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Mr. Kremlev also has direct ties to President Vladimir V. Putin. In April, Mr. Putin honored Mr. Kremlev with a high-level state award, the Order of Friendship. And just days before Mr. Trump’s wedding in May, Mr. Putin and Mr. Kremlev were seen together in China.
Nothing to see here, I'm sure. Just another Russia hoax, I'm sure.
Protest against the Omarchy/Omacom Foundation and the tech companies and executives funding far-right open source.
A bit behind on this, but jeez, the amount of money flowing to an open-source project run by a white nationalist millionaire is beyond wild.
Areal, a “revival” of Arial, is based on the first version of Arial that was used on the internet (v2.82). It’s entirely redrawn and rebuilt from the ground up. Most revivals draw on analog artefacts like antique books, record covers, posters, etc. But Arial has always been a digital typeface, born in the computer age, which means its earliest traces existed only as a software running on hardware that barely exists anymore.
I've long been a fan of Dinamo Type and a long time user of Are.na so when they first announced Areal awhile back, I thought it was a wonderful project and something I wanted to get my hands on immediately. Well, a few months later, here we are and it's free for all! And in tons of varieties including variable fonts.
Justin Vernon celebrates the breaded treats of Minnesota’s Howard’s Bar in a terrifically, terrifyingly jaunty tune
Absolutely incredible.
Absolutely incredible stuff. This is exactly the fun and weird stuff the world needs right now. Stop the boring sanitization of everything and do stuff because it’s fun and because you can.
But it was not clear whether it was a serious proposal or a feel-good attempt to galvanize his base to turn out on election day, after he also previously promised payouts like a $5,000 "DOGE dividend" or a $2,000-per-person tariff check — neither of which has happened.
I love that the US is making so much money that the debt keeps rising and we are going to add a couple trillion to the deficit to give everyone $12k. Can't wait to get my check and get out of jail free card. It's not like it's Americans that are paying the cost of the tariffs or anything like that—what with all the inflation and the high gas prices for a war that is only happening because a "previous administration" pulled us out of the Iran deal.
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