“But it was [Tré Seals’s] typeface ‘Ruby,’ named in honor of Ruby Bridges, the
first child to integrate a previously all-white elementary school in the South,
that grabbed my attention. Ruby is Vocal Type Co.’s reclaiming of
ATF ’s Jim Crow.”
Sarah K. Kramer ,
J for Jim Crow
(The Believer ,
December 15, 2021 )
“To love a book is to constantly interrogate it. … Every time you pick up a book
and it is set in another world, written long before some social changes have
been made, you have to ask yourself whether or not it is problematic that the
orcs are a certain color, or why the villain is disabled.”
posted 3/28/2021 8:22pm ∞
“While not entirely free of bias — opportunities for discrimination by postal
workers and Sears employees were still possible — the Sears ordering process was
essentially a blind retail transaction, a screen placed between the store and
black customers.”
posted 2/19/2020 8:18pm ∞
“Ironically, the Times reports that Crossover’s own employees so resented the
company’s intrusive monitoring of them (as they created and sold intrusive
monitoring tools) that Crossover hemorrhaged employees and struggled to hire
replacements. Eventually, Crossover had to turn off its most intrusive features
so that it could keep the employees needed to make and sell its bossware
product.”
posted 12/17/2022 3:19pm ∞
“They didn’t give a shit about journalism; they just wanted prime real estate
that they could develop. And news organizations had it in the form of buildings
in the middle of town. So financiers squeezed the news orgs until there was no
money to be squeezed and then they hung them out to dry.”
posted 12/7/2022 8:28pm ∞