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🔗 Speech and publishing

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<> Facebook has 2bn users posting 100bn times a day. SMS had 20-25bn messages a day. So is this a publisher? A platform? A telco? No. We don’t really know what we think about speech online, nor how to think about it. <<<<

🔗 rSPRITE beta 0.17

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<>rSPRITE is an implementation by Nick Brown of SPRITE, an idea by James Heathers.

rSPRITE simulates data from an integer (e.g., Likert-type) scale in the form of bar charts.

You can request up to 100 samples to be presented on a square grid. You need to specify the minimum and maximum item values of the scale, and the mean, standard deviation, and size of the sample. The charts are presented in increasing order of skewness, from top left to bottom right. <<<<

🔗 The Grizzlies 2020 / An uplifting sports drama set in a remote Indigenous community

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<>This uplifting Canadian sports drama is based on a true story set in the remote Nunavut town of Kugluktuk. The small community has the highest teen suicide rate in North America, as it suffers from intergenerational trauma, and the resulting alcohol and drug abuse. A new young history teacher who is sent by the government is shocked by the state of the school and the lives of the teenagers. He realizes that he can’t engage the kids with history, and turns to his passion for Lacrosse to try to ignite change. <<<<

🔗 Emuparadise

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<>Looking for retro video games? You've come to the right place! You will find tons of roms, isos and games here. Download and play them with an emulator or play them right inside your browser window! <<<<

🔗 TempleOS

<>TempleOS is a biblical-themed lightweight operating system (OS) designed to be the Third Temple prophesied in the Bible. It was created by American programmer Terry A. Davis, who developed it alone over the course of a decade after a series of manic episodes that he later described as a revelation from God. <<<<