@kai @gem @piper This is wholesome interaction involving good peeps I’m glad to be online and seeing. 💪🏻

@nicksherman I deliberately rewrite numbers people send me to be chaotic good. Every time.

This is a “company account” but it’s just me and I like watching #skate videos. I prefer skaters who are ... languid? Rather than powerful. Just discovered Andy Anderson. Really enjoyed this 5-minute video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=cJ_bnfIJpKM

This week, I wrote about why I love the #interview format, some practitioners who have recently hung up their microphones, and some great conversations that have stuck with me in recent months.

Thinking about this because we're soon to relaunch our own podcast. 🗣️

https://magazine.frontier.is/p/it-takes-two

“I’m not totally sure what a finished stone means to a family.” A lovely meditation on being a memorial designer: https://www.are.na/blog/the-instability-of-stone

Today’s the first time, in more than two decades of writing, I’ve directly solicited support from readers. And there are no perks! Or, rather, the perks are for everyone (as I believe they should be).

Also subbed or renewed to a bunch of publications I admire, since I don't just want support but want to be part of a flourishing independent media ecosystem.

Read more about what we think we're up to here: https://magazine.frontier.is/p/wind-beneath-our-wings

This week’s newsletter reports back from Causal Islands, a conference held here in Toronto last week that laid out visions of human-scale, companionable technology:

https://magazine.frontier.is/p/track-changes

Genuinely the best thread I've seen on Hacker News in years: "Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?"

So many delightfully niche projects!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35729232

There are so many easy moments of grace in this work. Telling kids these are THEIR books and we just take care of them for them. Telling them they don't have to be quiet; that they can help themselves to band-aids. Offering free menstrual supplies and sharps disposal in the gender neutral bathroom; letting them show me how the barcode scanner works (I am not great with it) and letting the kids do their own date-stamping. It's not perfect, it's far from perfect, but it belongs to us and I help.

“This is a show about publishing and printing. It is about trying to effect change through a modest means, through a system that is open to criticism and an alternative to capitalism." Artist Ben Kinmont’s new show in Paris:

https://www.contemporaryartdaily.com/project/ben-kinmont-at-air-de-paris-28088

#contemporaryart #publishing #diggers

Bitcoin mining is still negating most of our global efforts to clean up our roads.

According to the latest EV Outlook by the IEA, “EVs enabled a net reduction of about 80 Mt of GHG emissions” in 2022. According to Cambridge the Bitcoin network is responsible for around 70 Mt of annual carbon emissions. According to a recent article by the NYT the latter figure should be considered a very optimistic one, as considering common grid dynamics would put this figure even higher.

This week’s newsletter: “We seek meaningful relationships with others at a time when we live far apart from the people we love, when work can leave us feeling alienated, and when public discourse often has a fragmenting effect. In these conditions, our capacity for finding shared interests, for creating community based upon the acts of creation that inspire us, is all the more important.” On Brian Dillon’s new essay collection, “Affinities.” https://magazine.frontier.is/p/bringing-it-all-together

“It’s a 180 flip on other industries, where profitability is their number one,” said Mr. Awonohopay. “To us the forest is number one. We want a profit by all means. But taking care of the forest and our people come first.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/22/climate/menominee-forest-sustainable-earth-day.html

In this week’s newsletter: “We cannot face our greatest challenges, environmental or social, by remaining passive inhabitants of designed spaces or by being snobby professionals obsessed only with form-making.” A brief meditation on our shared responsibility for the built environment (with two recent essays, a great Belgian project, and a trip to the community center with my kids): https://magazine.frontier.is/p/team-building

This story, which is a perfectly New York story, is really well done. It brought up so many feelings and memories! #TheStrand #NYC #bookselling

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2023/04/12/selling-to-the-strand-a-conversation-with-larry-campbell/

@andy_matuschak Just stopping by to say, since this isn't getting traction, that I 67% agree with you on the outfits. My third choice would be this one, mostly b/c of how I imagine what the rest would look like:

I’m very happy with indieweb.social, but signal-boosting this for fellow #Canadian Mastodon users:

https://indieweb.social/@tchambers/110160464647242557

Been enjoying @jennitaur’s “Saving Time” and also dipping into interviews. This line, even out of context, is sticking with me: “I find that it’s often the things that we take for granted that hurt us the most.” Read the whole thing in Hazlitt here: https://hazlitt.net/feature/things-we-take-granted-hurt-us-most-interview-jenny-odell

If you aren't going to read the book and prefer to listen, I also enjoyed her conversation with Sam Fragoso: https://talkeasypod.com/jenny-odell/

#Typography fans and #CanadianDesign fans: Here's a great resouerce to keep any eye on

#TypeDesign #Canada #type

https://www.canadiantypography.ca/

This week, some brief thoughts on artist Katie Holten’s “The Language of Trees,” a wonderful and inspiring collection of meditations on trees, sure, but also on the world around us and the world we make together:

https://magazine.frontier.is/p/branch-library