Behnam Esfahbod @behnam.es @[email protected]

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[Jason Scott @textfiles]

FILL THIS WITH SIGNATURES (real ones)

https://t.co/BInuZiyLbP

[Joey Banks @joeyabanks]

How it feels to browse the web today:
https://t.co/0yc0E4x9ih

[Josh Wolfe @wolfejosh]

1/ My friend Jon Haidt @JonHaidt has written the MOST important article you can read today...

"Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid––it's not just a phase"

[Jason Kint @jason_kint]

!!! Friday Night Surprise. Plaintiffs just filed their response to Facebook in my favorite case - what I call the mother of all lawsuits - in Delaware where it's incorporated. It's a tight but absolutely delicious 120 pages so I'll break down the allegations here for you. /1

[Amir Mahdi Moslehi @AMMoslehi]

The final Presentation of a Missing Scripts Project,
Designing the First Book-Pahlavi typeface and its Latin Companion by Amir Mahdi Moslehi, on March 31, 2022, at Auditorium de l'École nationale supérieure d’art et de design de Nancy
Livestream: https://t.co/dYBYCZHrLb

[W3C Internationalization (i18n) Activity @webi18n]

Just published: Kashmiri & Uighur Gap-analysis First Public Drafts
These documents explore gaps in language support on the World Wide Web.
Perso-arabic Kashmiri Gap Analysis https://t.co/w2BOImzjbl
Uighur Gap Analysis https://t.co/FEcvEvCqDh

[Shervin Farridnejad @farridnejad]

New #OpenAcess Corpus

The #HamBam corpus contains annotated recordings of contemporary spoken #Persian, compiled as a cooperation btw Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran Mohammad Rasekh-Mahand), & @uni_bamberg_of Germany (Geoffrey Haig). https://t.co/PvJk3fYzgN

[The Video Game History Hour @gamehistoryhour]

"Your goal is to destroy the other gorilla with your exploding banana." @benjedwards explains MS-DOS, QBasic, and the secret power of GORILLA.BAS. Plus, @frankcifaldi sings the theme song for history! It's all connected and defined by video games: https://t.co/IhdNfq81DC

[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

In fall 2020, Facebook went to war against Ad Observatory, a NYU crowdsourcing project where users capture paid political ads through a browser plugin that santizes them of personal info and uploads them so disinformation researchers can analyze them.

https://t.co/qJINvhE10V 1/

[Borna Izadpanah @BornaIz]

The recording of my talk on the history of printing in Iran is now available to watch

[Edin Kapić / Един Капић 🦋 @edinkapic.com @ekapic]

There are several myths regarding raising children in more than one language.

My son is 4 years old.

We live in Barcelona. He's surrounded by Spanish and Catalan language. Yet, he speaks Bosnian like I do.

This is what I discovered about raising a multilingual child:

👇🧵

[Kamil Galeev @kamilkazani]

Let's discuss what's happening in Russia. To put it simply, it's going full fascist. Authorities launched a propaganda campaign to gain popular support for their invasion of Ukraine and they're getting lots of it. You can see "Z" on these guys' clothes. What does it mean? 🧵

[Behnam Esfahbod @behnam.es @[email protected] @zwnj]

@GrammarTable The real question is what would you do for 0.1! 😁

[Behnam Esfahbod @behnam.es @[email protected] @zwnj]

@heartshapedsky Congrats on getting funded!

Looks like I missed it by a couple of hours. How can we stay posted to get the game when it's available publicly?

[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

If talk of leverage, complexity, rigidity and system risk gives you deja vu, you're not alone. In a superb new paper, @ProfHilaryAllen of @AmericanU's @AUWCL argues that #DeFi, the "distributed finance" wing of #web3, is really "Shadow Banking 2.0."

https://t.co/tjjsKnHuDH 20/

[Behnam Esfahbod @behnam.es @[email protected] @zwnj]

@EndangeredAlpha It will «create a larger-than-life-size carving in spectacular wood that says “The Right to Speak, the Right to Read, the Right to Write” in EN and three different scripts whose communities have [...] been denied the chance to speak, read, or write their own mother languages».

[Behnam Esfahbod @behnam.es @[email protected] @zwnj]

I just backed The Right to Speak, the Right to Read, the Right to Write by @EndangeredAlpha:
https://t.co/0TeUWSqYGe

There's only 6 hours left to support this latest great project!

[Josh Mugler @J_mugs]

Work announcement: I've finished cataloging the 3200+ Arabic-script manuscripts from the Austrian National Library that @visitHMML microfilmed back in 1971. Pictured is the last one I cataloged, a book of North African popular songs in Arabic
https://t.co/medhKzZFV1

[Poets & Writers @poetswritersinc]

“Decolonization is a verb. An ongoing process and not an imaginary destination.” Happy #pubday to @dandelionglitch, whose latest book, Desgraciado, is out now from @nightboatbooks. They answered our #TenQuestions #10Q4: https://t.co/3ntj9PRrZd