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Oooooh boy, Severance season 2 looks like it’ll be another wild ride over at Lumon Industries.

• My pal Kelli Anderson has a new pop-up book about letterforms and typographic history called Alphabet in Motion coming out. It’s five years in the making and is going to hold a very special place in my library — as it should yours. It’s already blown well-past its initial goal on Kickstarter, but do yourself a solid and get one for yourself — there’s still some Deluxe Ghost Editions left.
• It would be impossible for me not to find myself nodding along all through Paul Soulellis’ brilliant talk/essay and the simple idea of Survival by Sharing which taps into so many things I feel about publishing, archives, and what role I want my person work to play in my own story.
• Max Thalmann’s (1890–1944) stunningly beautiful black and white woodcuts of cathedrals.
• Matthew Sweet Suffers Debilitating’ Stroke, GoFundMe Launched to Help With Recovery. I met Matthew around 30 years ago at a CFNY 102.1 Toronto radio station gig and have been a fan for even longer. This is scary stuff and I hope he makes a full recovery despite the challenge.
• You know, I can’t possibly imagine how the latest bumbling comments from Adobe could possibly come back to haunt them… Adobe execs say artists need to embrace AI or get left behind.
• “You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.” A doozy of a quote from James Clear, and other thoughts and insights from Mako on generalist tendencies — Your Goal Broke the System.
• I have a copy of the original Overlooked collection, but wow, Overlooked 2.0 takes it up more than a few notches visually. Editioned prints are available here.
• Speaking of books, The Artist' Palette looks like something right up my alley. Maybe we need a version of this about printers and their squeegees?
• I think I need to adapt Penguin Random House's new AI rebuff copyright notice into something for my own publications. See also the recently launch Statement on AI training signed by authors, celebrities and other concerned professionals.
• “The process used to generate a system is the key to making it full of life.” Thoughts on Christopher Alexander’s Nature of Order. How to make living systems.
• Decorative Papers by The British Library. A very fine collection of decorative endpaper patterns from the British Library’s Mechanical Curator Collection.
• A deep-dive into potential possibilities coming in the future with Masonry in CSS.
• Birds of Canada. I miss regularly seeing Blue Jays in the backyard.