The Wikimedia Foundation hasn’t just refused to recognize their workers’ unions; they’ve also hired one of the most notorious union-busting firms out there. https://medium.com/regarding-wikipedia/the-wikimedia-foundation-hired-the-union-busters-its-own-encyclopedia-warned-about-42b7142a5cd1
https://yazibursa.com is finally live!
We're documenting the vernacular typographic heritage of Bursa, Türkiye, with over 300 hand-lettered pieces, 40+ artists, and 70+ neighbourhoods so far.
#vernaculartypography #signpainting #lettering #bursa #BursaType
Inspired by @jectives recent review of BLAG 08, I've narrated a short flick through of the latest issue (09) over here on my Peertube:
@mntrs @Sahar @atypi Moreover, organizing another conference in a country where human rights and LGBTQIA+ persons rights are denied, and often destroyed, is beyond comprehension: https://www.amnesty.org/en/location/middle-east-and-north-africa/middle-east/united-arab-emirates/report-united-arab-emirates/
@mntrs @atypi
visas are categorically denied to nationals of 19 countries. Those that can obtain a visa have a stressful and anxiety-inducing experience at the borders where your humanity is completely disregarded in the most racist and hostile manner.
ATypI has completely showed that it does not care about community or culture. It cares about numbers. I do not know that these stains will ever be washed off the conference, I don't know that the powers that be even care to try.
Bitchat is now on radicle which is a decentralised p2p Git hosting.
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bitchat · Decentralized mesh messaging (iOS/macOS)
https://radicle.network/nodes/rosa.radicle.network/rad%3Az2v9tRJz1oknFAqCSY5W5c76nVvm6
Language codes as a compact summary of colonialism.
Seems useless notice against a FOSS app
I'd like to make friends in bangalore. help
Paper leak or protest against paper leak, first thing to get shut down is internet
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CJP Protest LIVE: Delhi Police Baton-Charge Protesters As Internet Curbs...
Presuming you are someone who is not interested in or is actively opposed to the use of AI in the work of typeface design, how do you feel about AI in the context of helper scripting within font development tools for non-design tasks, e.g. selecting all glyphs with property x, identifying glyphs not included in feature code, etc.?
Very excited/nervous about my virtual talk about India Street Lettering https://indiastreetlettering.com/ for Type Director’s Club tomorrow https://tdc.org/event/india-street-lettering-building-missing-archives/
Please join us if you’re free (:
@ninastoessinger will do a live raffle at the end of the talk, and one lucky attendee will get a free copy of my book!
Unless you were largely cognisant during the late 90s, it's very hard to get across to you just _how_ bristling with positive energy computing was back then, just **look** at this opening screen, it screams "ARE YOU READY TO LEARN MOTHERF*CKER?!".
It has dolphins, in the clouds. How many smartphone apps welcome you with dolphins in clouds?
Instagram has been running ads promoting child sexual abuse material in India, with terms like "rape video" and "child video" and linking to Telegram channels (Divya Arya/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgm4e0316zo
http://www.techmeme.com/260703/p11#a260703p11
#Fedihelp Is anyone here in contact with #LadyGaga? My 14yo grandson who I love dearly is lying in hospital on life support. His mum, my daughter, is reading aloud for him the David Attenborough book he was planning to get. His favourite artist is Lady Gaga and my daughter is trying to contact her, to ask if she might send our boy a message to be read to him. It would mean a lot. I know this is a long shot, but can anyone put me in touch?
I received my first typo.social themed phishing mail 🐟💣💩.
To be clear: typo.social will never send you password reminders like this. I assume it is part of a wider attack on Fediverse accounts. #warning #phishing #fediverse
Any London folks here?
I will be in your city this Friday (June 12) to speak at Type&Faces https://www.typeandfaces.com/ about my book India Street Lettering https://indiastreetlettering.com/india-street-lettering-a-journey-through-typographic-craft-culture/.
Get a ticket https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/typefaces-june-tickets-1990449021605 to hear me and other speakers, and come say hi 👋🏽
Passing on a question from a friend: does anyone know of any apps/programs for youngsters to make fonts? The suggested analog was TinkerCAD, but for type design. I've suggested Rob Meeks's FontStruct, but maybe other folks have good suggestions?