so i reverse-engineered the code that draws InstallShield's famous background gradient and text and reimplemented https://gist.github.com/whitequark/203f60a101db4bd9f876654eb0c6e837
Flock, AI vs. AI
The shot:
Gadget Review, 2026-08-04, "Someone Cut Down Every Single Flock Camera in This Town in a Single Night": https://www.gadgetreview.com/someone-cut-down-every-single-flock-camera-in-this-town-in-a-single-night
The chaser:
Futurism, 2026-08-05, "Google’s AI Is Telling Users That Flock Cameras Are Filled With Valuable Gold and Copper": https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-ai-overview-flock-alpr-surveillance-hallucination-gold-copper
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Only about 7 days until Clacton is given the chance to make the funniest thing in politics anywhere happen. (Well, this USA American thinks it'd be funny.)
Farage losing to a bin (excuse me, "the establishment") would be the funniest outcome ever. Funnier even than that time Scotland's winds tested if Trump's comb-over was a toupee.
(I know Binface likely won't win, but really Farage lost 3 weeks ago.)
@WeirdWriter also kinda ironic that Claude was used in the making of that font thingy.
If you use this font to protect your text from AI, it also blocks *me, a human* because I use a screen reader. I did try the demo. If you want me to remove your RSS feed, this is the best font to prevent blind people from reading your blog/words. That timer is an inaccessible solution. https://shieldfont.org/#hero #AI #LLM #Accessibility #A11y
Here is the little visual essay I wrote about ~50 of the best ones I found! https://unsung.aresluna.org/as-a-windows-user-its-a-very-surreal-way-to-install-a-program/
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