Slowly becoming a Seattleite: people on the ferry got really excited about something in the water. I ask what they saw and super excited they answered “there is a seal on that buoy!”. “Ah” and I kept on reading my book

Not only is David Jonathan Ross one of our longest-running sponsors, he’s now devoting some of his ad space to other type designers whose work he admires – starting with Petra Dočekalová, who just launched her new foundry site, petra-d.com. What a gent!

This is the truest statement I’ve seen about AI harms

James Mosley: One of the greatest type historians. His book is with me in Seattle, of course: worn out as a reference text should be

“Wisdom [is] a form of epistemic humility. There comes a point in the scaling + compression of knwldg where we… are liable to forget what we do not + cannot know.” “Lg language models don’t know what they don’t know; when confronted with the limits of their knowledge, chatbots bluster + bullshit.”

😍 Quite magical to discover the talent of Joe Strummer, The Clash, in terms of lettering & layout on his K7 collection.

*Excellent* book by @alexhanna.bsky.social and @emilymbender.bsky.social. Highly recommend.

#Seattle being cool tonight: West canal yards renovation by Graham Baba Architects.

Important text about the early years of Association Typographique Internationale by @johndberry.bsky.social johndberry.com/atypi-histor...

IN 1 MONTH It's our lecture with Lara Captan! “Hegel observed that an idea is obscure and inexistent unless it came to being through a word. Over years of exploring Arabic type design, Lara found that learning to “speak” about type completely transformed her process.[...]” Info & 🎟️ wordsoftype.com

I thought it was a joke or the Onion, but no: it’s real. www.npr.org/2025/08/16/n...

I am rewatching The Wire (for the third time), the series that made me love tv series. Also my companion while drawing type at night during my Type and Media master. So good still

This is brutal AND makes so much sense if you live in a city where Land Acknowledgements are everywhere.

Didn’t know! This is great

Fire season and subsequent smoke are here… #seattle

Know The Game: Weather pamphlet, 1966, archived by Elizabeth Goodspeed and animated by Western Washington University student Milo Fisher @11111111milo @wwu_design instructor @kaceyface @elizabeth_goodspeed #PeoplesGDArchive #GDHistory #MotionGraphics

Another hour, another call for another conference about teaching with AI. I am so supremely annoyed and bored and 💔 by this reactionary obsession: what a waste of opportunity to think about infinitely more constructive, convivial, empowering, life-affirming and existentially consequential things

I despise these AI bros for so many reasons — but among the top for me is that, bc of their egos + recklessness, and bc of a gullible grifter culture that expands their uptake + influence, we’re all now obligated to care abt their bullshit + minimize its harms. I’d rather be doing anything else.

One of my favorite accounts on the whole internet, teaching everyone the importance of looking at details

getting dinner at The Old Spaghetti Factory

Hello Portland, love you so much

I love Jena Friedman, and this very unusual TED talk about AI is great. youtu.be/aZ5Kuowfc4g?...

this also turns the worst kind of man off which solves a third problem

young women are too often told that many of their problems can be solved by being skinny and hot while the truth is that more of their problems can be solved by being extremely funny

reminds me of those grey floor home remodels

I’ll be there!!

«The politicization of art mostly happens as a reaction against the aestheticization of politics practiced by political power. That was the case in the 1930s and it is the case now.» A provocative essay by Boris Groys, written in 2017 and now more relevant than ever www.e-flux.com/notes/670983...

Is AI useful or not? To answer that, you shouldn't imagine a fully focused and energized version of yourself making use of it. Rather, picture yourself swamped, tired, and in a rush. That's how you'll get an honest answer.

It’s Seafair in Seattle and Blue Angels are in town. A useful reminder of how terrifying and scary it must be to live in a war zone.

Currently reading, by @leaypi.bsky.social for @feltrinelli.bsky.social. Had to wait many weeks for a library digital loan!

Working for a couple of hours at the hotel Starbucks (on a work trip in the heat) and their music is basically a Eurovision mix from the last few years. Or so it seems. And not in a good way

This article contains somehow both the funniest and most well-informed protester quotes I've ever seen. I laughed and I learned.

“Put it on the web!” 🫶

A language model built for the public good: ethz.ch/en/news-and-...

Taking the bus to the office today with two backpacks: nobody offered their seat. Thank you Seattle.

At least, these are the positions reserved for the 99% who have no control over these systems yet are forced to use & feed them, often by raw economic & political power. For those in power, however, AI promises new means of control not only over the means of production but entire populations 4/

In its current form, machine learning knows two main positions for the «human in the loop», an extractivist and a behaviorist one: as a source of patterns (in the form of training data) or a source of feedback (in the form of responses to stimuli). Both are fundamentally forms of alienated labour 3/

Please watch (via @mauricemeilleur.bsky.social)

Hello NYC! So nice to be back. Heatwave is gone and tomorrow @typographicsnyc.bsky.social ! If you are attending the conference come say hi

The little joys of an Italian living in the US: Trader Joe’s sells bresaola! (These days I’ll take anything. Look, a cat!)

This whole thread

And of course that is when I am traveling to NY for @typographicsnyc.bsky.social. What one does for the love of type

As someone who does type history research in archives, I couldn’t agree more.

Not just scientists though…(Thank you @mauricemeilleur.bsky.social)

Support the coop, if you use fonts do the survey!

Basta fare due chiacchiere con chi di figli non ne ha.

This is just perfect

Per le madri costituenti, le partigiane e le elette che per quel referendum si sacrificarono: #èancoralanostrarepubblica, non lasciamo che ce la portino via. #2giugno