=114
W3C announces Seth Dobbs as next CEO
Seth Dobbs will commence in his new role as W3C CEO on November 13, 2023.
"I'm honored and thrilled to be joining W3C as CEO," said Seth Dobbs. "In all my time I'm not sure there is any development that has had a more profound and durable impact on our world than the Web.I look forward to joining the W3C community to help steward us into the next chapter.”
https://www.w3.org/news/2023/w3c-announces-seth-dobbs-as-ceo/
> _“The fact that this book is about a grown adult man lusting after a 12-year-old girl should be justification enough for some not to read it, but the general consensus surrounding #Lolita’s enduring popularity is that #Nabokov’s writing is beautiful; it’s just the premise that’s disturbing. I don’t know about you, but no amount of beautiful prose should be enough to get over a premise as problematic as that of Lolita.”_
Absurd and childish. Then, don't read _anything_ involving murder or war — those are worse deeds than sexual abuse (even of a child).
Out of the window goes half the literary canon, some of the best #books humanity had produced.
Be a grown-up and read about difficult subjects, stories with nuance, ambiguity, shades of grey. It's _fiction_, after all. You may learn a thing or two.
Un buen resumen del despropósito y el alarmismo (y la ignorancia) que supone meter internet, derechos de autor y abuso (pornografía) infantil en el mismo saco:
If you know me, you'd think that I'd hate big #ShoppingCentres.
But I like them quite a lot in general, and whenever I'm at one of them (not very often) I usually wish I visited more often.
What can I say 🤷♂️
@koalie, I think you would love this reinterpretation of Little Nemo; the art is amazing:
https://www.amazon.com/Frank-Pes-Little-Nemo-Pe/dp/1951719166/ref=sr_1_1
#PSA:
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What else?
It's mind-boggling how many animals get slaughtered for human meat consumption every single day.
https://ourworldindata.org/how-many-animals-get-slaughtered-every-day
#animal #animals #murder #anthropocene #data #vegetarian #vegan #statistics #information #knowledge #science #cows #chickens #goats #sheep #ducks #pigs #fish
#ChatGPT just answered a burning question of mine that two human _pharmacists_ could not answer. Yipee!
https://chat.openai.com/share/08da5a60-93ea-456d-be95-467da614ff78