Sebin A. Jacob

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The Letters That Changed Everything: How The DropTimes Discovered Its Voice Through Typography Our words have the power to inform, inspire, and connect with a diverse audience. Whether we are reporting, explaining, or describing, our writing should always firmly anchor on the reader.—From The D...

When we started @thedroptimes.bsky.social , we knew what we wanted to say. But how it looked—that took longer to figure out.

This piece is about the choices behind our typography and why they matter more than you’d think.
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"Let’s also not forget she is not a stale, pale, male—so she fits into his bigoted view of 'DEI'."

And no, before anyone rushes in foaming at the mouth—I’m not here to play team politics. Whether Democrats or Republicans, both are just different shades of right-wing bigotry.

She took to Bluesky and other platforms to share the letter she received from the man himself.

The responses? A mix of despair and defiance. One comment summed up the mood:

"If Trump wants 1933 Germany, they should give him 1788 France!"

Another pointed out the obvious:

Today, I saw an ad for an air-conditioner claiming to be AI-powered! Before, it was "smart" devices. Now everything is "AI". I doubt, now even cookies would come as AI-powered cookies in cookie jars

Now, everything is DevOps. To top it all off, people promote NAT storage for personal files, keeping them open to vulnerable traffic without realising that user stupidity is the most significant security threat. Putting your file on the network will only worsen it.

I used to wonder why, on earth, we aren't using FTP anymore. When I started on a newspaper in the late 90s to early 2000s, even our news stories and final prints were sent from unit to unit using FTP, and all the uploading to the daily-built website was done by sending batches of files through it.

Is Bluesky just another Twitter, or will there be light at the end of the tunnel? When the mighty renamed it, X, would he have ever imagined that it would turn the ex-micro blogging site of millions? I don't even remember when identi.ca was gone. Will that happen here, too?