jaime silvela

I use his Monitor. The best Verdana alternative I've found.

I wonder if hinting that was made assuming the availability of anti-aliasing is valid when there's no grey-scale.
On e-ink, though: several of my purchased fonts work quite well on an old (10+ years) Kindle. In fact not one of them has this kind of artifact

I'm surprised to hear hinting is being abandoned ... I see modern fonts that use autohinter (eg Mass Driver fonts I think) and foundries like Klim or Typotheque brag about their manual hinting...

Good list there. Plenty of Storm and Sowersby. I love that both make old-styles that feel rugged and current.

How about Anselm Serif, by stormtype?

You should set the sharpness of your monitors/TVs to zero. See why: blog.silvela.org/post/2025-12...

Awesome, MathJax 4 supports choosing fonts. STIX2 is a clear upgrade over Computer Modern.

Austra has a new album out, and there art thou happy

si, pero, hay que pedirle conciencia política a todos los artistas/famosos? Yo casi prefiero alguien que no esté enterado y se escaquee, que un cuñado hablando de "sentido común".

From The Archives: Trump Demands NATO Allies Match U.S. Commitment To Prioritizing Military Spending Over Healthcare

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License Microsoft fonts from Tiro Typeworks Introducing the first tranche of Microsoft fonts available for licensing from the makers, Tiro Typeworks.

Great typography news. At last these fonts have webfont files ... and quite affordable.
Sitka is phenomenal.

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—¿Me vas a dejar a mi leer la novela?
—No, no te voy a dejar… ¿Vos sós intelectual?… Pues entonces, ¿para qué te la voy a dejar?, ¿para que me la leas mal y me la jodas?

I think that in 10 years we will look back with amazement at the credit given to Sam Altman et. al.

Hay comentarios, por ejemplo, de Elmore Leonard diciendo que las guionizaciones de sus libros de Scott Frank clarificaban la idea.

De acuerdo, pero eso asume tb. que el escritor consigue exactamente lo que se había propuesto. Eso no tiene por qué ser verdad, no?

Por qué es eso "traición"? El libro de Sentido y Sensibilidad por ejemplo, mejora mucho en la adaptación de 1995. Mas concentrada y menos maniquea.

Great name.
How about Fanny Price Is Right?

Just How Bad Would an AI Bubble Be? The entire U.S. economy is being propped up by the promise of productivity gains that seem very far from materializing. By Rogé Karma

The capability-reliability gap might explain why generative AI has so far failed to deliver tangible results for businesses that use it. When researchers at MIT recently tracked the results of 300 publicly disclosed AI initiatives, they found that 95 percent of projects failed to deliver any boost to profits. A March report from McKinsey & Company found that 71 percent of companies reported using generative AI, and more than 80 percent of them reported that the technology had no “tangible impact” on earnings. In light of these trends, Gartner, a tech-consulting firm, recently declared that AI has entered the “trough of disillusionment” phase of technological development.

By one estimate, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Tesla will by the end of this year have collectively spent $560 billion on AI-related capital expenditures since the beginning of 2024 and have brought in just $35 billion in AI-related revenue. OpenAI and Anthropic are bringing in lots of revenue and are growing fast, but they are still nowhere near profitable. Their valuations—roughly $300 billion and $183 billion, respectively, and rising—are many multiples higher than their current revenues. (OpenAI projects about $13 billion in revenues this year; Anthropic, $2 billion to $4 billion.) Investors are betting heavily on the prospect that all of this spending will soon generate record-breaking profits. If that belief collapses, however, investors might start to sell en masse, causing the market to experience a large and painful correction.

The dot-com crash was bad, but it did not trigger a crisis. An AI-bubble crash could be different. AI-related investments have already surpassed the level that telecom hit at the peak of the dot-com boom as a share of the economy. In the first half of this year, business spending on AI added more to GDP growth than all consumer spending combined. Many experts believe that a major reason the U.S. economy has been able to weather tariffs and mass deportations without a recession is because all of this AI spending is acting, in the words of one economist, as a “massive private sector stimulus program.” An AI crash could lead broadly to less spending, fewer jobs, and slower growth, potentially dragging the economy into a recession. The economist Noah Smith argues that it could even lead to a financial crisis if the unregulated “private credit” loans funding much of the industry’s expansion all go bust at once.

It's seeming likelier and likelier that AI really could eliminate a lot of jobs very soon. Just not in the way boosters have suggested. www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...

gresca y tranquilidad

Scientific experts are the worst kind of experts, except for all the other kinds of experts.

ah, vale, no había leído la columnita de marras.
Pero es una cosa que pienso a veces. Que aunque los dos bandos se consideren moralmente superiores, solo uno de los dos plantea discusiones morales.

Pero hay una diferencia, no? La izquierda dialoga e intenta persuadir de sus posiciones morales. La derecha de patria y dios, mira mal a los que considera fuera, y ya.

How long are we going to have to put up with mush like this? Frowns? Muttering? The humanity! Also, what do you mean ad hominem attacks were "just as harmful?" Surely they were more? Dreck elevated in the discourse so readily, you're not even expected to make the strongest version of the argument.

When they figure out a cure for cancer and global warming in the next couple of months, will they share it with us?

The AI vibe shift is upon us | CNN Business Rather suddenly, there’s been a vibe shift around artificial intelligence, the tech that’s hypnotized Wall Street and inspired cultish devotion across Silicon Valley over the past three years.

“The bubble bursting was never going to be one event, but a series of sentiment shifts against technology that has never proven its worth outside of specious hype” @edzitron.com

was just having fun with complex numbers, don't mind me ...

> These "gains" are imaginary.

a 100i % increase in a year, which in the second year delivers 200i

It’s so stupid that all the “but what about fairness in women’s sports” people are always talking about Oh No What If Trans and never, like, paying women athletes more