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🔗 Egypt arrests doctors, silences critics over virus outbreak

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A doctor arrested after writing an article about Egypt’s fragile health system. A pharmacist picked up from work after posting online about a shortage of protective gear. An editor taken from his home after questioning official coronavirus figures. A pregnant doctor arrested after a colleague used her phone to report a suspected coronavirus case. <<<

🔗 PICO-8

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PICO-8 is a fantasy console for making, sharing and playing tiny games and other computer programs. It feels like a regular console, but runs on Windows / Mac / Linux. When you turn it on, the machine greets you with a commandline, a suite of cartridge creation tools, and an online cartridge browser called SPLORE.

🔗 Twine

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Twine is an open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories.

You don't need to write any code to create a simple story with Twine, but you can extend your stories with variables, conditional logic, images, CSS, and JavaScript when you're ready.

Twine publishes directly to HTML, so you can post your work nearly anywhere. Anything you create with it is completely free to use any way you like, including for commercial purposes.

🔗 VanMoof S3

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A €2000 e-bike that offers 'next-generation' technology. Apart from the e-bike technology with a 60-150km battery range and the sleek design where the battery is embedded inside the frame, it offers hydraulic disc brakes, GPS, smartphone app, anti-theft technology and an electronic gear shifter.

All of the above is incredibly impressive but stands against the '[[Just Ride|https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0074QGFES/]]' philosophy and the spirit of bikes that they are essentially simple machines that are accessible and easy to fix. Close up photos show proprietary screws, you can't service these bikes at your local bike shop. These bikes are more of descendant of the motorbike or a Segway.

It is ironic that the brand gained some marketing after their ad was banned in France. The [[ad …

🔗 Pixel Art Tutorial from the Creator of Celeste

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Another location for the tutorial: http://saint11.org/blog/pixel-art-tutorials/

Complete Series of ''How to start making pixel art'' by ''Pedro Medeiros'':

[[An absolute beginner’s guide|https://medium.com/pixel-grimoire/how-to-start-making-pixel-art-2d1e31a5ceab]]

[[Cluster sketching and painting|https://medium.com/pixel-grimoire/how-to-start-making-pixel-art-2-bcd705cb04d7]]

[[A basic Aseprite animation|https://medium.com/pixel-grimoire/how-to-start-making-pixel-art-3-c9eb70270fa1]]

[[Anti-Alias and Banding|https://medium.com/pixel-grimoire/how-to-start-making-pixel-art-4-ff4bfcd2d085]]

[[Basic Color Theory|https://medium.com/pixel-grimoire/how-to-start-making-pixel-art-6-a74f562a4056]]

[[Working with lines|https://medium.com/pixel-grimoire/how-to-start-making-pixel-art-7-e504bfa4ddf2]]

[[Saving and Exporting Pixel Art|https://medium.com/pixel-grimoire/how-to-start-making-pixel-art-8-eb218a4637dd]]

🔗 Easy way to create -h help messages for shell scripts

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Have you ever thought how good it would be to have a help message for your shell script that you wrote a month ago and already forgot what it is supposed to do?

Yeah, there is always a way to show a message using cat (meow) or a bunch of echo calls.

But there is a neat trick.

Add your message with all the required information on top of your file, just right after the shebang. <<<

🔗 Stripe Atlas

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Stripe Atlas is a powerful, safe, and easy-to-use platform for forming a company. By removing lengthy paperwork, legal complexity, and numerous fees, Stripe Atlas helps you launch your startup from anywhere in the world.

Setup a company in Delaware, USA from anywhere in the world.

🔗 Lebanese Psychological Association LPA's statement (2013)

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In 2013, the LPA joined efforts with the Lebanese Psychiatric Society (LPS) and other non-profit organizations to advocate for the rights of LGBT individuals in Lebanon. The LPA issued a joint statement with the LPS stating that homosexuality is not a disease and does not require reparative treatment. LPA continues to support organizations in Lebanon raising awareness and lobbying for the rights of LGBT people in Lebanon.

🔗 Position Statement on Therapies Focused on Attempts to Change Sexual Orientation (Reparative or Conversion Therapies) (2000)

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The validity, efficacy and ethics of clinical attempts to change an individual's sexual orientation have been challenged. To date, there are no scientifically rigorous outcome studies to determine either the actual efficacy or harm of "reparative" treatments. There is sparse scientific data about selection criteria, risks versus benefits of the treatment, and long-term outcomes of "reparative" therapies. The literature consists of anecdotal reports of individuals who have claimed to change, people who claim that attempts to change were harmful to them, and others who claimed to have changed and then later recanted those claims.

  • Theories at odds with APA position that homosexuality is a mental illness
  • Theories integrate old psychoanalytic theories with religious beliefs.

🔗 Conversion Therapy is Torture - IRCT (2020)

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Conversion therapy, a practice that aims to change, ‘cure’ or ‘repair’ an individual’s sexual orientation or gender identity, is a global problem that causes severe physical and psychological suffering to its victims. A new expert statement by the IRCT and the Independent Forensic Expert Group (IFEG) concludes that conversion therapy is practiced in more than 69 countries, is unscientific and violates the global ban on torture and ill-treatment.