Stephen Coles
@stewf.com
(he/him) Editorial Director & Associate Curator at @letterformarchive.org in San Francisco. Cofounder of @fontsinuse.com & @typographica.org.
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End the genocide. Cease fire now!
Primarily on Mastodon: https://mstdn.party/@stewf
https://stephencoles.org
End the genocide. Cease fire now!
With a proper search engine you have some sense of the recipe’s source. ChatGPT is just chewed up and regurgitated data, with no citation unless you explicitly ask. Even if you don’t care about the way it steals content from real people, it’s an unreliable delivery mechanism.
November 26, 2025 at 4:26 PM
With a proper search engine you have some sense of the recipe’s source. ChatGPT is just chewed up and regurgitated data, with no citation unless you explicitly ask. Even if you don’t care about the way it steals content from real people, it’s an unreliable delivery mechanism.
I guess my concern is that the longer you dedicate yourself to a particular platform, the more locked in you become. And what is portable now may not be in the future. Substack, like most corps, has shown signs they aren’t particularly dedicated to open protocols or the open web.
November 16, 2025 at 7:08 PM
I guess my concern is that the longer you dedicate yourself to a particular platform, the more locked in you become. And what is portable now may not be in the future. Substack, like most corps, has shown signs they aren’t particularly dedicated to open protocols or the open web.
It’s on the About page of his website: www.gelliottmorris.com/about (You gotta scroll down near the bottom.)
I understand that Elliot sees Substack as core to his success, but I worry that reliance on it risks his true independence. I just made a direct donation.
I understand that Elliot sees Substack as core to his success, but I worry that reliance on it risks his true independence. I just made a direct donation.
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November 16, 2025 at 5:30 PM
It’s on the About page of his website: www.gelliottmorris.com/about (You gotta scroll down near the bottom.)
I understand that Elliot sees Substack as core to his success, but I worry that reliance on it risks his true independence. I just made a direct donation.
I understand that Elliot sees Substack as core to his success, but I worry that reliance on it risks his true independence. I just made a direct donation.
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November 16, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Yowza! Did you know it was coming and plan a trip, or was this a spontaneous drive East?
November 12, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Yowza! Did you know it was coming and plan a trip, or was this a spontaneous drive East?
Here is an audio link that is not Spotify. pod.link/1558483834/e...
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November 11, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Here is an audio link that is not Spotify. pod.link/1558483834/e...
Shh, don’t remind them it’s there! Need more menu space for AI features.
November 1, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Shh, don’t remind them it’s there! Need more menu space for AI features.
And you retain some semblance of the open web (unlike ChatGPT’s new browser: www.anildash.com/2025/10/22/a...).
ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
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October 25, 2025 at 6:02 AM
And you retain some semblance of the open web (unlike ChatGPT’s new browser: www.anildash.com/2025/10/22/a...).
To me, these people are so much cooler than whoever is at the top of the AI heap, or the makers of the hottest app. I’d be far more starstruck to run into Lockdown Systems than any of those stars.
October 23, 2025 at 5:38 AM
To me, these people are so much cooler than whoever is at the top of the AI heap, or the makers of the hottest app. I’d be far more starstruck to run into Lockdown Systems than any of those stars.