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Linotype Pilgrim @symbo1ics.bsky.social · Jul 26
Paul Rand, "Thoughts on Design":
Folio: 9 Heading (in margin): The Beautiful and the Useful Text: (laid out as free verse, while Rand is in poetic mode) Graphic design— which fulfills esthetic needs, complies with the laws of form and the exigencies of two-dimensional space; which speaks in semiotics, sans-serifs, and geometrics; which abstracts, transforms, translates, rotates, dilates, repeats, mirrors, groups, and regroups— is not good design if it is irrelevant. Graphic design— which evokes the symmetria of Vitruvius, the dynamic symmetry of Hambidge, the asymmetry of Mondrian; which is a good gestalt; which is generated by intuition or by computer, by invention or by a system of co-ordinates— is not good design if it does not co-operate as an instrument in the service of communication. Visual communications of any kind, whether persuasive or informative, from billboards to birth announcements, should be seen as the embodiment of form and function: the integration of the beautiful and the useful. In an advertisement, copy, art, and typography are seen as a living entity; each element integrally related, in harmony with the whole, and essential to the execution of the idea. Like a juggler, the designer demonstrates his skills by manipulating these ingredients in a given space. Whether this space takes the form of advertisements, periodicals, books, printed forms, packages, industrial products, signs, or TV billboards, the criteria are the same. That the separation of form and function, of concept and execution, is not likely to produce objects of esthetic value has been repeatedly demonstrated. Similarly, it has been shown that the system which regards esthetics as irrelevant, which separates the artist from his product, (continued in 2nd image) which fragments the work of the individual, which creates by committee, and which makes mincemeat of the creative process will, in the long run, diminish not only the product but the maker as well. John Dewey, commenting on the relationship between fine art and useful or technological art, says: “That many, perhaps most, of the articles and utensils made at present for use are not genuinely esthetic happens, unfortunately, to be true. But it is true for reasons that are foreign to the relation of the ‘beautiful’ and ‘useful’ as such. Wherever conditions are such as to prevent the act of production from being an experience in which the whole creature is alive and in which he possesses his living through enjoyment, the product will lack something of being esthetic. No matter how useful it is for special and limited ends, it will not be useful in the ultimate degree—that of contributing directly and liberally to an expanding and enriched life.”[1] The esthetic requirements to which Dewey refers are, it seems to me, exemplified in the work of the Shakers. Their religious beliefs provided the fertile soil in which beauty and utility could flourish. Their spiritual needs found expression in the design of fabrics, furniture, and utensils of great esthetic value. These products are a document of the simple life of the people, their asceticism, their restraint, their devotion to fine craftsmanship, and their feeling for proportion, space, and order. Ideally, beauty and utility are mutually generative. In the past, rarely was beauty an end in itself. The magnificent stained glass windows of Chartres were no less utilitarian than was the Parthenon or the Pyramid of Cheops. The function of the exterior decoration of the great Gothic cathedrals was to invite entry; the rose windows inside provided the spiritual mood. Interpreted in the light of our own experiences, this philosophy still prevails. [1. John Dewey Art as Experience, p. 26 Etherial Things] Emphasising the Dewey quote: John Dewey, commenting on the relationship between fine art and useful or technological art, says: “That many, perhaps most, of the articles and utensils made at present for use are not genuinely esthetic happens, unfortunately, to be true. But it is true for reasons that are foreign to the relation of the ‘beautiful’ and ‘useful’ as such. Wherever conditions are such as to prevent the act of production from being an experience in which the whole creature is alive and in which he possesses his living through enjoyment, the product will lack something of being esthetic. No matter how useful it is for special and limited ends, it will not be useful in the ultimate degree—that of contributing directly and liberally to an expanding and enriched life.”[1] [1. John Dewey Art as Experience, p. 26 Etherial Things]
symbo1ics.bsky.social
conjecture: Everybody's eyes go first to a different thing in this room
thisone0verhere.bsky.social Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 2h
Frank Sinatra at home. Oh would you like a cigarette? Feel free to grab one from the cigarette bowl on the cigarette table in the cigarette room
November 10, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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zbigalke.bsky.social
8 Quisling chickenshits, that's what you see in this picture.
November 10, 2025 at 9:22 AM
symbo1ics.bsky.social
concept for game, Pasta Making Simulator
November 10, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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symbo1ics.bsky.social
Damn it, the Dutch typographers know EVERYTHING
Quote by Gerrit Noordzij, "Writing is not a series of strokes, but space, divided into characteristic shapes by strokes." Gerrit's portrait is included in this image. A broad and rugged face, elderly, with receding hairline, thin rimmed glasses and an intense expression. His face from youth is expressive in its wide, generous mouth, composed expression, piercing eyes and short but flaring nose. One might guess a country lawyer rather than a typographer. Which just goes to show.
September 26, 2024 at 5:19 AM
symbo1ics.bsky.social
Hat tip @penryu.bsky.social #nix #socialism
akko.isabelroses.com used Zohran headline generator with "NIX Fixes THIS" ... @penryu responded with "please acquire a prescription for a pill for the treatment of insufficient chill" and @RosaCtrl@vivaldi.net responded with "@penryu hey! it's true though!" Nature is healing
November 10, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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dennis-chilas.bsky.social
grid work
October 27, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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jeffhorwitz.bsky.social
Meta earns $3.5 billion every six months from showing Faceboon and Instagram users 15 billion “higher legal risk” scam ad impressions a day, internal documents state.

That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators
To fine it for running scam ads.

www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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jmijin.bsky.social
Universal health care would avoid so much of this bullshit
November 10, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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cadmium-enjoyer.bsky.social
The machinery I work on built in the 80s-2000s: instructions, full parts list, assembly/exploded drawings, electrical layouts, hydraulic layout, lift points, full list of torque/pressure settings.

2020s manual: five pages of regulatory warnings and “refer to dealer”

I hate this stupid world
November 10, 2025 at 12:05 AM
symbo1ics.bsky.social
"My name is X, working alongside Y as a part of your dedicated account team. AWS just announced the availability of OpenAI's open weight models…leverage advanced AI capabilities more easily than ever before! Are you available for a call this or next week?"

No I am not

#flopSweat #aiCrash #aiFraud
November 10, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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m00psy.bsky.social
great job surely this won’t put your students and staff at a disadvantage compared to having them use their own brains
September 21, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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irisvanrooij.bsky.social
“‘The uncritical adoption of AI can lead to students not developing essential academic skills such as critical thinking and writing. If students are taught to learn through automation, without learning about how & why things work, they won’t be able to solve problems when something actually breaks’”
November 1, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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irisvanrooij.bsky.social
‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...
‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University
Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...
www.ru.nl
November 1, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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histoftech.bsky.social
“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion”
futurism.com/artificial-i...
OpenAI in Danger After Authors Suing It Gain Access to Its Internal Slack Messages
Authors and publishers, who are suing OpenAI, secured access to internal Slack messages and emails discussing the deletion of pirated books.
futurism.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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starshine.bsky.social
opted for pain before bed and decided to read the wapo editorial and uh a lot going on there but ngl pretty insane they published homeless people shouldn’t be allowed to use the subway

one of those things they’d usually dance around a bit more on
November 9, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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thebookwormturns.co.uk
November 8, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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brexitbin.bsky.social
This is weird. A Democratic Socialist with a minority background wins a historic victory in one of the world's great cities, and instead of using it as a cue to praise social democratic policies and repudiate far-right hate, the Labour minister Bridget Phillipson pretends she hasn't heard about it.
jasonreiduk.bsky.social Jason Reid @jasonreiduk.bsky.social · 5d
what is this ‘america’ you speak of?!!
November 8, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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daveyfwright.bsky.social
"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪
July 18, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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charliejgardner.bsky.social
Burning trees is not a climate solution
Drax still burning 250-year-old trees sourced from forests in Canada, experts say
Exclusive: report by Stand.earth says subsidiary of power plant received truckloads of whole logs at biomass pellet sites
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:12 AM
symbo1ics.bsky.social
"LLMs are simply not fit for purpose… very few proposed applications are both allowed to be wrong and can operate safely on untrusted input …

The gigawatt data center is [a] dead end. When AI hype-bubble bursts, they are…multi-billion-$ white elephants full of chips that are best simply turned off"
November 9, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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frankypelvis.bsky.social
“We spent 100 million dollars trying to foment a race war with AI attack ads, and now he won’t even take our calls”
November 7, 2025 at 6:26 PM
symbo1ics.bsky.social
the purpose of a [law] is what it does,

paraphrasing Stafford Beer
anodynesix.bsky.social Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 8d
"Amnesty International has documented a concerning pattern of the misuse of counter-terrorism laws to crackdown on peaceful dissent and a growing trend of targeting lawyers representing activists and political opposition groups."
harmscommitted.com Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 10d
"Ahmed Souab is facing unfounded charges [..] including 'forming a terrorist organization' and 'spreading fake news,' solely for peacefully exercising his right to freedom of expression and carrying out his professional duties as a human rights lawyer."
#Tunisia #Incarceration
November 9, 2025 at 6:40 AM
symbo1ics.bsky.social
we should boycott brands that replace anything with ai.

period.
sam.codes Samuel Colburn @sam.codes · 1d
I agreed with you at the time, but didn’t want to believe it. i’m about ready to start boycotting brands that are replacing creative roles with AI and lying about it.
November 9, 2025 at 6:33 AM
symbo1ics.bsky.social
probably need to retire the 'stable' prefix
web3isgoinggreat.com web3 is going just great @web3isgoinggreat.com · 3d
Elixir shuts down deUSD after Stream Finance halt

November 6, 2025
https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=elixir-shuts-down-deusd
Elixir shuts down deUSD after Stream Finance halt After the defi yield platform Stream Finance announced a $93 million loss, Elixir announced it would be discontinuing its deUSD synthetic stablecoin. Stream Finance owes $68 million to Elixir, and holds around $75 million deUSD. Elixir has announced that they plan to allow deUSD holders to redeem their tokens for USDC through a process that will also eliminate the risk of Stream Finance cashing out their deUSD without repaying their loan. According to Elixir, "Stream comprised of 99%+ of the lending positions (and has decided to not repay or close positions)".
November 9, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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jeffreyinsko.bsky.social
I wrote a significant chunk of my first book at a Chicago Public Library, an amazing public space where people could read books and newspapers, access the internet, or just keep warm for a while on a cold day. This is appalling.
casella.bsky.social Jake Casella Brookins @casella.bsky.social · 2d
CPL is an absolute palace to the people and these proposed cuts are abominable. Artificial austerity. Chicago folks, read this, check the links to bug the mayor and your alders—this can be fought and won.
heykellyjensen.bsky.social kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 2d
The People Want to Read: on the massive budget cuts proposed for Chicago Public Library. What's at stake and what you can do, whether or not you live in Chicago.

buttondown.com/wellsourced/...
November 8, 2025 at 10:25 PM