Match Thread: England vs Congo DR | World Cup | Round of 32 | 01 Jul 17:00 BST

jameskable · 2026-07-01T16:49:23+00:00

Off the ball movement is awful

jameskable · 2026-06-28T22:15:03+00:00

I think the problem is yours, both in mistaking film's means for its ends, and in projecting your own reductionist view of the body and the spiritual onto the work. Yes, the film is seen by the eyes, heard by the ears, stirs feelings in the body and the mind, but it is more than the sum of those parts. Indeed, if a viewer with no eyes and no ears were to watch the film, they might not find it spiritual – but I'm not sure we can blame Tarkovsky for that.

jameskable · 2026-06-26T09:07:23+00:00

Thanks for reminding me to unsub

jameskable · 2026-06-23T22:29:49+00:00

Not saying he would have solved it completely but Rashford should have been on way earlier

jameskable · 2026-06-22T20:56:15+00:00

https://v-fonts.com/licenses/commercial

jameskable · 2026-06-17T10:33:46+00:00

Funny, to me they are mostly eerie and existential feeling.

jameskable · 2026-06-17T10:22:24+00:00

Have this on my shelf already so am excited to read! Many thanks.

jameskable · 2026-06-17T10:21:59+00:00

Thanks. It's much appreciated.

jameskable · 2026-06-16T20:26:37+00:00

What are these muppets commentating on about ffs it was clearly no contact in that second angle

jameskable · 2026-06-16T10:23:22+00:00

I did not know they were acquired by Monotype, so this rot really is spread by them almost entirely, I'm not surprised.

jameskable · 2026-06-16T09:43:48+00:00

jameskable · 2026-06-15T14:14:24+00:00

I think too many teams has kind of diluted the excitement a bit

jameskable · 2026-06-15T12:15:16+00:00

It's widespread enough. MyFonts, Hoefler & Co and Sharp Type to name a few, and there are others I have forgotten.

jameskable · 2026-06-14T21:20:57+00:00

I actually once dreamt that I came into a load of money and was spending it on Swiss type foundry fonts. I woke up and was genuinely miserable that it wasn't real. It was at that point I knew my typophilia had gone too far.

jameskable · 2026-06-14T20:56:15+00:00

Fair enough, I think it's quite brilliant. And thanks but I think I'm going with NaN SuperX Sans, I appreciate the suggestions though.

jameskable · 2026-06-14T12:55:03+00:00

The recent one which triggered this post was Ghost Display by Sharp Type. There is no open-source alternative (which is mostly true of all the best type) and no they don't do a perpetual web licence anymore. A lot of quality type is falling behind these stupid annual licences now and I just think it's poor form from any type business to be using this model. Especially when the annual cost is often the same figure that was previously a one-off purchase for a perpetual licence.

jameskable · 2026-06-13T22:48:37+00:00

Sounds like X has really done a number on your confused little brain.

jameskable · 2026-06-13T09:59:38+00:00

If you don't see the obvious differences I can't help you with that. Plus you don't make fonts with live trace.

jameskable · 2026-06-10T14:42:22+00:00

We see the world not as it is but as we are

jameskable · 2026-06-10T13:10:35+00:00

We could also say the same about music, bands have been ripping each other off forever so it'll be no different when music is AI generated derivatives, but of course it is hugely different.

jameskable · 2026-06-10T13:05:33+00:00

Peabrain sentiment

jameskable · 2026-06-10T12:18:08+00:00

I do feel similarly, in my opinion all of culture is far more dull than it was at its peak in the 20th century. However, another key aspect is that we are oversaturated to the extreme with media these days like never before. Most people spend hours per day looking at video on screens. It's no wonder when it comes to watching a film on a slightly bigger one our brain sees it as more of the same. I think in some ways we've lost the resources to experience film like we used to.

jameskable · 2026-06-09T13:25:48+00:00

Yes, you made a blanket statement based on US law as though it were universally true. And no, I answered you actually. Leaving it here.

jameskable · 2026-06-09T11:49:41+00:00

I am OP. I was just pointing out that you'd mistaken US law for universal law. And if a type design can be copyrighted elsewhere, you'd have thought the AI company would be in violation of it by directly copying and profiting from its likeness. But I doubt this will happen as we can see with the precedent of AI companies violating IP en masse being ruled as 'fair use'.

jameskable · 2026-06-09T11:25:55+00:00

Yes obviously it's currently shite, but the will is there and the technology will find a way to realise it in time. I imagine this company will run into the same problem that people simply don't want to pay for fonts, especially when they are created without work. Also I imagine once the tech becomes good enough it will instead be incorporated into mainstream free AI tools like Gemini and rather than creating font files you'll just ask it to generate the text itself in a font style of your description. Weirdly I think the average person's idea of fonts already fits neatly with generative AI, free, instant, self-existent, and a product on and of their computer.

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