Today, I see angry young men online LARPing as Catholics, often for the aesthetic. They celebrate strength and hate the weak. The use slurs against the disabled and fantasize about enacting Crusader violence against their enemies. I wish the Pope would speak directly on this.
Musk is so mad at his daughter Vivian that he's throwing a $100 million tantrum
Katelyn Burns@katelynburns.com · 4w agoFor my newsletter, I wrote about how we shouldn't ignore that a billionaire trying to build data centers is putting a hundred million into Republican anti-trans ads in these midterms. www.burnsnotice.com/the-data-cen...
I'm flattered some folks have asked for autographed copies of my new book, Hot Type. I've arranged with the Montclair Book Center to ship them anywhere, thanks to Ryan Whitaker. Go to this link to buy a signed copy & support a local bookstore (oh, and me). www.montclairbookcenter.com/pages/books/...
[benoit blanc in true detective] now i know you think time is a flat circle, but if i may, you’re thinking of a clock
Jill Krajewski@jillkrajewski.bsky.social · 3y ago[benoit blanc in twin peaks] lordy there’s a burrito lookin girl on the beach
Most printed ephemera wasn't meant to last. In VANISHING CULTURE, Eve Scarborough explores the hidden stories inside type ephemera. 📚 Read for free or purchase in print: archive.org/details/vani... 🧵
well, the alternative was killing myself so
Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 2mo agolol come the fuck on
EXCLUSIVE: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Investigation by @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...
Still very happy with my design notes (and design itself of course!) for Gagneur, my latest type release. Would love for more people to read it – and maybe tell me what they think tinytype.co/news/2026/de...
Design notes: Gagneur · Tiny Type Co, typefaces for all sorts of cases
Gagneur is the result of years of studiously not studying the French type canon, in an attempt to make a non-dogmatic new serif design that still feels historic and French.
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Cloud chamber. I saw a bigger one for the first time a month ago at CERN during a tourist visit. I didn't know you could build it like that. I wish I were 15 so I could sit in my grandfather's workshop throughout the summer and work on something like that. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDrz...
Cloud chamber construction
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Here’s the part we all want to know which is behind the paywall. You’re welcome.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3mo ago“As part of this update, public Instagram profiles are now automatically opted into being fodder for generative AI remixes. All someone has to do is tag your account’s profile in a prompt—if it’s public—and they can use Meta AI to generate an image using your likeness.”
As someone who grew up Catholic, went to Catholic schools etc,, I cannot stress enough how deeply weird this shit is.
FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 3mo agoVance: People hang out those hideous signs in their yard that say, "in this house we believe blah blah blah blah blah. You know, love is love, science is science, whatever. No person is illegal." That sign is such a disgusting butchering of the Nicene Creed
Calvin and Hobbes strip that says it quite well;
tctc@toastcrust.bsky.social · 4mo agoeven if LLM actually made gamedev more efficient, which I see no reason to believe it has or will, that won't reduce crunch, because the business people will just push harder until you're crunching again. When a tool increases worker productivity, that doesn't translate into better work hours.
Action Grotesque is a variable-first, reading-first sans serif that continues Erik van Blokland’s exploration of type created in and for the environments where it is most likely to find itself today: screens. Read more: commercialtype.com/catalog/acti...
Don’t use AI — it's the first time I'm mad at someone in a Reddit fandom for not knowing that you can easily type an em-dash using a keyboard shortcut.
Ok. I’m not sure if this is some inside joke I’m missing, but when you click on “California Type Foundry” in the FontLab 8 tutorial, it links to a vegan blog that ran from April to July 2018.
There are approximately 2.8 million trans people in the US. That means FOURTEEN PERCENT of American trans people have moved across state lines in the past 18 months.
emily blight 🐦⬛@threnody.northsky.social · 5mo agogwen does fantastic work as usual on some of the 401,000 trans people who’ve had to flee hostile territory in their own country in the past 18 months.
In 1976 Richard Dawkins coined the term 'meme'. Fast forward 50 years and all the memes in the world have been stitched together into a Frankenstein's creature of synthetic personalisation, and they are his new girlfriend.
OUT: tech bros inventing the bus IN: tech bros inventing employees
shauna@goldengateblond.bsky.social · 6mo agoi’ve worked in tech more than 20 years. it has never been more ridiculous.
So, like, the MrBeast graph looks like this, but then the node tree looks like this, but then that's not actually what the node tree looks like because it really looks like this (you can see the exact moment I said "screw it" to proper organization and used a script to just merge all nodes)
Die Ablehnung des Begriffs greift ineinander mit der Ablehnung des Konzepts Queerness, das man diskreditiert als aufdringlich, künstlich erzeugt, übertrieben. Das Ziel: Konformismus erzwingen, Sichtbarkeit begrenzen. Anderssein ist nur akzeptabel, wenn es ausreichend Heteronormativität nachahmt. 1/
queer.de@queerde.bsky.social · 6mo agoKarin Prien sendet wieder wenig ermutigende Signale an die queere Community.
We really can't stress that last bit enough
Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃@caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 6mo agoTrans people and allies predicted with absolute crystal clarity exactly how this would go down, that they'd start with anti-trans talking points and then come for same sex marriage and abortion, not because we had any special precognitive abilities, but because THIS IS WHAT THEY SAID THEY WOULD DO!
Both Polymarket and kalshi reached out to pay me to put their ads in my newsletters in the last month. Told both to fuck off, obviously. But I bring it up because it seems like the only way to make $ right now is to work for some entity destroying society in a race to the bottom. It fucking sucks.
MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 6mo agoBREAKING: U.S. job growth for February revised sharply lower — from -92,000 to -133,000 jobs, marking the largest monthly job loss since December 2020.
I'm not just against AI to be some contrarian Luddite. It's because the guys pushing this shit are always, always, ALWAYS weird technofascists.
Mary Anne Franks@maryannefranks.bsky.social · 7mo agoPalantir CEO promises that his technology will reduce educated women's economic and political power newrepublic.com/post/207693/...
NEW: Wikipedia editors have implemented new policies and restricted a number of contributors who were paid to use AI to translate existing Wikipedia articles into other languages after they discovered these AI translations added AI “hallucinations,” or errors, to the resulting article.
AI Translations Are Adding ‘Hallucinations’ to Wikipedia Articles
AI translated articles swapped sources or added unsourced sentences with no explanation, while others added paragraphs sourced from completely unrelated material.
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Take some time out of your day to browse this incredible Baskerville Punches resource on Cambridge Digital Library. cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/...
Baskerville Punches
Baskerville Punches
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A new book for typographers, type designers, and lettercarvers – and anyone interested in how to make things with your hands hyphenpress.co.uk/2024/12/07/l...
