tante
The Times New Resistance font is a work of art.
https://www.abbyhaddican.com/times-new-resistance
Times New Resistance — Abby Haddican

Times New Resistance is a font that autocorrects the autocrats. Download, distribute, disrupt! Free, just like America used to be.

Abby Haddican
Feb 24 at 11:54amWeb
Show threadThorsten RochelmeyerFeb 24
@tante Ich möchte eine angepasste Variante davon gerne bei der Tagesschau und anderen Medien installieren. Das würde helfen, den öffentlichen Diskurs endlich auf das erforderliche Niveau zu heben.
Show threadMarmly OwlFeb 24
@tante This is pretty good. By which I mean Alex Pretti was murdered by ICE Renee Good was murdered by ICE.
Show threadAl & Val's Modern HomesteadingFeb 24
@tante It''s like a Word Lie Detector. I wish SOMEONE could inject this into "Truth Social", and "X" and every other reich wing blog, don't YOU?
Show thread:ulfr:Feb 24

@tante How it works
Times New Resistance autocorrects specific words as they are typed.

That's what it does, but how does it work? :)

My best guess is, a boatload of custom ligatures to, you know, make certain glyph combinations more readable and visually pleasant. Chef's kiss!

Show threadbeaiouns Feb 24
@ulfr @tante yeah I didn't even realize you could so stuff like this in a font file, would love to hear some of the technical details as well, this is really cool and opens up a lot of possibilities
Show threadtanteFeb 24
@beaiouns @ulfr it's called ligatures. A ligatures is a symbol in a font that replaces other symbols being put next to one another. It's intended to be able to design pretty "ff" or so, but this experiment really went with it ;)
Show thread:ulfr:Feb 24
@tante Thanks for confirming! In my eyes this was the only portable way for a font to pull off a stunt like that, didn't get to check right away. Appreciate the elegance, too! @beaiouns
Show threadPeter MakholmFeb 24

@ulfr @tante If I understand correctly, True Type Fonts have included a specialised but Turing complete virtual machine for ages.

But having the HarfBuzz font shaping engine include wasm allowing crazy stuff like addin LLM to your fonts, is a recent "innovation".

https://fuglede.github.io/llama.ttf/

llama.ttf

llama.ttf is a font file which is also a large language model and an inference engine for that model.

Show thread:ulfr:Feb 24
@pmakholm I recall TrueType bordering on bytecode for morphing glyphs, but colour me impressed re HarfBuzz / wasm :) Thanks for the heads-up, I really have some catching up to do :)
Show threadChrisFeb 24
@tante I spy an infinite loop of 'Kristi Noem killed a puppy'. still worth it.
Show thread:ulfr:Feb 24
@ASprinkleofSage Internally, it's not a replacement, but a mapping of certain input patterns to specific visual representations, so it cannot loop :) Unless you screenshot, print, or read it, the conversion is lossless and transient. Choose another font for select text and the magic stops
Show threadnestFeb 24

@tante

it says it's under GNU GPL but i don't see a link to the source code.

Show threadAndrewFeb 25

@nest @tante URW++ never released any for the nimbus fonts, that is if there’s anything that can be considered “source code” for a font.

Nimbus fonts are also available under the OFL. Surprised they didn’t go with that.

Show threadHansFeb 24

@tante nice :)

Need a fork for #Southafrica.

Malema - self serving wannabe revolutionary
Zuma - self seving wannabe king

Show threadJoan of Contention 😷Feb 24

@tante This is beautiful.

I once installed a browser extension that allowed me to replace words and phrases with my own.

After a while using various different browsers, I'd forgotten I'd installed it, and couldn't contain my joy when I saw the humanity in news media language and reporting here in Ireland and in the UK.

Then, I remembered that I had replaced "migrants" with "people," checked the same web pages on a different browser, and was sad again.

Show threadTamaraPNWFeb 24
@tante this is awesome!