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Voltaire Era on the Horizon: Cardano's June Hard Fork Approaches

Charles Hoskinson, the Cardano brainchild, dropped big news on June 9 via X. Hoskinson said that Cardano is entering the Age of Voltaire.

International Business Times

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s best career advice came from an elderly gardener

“I’m rarely chasing things,” said billionaire executive while on a highly profitable winning streak.

Fortune

Exploring The Influential Political Thinkers Of The Enlightenment Era

Learn about key Enlightenment Thinkers like Locke, Rousseau, and Voltaire who shaped modern political thought.

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1984 reasons conservatives should stop quoting George Orwell

All Orwell references are equal, but some are more equal than others for News Corp papers lifting the writer’s words for right-wing ends.

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The Holy Roman Empire, Actual Malice, and Criminal Conversation

The Holy Roman Empire, it was famously put (by Voltaire, I think), was neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire. Likewise, the First Amendment "actual malice" test isn't actually about malice, but rather about whether the speaker knew the statement was false or likely false (and indeed the Court has…

Reason

31 People Confess Things They Didn’t Know Until Embarrassingly Late In Life

As Voltaire, an 18th-century writer, historian, and philosopher, said in one of his most popular quotes, “Common sense is not so common.” The post 31 People Confess Things They Didn’t Know Until Embarrassingly Late In Life first appeared on Bored Panda.

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‘As subtle as a brick in the face’: Barbara Kruger’s cacophonous Trumpspeak premonitions

The US artist’s work is a riot of words and images that now seem to have eerily foreshadowed Donald Trump – and a grinding, alarming soundtrack has been added for this astonishing, rattling exhibition

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Mike Johnson's demon-haunted world

If you believe Noah's ark was real and demons come out of the TV, it's just a small jump to embrace the Big Lie

Salon

Charles gives Macron Voltaire collection to mark first state visit

In return, the president gave the King a golden coin featuring Charles’s portrait.

The Independent UK

A weekend in Venice: travel guide, things to do, food and drink

Venice, the “floating city” in northeast Italy, has an intangible magic. The canals coursing between the 118 islands on which it is built, and under the almost 400 bridges connecting them, are alive with boats and gondolas, which remain the lifeblood of Veneto’s regional capital. Its architecture defies gravity, and…

The Week

Candide review – WNO go for broke with picaresque, Pythonesque craziness

Ed Lyon stands out in the titular role and there’s some witty animation, but Bernstein’s operetta feels too frenetic, with extra fizz forcefully injected

The Guardian - UK

Clockwork Angels: one of the best albums Rush ever made

Rush's 20th release was a concept album inspired by both the steampunk movement and Voltaire’s 18th-century French satire Candide - it’s also one of the best albums of their career

Louder

Elon Musk tweets quote by neo-Nazi wrongly attributed to Voltaire

The Twitter CEO on Saturday came in for criticism after incorrectly attributing a quote to Voltaire in a tweet

The Independent UK

Elon Musk tweets quote by neo-Nazi wrongly attributed to Voltaire

The Twitter CEO on Saturday came in for criticism after incorrectly attributing a quote to Voltaire in a tweet

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David Baddiel: ‘Football fills a God-shaped hole’

Ahead of a new book about our need for faith, the ‘militant atheist’ discusses oversharing, identity – and why he’s distancing himself from Richard Dawkins

Reason

America's Losing Its Free Speech Consensus

Americans shouldn't have to fight to the death to defend their foes' right to speak, but they should at least stop trying to censor, shame, shun and destroy each other.

The Conversation

Essentialising 'Russia' won't end the war against Ukraine. Might 'real and credible' force be the answer?

Russia’s War on Everybody, by UK writer Keir Giles, is an alarming book. It argues that for years Russia has been waging “a clandestine war against the West”.

The Conversation

How Chaucer's medieval Wife of Bath was tamed and then liberated in the 21st century

Chaucer’s Wife of Bath is one of the most famous characters in English literature. Since appearing in the Canterbury tales in 1387, her tale has been rewritten and adapted by authors from the French philosopher Voltaire in the 18th century to the contemporary author Zadie Smith in 2021.

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The Independent UK

Elon Musk criticised for meme featuring Nazi soldier

The new boss of Twitter appeared to be trying to make a joke about technological change

The Guardian - AU

‘Fearless’ trans activist Brenda Appleton honoured by Liberty Victoria

Colleagues hail quiet but forceful style that allowed her to engage across political divide on birth certificate reform

The Guardian - UK

Candide review – Voltaire and Bernstein enter the social media era

A brilliantly reimagined and boldly immersive promenade performance, complete with flashmob choir, plays to the strengths of Leonard Bernstein’s witty operetta

The National (Scotland)

Candide: An outdoor opera for our times and a breath of fresh air

CANDIDE, the satirical novella by Voltaire, is one of the great works of philosophical literature. First published in 1759, the book takes a darkly…

Radio France Internationale

Arendt, Durkheim and Voltaire called to testify at Paris attacks trial

This has been a special week at the November 2015 terror trial, as the three state prosecutors prepared the ground for their demands for punishment, delivered on Friday. The French newspapers have been united in their praise of the prosecution team. But it was a far from flawless performance.

The Independent UK

NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week

Social media users shared a range of false claims this week

The Independent UK

GOP congressman tries quoting Voltaire in attack on Fauci –but quotes neo-Nazi paedophile instead

The neo-Nazi was charged with trying to force a 10-year-old into a sexual relationship in the early 2000s

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