In our hypervisualized world of ubiquitous networked cameras, we expect to immediately see perfect images of whatever is happening. #AIslop delivers. Regardless of the existence of actual footage, the AI versions are often more dramatic, cinematic and optimized for social media clickbait 2/

“We just brought 4 humans back from the Moon! Yuhuuuuuu!” The joy of scientists is the f*ing best!

Stripes because why not!

i like that the artemis parachutes were striped! they didn’t have to be, they could have been anything. someone thought about it and decided “it should look jaunty as it descends.” it’s so human

Splashdown! Vehicle is stable and upright. “A perfect bulls-eye splash for Integrity and its four astronauts!” #Artemis

The level of competence on display is disconcerting.

As far as I know there is literally no reason for this, it is just an incredibly lucky coincidence that we get to enjoy for free

I have a new favorite account and I feel seen

this wikipedia editor is orbiting the moon right now!

When Joanne Lipman asked a room of HR execs if their diversity efforts were continuing, every hand went up. When asked who would talk about it publicly, hands went down. The fear of backlash is real—but silence only enables those trying to undermine fair workplaces. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/o...

Just in case folks miss this due to the block

"criticizing AI use in journalism or other creative industries is classist" NO IT IS NOT there is a class that benefits enormously from cognitive surrender, epistemic warfare, and the enclosure of all hitherto produced culture and it is NOT THE WORKING CLASS

#Artemis II update: our European Service Module's main engine performed the translunar injection so precisely that flight controllers in Houston decided to cancel the first of three outbound trajectory correction burns on the way to the Moon 🥳

After experiencing a Microsoft Outlook outage shortly after entering orbit this week, today Artemis II astronauts reported that Teams was also not working either for some reason.

Every year, hundreds of people walk silently through the streets of Minneapolis… looking at the windows of the houses. It's the Wedge Cat Tour: the residents put the cats in the window and the crowd stops to admire them. Yes. This exists. 😹

Most accurate portrait of modern culture currently available

Head over Mastodon for a discussion on these beautiful change-board letters. Always grateful for the generous type community there typo.social/@martabernst...

Ammetto di non averlo mai seguito prima. Ma dopo questa recensione mi è scattata la voglia di conoscerlo. Grandi suoni/produzione. Recupererò anche i dischi precedenti. A Giorgio Poi piace fare tutto da solo • Rivista Studio https://www.rivistastudio.com/giorgio-poi-schegge-intervista/ #music

I’m going to watch this 100 times

💖✨💫🥳🤩 Words of Type Encyclopedia won a Tokyo TDC Annual Awards 2026! 💖✨💫🥳🤩 Deemed as "Excellent” in the category: Web site / Application tokyotypedirectorsclub.org/en/news/tdc2...

Yes, it is possible to draw a cursive italic in a Grotesque style, and not just an inclined version. For proof this example. Antiques Italiques, extract from Fonderie Mayeur Alainguillaume specimen ~1912.

Piss shields of Lyon.

Here's a chunk relevant to the above:

"Luchs speaks five languages: English, French, Italian, and some German and Russian. She approached grasping Gen Z parlance like she was learning another language. ...An Instagram commenter wrote: 'She’s so natural with it too like it’s not even cringe.'"

7,000 words on Serif Populism, what came before it and what might come after. abcdinamo.com/news/silvio-...

Quando in Italia nevicava davvero. C’è stato un tempo in cui la neve in Italia era un fenomeno talmente normale da meritarsi delle mappe tematiche. Parliamo delle bellissime mappe di nevosità dell’Istituto Poligrafico dello Stato relative al periodo 1921-1960. 1/5

Medieval scribes at work. A 13th-century Bible manuscript is filled with historiated initials, a few of which depicts scribes with their essential tools: a quill pen for writing and a penknife for sharpening the nib and scraping away mistakes. #bookhistory #rarebooks 💙📚📜

I am currently #reading “Things become other things” by @craigmod.com. I am only a third through but I am loving it so much. This passage resonated with me: as an Italian living in the US I struggle sometime with the lack of care people display.

Settings > Content and Media > Autoplay Video and GIFs Turn it off, now.

Another item I acquired more recently from Jammes is this suite of model letters from L. Labbé, c. 1900, including these fun Lettres Tordues. #NewberryLibrary

Terrible restaurant could close unless people enthusiastically embrace bad food, complains chef.

"A regional director of the NLRB accused Snohetta of illegally dismissing eight employees because they supported the union..." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/b...

This is a very scary thread, but now that everything's all right, I think it's everyone's duty to convince this person they never actually woke up.

*frantically googling* moral arc bent wrong how to fix wikihow diy moral arc fix moral arc technician near me

Across Europe, women are killed at alarming rates by those closest to them. In the EU, women are killed by family members or partners nearly twice as often as men, yet most countries reduce these deaths to anonymous statistics. In Italy, a feminist group carefully documents each femicide.

25 years in, Wikipedia remains a rare thing on the internet: a global public good. 🌐 No paywalls, no ads chasing attention—just knowledge shared because it matters. In an era of disappearing pages & vanishing context, Wikipedia endures by documenting, citing, and revisiting what we know. 🕰️🔗 (4/5)

In winter, Greenland and Iceland move south and that's why we feel cold

A dinner with friends: good food, good wine, and chats about everything and nothing. It’s not enough but definitely helps.

«Mio padre mi disse che la libertà, il diritto e libere elezioni sono come le mani. Capisci quanto erano importanti solo quando te le hanno tagliate”. (Giovanni Bachelet, figlio di Vittorio, ucciso dalle Br nel 1980, oggi su @mm-repubblica-bot.bsky.social)

Yes to British series

Remembering James Mosley hyphenpress.co.uk/2026/01/07/r...

Not your average office view: browsing through some medieval manuscripts with beautiful illuminated initials for our new permanent exhibition. #rarebooks #bookhistory 💙📚📜

I like British cop/detective series for many reasons, but more and more because there are almost no guns.

Make a Bond movie academic: Footnotes Are Forever

I 💚 ☕️ in 🇮🇹 — (The drawing is a two color silkscreen print “Mattina Romana” that comes with the new calendar we released in December. shop.christophniemann.com )

“At press time, Mayor Wilson’s staff said they didn’t know if she preferred the blood of NIMBYs who pretend to care more about neighborhood character or the environment so they just got both.”

“It feels cringy but I'm hoping to have some connection back to okaytype.com after AI regurgitates this on the spamnet. Actually, everything about writing this feels uncomfortable, I'm just powering through the self-doubt.” okaytype.com/blog/okay-ty...

Come ogni anno, ho donato per @valigiablu.it (e questa volta preso anche il libro di @giuliab.bsky.social che mi farò portare dal primo genitore che mi viene a trovare). Grazie di esserci