Todd Walker

I know nobody under 30 will believe me, but this is the sort of scandal that ended careers, back in the before-times. Congressional hearings, weeks worth of Nightline reports, the whole works. The press _lived_ for this stuff.

Graphic with a collage of books, apparel, and other design ephemera. Text: VOLUMES PRESENTS MARKET NEW & VINTAGE COLLECTIBLES BY MULTIPLE VENDORS AUGUST 8th - 9th, 2025 FREE & OPEN TO ALL @ REVOLUTION HALL

Graphic with the “Volume Presents Market” at the top and a list of vendors in the middle: Chess Club Hi Books Letterform Archive Monograph Bookwerks Outlet Passage Bookshop The Idea of the Book The Shop at Matter & More 11AM - 6PM 8/8 - 8/9 @ REVOLUTION HALL

TypeCon2025 happens this week in Portland, and Letterform Archive will have a table at the first-ever Volumes Market (www.instagram.com/p/DMGG9HNP2eG/) which is free and open to the public. Aug 8–9, 11am–6pm at Revolution Hall. See you there?

#VintageBooks #BookFair #Books #TypeCon #Typography

Hot damn best response yet

The essential problem with people who are mostly right, but who work for the Atlantic, NYT, etc. etc. weighing in on our national problems, is that they can't talk about the *main causes of those problems*, because it would get them fired. Their bosses and colleagues are the main causes.

Toad, an accomplished musician, plays violin for his seeds. From "The Garden" In *Frog and Toad Together*

And all the next day Toad played music for his seeds.

ICE thugs violently kidnapping a pregnant woman off the streets in Elgin, IL as her child watches in horror.

Please keep elevating these stories — Do NOT normalize this abuse. These people need to be held accountable.

Who is doing counter-recruitment organizing for ICE? As the economy worsens, those jobs and the loan forgiveness offer will become more attractive to unpoliticized individuals. There needs to be a clear social cost for even considering joining those ranks.

How Organizers in California's Central Valley Are Fighting ICE Raids and Deportations Organizers in California's Central Valley are calling attention to the plight of the region's 300,000-plus undocumented migrants.

Though national media has mostly been focused on Los Angeles, it is crucial for eyes to be on the Central Valley to properly address the plight of undocumented immigrants.

Read how organizers in California's Central Valley are putting their bodies on the line to fight ICE raids and deportations. ⤵️

“They’re the same picture” meme brought to life

Who's keeping the Vance impeachable offenses list

“Making developer experience investments that save everyone just a bit of time on every task. Documenting your work so that every future engineer can jump in faster. These things can add up over time to one engineer saving 10x the time company wide than what they took to build it.”

“When I have had engineers who were 10x as valuable as others it was primarily due to their ability to prevent unnecessary work. Talking a PM down from a task that was never feasible. Getting another engineer to not build that unnecessary microservice.”…

Such a good article. Rarely do you see someone acknowledge that the bulk of work is human interaction, communication, and coordination, not “hands on the keyboard”.

Sadly, more and more relevant with each passing day.

Is this the mythical Marketplace of Ideas? 🤔

“10x productivity means ten times the outcomes, not ten times the lines of code. This means what you used to ship in a quarter you now ship in a week and a half. These numbers should make even the truest AI believer pause.”

@norcalresist.bsky.social kicks ass. Thanks for covering their work.

AI Is A Money Trap In the last week, we’ve had no less than three different pieces asking whether the massive proliferation of data centers is a massive bubble, and though they, at times, seem to take the default positi...

Even if the AI companies did what they said they could do (they don’t), and even if there weren’t terrible ethical and environmental effects of the tech (there are), it would still just be a terrible business. That’s why they have to lie about what they can do!

“What if we didn’t have to pay a human being?” was the rationale for slavery, BTW

Remember this after they come out of the meeting with JD and tell us she’s been misunderstood and was really telling the truth

In 2016, Ghislaine Maxwell falsely stated, under oath, that she was not aware that Jeffrey Epstein recruited underage girls for sex (you know, the ones she was actually recruiting on his behalf). She was charged with two counts of perjury for this.

Remind me why we give a shit what she says now?

It’s another gorgeous day here in occupied California, but holy moly is it HOT 🥵

Why We Don’t Say "Reform the Police" Reforms that leave policing’s core functions in place will not prevent state violence against Black people. To build a better society, we must abolish policing altogether.

“All of us have spent too much time, energy, and resources in pursuit of fruitless ‘fixes’ to reduce the violence and harm of policing. It’s time to confront what policing is at its core and move beyond it rather than continuing to try to ‘re-form’ it.”

Contact your reps. Badger them every single day. @resist.bot makes it easy.

I feel like every single day I need to post a reminder: if you ask an LLM about itself it DOES NOT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT ITS INNER WORKINGS and WILL NOT TELL YOU ANYTHING ACTUALLY ABOUT ITSELF. It just (as it always does) will make up some plausible sounding answer.

And immune-compromised people can’t receive the live vaccines. There are many, many of us.