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TIL: »Specific typographic rules have been developed for each language for centuries, but in recent decades, especially due to globalisation and the unification of software tools, they have been disregarded. The international project of a typographic proofreader for European languages will preserve these rules as an expression of European cultural diversity for future generations.«
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I’m unreasonably fucking pissed.
An r/me_irlgbt moderator banned me, and is now accusing me of being an A.I. … … … because I use fucking emdashes and ellipses.
#typography #AI #nightmaretimeline

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #PositiveVibrations
Luciano:
🎵 Man of Jah Order
#Luciano
https://open.spotify.com/track/6TYVqRcrXKiLJBk2eWFBPY

Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
The new Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite is crazy accurate. It can measure ocean altimetry to a mm, imaging internal waves and small sub eddies (rotating mixing zones). Tiny changes in height happen when water swirls (try it in a sink) with greater height at the edges due to centripetal force. These may be even more important for temperature &a…

WILLIAM JAMES PRIZE: CALL FOR PAPERS
https://ift.tt/TPGjrkm
updated: Monday, June 2, 2025 - 2:33pmfull name / name of organization: William James Studies /…
via Input 4 RELCFP https://

Real-Time AI-Driven Pipeline for Automated Medical Study Content Generation in Low-Resource Settings: A Kenyan Case Study
Emmanuel Korir, Eugene Wechuli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05212

Real-Time AI-Driven Pipeline for Automated Medical Study Content Generation in Low-Resource Settings: A Kenyan Case Study
Juvenotes is a real-time AI-driven pipeline that automates the transformation of academic documents into structured exam-style question banks, optimized for low-resource medical education settings in Kenya. The system combines Azure Document Intelligence for OCR and Azure AI Foundry (OpenAI o3-mini) for question and answer generation in a microservices architecture, with a Vue/TypeScript frontend and AdonisJS backend. Mobile-first design, bandwidth-sensitive interfaces, institutional tagging, a…

🛠️ Maintains #React-based #ink terminal UI while core engine gets performance boost
🔄 Current #TypeScript version continues receiving bugfixes during transition period
📦 Available now vi…

AI Slop is destroying our shared objective reality. John Oliver reports.
#ai #llm

Stadt sperrt Fußgängerzone für Autos. 🤦
https://www.saechsische.de/lokales/dresden/sperrung-fuer-autos-und-lkw-tiefgarage-unter-prager-strasse-in-dresden-einsturzgefaehrdet-4N…

Tiefgarage unter der Prager Straße in Dresden ist einsturzgefährdet
Entlang der Prager Zeile in Dresden dürfen keine Autos und Lkw mehr fahren. Die unterirdische Anlage ist einsturzgefährdet.

»Mit DTP lässt sich nur effizient und mit guter typographischer Qualität produzieren, wenn gelernte Typografen an den Geräten arbeiten.«
Aus: Günter Schmitt – Schriftsetzer Typograf (AT Verlag, 1990)
#typografie #technikgeschichte