Puzzling #font choice: the logo for the "Central Building" (セントラル ビル) near Tokyo Station on the Yaesu side. The logo appears to be a bubbly, hand-drawn bit of text with a sort of 1970s feel.
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And in contrast, the building name as it appears on the Japanese sign: in a standard, sans-serif katakana #font.
Paris MarxWhen we warn the real threat of AI is how it’s used against people in the present, not the fantasies that some day computers might think for themselves, this is exactly the kind of thing we’re talking about: health insurers using AI to deny care.
Erin WhalenParis has revealed plans for pedestrianizing the city that include creating 100 hectares of new pedestrian space by 2030 and transforming car lanes to human-friendly pathways and rain gardens.
Love this part: "walking is free, it's emission-free, it's noise-free, it's good for your health and, as we see every time we pedestrianise, it's also good for local businesses."
People-friendly cities for the win! 🚶♀️ 🌳 🚴♂️
https://www.thelocal.fr/20231117/paris-reveals-plans-to-pedestrianise-the-city
Jennifer OuelletteThe Woman Who Demonstrated the Greenhouse Effect: Eunice Newton Foote showed that carbon dioxide traps the heat of the sun in 1856, beating the so-called father of the greenhouse effect by at least three years. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-woman-who-demonstrated-the-greenhouse-effect/
B. A. Balackus#BlackFriday Nov 10, 2023
Native Americans and the Underground Railroad
https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/native-americans-and-the-underground-railroad.htm
The Native Americans Who Assisted the Underground Railroad
https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/173041
Deep in the Swamps, Archaeologists Are Finding How Fugitive Slaves Kept Their Freedom
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/deep-swamps-archaeologists-fugitive-slaves-kept-freedom-180960122/
Got this love and solidarity for you right here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuymTS9PoBQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kp7eSUU9oy8
@SidFudd "You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll kiss three bucks goodbye!"
Ciarán Ferrie"If we want to reduce road deaths, we have to fix driver behaviour, not ask pedestrians and cyclists to shoulder even more responsibility...Do not accept that the responsibility should lie with the most vulnerable road users – it needs to sit with those that can (and do) cause the most damage." - Dr Maria O'Brien
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/letters/2023/11/07/road-safety-and-responsibility/
@mancavgeek @shaknais @VisualStuart just to complicate matters, the metal form was isolated and named by British chemist Humphry Davy, and his first choice of a name for it was
ALUMIUM
No 'n' at all. ('Aluminum' seems to have been his second choice.)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_aluminium#Isolation_of_metal
Everything Open ConferenceDo you use #OpenSource for #design work? #OpenDesign? You might use @Blender or @inkscape or @GIMP or #Scribus or other tools.
If so, you should consider submitting to #EverythingOpen, happening in April, in #Gladstone, tropical #Queensland, Australia
