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Assorted programming languages and liberal arts.

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Polls are open across North Carolina! If you haven't voted yet, make your voice heard! (And if you have voted, reach out to three friends to remind them. 😉)

Polls are open from 6:30 AM to 7:30 PM. If you're voting by mail, remember that is has to be RECEIVED today, so take it your county Board of Elections office.

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#OTD in 1930.

American novelist Sinclair Lewis is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. He was the first writer from the United States to receive the award.

Sinclair Lewis Nobel Lecture:
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1930/lewis/lecture/

#books #literature #nobelprize

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1930

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1930 was awarded to Sinclair Lewis "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humour, new types of characters"

NobelPrize.org
Forgot to credit the photographer!:
Creative wedding invitation
Good news! Apple will be moving some of the keys on their Magic Keyboard to the bottom because “who uses these keys anyways”. Many people argue it’s actually good design

Japanese artist and printmaker Hokusai was born #OTD in 1760.

He is best known for the woodblock print series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji, which includes the iconic print The Great Wave off Kanagawa.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hokusai

#art #painting #woodblockprinting

Hokusai - Wikipedia

Refusing to pick a side when one of the sides is fascism is picking the fascist side.

It's not brave. It's not moral. It's just surrendering in advance.

Spotted in the Holocaust Museum: Early
Warning Signs of Fascism

https://theintercept.com/2024/10/04/israel-human-shields-hypocrisy/

*U.S. Media's Doublespeak: Israelis Live in "Densely Populated Areas," Palestinians Are "Human Shields".*

U.S. Media’s Doublespeak: Israelis Live in “Densely Populated Areas,” Palestinians Are “Human Shields”

But Palestinians in densely populated Gaza are all Hamas’s “human shields” — letting Israel deflect the blame for civilian deaths.

The Intercept