2026-10-31T13:19:57Z https://nostr.now Simon Cozens https://nostr.now/npub1vwznukhdjkv73y2ql8h08kweyk0trfyvpjptver34qk6ayjnwhfsscyegt https://typo.social/system/accounts/avatars/109/306/851/202/736/610/original/5b1cc12cd688b977.jpeg https://typo.social/system/accounts/avatars/109/306/851/202/736/610/original/5b1cc12cd688b977.jpeg https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs0ddxw2uzxdrlmtm8r4ch5jwsfuvuqmknx8p9mpp5ztvcap4s4a3szyp3c20j6ak2en6y3gru7au7emyjeavdy3sxg9dnywx5zmt5j2d6axwmtfer &#34;Christian Nationalists&#34; came to Gloucester again, so this year&#39;s sign had to be a bit less subtle.<br/> <img src="https://typo.social/system/media_attachments/files/117/139/428/345/511/627/original/4b4973fdc7ae02fc.jpg"> <br/> 2026-08-22T13:39:49Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs25sc0y2886cexe32lxpnrt9j8fykvkv47fa8ywf2t7pdhs8daarszyp3c20j6ak2en6y3gru7au7emyjeavdy3sxg9dnywx5zmt5j2d6axvnhnpp Katherine Rundell - who you should read on absolutely anything she writes about - is now writing about AI. &#34;If you set out to design from scratch a tool to facilitate authoritarian rule, it would look exactly like AI.&#34;<br/><br/><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2026/aug/08/i-hate-what-ai-is-doing-to-the-minds-and-happiness-of-the-young-katherine-rundell-on-the-view-from-the-classroom">https://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2026/aug/08/i-hate-what-ai-is-doing-to-the-minds-and-happiness-of-the-young-katherine-rundell-on-the-view-from-the-classroom</a> 2026-08-08T09:27:45Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsrdm4xel6l8jhrm5hg5erfx2274eclj2vwnpn0f7lzcvqvucccungzyp3c20j6ak2en6y3gru7au7emyjeavdy3sxg9dnywx5zmt5j2d6axdq04wx I think I&#39;m going to write a long blog article about the state of AI font generation. I don&#39;t think a lot of the typography community actually know what&#39;s going on, because there&#39;s a classic lack of communication going on not just between ML researchers and type designers, but also between Westerners (these AI font models suck!) and Chinese/Japanese (oh yeah we use those in production already). 2026-06-20T11:36:49Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs2v0lsnj69g720lzux55wruzn4vrgqzj93ehwz7xy5k5ayedc53rszyp3c20j6ak2en6y3gru7au7emyjeavdy3sxg9dnywx5zmt5j2d6axzjc5wx Tiffin has a particular language he uses to talk to flies. #catsofmastodon<br/><video controls width="100%" class="max-h-[90vh] bg-neutral-300 dark:bg-zinc-700"><source src="https://typo.social/system/media_attachments/files/116/020/306/361/169/689/original/5641b39d60f52eca.mp4"></video><br/> 2026-02-05T22:11:54Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsrzse4tu5c9cwy0u8mugpqf5jnfs6n6tq5lzfa89ygufscuyn9kegzyp3c20j6ak2en6y3gru7au7emyjeavdy3sxg9dnywx5zmt5j2d6ax229282 I need some Internet magic. I have to get in touch with a man called Rob Small, who lives on a houseboat called Rosetta. And that&#39;s all I&#39;ve got. Somewhere in the UK, possibly south west, but don&#39;t know where. Don&#39;t know anything else. 2025-07-27T19:39:53Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsx9re70pjrsatq76rty5pvv4er9j2zn5lsnszw5wqhht90naqrlhqzyp3c20j6ak2en6y3gru7au7emyjeavdy3sxg9dnywx5zmt5j2d6axvw7jrn In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsf7l5vx2sz0mmnf0tmepq5mdse9vu5pterrw6msyjg7jzc0h3a73qcc87s2'>nevent1q…87s2</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Hmm, should be scriptable if you have an asterisk in the font already... 2025-05-06T14:06:54Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsp79lu29r7mnnvfrxa6wzfjas9w5af4xsdzgrekh8rzvjjegz7fyqzyp3c20j6ak2en6y3gru7au7emyjeavdy3sxg9dnywx5zmt5j2d6ax6s5n6n In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszf0aash3zvuae7nrw4l7w08v22vv6k66lnlfudgd2wmm8eu36d2smdp3jl'>nevent1q…p3jl</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Hmm, well, there is this font idea I&#39;ve had for some time...<br/> <img src="https://typo.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/313/597/440/504/665/original/f1440c1594ea2364.jpg"> <br/> 2025-04-10T12:15:44Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsxqvzxjwhr9llwd357cpx9v68up5w5n4yhxzqqlazpjs8l0l4zwtqzyp3c20j6ak2en6y3gru7au7emyjeavdy3sxg9dnywx5zmt5j2d6ax9tj93l Kim Kyung-Hoon took this photo of a press conference by the CEOs of Nissan, Honda and Mitsubishi, and accidentally created the perfect album cover.<br/> <img src="https://typo.social/system/media_attachments/files/113/704/020/425/823/575/original/f38632074be7af12.jpg"> <br/> 2024-12-23T20:31:29Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs9cxxfsz4pdkrlchnx0gr8qz97qah20e2wur0wv857uhgjlkf34aszyp3c20j6ak2en6y3gru7au7emyjeavdy3sxg9dnywx5zmt5j2d6axummfm8 I&#39;ve always complained that checking a font&#39;s &#34;language support&#34; just by counting Unicode codepoints is unreliable and incomplete; the font has to *behave* correctly to support a language.<br/><br/>Shaperglot is my (and <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1pt8c0sqwl0l7k529098zgzhwgw0up6jjkkgnyrzn5nlesced4m8quj298y" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Google Fonts</span> (<span class="italic">npub1pt8…298y</span>)</a></span>&#39;s) response to this problem. And now it has a web interface so you can drop your fonts on and get a report on what works, what doesn&#39;t and what can be improved.<br/><br/>Try it out at <a href="https://googlefonts.github.io/shaperglot/">https://googlefonts.github.io/shaperglot/</a> (all processing is done on your local computer; nothing is uploaded.)<br/> <img src="https://typo.social/system/media_attachments/files/113/554/448/637/640/417/original/6c44a484cd6344fc.png"> <br/> 2024-11-27T10:32:10Z