Last 7 Reads ( 8/29/2023 )

[🎥] “Often, we try and make the pitch look and feel like something else. Maybe an old manual or a set of vintage baseball cards,”
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2023/08/matt-stevens-good-movies-as-old-books/

[🗺️] The company owns not only many of the world’s most popular fonts but also exchanges like MyFonts where font designers bring their work to market.
https://www.oneearth.org/bioregions-2023/

[🖋️] The company owns not only many of the world’s most popular fonts but also exchanges like MyFonts where font designers bring their work to market.
https://thehustle.co/where-do-fonts-come-from/

[🤖] What will happen to AI is boring old capitalism. Its staying power will come in the form of replacing competent, expensive humans with crappy, cheap robots.
https://drewdevault.com/2023/08/29/2023-08-29-AI-crap.html

[🌱] "I made a 800 square feet garden in San Francisco's Mission District. Planning started in 2015 and we finally planted in January 2017. The process involved tearing up concrete, pouring a new sidewalk, hauling in clean soil, and patiently waiting for the wet season to plant."
https://zachklein.com/Sidewalk+Garden

[🌐] "There are few, if any, legal domains where hypocrisy is as baked into the ecosystem as it is with web scraping."
https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2023/08/web-scraping-for-me-but-not-for-thee-guest-blog-post.htm

[🌲] Tiny forests have been planted across Europe, in Africa, throughout Asia and in South America, Russia and the Middle East. India has hundreds, and Japan, where it all began, has thousands.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/24/climate/tiny-forests-climate-miyawaki.html