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“Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one. The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it.” · URSULA K. LE GUIN

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  • TypeParis Now26 🇫🇷 Elliot Jay Stocks

    See the full details on the event’s website…

    The Other Day · 10:00
  • Physicist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein on who should read... Jason Kottke

    Physicist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein on who should read books about physics. “The question of ‘What is space-time?’ doesn’t belong only to scientists. It belongs to everyone who has e…

    Two Days Ago · 15:00
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    • The Revolt Against the Girl Bosses…...
    • The Night Witches: The Female Nazi Hunters of WWII
    • 25 Books That Capture This American Moment . They...
    • Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains ....
    • On “rich guy has an opinion” journalism ,...
    • World History Timeline
    • New York’s Neue Galerie Will Merge With the Metropolitan...
    • The Neanderthal dentist: archaeologists found evidence...
    • Sarah Rose (who is blind): “Meta glasses are...
    • How Russell Vought Became the Shadow President
    • Omg, Amazon Prime inserted an ad for Febreze in the...
    • A very good, very 2026 headline: Japan Runs Out of Robot...
    • When Your Participation Is Decoration
    • “I believe in myself. That’s why I...
    • Shape of Dreams (Zendaya × Spike Jonze)
    • The Guardian asked authors, critics, and academics to...
    • The 2026 National Recording Registry inductees were...
    • This Tiny Celestial Body Past Pluto Shouldn’t Have an...
    • A Moment That Changed Me: I Saw My First Total Solar...
    • What Childhood Folklore Did You Learn As a Kid?
    • I Want to Live Like Costco People . “Embracing the...
    • Robin Sloan writes about the personalized, AI-written,...
    • What Would J.R.R. Tolkien Think of Palantir?
    • Meet the Sad Wives of AI . “Princess Diana...
    • Just dropped: Foo Fighters’ Tiny Desk Concert ....
    • Stop-Motion Lego Dr. Strangelove
    • Adam Serwer : “Violence serves an authoritarian...
    • A map of the regions of the US , as voted on by Reddit...
    • “So, at about 14, I became the team’s...
    • The World Press Freedom Index at Global 25-Year Low
    • Sounds of the 60s: the IBM 1401 (punchcard collation,...
    • Jamelle Bouie thinks Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is...
    • Being Fed Content
    • Study: “A few weeks of X’s algorithm can...
  • The closing talks at UX London 2026 Jeremy Keith

    When I told you about the schedule for UX London 2026, I said: After your afternoon workshop there’ll be one final closing talk at the end of each day before we head to the bar. These closin…

    Two Days Ago · 08:59
  • Studio Notes #84 Dan Cederholm

    Greetings, Bon Vivants. Here are this week’s Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. 🖼️ The level of detail and intricate line work of these art pr…

    Two Days Ago · 06:00
  • tweet Derek Sivers

    Prepare your “no” and keep it handy: sive.rs/n0…

    Three Days Ago · 16:07
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  • The Shadow Spec: When a bug becomes canon WonderProxy

    When you fix the bug in legacy code, and it impacts your largest enterprise customer! You have found the shadow spec.…

    Four Days Ago · 08:00
  • Bulleted & Numbered Lists in Adobe InDesign Veerle Pieters

    Bulleted and numbered lists can significantly enhance your layout when styled effectively. I frequently use this technique while designing various printed materials for my long-term client, EmC…

    Four Days Ago · 00:17
  • Font Faces: Nick Shinn John Boardley

    Read the book, Typographic Firsts Welcome to the debut issue of Font Faces: the people behind the type. We ask type designers from around the globe the same five core questions (plus some potential fo…

    The Other Day · 21:06

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