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Here’s a small tool recommendation: IMG Quest, an open-source API for creating Open Graph images. Via the URL you can include a title, subtitle, color scheme, and an image. The website shows how simple it is. The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense.

Ever heard of the Yard Sale Model? It describes the fact that, in our economic system, there will always be many poor people and very few super-rich. The essay Why the super rich are inevitable by The Pudding lays this out clearly and explains why. The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense.

Contrary to some assumptions, according to a study the special typeface “Dyslexie” does not statistically help people with dyslexia when reading. Youki Terada writes in »Do Dyslexia Fonts Actually Work?« for edutopia.org In a separate 2018 study, researchers compared another popular dyslexia font—Dyslexie, which charges a fee for usage—with Arial and Times New Roman and found no benefit to reading accuracy and speed. As with the previous dyslexia font, children expressed a preference for the mainstream fonts. “All in all, the font Dyslexie, developed to facilitate the reading of dyslexic people, does not have the desired effect,” the researchers concluded. “Children with dyslexia do not read better when text is printed in the font Dyslexie than when text is printed in Arial or Times New Roman.” ...