Frederic Marx

for resiliency and redundant fallback make sure you have more than one single point of failure in your software stack

A collage of typographic details from Black Sabbath’s first four albums, shown alongside cropped specimens of the typefaces used.

New on the blog: The arcane alphabets of Black Sabbath

To commemorate Ozzy Osbourne, we took a deep dive into the obscure typefaces used on Black Sabbath’s first four album covers.

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(Buckle up, it’s a long one.)

#TikTok workers in Berlin are on strike today ("warning strike"), with support of the service worker union verdi.

The Media's Pivot to AI Is Not Real and Not Going to Work AI is not going to save media companies, and forcing journalists to use AI is not a business model.

Media outlets can't pivot to AI to save themselves. It's not a business strategy and it's not going to work. The only path forward is for journalists to lean into their humanity, to do things AI can't, and to make clear they are writing for people, not algorithms:

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“Play limited leverage games, win limited leverage prizes” – @dierrez.bsky.social

Haven't been keeping up with the webperf slack, but this was in the scrollback from March, and shows so directly how understanding the rendering engine unlocks better experiences for everyone, not just folks on low-spec machines and networks:

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Neubesetzungen am Bundesverfassungsgericht: Union und SPD scheitern an der Richterwahl Die schwarz-rote Koalition kann sich vorerst nicht auf die Wahl der drei Richterkandidaten für das Bundesverfassungsgericht verständigen. Nun werden die Abstimmungen von der Tagesordnung genommen.

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Entweder ist Jens Spahn handwerklich nicht fähig, in seiner Fraktion Mehrheiten zu organisieren, oder er nimmt Gegenstimmen billigend in Kauf, um Kompromisse zugunsten der SPD zu torpedieren.

Ich hoffe die @spdfraktion.de zieht daraus Konsequenzen, zB wenn es um einen U-Ausschuss für Spahn geht.

There’s stiff competition, that’s for sure

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four staff from the verge holding picket signs saying things like “give us a fair contract before we’re all POLYGONE!” and “AI can’t do my job.. but maybe it could do a CEO’s”

The Verge staff are ready to strike. VOX MEDIA YOU HAVE UNTIL MIDNIGHT!

How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest.

Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest. www.wired.com/story/how-to...

Riot. Strike. Riot Baltimore. Ferguson. Tottenham. Clichy-sous-Bois. Oakland. Ours has become an “age of riots” as the struggle of people versus state and capital has taken to the streets. Award-winning poet and scholar...

In solidarity with the movement in Los Angeles and elsewhere across the US, we've made Joshua Clover's Riot. Strike. Riot free to download.

As @friends-table.bsky.social rightly point out in their podcast, Hunter × Hunter sits comfortably among other projects of Taking Genre Media at Face Value, so if you enjoyed the likes of Twin Peaks or Watchmen, I highly recommend to check it out.

Media Club Plus Welcome to Media Club Plus: a podcast about diving into the media that interests us and the stories that excite us, as always we are brought to you by Friends at the Table. This season, we're watching...

Been watching Hunter × Hunter (2011) alongside mediaclub.plus. Togashi interweaves meticulous genre mechanics with raw melodrama to tell a beautiful story of friendship and sacrifice, using every heel turn as an opportunity to coax the monstrous out of humanity and humanity out of the monstrous.

Poster of Kiki's Delivery Service but Kiki has been replaced with Bouba from the Kiki/Bouba linguistics study. The text reads "Bouba's Delivery Service."

Best Star Trek crew, wrong answers only.

First of all, don’t add people to your Signal group chat if you don’t know who they are, says Jeff Crume, cybersecurity architect and adjunct professor at NC State University.

I’ve seen a lot of assumptions in the media that Trump (and Musk) are targeting institutions with loyalty tests.

But that’s not quite right. They’re using dominance tests. And the difference between these two things matter. 🧵

Pocket, One of the Only Apps I Ever Liked, Is Shutting Down Pocket, the app for saving articles to read later, announced it is shutting down on July 8.

In the spirit of not relying on big corporations, it feels apt to also share @404media.co’s independent reporting on this.

www.404media.co/pocket-app-s...

I thought you of all people would know good alternatives ☺️ Thanks for sharing!

And today in “don’t trust corporations to run services you rely on”, Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, effective July 8th. You’ve got until October 8th to export your bookmarks before they are permanently deleted. (via @steveklabnik.com)

Web accessibility advocates 🤝 Crash-testing organizations

“They’ve got to bring back buttons”

And today’s “Explain this sentence to a Victorian child” award goes to…

In the show “Star Wars: Andor”, the defected imperial security droid K-2SO can’t believe that in a room of rebel combatants “No one is curious” about what he has to say.

When you deliver a 15 minute info dump about a new topic you’re excited about and there are no follow-up questions

employees at other companies like activision have called these sorts of return-to-office mandates "soft layoffs"

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Chief Creative Officer of industry-defining visual effects house ILM shows off their vision for the use of generative AI and the results unironically look like Chimpanzini Bananini. What are we doing??

That we continue to persist at all is a testament to our faith in one another.

who called it woke pope and not Opus DEI

The Component Gallery An up-to-date repository of interface components based on examples from the world of design systems, designed to be a reference for anyone building user interfaces.

component.gallery 2.0 is now live 🎉

🚀 Built with Astro
🖼️ 2,400+ component images
📊 Charts!
🔎 Improved search
🌒 Better dark mode

…and much more