mastodon 4.6.9Personal account of co-founder of @TiroTypeworks@typo.social likely to consist mostly of photographs, dogs, and coffee, with occasional car stuff, a smattering of books, and a bit of religion. Follow the official Tiro Typeworks account for the hardcore typography, palaeography, grammatology, etc.
#Espresso #Dogs #Photography #Books #AutomotiveDesign #EasternChristianity #UkrainianCatholic
‘Every time any of LinkedIn’s one billion users visits linkedin.com, hidden code searches their computer for installed software, collects the results, and transmits them to LinkedIn’s servers and to third-party companies including an American-Israeli cybersecurity firm. The user is never asked. Never told. LinkedIn’s privacy policy does not mention it.’
I predict the speed of boredom will ultimately exceed the speed of AI generation. People will get bored of what they are making even while the prompt is still being processed.
Site of Fort Kamloops, at the confluence of the Thompson and North Thompson Rivers, in the territory of the Tk’emlúps te Secwepemc nation.
Decided to move my personal Mastodon account over here, since most of the people following it on fosstodon were typo folk anyway.
The process seems to have improved since I last considered the move.
Follow both accounts to watch me regularly get confused over which one I am posting in.
My longterm plan for the coming weeks was to fly to the UK, attend the WAVE conference at Cambridge, meet up with Fiona in London to do some research together, see friends and family, then go to Leiden and Den Haag, meet more friends and this year’s KABK students, visit the Louwman car museum, and after take a road trip through Belgium and into France, spending Easter at Bruges, and making pilgrimages to the Menin Gate and the Canadian memorial at Vimy. I was really looking forward to it.
Thanks to the new UK passport requirements for dual citizens, which I wasn’t able to fulfil in time for the trip, I have had to cancel it all. Instead, I will be getting into my car and heading towards the Rockies. I will spend Easter at Calgary, celebrated Bruges of the West. 😛
I decided to follow Formula 1 racing this year, for the first time in a long while, so have been watching recent episodes of the ‘Drive to Survive’ series to get familiar with the returning teams and drivers. I understand how focusing on the team principals and drivers makes for compelling narrative structuring, but what I’d really like to watch is a nerdy companion series in which engineers talking about wind tunnel testing and strategies for managing the dual power sources in the new hybrid cars.
Was about to boost this from the Tiro account, but then realised this is a good fit for the personal account’s stated interest in #AutomotiveDesign
Turns out my Proustian involuntary memory trigger is a 1980s Quebec pop song overheard in a butcher shop.
Interview with Ferrari designer Andrea Militello.
Ooh! A new Tedeschi Trucks album, just in time for my road trip. The super hero artwork by comic artist Marc Sasso is hilarious.
@scott@typo.social The last thing I need is to have to carry around an extra finger in order to lock my devices. I mean, where would I even get one? Are people selling fingers? Or do I have to DIY this? 🔪👇
Playing with AI to get a few bars of thematically relevant music for the intro to a video about script and language politics during the breakup of the Soviet Union, and I have accidentally made two disturbingly catchy Russian nationalist synth pop anthems.