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  “Ownership in type begins here, as a capacity granted from above to exclude, long before it was imagined as a fact about who made what.” https://blog.agyei.design/whose-font-is-it-anyway/

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  12 GBs 😶 https://arstechnica.com/apple/2026/10/command-line-tool-quickly-removes-apple-intelligence-from-macos-27/

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  The linear, received form of the essay, which can probably be traced to Locke, was not inevitable, is not inevitable. It is not the only way; there is no one way. It is possible to write in more exploratory ways. It is possible to write accretively, paratactically.

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  “Making things requires you to think about every single aspect. The methods and the materials, purpose, goal, your practice. And then maybe you will also think about how the tools should work, or you start to wonder about how it was done before. When and why is it good enough? This is curiosity in its most essential form.” https://letterror.com/ai

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  Spectator! https://commercialtype.com/catalog/spectator Paul Barnes has written a very thoughtful, very Paul essay on the collection’s genesis https://commercialtype.com/about/collections/spectator

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  “The name and URL reflect how I think we can and should reclaim and use computational ways of thinking responsibly and creatively.” https://critical.computer “Due to how much AI takes over the discourse, sucks the air out of the room, and rightfully riles people up, this is a space to talk about human learning: human critical communicative, learning, teaching, and thinking skills.”

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  “Being quiet is a critical and somewhat counterintuitive part of good conversations about computer use. By being more intentional about what you decide to put your attention on, you can stay focused with a persistence on the issues that matter and let the general noise pass you by, untouched.” https://lesscomputer.ca/be-quiet

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  “In order to refuse this sense of inevitability about computer use, which is a feeling, not a reality, it is necessary to use tactics that refuse the story. And there are few better tools at our disposal, conversationally and culturally, than the question.” https://lesscomputer.ca/ask-questions

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  Currently reading and recommend https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262056045/the-player-and-the-played

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  Land back is the way. Happy Indigenous People’s Day!

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  “‘Every hour you spend confused is an hour you spend building the infrastructure inside your own head that will eventually let you do original work.’” https://www.science.org/content/article/amid-flood-ai-advances-astrophysicists-are-questioning-soul-their-field

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  TIL that MT has a Chief AI Officer who writes articles on things like agentic AI for places like Forbes. “Software won’t disappear. It’ll escape the app.​​​​​​​” Trying to wrap my mind around the implications of this statement. This article is not without interest. I like to see what they’re up to. https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbestechcouncil/2026/10/22/software-is-about-to-escape-the-app/

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  “Because once you are curious about capitalism you must reject the bargain: if the price of the comfort of the few is the immiseration of the many then the price is too damn high. It is the skill of reading that hones that curiosity, sharpens our ability to notice what is before us, what is real and what is not, which bargains are fair and which are usurious. Reading is how we attend the world, which is also how we change it.” https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/umyazu

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  “There’s no faster path to burnout than the stubborn refusal to admit defeat: you learn to recognise quality much sooner than you can achieve it.” https://mass-driver.com/article/md-ui-a-typeface-for-interfacing

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  I love this book from @letterformarchive ❤️ but I will say that as a fairly petite woman, it is physically difficult for me to read & maneuver it 😅 https://letterformarchive.org/shop/lettres-decoratives

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  “There is a particular relief that comes with finding your niche. Not the market segment kind. The kind where the granularity of your thinking stops registering as excessive and becomes, simply, the floor.” I *love* this dek. A cogent and exquisitely written recap of the Fontstand conference by Mikina Dimunova: https://fontstand.com/news/design-news/the-granularity-of-origin-fontstand-in-berlin

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  So-called AI is an environmental issue, a labor issue, and an ideological issue. That’s it. I will die on this hill. We should push back as much as we can.

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  “Covering a variety of scripts and linguistic contexts, this volume explores the plurality of historical and contemporary engagements with, and interpretations of, the printed and written word in various artefacts, printing technologies, and writing systems.” https://www.cphc.org.uk/script-print-and-letterforms-in-global-context

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  So much talk these days of the American “empire” unraveling and American hegemony unraveling and I’m just walking around muttering, “Good, good!”

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  I’m not sure why – maybe it’s the general tenor of the times, maybe it’s my inner landscape, maybe it’s both – but for some reason I’m remembering this wonderful essay by Helen Rosner. Edited by Jess Zimmerman. https://medium.com/the-archipelago/not-everyone-feels-this-way-7e21574a2dfd

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  I’m interested in the institutional memory of the internet.

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  In the early days of the commercial web, iVillage was a hugely important place for me. It was a space by and for women. I would love an oral history of iVillage. I wonder if anyone has written about it 🤔

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  I occasionally (often?) talk about stuff that is not exclusively type-related. But for me type is so integral to absolutely every aspect of life that it never occurred to me not to be interested in and curious about everything.

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  👀 https://coopertype.org/events/typographic-signals-phototypesetting-as-a-new-form-of-writing

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  “So I could wait for the perfect cartographic client to come along, or I could just start drawing.” https://djr.com/notes/lithographer-text-font-of-the-month

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  I’ve always appreciated underground, IYKYK, supper-club energy.

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  “The process is the purpose.” https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/refusing-to-accept-big-tech-s-ai-poisoned-future-of-journalism

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  I’m wary of how things get normalized; I’m wary of how things harden into norms.

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  Write in a way that feels true to you. There is no “right” way. There is no magic bullet beyond care, and honesty, and trying.

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  Sorry to be so cringe.