litherland
@lither.land
Design + type + text. Solidarity forever. Views are my own.📍NYC
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@lither.land
· Nov 17
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If you like specimen books, you might like this one! I’m a little biased because I had the honor of working on it, but I think it’s a genuinely cool artifact.
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get a bigger imagination
November 21, 2025 at 8:24 PM
get a bigger imagination
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there are all kinds of tiny actions, both activist and artistic, that go unseen or are purposely modest or have a narrow circumference and that does not change what they are and what effects they can have. effect is not a measure of volume. it is a measure of density
November 21, 2025 at 8:24 PM
there are all kinds of tiny actions, both activist and artistic, that go unseen or are purposely modest or have a narrow circumference and that does not change what they are and what effects they can have. effect is not a measure of volume. it is a measure of density
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We can’t make a world that works and meets anyone’s needs, even those of the wealthy, if we base our understanding of the world on nonsense—whether that nonsense is fueled by hate or a lust for power. The people with too much power and heads filled with self-sealing nonsense are a threat to us all.
November 21, 2025 at 6:05 PM
We can’t make a world that works and meets anyone’s needs, even those of the wealthy, if we base our understanding of the world on nonsense—whether that nonsense is fueled by hate or a lust for power. The people with too much power and heads filled with self-sealing nonsense are a threat to us all.
Guilty as charged 🤦♀️
(My phone autocorrected to “Susi Generic”)
(My phone autocorrected to “Susi Generic”)
If you find yourself using "sui generis" outside of an academic or legal setting - or you know, ON TV - just have a little rethink.
Mamdani handled this super gracefully, but come on.
Mamdani handled this super gracefully, but come on.
November 21, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Guilty as charged 🤦♀️
(My phone autocorrected to “Susi Generic”)
(My phone autocorrected to “Susi Generic”)
It’s all about the work.
Not so much about the self.
Not so much about the self.
November 21, 2025 at 3:50 PM
It’s all about the work.
Not so much about the self.
Not so much about the self.
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Somehow, somewhere along the way, so many people have become confused to think that the value of knowledge is in producing a product, a knowledge artifact; but the products are merely side-effects that humans generate to demonstrate the work—the work being the place where the real value resides.
November 21, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Somehow, somewhere along the way, so many people have become confused to think that the value of knowledge is in producing a product, a knowledge artifact; but the products are merely side-effects that humans generate to demonstrate the work—the work being the place where the real value resides.
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For @vox.com, @sigalsamuel.bsky.social gathered advice for those who hate how generative AI is being rolled out. @smw.bsky.social speaks to working collectively to fight against AI being used on us, not by us.
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
November 21, 2025 at 3:37 PM
For @vox.com, @sigalsamuel.bsky.social gathered advice for those who hate how generative AI is being rolled out. @smw.bsky.social speaks to working collectively to fight against AI being used on us, not by us.
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
I bet Trump blows off the meeting.
November 21, 2025 at 3:47 PM
I bet Trump blows off the meeting.
“I’ve been in this industry long enough to know that predicted futures have a pretty short lifespan.”
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The line and the stream. — ethanmarcotte.com
“Artificial intelligence is the future,” they tell me. The thing is, futures are tricky.
ethanmarcotte.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:40 PM
“I’ve been in this industry long enough to know that predicted futures have a pretty short lifespan.”
ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/the-li...
ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/the-li...
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Reconciliation without reparation is one of supremacy's greatest sabotages of the act of repair. Whenever abuse is exposed, it offers free exoneration to the abuser at the expense of the abused, and calls it redemption. It's the traditional and popular response to abuse in our supremacist society.
Leaders of a Minnesota church community didn’t report a parishioner they knew had sexually abused girls for year.
They told his victims that once sins were “washed away in the blood of reconciliation,” they could never speak of them again.
Truly chilling, from @jlussenhop.bsky.social & Andy Mannix
They told his victims that once sins were “washed away in the blood of reconciliation,” they could never speak of them again.
Truly chilling, from @jlussenhop.bsky.social & Andy Mannix
Young Girls Were Sexually Abused by a Church Member. They Were Told to Forgive and Forget.
In Minnesota, leaders of an Old Apostolic Lutheran Church community enabled a child abuser by telling his victims that once the sins were “washed away in the blood of reconciliation,” they could never...
www.propublica.org
November 20, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Reconciliation without reparation is one of supremacy's greatest sabotages of the act of repair. Whenever abuse is exposed, it offers free exoneration to the abuser at the expense of the abused, and calls it redemption. It's the traditional and popular response to abuse in our supremacist society.
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This is an *actual* example of “My views didn’t change, everyone else changed.”
This is an ordinary person doing what is morally right.
This is an ordinary person doing what is morally right.
A U.S. postal worker on Long Island is accused of trying to help a man escape from ICE custody earlier this month, according to a federal criminal complaint: https://gothamist.visitlink.me/YNagDp
US postal worker charged with breaking man out of ICE custody on Long Island
Police arrested the worker and the man she tried to free.
gothamist.visitlink.me
November 21, 2025 at 1:32 AM
This is an *actual* example of “My views didn’t change, everyone else changed.”
This is an ordinary person doing what is morally right.
This is an ordinary person doing what is morally right.
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If you’re at all interested in type history, the Stephen O. Saxe fellowship at RIT is a great opportunity to dig into one of the deepest troves of specimens & foundry documents. I’d love to see more of his collection surfaced through research. www.rit.edu/carycollecti...
#TypeDesign #TypeSpecimens
#TypeDesign #TypeSpecimens
Summer Research Fellowships | Cary Graphic Arts Collection | RIT
www.rit.edu
November 20, 2025 at 7:35 PM
If you’re at all interested in type history, the Stephen O. Saxe fellowship at RIT is a great opportunity to dig into one of the deepest troves of specimens & foundry documents. I’d love to see more of his collection surfaced through research. www.rit.edu/carycollecti...
#TypeDesign #TypeSpecimens
#TypeDesign #TypeSpecimens
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NEW — Today, Cook County became the first county in the U.S. to establish permanent funding for guaranteed income at the county level.
The Cook County Board of Commissioners approved $7.5 million for the program through its FY 2026 budget, which totals $10.12 billion.
thetriibe.com/2025/11/cook...
The Cook County Board of Commissioners approved $7.5 million for the program through its FY 2026 budget, which totals $10.12 billion.
thetriibe.com/2025/11/cook...
Cook County becomes the first county in the US to establish permanent funding for guaranteed income • The TRiiBE
On Thursday, the Cook County Board of Commissioners approved the FY 2026 budget, which includes $7.5 million to fund the county’s guaranteed basic income program.
thetriibe.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:47 PM
NEW — Today, Cook County became the first county in the U.S. to establish permanent funding for guaranteed income at the county level.
The Cook County Board of Commissioners approved $7.5 million for the program through its FY 2026 budget, which totals $10.12 billion.
thetriibe.com/2025/11/cook...
The Cook County Board of Commissioners approved $7.5 million for the program through its FY 2026 budget, which totals $10.12 billion.
thetriibe.com/2025/11/cook...
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The way the Black Panthers understood food aid as a crucial form of self defense against the capitalist machinery of the racial state remains essential to the struggle against fascism today.
November 20, 2025 at 2:42 PM
The way the Black Panthers understood food aid as a crucial form of self defense against the capitalist machinery of the racial state remains essential to the struggle against fascism today.
Ah. This also turns off categories. So your inbox is now just a big undifferentiated firehose.
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Ah. This also turns off categories. So your inbox is now just a big undifferentiated firehose.
Just a tremendous eyeroll over here.
November 20, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Just a tremendous eyeroll over here.
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If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
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also I hate that this is consistently called "scandal" rather than "illegal/unethical/indefensible behavior" or straight up "evil" idc just something that focuses on the wrongdoing rather than the talking about the wrongdoing
what a framing choice by the NYT, centering the future reputation of the terrible man
November 20, 2025 at 6:07 PM
also I hate that this is consistently called "scandal" rather than "illegal/unethical/indefensible behavior" or straight up "evil" idc just something that focuses on the wrongdoing rather than the talking about the wrongdoing
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I've been increasingly bothered by absence of will to call out bad things as bad. And harmful people as harmful.
November 20, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I've been increasingly bothered by absence of will to call out bad things as bad. And harmful people as harmful.
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finding out recently that almost all the words in the dictionary are not IP and are in fact open source/public domain was an absolute game changer for me as a writer
November 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM
finding out recently that almost all the words in the dictionary are not IP and are in fact open source/public domain was an absolute game changer for me as a writer
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listen to this king. a team with low morale is ineffective. relatedly, a team with high morale is effective. also relatedly: we are going to win
“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.”
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:06 PM
listen to this king. a team with low morale is ineffective. relatedly, a team with high morale is effective. also relatedly: we are going to win
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"By any consistent standard, if Summers is unfit to work for each of these institutions [from which he resigned], he is equally unfit to teach at our school. Harvard should not be the only institution in America where Summers remains above reproach."
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www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
The Professor and the Pedophile | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
Summers should choose the most straightforward path and resign. Should he refuse to, though, the University must cut ties with its former president to the greatest extent possible.
www.thecrimson.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:51 AM
"By any consistent standard, if Summers is unfit to work for each of these institutions [from which he resigned], he is equally unfit to teach at our school. Harvard should not be the only institution in America where Summers remains above reproach."
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www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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I tend to say this as "tech no longer cares if it's incorrect."
Like many things in tech, what tech “disruption” has actually disrupted are the reality-correction mechanisms that cause other kinds of productive activities to fail and need to be corrected, and that applies to everything from information security, to infra reliability, to harmful business models.
November 19, 2025 at 10:52 PM
I tend to say this as "tech no longer cares if it's incorrect."
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Sure. "The Grand Jury did not see the operative indictment" is the kind of fuckup where lawyers literally don't actually know what happens next because it SO fundamental a thing that it is LITERALLY possible nobody had even thought of this as a thing that could happen.
Translate for us non-law-talkers...?
November 19, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Sure. "The Grand Jury did not see the operative indictment" is the kind of fuckup where lawyers literally don't actually know what happens next because it SO fundamental a thing that it is LITERALLY possible nobody had even thought of this as a thing that could happen.