Fernando Mateus

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A book bench near the city library of Zaporizhzhia in Ukraine.

📷 Matilda Gibson

*edit: fixed city's name

#Art

I wouldn't say that I enjoy these stories but I will say they certainly encourage me NOT to let "AI" anywhere anything I consider to be sensitive and/or valuable

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/claude-powered-ai-coding-agent-deletes-entire-company-database-in-9-seconds-backups-zapped-after-cursor-tool-powered-by-anthropics-claude-goes-rogue

Claude-powered AI coding agent deletes entire company database in 9 seconds — backups zapped, after Cursor tool powered by Anthropic's Claude goes rogue

PocketOS founder blames ‘Cursor running Anthropic's flagship Claude Opus 4.6’ plus Railway’s infrastructure for data disaster.

Tom's Hardware

RE: https://mastodon.social/@BasicAppleGuy/116477149080866162

I’m gonna just call it PearBook 🤗 🍐

A free and open source vector editing tool that looks great. Sure, Affinity is now free to everyone, but tools like Graphite will work well if you want to get away from corporate software, for example.

https://graphite.art/

Free online vector editor & procedural design tool

Open source free software. A vector graphics creativity suite with a clean, intuitive interface. Opens instantly (no signup) and runs locally in a browser. Exports SVG, PNG, JPG.

Graphite

Introducing Beeswacks! Our brand new vintage-esque, display sans-serif based on a handful of letters found on an old box of candles made by Columbia Wax Works in New York.

Available now, individually, or join our Secret Club™ for all of our fonts + extra perks
✌️✨

https://simplebits.shop/products/beeswacks

Pica, a new (to me) font management app for Mac OS by Josh Puckett looks awesome. Especially the feature to drop in an image and see all of your font samples next to it (for font searching during logo design).

https://pica.joshpuckett.me/

(Unfortunately, seems to require Tahoe right now)

Pica, a MacOS font management app

A better way to manage your fonts

Pica
The drawing created by Vincent L'Epée for the satirical French-speaking Swiss magazine Vigousse "Trump at the UN: a delirious speech" has won the Swiss cartoon award.

📢 New Essay:

"What if the exhaustion everybody feels isn't a moral failure but the completely rational response to being made responsible for an ecosystem of objects that never stop asking?"

https://www.terrygodier.com/the-last-quiet-thing

The Last Quiet Thing

Your possessions came alive. Now they won't stop talking.

Terry Godier

A little longer than expected, but iCandy Beta 2 is now available on TestFlight!

- Support for macOS 15 - Sequoia
- Support for the new .icon format
- Open a .icon from iCandy, make and save changes and update in iCandy.
- Hopefully Squashed a particularly tricky crash while importing 🤞
- Includes sample Icon Set
- Improvements to importing
- New Author Panel appears when viewing an icon set with a hidden inspector.
- A fair few other minor tweaks and refinements.

https://testflight.apple.com/join/KQdyDRsj

AI evangelists might be trying harder than Jehovah’s Witnesses at this point.