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GitS:SaC newspaper 1 GitS:SaC newspaper 2 Source: Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (2006), via Imgur 1, 2.

Hundreds of people rally against the temporary travel ban during a protest at Detroit Metropolitan airport in Romulus, Michigan, on January 29, 2017. Source: Rebecca Cook / Reuters (29 January 2017), via The Atlantic.

This is the first time I've seen, in person or a photograph, a poster or billboard containing only a QR code—with no accompanying text.1 The code contains a link to this clip from Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator (1940):

  1. One exception was a Google recruiting ad on the side of a bus shelter from ca. 2011, but I can't find any reference to it. ↩

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