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The 3,000-year-old story hidden in the @ sign
L: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250923-the-3000-year-old-story-hidden-in-your-keyboard
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45361568
posted on 2025.09.24 at 11:16:22 (c=0, p=4)
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Frontispiece to Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (1904), a classic collection of Japanese ghost stories compiled and translated by Lafcadio Hearn, who died in Tokyo #onthisday in 1904. Read its wonderful stories here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/kwaidan-stories-and-studies-of-strange-things-1904?utm_content=buffer5cd1a&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer #OTD
Gaza media office says Israel killed more than 250 journalists
The office said more than 250 journalists have been killed, dozens wounded, and media infrastructure systematically destroyed during Israel’s two-year war on Gaza, calling it a “war crime aimed at silencing the truth.”
Airbnb, Booking.com among 150 businesses in UN database with ties to illegal West Bank settlements
The firms include travel businesses Airbnb, Booking.com, Expedia, and TripAdvisor, as well as the US tech company Motorola Solutions.
A man rests on the debris of his damaged home after Israeli airstrikes on Houthis, Sana’a, #Yemen
Photograph: AP
Muslim worshippers perform Friday prayers on a busy street. Due to the large number of devotees and limited space inside mosques, people gather in rows on the streets outside to join the weekly congregational prayer, Dhaka, #Bangladesh
Photograph: Syed Mahabubul Kader/Zuma Press Wire/Shutterstock
Harvested paddy rice drying in the sun in the summer capital of Indian #Kashmir
Photograph: Farooq Khan/EPA
A dog stands on the roof of a house in a flooded village. Corruption left Bulacan province’s flood-control schemes as ‘ghost projects’ and flooding has been worsened by frequent typhoons. Now, after Typhoon Ragasa and as Storm Bualoi hits, remaining residents face grave danger, Calumpit, #Philippines
Photograph: Daniel Ceng/Anadolu/Getty Images
A worker places hides to dry on a wall at the Majema tannery. The city is a leather hub that produces material for luxury brands such as Louis Vuitton, Gucci and Ralph Lauren. As the finishing work is done in Europe, the ‘made in Nigeria’ label is replaced by ‘made in Italy’ or ‘made in Spain’, Kano, #Nigeria
Photograph: Olympia de Maismont/AFP/Getty
A child, an Afghan migrant, carries a chicken from Pakistan after crossing the border to Afghanistan at the Omari camp, a temporary shelter. The government of Pakistan has recently intensified its forced deportation drive targeting Afghans, Torkham, #Afghanistan
Photograph: Elke Scholiers/Getty
A displaced Palestinian woman with a child, fleeing northern Gaza amid Israeli military attacks, rests after heading south following Israeli forces’ orders to leave Gaza City.
Photograph: Mahmoud Issa/Reuters
These four orphaned barn owl chicks were found weak from hunger and thirst after their mother’s death in Diyarbakır, #Turkey. They are being treated at Dicle wildlife rescue centre before being released into the wild.
Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images
An albino squirrel stands out against the greenery in Cape Town, South Africa
Photograph: Esa Alexander/Reuters
Tidy … a red squirrel in Wales. The Wildlife Trust of South & West Wales has launched a campaign in response to a proposed energy park development that threatens to destroy 40 hectares of forest, home to one of the last red squirrel populations in Wales. They were once a common sight in forests across the country, but now there are just three populations of red squirrels left.
Photograph: the Wildlife Trust
Magellanic penguins head for the sea, watched by an admiring crowd, after their release from a rehabilitation clinic in Punta del Este at the southern tip of #Uruguay
Photograph: Matilde Campodonico/AP
Two mountain gorillas play together in the forest of the marvellously named Bwindi Impenetrable Forest in southwestern #Uganda. The national park there is home to half the world’s population of these #endangered #primates.
Photograph: Onen Patrick/AP
This photo of a diver among sperm whales was a finalist in the “ocean adventure” category of the Ocean Photographer of the Year 2025.
Photograph: Romain Barats/Ocean Photographer Awards
Shark threesome
A trio of leopard sharks in New Caledonia, Australia, has made marine science history after they were seen mating in a “threesome”. It is the first time the globally endangered species has been documented in what the Journal of Ethnology delicately called “group courtship/copulating behaviour”.
Photograph: Dr Hugo Lassauce and the University of the Sunshine Coast
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レンズなぁ…来月ヤマがあるからそれ無事越えられたらやるか。ご褒美は大事だからね
Distance traveled awards: Thank you thank you thank you 
@coderangerNoah K and 
@elthenerdElaine Wong for coming here from Australia and Canada (respectively) in order to help us run the conference! Without your tech help, mentorship, and assistance with herding cats the conference would have been very different.
Gannets diving next to the Bass Rock, an outcrop in the Firth of Forth, #Scotland. Seabirds that have survived bird flu are continuing to reproduce, but low-breeding performance is a “serious concern”, researchers have said.
Photograph: James Glossop/PA
A ladybird crawls on a soybean pod as harvest time approaches in Maryland, US
Photograph: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images
A female crab on a submarine power cable. Scientists from the University of Portsmouth’s Institute of Marine Sciences have found that female crabs show “significantly greater sensitivity” to electromagnetic fields from underwater power cables than males, which could affect how they migrate and where they lay their eggs.
Photograph: Elizabeth James/University of Portsmouth/PA
A humpback whale lunge-feeding near New York City, US. Humpbacks are thriving in the warm waters off the coast of Manhattan but they are on a collision course with ships and boats.
Photograph: Chris St Lawrence/gothamwhale.org
Bear 32 Chunk, as he is known, hunts for food in preparation for Fat Bear Week. The National Park Service in Alaska, US, holds an annual event highlighting the preparations made by the brown bears of Katmai as they get ready for hibernation.
Photograph: C Loberg/AP
Bear 901, as he is known, hunts for food in preparation for Fat Bear Week. The National Park Service in Alaska, US, holds an annual event highlighting the preparations made by the brown bears of Katmai as they get ready for hibernation.
Photograph: E Johnston/AP
Rhinos roam at the Ziwa rhino sanctuary, #Uganda
Photograph: Hajarah Nalwadda/AP
An apprehensive green sea turtle has a tag attached to its flipper at the Greenfingers wildlife conservation initiative in Lagos, Nigeria. Two of the migratory turtles were rescued from poachers and will be released back to the ocean
Photograph: Emmanuel Adegboye/EPA
A hoverfly on a thistle flower in Dunsden, Oxfordshire, UK
Photograph: Geoffrey Swaine/Shutterstock
Glossy ibis begin preparing for migration with the arrival of autumn in Bursa, Turkey. Using their long beaks, the birds extract underground prey such as worms, insect larvae and small crustaceans.
Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images
Storks fly over fields near Frankfurt, #Germany
Photograph: Michael Probst/AP
Mudscape
A drone view shows mud covering areas of Hualien due to flooding, following Super Typhoon Ragasa, in # Taiwan. REUTERS/Ann Wang
Artificial Democracy: The Impact of Big Data on Politics, Policy, and Polity by Cecilia Biancalana & Eric Montigny, 2025
A look into the political consequences of big data and artificial intelligence. Democracy and data have a complicated relationship. Under the influence of big data and artificial intelligence, some democracies are being transformed as relations between citizens, political parties, governments, and corporations are gradually redrawn.
Breathing An Inspired History by Edgar Williams
Our knowledge of breathing has shaped our social history and philosophical beliefs since prehistory. Breathing occupied a spiritual status for the ancients, while today it is central to the practice of many forms of meditation, like Yoga.
Trickle of aid insufficient to address Gaza catastrophe
Martin Griffiths, director of Mediation Group International, has warned starvation in Gaza continues to spread as Israeli troops press deeper into the cut-off north.
“It’s either displacement or death in Gaza City, or displacement and death in al-Mawasi,” Griffiths said, referring to the area in the south of the Strip that Israel designated a so-called “humanitarian zone.”
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유럽·일본 15%, 한국은 ‘100% 관세’…제약·바이오 업계 ‘충격’
https://n.news.naver.com/article/028/0002768557?ntype=RANKING
어휴 트럼프 저 밉상...
Trickle of aid insufficient to address Gaza catastrophe
Martin Griffiths, director of Mediation Group International, has warned starvation in Gaza continues to spread as Israeli troops press deeper into the cut-off north.
“It’s either displacement or death in Gaza City, or displacement and death in al-Mawasi,” Griffiths said, referring to the area in the south of the Strip that Israel designated a so-called “humanitarian zone.”
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Greta Thunberg gestures next to a Palestinian flag on a ship, part of the Global Sumud Flotilla aiming to reach Gaza and break Israel's naval blockade, as they sail off Crete island, #Greece. REUTERS/Stefanos Rapanis
A soldier of the German armed forces demonstrates a HP 47 drone jammer during the defense exercise "Red Storm Bravo" in which civilian and military coordination is trained and led by German army Bundeswehr in Hamburg, #Germany,. REUTERS/Lisi Niesner
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