I suspect this is not new but it's nice:

http://endless.horse/

Very effective contrast of corporate and vernacular #typography here:

I would go so far as to suggest that the time I spend administering my personal server is less than the time many friends spend fighting with updates, errors and charging issues on their Smart-Phones and proprietary PCs.

Funny that so many people administer their own routers at home without making a big deal of it. But running a bog-standard "server" is considered some kind of near-impossible genius-level feat.

Communities around "craft" tend to be more convivial than those around "art". The former involve a lot of sharing and encouragement while the latter has more competition and posturing.

This story¹ about people being tricked into working for a fake design agency seems to underscore both the outright fraud in the case, as well as how much of modern work is not actually productive but a kind of "serious business" performativity.

1. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-60387324

Does anyone know if it's possible to change the name of Alexa, Siri or Google robot speaker to a totally custom name?

Then you could say "Hey Oligarch!" when you want to beg the machine to play music or whatnot.

@n8 I looked up the wake-words for Alexa and apparently the product-dev teams recognized the potential for ironic, poetic criticism via alternative names and limited the alternatives to a set of a dozen PR-friendly options. So while it's technically possible, it seems you won't hear "hey shithead", "hey greedy" or "earth destroyer".