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@vanderZwan@vis.social
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Wrote the loom viewer at LinnarssonLab, now at Primity Bio. he/they

A like from me usually implies "I would have boosted this but I don't think it's quite appropriate for the instance I'm on".

Profile photo description: a crop of an outdoor group photo, zoomed in on the face of a man of mixed Asian-European ethnicity with black hair, a beard and a moustache, wearing red-tinted color-blindness correcting glasses.

Job4d ago
Greenpeace International4d ago

You spill someone’s drink, you buy them another.

You break a window, you pay for it.

Let’s make that true for oil and gas corporations.

Sign the Polluters Pay Pact today 👉 https://act.gp/3FccTES

#MakePollutersPay

Show threadJob4d ago

@melvian I respect that, it's your baby and you don't owe it to the world to share it if you don't want to. Also I can imagine that if you designed a font that represents you and your identity on the internet (which is what I'm reading between the lines here), that it would feel wrong to see others use it. I'm grateful that you felt ok with sharing the mono version at least :).

Maybe some day I get to enjoy writing with other fonts of your design!

Show threadJob4d ago

@melvian and now that I'm back at work I can give it a spin with real code! I guess should have expected this but it feels the same as when I read your blog (which uses Melvian Sans, right?). Meaning: it's pretty, but not distracting and takes very little effort to read. Which, you know, is literally what I do all day so that's one of the most important metrics :)

Speaking of Melvian Sans: do you also plan to release that one of these days? 👀

Show threadJob5d ago
@melvian ... ok I forgot about for over a week but I got it now!
Job5d ago
Lisa M-N6d ago

Och ännu en deprimerande grej men som förhoppningsvis ger folk den skjuts de behöver

https://showyourstripes.info/c/europe/sweden/all #ShowYourStripesDay #MerFlygskamTack

Show threadJobJun 19

@carlton @benjaoming "Thus, the Israeli provides the American Jew with a double, contradictory image – the virile superman, and the potential Holocaust victim – both of whose components are far from reality."

I'm not a psychologist but my impression is that the most self-destructive personality disorders tend to include internalizing this combo of "I'm both superhuman and the worlds biggest victim." I immediately get wary when someone appears to think of themselves that way.

JobJun 17
Chu 朱Jun 17

Combating devices can be hard, especially with kids just old enough to use them.
Two small victories over here this week.

1) 10 asked to play with sidewalk chalk, 7 was excited to join in. They asked to bring one walkie talkie, left the other with us, and just went out to play till we used the walkie talkie to call them back in. It was a moment of old tech for the win.

2) The computer helped with this one, but I found some matchstick puzzles online and thought 7 would be into them. I don't think I've seen a box of matches go this far before. I would just read out the equation or put down the pattern and tell them how many matches they could move to solve it. Super old tech for this one.

It's so hard sometimes especially when tech makes these moments easier to fill.

Please share with me your low tech parenting wins.

JobJun 17
Show threadAuscandocJun 17
“the US public needs to know that the routine vaccination of approximately 117 million children from 1994-2023 likely prevented around 508 million lifetime cases of illness, 32 million hospitalizations, and 1 129 000 deaths, at a net savings of $540 billion in direct costs and $2.7 trillion in societal costs” (6/6)
JobJun 16
https://dair-community.social/@timnitGebru/114692478964058745
Timnit Gebru (she/her). (@timnitGebru@dair-community.social)

Again I stand by what I said. "I can't believe I even have to talk about these people. That's how ridiculous it s." We have the equivalent of the scientologists running the field of AI with untold amounts of money and power and we're the ones who have to do point by point rebuttals of their eugenicists dreams. https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-commentary/billionaires-psychology-tech-politics-1235358129/

Distributed AI Research Community
Show threadJobJun 16

@timnitGebru "(there’s a joke that [nuclear fusion has] been 30 years away for the past 60 years)"

I tried studying physics back in the early 2000s and attended a talk about the ITER project. I recall the speaker was joking that nuclear fusion had been thirty years away for more than forty years at that point, but if we'd get this project off the ground in the next decade then maybe by 2025...

Well, it's 2025 and the ITER project is STILL STUCK IN THE PLANNING STAGE.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITER#Timeline_and_status

ITER - Wikipedia

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Show threadJob4d ago

@melvian and now that I'm back at work I can give it a spin with real code! I guess should have expected this but it feels the same as when I read your blog (which uses Melvian Sans, right?). Meaning: it's pretty, but not distracting and takes very little effort to read. Which, you know, is literally what I do all day so that's one of the most important metrics :)

Speaking of Melvian Sans: do you also plan to release that one of these days? 👀

Show threadMelvian4d ago

@vanderZwan I'm glad you like it, and that it's working well for you! Let me know if you come across any issues.  

Yes, Melvian Mono is a direct derivative of Melvian Sans, one of the main typefaces on my site (earlier this month I introduced Melvian Serif which is now used for the body text). The Melvian fonts as a whole are conceived to be specific to both exactly my personality and exactly the use cases I need, and no one else's. Personally I have loved how Melvian Sans has turned out, it's unique, unmistakably me, and interesting in all the right ways whether it's large or small. I'm glad others like it too  

So with that, Melvian Sans (or any of the other family members, like Melvian Serif) is extremely unlikely to be released, as it was designed specifically to be my personal proprietary typeface.

Melvian Mono was also going to stay exclusive to me, but I decided to release it as a retail typeface for a few reasons:

1. It was the most mature typeface in my roster, none of the other in-progress designs came close and I really needed to release something.
2. It feels different enough from Melvian Sans.
3. Unlike Melvian Sans, I've had very little use for Melvian Mono out in the public, mainly being confined to just my terminal and my code editor. It seemed a bit odd to spend all this time building this whole typeface only for me to be the only one who sees it.

Show threadMelvian4d ago
@vanderZwan I will be doing a detailed write-up at some point about the history of the Melvian fonts and how they were conceived and developed (and continue to be developed, there's a couple other variants in the works).
Show threadJob4d ago

@melvian I respect that, it's your baby and you don't owe it to the world to share it if you don't want to. Also I can imagine that if you designed a font that represents you and your identity on the internet (which is what I'm reading between the lines here), that it would feel wrong to see others use it. I'm grateful that you felt ok with sharing the mono version at least :).

Maybe some day I get to enjoy writing with other fonts of your design!