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As a tiny part of the New Deal, Hallie Flanagan helped create the Federal Theatre Project in 1935, where the US government funded unemployed actors to make free plays available to all. A big part of those were Living Newspapers: researchers became playwrights and wrote about current events lifted from the headlines to inform people.
The very first Living Newspaper was a hilarious tragedy. “Ethiopia” by Arthur Arent was all about how being invaded during the Second Italo-Ethiopian War was ravaging the country.
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i bought a t-shirt and the store offered a “$3 mystery t-shirt” so i figured cheap t-shirt why not. presumably that was so they could get rid of t-shirts that didn’t sell well
it finally arrived… and it’s extremely impressively the exact opposite of my style
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ME: hi drabgon i see your home has many trees
DRABGON: contrary to poplar belief we don’t breathe fire
NEARBY TREE: don’t believe that liar! I bet it’s just waiting for the right moment
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So I’ve been working on trying to make a little Arduino powered synthesizer recently! Turns out it’s hard and sound is complicated and now I’m cursed with knowledge. The only way to get rid of curses is to dilute them, so here’s everything I’ve learned about how to make sound on an Arduino.
Speakers A speaker takes some electricity and moves a little flat thing either outwards or inwards depending on the voltage, which pushes on air and makes sound.
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