Stephen Coles
(he/him) Editorial Director & Associate Curator at @letterformarchive.org in San Francisco. Cofounder of @fontsinuse.com & @typographica.org.
Primarily on Mastodon: mstdn.party/@stewf
https://stephencoles.org
End the genocide. Cease fire now!
- #Oakland is not just underrated, it’s one of the most beautiful & livable cities in the world. @laureola.bsky.social & I spent the day downtown where we witnessed the grand reopening of The Henry J. Kaiser Center for the Arts. Our city’s auditorium was built in 1915 as a civic arena and theater.
- Reposted by Stephen ColesAlso! The Bay had me on to talk about CCA's closure. This team does such audio magic: we hear from a current BFA student just starting his second semester, I talk about the ripple effects on the art community, and we give the school the respect our mayor did not. www.kqed.org/news/1207045...
- It’s a pretty great night when I get to bump fists with both Lateefah Simon and Sundra Manning at the mighty Paramount Theatre. #Oakland #LivingJazz #SlyStone
- Do you need another reason to cancel Spotify? Glad I never signed up and then felt locked in. I see how other people got there, but there isn’t really an excuse to stick around now.
- Another reason to boycott Amazon. If you haven’t heard, they are scraping indie shop data and using AI agents to purchase those products through Amazon’s shop. www.forbes.com/sites/johnko...
- Bookshop.org is one of the rare great things to happen to the internet in the last decade.
- Reposted by Stephen ColesThe Flickr album of my favorite signs just passed 100: www.flickr.com/photos/stewf... Here’s the map view: www.flickr.com/photos/stewf... As always, Flickr remains the best place to store, organize, and share photos. #Signs #Lettering #Photography #Flickr
- So far, the best corporate statement on AI is @buttondown.com’s: buttondown.com/blog/generat...
- Reposted by Stephen Colesthis is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will
- Seen on the back of a tanker truck on the road yesterday. I am still puzzled.
- Reposted by Stephen ColesWhile Amazon is investing billions of dollars to expand AI, independent bookstores are hosting community events, personally recommending books to readers, and providing a space that is safe and welcoming during a time when we need them most. Never underestimate the power of a local bookstore.
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- Nearly 20 years ago, after I first moved to SF, I had no idea what I was looking at as I posed in front of this rad shop window. Pleased to hear that MAC (Modern Appealing Clothing) was just named among the 50 Best Clothing Companies by the New York Times. The store opened in 1980. flic.kr/p/2nTsin
- I could watch a whole season of David Byrne talking music. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MEj...
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- Who is the most influential person in your community or industry, but doesn’t post on social media?
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- Reposted by Stephen ColesDemocratic party leadership has been on autopilot for ten years, they weren't losing to fascism, fascism isn't popular enough for them to lose to fascism, they were allowing it to fill the void where their leadership should have been. Tonight we're seeing that we have other options. They should too.
- Reposted by Stephen ColesTonight's even more proof the mainstream reporters who are still on Twitter are suffering from a brain problem akin Havana Syndrome that is preventing them from accurately doing their jobs. They are being cooked alive by a snuff-focused apartheid algorithm.
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- “Automakers aren't doing a good enough job of convincing consumers that EVs can have the same longevity as an old 1992 Honda Accord.” And lower maintenance costs overall! Maybe except for tires?
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- If you must use ChatGPT to look something up (you probably don’t), ask it to “always provide citations with answers”. This setting is saved for future chats. Then, at least, you can check the sources, the sources get credit for the content ChatGPT stole.
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- @cyd.social is such a nifty tool. It’s rad to watch its creators dig into the details. Even radder to witness a team of hackers get together and build something so antithetical to corporate tech.
