: Boycotting NYT today, turned to Google News, which gets better with use. Found this by Jonny Lieberman. Spoiler: EVs use less petroleum than internal combustion cars after a max of two years. Even SUVs. And after that it's up to the power plants. motortrend.com/features/truth…

🧳If you need a reason never to check a bag again, look at “tweets and replies” at British Airways. (Cc. Brian Ng)

: Thank you Rep-Elect Luna (Anna Paulina Luna) for stopping the start of Congress and exposing the GOP as a quarrelling group of losers. If you are ever sworn in, enjoy your last term! We’ll find someone in ’24 who will actually do something for the people of our district, FL-13.

: Alexandra Petri considers the state department’s choice of Calibri (Luc de Groot) as it’s go-to text font. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/…

: Earth to SpaceX. Stop throttling Starlink in Ukraine! The people there are trying to defend themselves from a foreign invasion. More than 7,000 civilians have been killed so far, according to the UN. The survivors need your internet! Cc: Elon Musk SpaceX Starlink 🛰 Commentary

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Loche Lo Celso, Fernanda Cozzi, and Rodrigo Saiani explain the influence of place and culture on type design. Saiani sums it up: “Trends point toward expression, stemming from knowing what you stand for and not being shy about it.” typenetwork.com/articles/voice… Type Network

Yeniden yanyana onlar… Once again reunited…

: FEVZI YAZICI IS FREE! He was locked up by the Turkish regime for his work at Zaman, now shuttered. 6 years ago. In jail he drew an exuberant and original typeface, named for Firdevs, his wife. Buy a font! The foundry's proceeds go to Fevzi. store.typenetwork.com/.../kernsandc.…

: Customer service is not improving with AI, or I am getting crankier, or both. Case in point, americanair told me my mileage number was wrong. Yet I still log into the app and website with 6*****4, the number they gave me 40+ years ago when they started the “Aadvantage” program

: Tip to Donald J. Trump. New nickname for DeSantis. Ron Sargassum sun-sentinel.com/news/environme…

: Dan Rhatigan Dan Rhatigan launches Bijou Type. Love all-caps Ringold, with 5 juicy styles. Inspired by Letraset-fueled men's magazines of the 70s (themselves inspired by racy men's adventure magazines of the 50s. Type Network typenetwork.com/articles/dan-r…

. . . I was pushed outside to a bunch of TV cameras. Then one of the reporters pushed a big mike with a foam cover into may face. He said, "Dan Rather, CBS News." And I was on! _ _ _ pbs.org/.../movement-a… Clip starts at minute 10. The whole story: rogerblack.com/blog/post/my_1…

“Big. Bold. The opposite of Helvetica! Giza from Font Bureau is, for me, the quintessential slab serif typeface. It has the core characteristics of the great Egyptians.” — Roger Black See the picks from the rest of the TN team here: buff.ly/3Zr44ed

: The Moratorium demonstrations, the Vietnam protests of 1969, are recounted in a doc on PBS tonight. David Hawk was a key player. He got me involved that April in the opening bell of protests against Nixon. The doc: pbs.org/wgbh/americane… My 15 minutes: rogerblack.com/blog/post/my_1…

Tennessee secedes from sanity, by Lucian K Truscott IV open.substack.com/pub/luciantrus…

“Margaret Thatcher didn't laugh like that. Did she? Did she laugh? google.com/search?client=…

Take Five: Trump's tariff flip-flops  - reuters.com/business/take-…

”The Trump administration on Friday abruptly moved to restore thousands of international students’ ability to study in the United States legally” nytimes.com/live/2025/04/2…

The Big Bend Sentinel gets deserved recognition on the CBS Evening News. cbsnews.com/video/tiny-tow…