Notices by Stephen Coles (stewf@mstdn.party)

So far, the best corporate statement on AI is @buttondown’s: https://buttondown.com/blog/generative-ai

Friends, please stop linking to Spotify like it’s ok.

The company steadily siphoned money from independent artists, then spent millions to host Joe Rogan, then littered their library with AI music, and now the CEO is investing in AI weapons.

There are plenty of less damaging ways to listen to music and podcasts.

I’ve been hoping for this! My favorite tech writer, @molly0xfff, just wrote a great intro to RSS: https://www.citationneeded.news/curate-with-rss/

@FontsInUse has long provided RSS feeds for many aspects of our site. Not just the Blog and Uses, but also any typeface, designer, foundry, or tag. It’s a great way to get notified on stuff you care about.

And of course, it’s not subject to the whims of corporate social media. This benefit of RSS was a big part of our recent announcement (https://fontsinuse.com/uses/63903/fonts-in-use-is-not-active-on-instagram).

Zuzana Licko’s fonts were some the first non-system fonts I ever used. They were useful and cool. They made my design look good.

Rudy VanderLans’ writing was some of the first design writing I ever read. It was insightful and approachable. It made me feel like I was part of the future.

So you can imagine a combo of nerves and thrill when I was asked to write the preface for this book. Still seems unreal.

1,264 pages, 40 of the best Emigre specimens, artfully reprinted: https://letterformarchive.org/shop/emigre-fonts/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=Emigre+Type+Specimens

I am thrilled to open the position of Curatorial Intern at @letterformarchive! This person will work with me to document new acquisitions and donations, research our collections, and write about them for our website.

https://letterformarchive.org/news/job-announcement-curatorial-intern/

Please share freely! (Though be aware this is not a remote position.)

#Internship #GraphicDesign #SFBA #SFBayArea #LetterformArchive #GraphicDesign #Typography