Sidewalken

Marcin Wichary’s deep dive into the engraving font Gorton is one of the most beautiful things I’ve seen on the internet in ages. Even if you’re not a font person — I certainly am not — you’ll find this fascinating — and so gorgeously illustrated with hundreds of images and videos of the font in action.

It’s amazing to think that Trump has been in power for just over a month. So much damage in so little time. I’d love to see more reporting on the actual on-the-ground human effects of Trump and Musk’s actions rather than the focus on what they say and do and deep thought about their motivations. I fear the next six months is going to cause untold psychological damage to millions of Americans. And non-Americans too, of course.

The Gene Hackman story is one of those that I’d like to be able to right-click on in my browser and chose an option like “Show me no more about this” and an AI-powered VPN would work out what that meant and filter all my incoming internet traffic to remove any mention of the investigation into he and his wife’s cause of death. More than not wanting to know, I want to not know. Determining a cause of death for anyone is important, but it’s a private matter, not a public one.

Oscars coming up – my only hopes are for Anora to pick up at least one and for Timothée to get best actor for his portrayal of Bob Dylan. I only wish they’d shown more of Dylan’s humour, whimsy and playfulness instead of the narrow “kind of an asshole” side.