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“I don’t think any human being is truly free. We’re so tethered to our own insecurities and hampered by our fears and our prejudices. I think it’s human nature that we’re never going to be free.” · EMILY SALIERS

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  • TypeParis Now26 🇫🇷 Elliot Jay Stocks

    See the full details on the event’s website…

    The Other Day · 10:00
  • Gideon The Ninth by Tamsyn Muir Jeremy Keith

    Lesbian necromancers in space. That’s the usual pitch for Gideon The Ninth and it’s not wrong. Though there’s a lot more necromancy than space or lesbianism. The book begins in an environment…

    Today · 17:31
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    • The schedule for UX London 2026
  • Qobuz Theme v1.3 for Qobuz Beta Jon Hicks

    This is small bug-fix version of the custom Qobuz theme for the Beta release. There's not many changes but they're important ones, fixing bugs that will affect your usage of the app: Fix for the 'Cat…

    Today · 05:00
  • In 1951, the Civil Rights Congress submitted a petition... Jason Kottke

    In 1951, the Civil Rights Congress submitted a petition to the UN charging that the “brutality and discrimination” of Jim Crow constituted genocide by the US govt. The US prevented any…

    Yesterday · 14:00
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    • Someone in a private forum I belong to mentioned fountain...
    • Wowsabout!
    • An analysis of 18 years of Guardian blind dates ....
    • Pioneering abstract artist Hilma af Klint’s...
    • The Design Evolution of Screwdriver Handles
    • What Can We Do About Partisan Gerrymandering? Jamelle...
    • Nolen Royalty : “My latest project is Marc...
    • The 2025 Alaskan Tsunami That Measured 1578 Feet Tall
    • Prophecy At 1420 MHz is the first single from Boards of...
    • It’s David Attenborough’s 100th birthday...
    • “In nine experiments involving 1,800 participants,...
    • Rogue One: The Andor Cut
    • A brief history: lessons from the rise and fall of...
    • The Abolitionist Map of NYC
    • Chess Peace is an iOS puzzle game where you have to...
    • One of the coolest things about honey is its...
    • Animated Artemis II Photos Reveal Satellites Buzzing Around Earth
    • “Podcast sloplords” are flooding the zone...
    • Lines, Ranked . “2. Assembly. It’s not glamorous,...
    • A supercut of context-free intertitles from Adam Curtis...
    • New episode of Great Art Explained on Francis Bacon ....
    • 20 years ago: a guy interviewing for an IT job gets...
    • Jon Krakauer writes about what has changed about...
    • Infants are dying because parents are opting-out of...
    • My pal Matt Haughey recut the first season of Apple...
    • This is nuts: Fred Again has uploaded a video of every...
    • Movie Posters by Eric Rohman
    • The official trailer for Christopher Nolan’s The...
    • What now-familiar domain names looked like before they...
    • Pocket forests . “The Miyawaki method of...
    • Could This Fish Be a Notebook? “David Byrne...
    • A24’s Young Anthony Bourdain Movie
    • Star Wars: The Phantom Menace in black & white with the...
    • Microshifting . “From a creativity standpoint,...
  • Studio Notes #83 Dan Cederholm

    Hello, Very Fine People. Here are this week’s Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. I'm writing today from Chicago, where I was chair for the Society of Typo…

    Yesterday · 10:43
  • Spicy Chicken w/ Brad Frost | Wireframe Live Brad Frost

    I had a wonderful chat about design systems and AI with Donnie D’Amato on his wireframe show. We talked about all sorts of spicy topics, and I feel like this conversation captures a lot of where my…

    Yesterday · 08:26
  • The Trial Rob Weychert

    Orson Welles, 1962, ★★★★ A surrealist nightmare of expressionist lighting and skewed compositions made from colossal pre- and postwar European architecture, oppressive even when i…

    Two Days Ago · 21:59
  • Geography is four-dimensional: https://sive.rs/4d Derek Sivers

    Geography is four-dimensional: sive.rs/4d…

    Three Days Ago · 17:40
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    • Geography is four-dimensional
  • Vibe Check №42 Dave Rupert

    Forgive me, Reader. It’s been five months since my last vibe check. That’s a lot of ground to cover and it’s not possible to get into everything that happened. Like in real life conversations, i…

    Four Days Ago · 07:41
  • Steven Heller’s Font of the Month: Puffery John Boardley

    Read the book, Typographic Firsts Sometimes I get a hankering to see someone use a good old Blackletter, spikey Fraktur, or rounded Textura that transports me back to medieval Europe when a printer’…

    Four Days Ago · 01:18

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