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  • inlandempireOPMtoArt & Design•From human hands. - Mass-Driver type foundry explains why they don't use ai in their processes
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    Excerpt

    The letters we write with are not abstract shapes. They are the result of a millennia-long process of evolution. A baton, passed down through a hundred generations, and carrying with it the influence of every one of them.

    One day, three and a half thousand years ago, someone scratched a picture into the sandstone of the mine where they worked. Maybe it was one of those slow, hot days in late summer, or perhaps the wind was blowing grit around outside. Maybe they listened to the clink of their chisel on the rocks, to its echo over the voices of their friends. The picture they carved was a simple sketch of an ox’s head — maybe their own animal, waiting for them back home. Did they know people would still talk about it today?

    The word for ox, in their language, was aleph, and the picture represented the first sound of that word, a. Between then and now, countless other hands changed the shape of that ox-head mark as they wrote it in their own way, until it became unrecognisable, the animal all but forgotten. But the letter remains: it is A.

    In the typeface you’re reading now, the shape of A is not symmetrical. Its left side and crossbar are thin, while its right side is thick, and its ‘feet’ are widened into serifs. This too was someone’s work, long ago in that chain of evolution.

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  • inlandempireOPtoFrance•How StreetPress Became France’s Far-Right Investigations EngineFrançais
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    Article en Anglais de Global Investigative Journalism Network qui encense Streetpress:

    "Comment StreetPress est devenu le moteur d’enquêtes sur l’extrême droite en France

    À l’approche des élections législatives anticipées en France en juin 2024, le média en ligne StreetPress a publié une série d’enquêtes explosives sur des candidats du Rassemblement national (RN), parti d’extrême droite. En mettant au jour des propos racistes, des liens avec des groupes extrémistes et d’autres polémiques, ces reportages ont finalement conduit plusieurs candidats à se retirer de la course. Ces révélations ont constitué l’un des faits marquants de la campagne médiatique.

    Pour une petite rédaction indépendante et combative, dotée d’un budget annuel de 1,5 million d’euros (1,65 million de dollars) et d’une équipe de seulement 14 personnes à l’époque (effectif porté depuis à 24), ce fut un véritable coup d’éclat. Mais au cours des seize dernières années, ce média basé à Paris s’est discrètement forgé une réputation pour sa capacité à rivaliser avec bien plus grand que lui, notamment grâce à sa couverture sans concession de l’extrême droite française.

    […]"

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