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Behnam Esfahbod @behnam.es @zwnj@mastodon.social retweeted
FILL THIS WITH SIGNATURES (real ones)
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Behnam Esfahbod @behnam.es @zwnj@mastodon.social retweeted
How it feels to browse the web today:
how-i-experience-web-today.c…
Behnam Esfahbod @behnam.es @zwnj@mastodon.social retweeted
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"
Behnam Esfahbod @behnam.es @zwnj@mastodon.social retweeted
!!! 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
Behnam Esfahbod @behnam.es @zwnj@mastodon.social retweeted
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: anrt-nancy.fr/journal/anrt20…
2022.03.31 10 AM
ANRT Final presentations, online & @EnsadNancy
with
Sean Kuhnke
Marie Lécrivain
Tânia Raposo
Amir Moslehi
Eugénie Bidaut
& Jules Durand
Livestream on this page, starting this Thursday 10 AM
anrt-nancy.fr/journal/anrt20…
Behnam Esfahbod @behnam.es @zwnj@mastodon.social retweeted
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 w3.org/TR/arab-ks-gap/
Uighur Gap Analysis w3.org/TR/arab-ug-gap/
Behnam Esfahbod @behnam.es @zwnj@mastodon.social retweeted
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). bit.ly/3uARSdN – at Berlin, Germany
Behnam Esfahbod @behnam.es @zwnj@mastodon.social retweeted
"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: gamehistory.org/ep-76-cqbasi…
Behnam Esfahbod @behnam.es @zwnj@mastodon.social retweeted
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.
pluralistic.net/2020/10/25/m… 1/
ALT The Three Wise monkeys; two of their faces have been replaced by: the menacing red eye of HAL900 and Mark Zuckerberg; the hand of the third has been replaced by a Facebook thumbs-up icon. Behind them is a collage of Facebook ads attributed to 'Gen O. Cide,' whose image is a battery of Myanmar anti-aircraft guns emblazoned with the phrase 'We Need To Kill More' in dripping red letters. Image: Anthony Quintano (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mark_Zuckerberg_F8_2019_Keynote_(32830578717)_(cropped).jpg CC BY 2.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en -- Japanexperterna.se (modified) https://www.flickr.com/photos/japanexperterna/15251188384/ CC BY-SA 2.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ -- Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
Behnam Esfahbod @behnam.es @zwnj@mastodon.social retweeted
The recording of my talk on the history of printing in Iran is now available to watch
The recording of our recent research seminar: Borna Izadpanah on Researching the history of printing in Iran: particularities and challenges @UniRdg_Typo
is now available to watch again 👇youtu.be/1W164lhEcvw
Behnam Esfahbod @behnam.es @zwnj@mastodon.social retweeted
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:
👇🧵
Behnam Esfahbod @behnam.es @zwnj@mastodon.social retweeted
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 @zwnj@mastodon.social retweeted
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."
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.… 20/
I just backed The Right to Speak, the Right to Read, the Right to Write by @EndangeredAlpha:
kickstarter.com/projects/end…
There's only 6 hours left to support this latest great project!
Behnam Esfahbod @behnam.es @zwnj@mastodon.social retweeted
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
w3id.org/vhmml/readingRoom/v…
Behnam Esfahbod @behnam.es @zwnj@mastodon.social retweeted
“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: at.pw.org/Desgraciado
Behnam Esfahbod @behnam.es @zwnj@mastodon.social retweeted
Have you designed an Arabic typeface that's worthy of note? Why not submit it to The Granshan Competition? Now open until 28 February.
Details at granshan.com/competition
@GranshanConf
Behnam Esfahbod @behnam.es @zwnj@mastodon.social retweeted
Everybody loves histories of foundry type, wood type, machine type, photo type, rub-down type and digital type, but why isn’t there a history of the brass type makers who serviced the bookbinding industry? This is the history I need to read this week and it hasn’t been written!?
Behnam Esfahbod @behnam.es @zwnj@mastodon.social retweeted
Meet Risala (an Arabic word meaning a written letter or message), an original typeface that is just as informed by modern digital design possibilities as it is by the natural calligraphic tension and flow of the classic Naskh/Muhaqqaq traditions.
canadatype.com/product/risal…