Antonin Scalia Law School receives $50 millions from the estate of the late Judge Allison M. Rouse and Mrs. Dorothy B. Rouse. Scalia’s brand alone brought in $80 million for the school. Changing its name was a good move after all.

Michael Brice-Saddler writes in The Washington Post:

An 18-year-old from Ohio who famously inoculated himself against his mother’s wishes in December says he attributes his mother’s anti-vaccine ideology to a single source: Facebook.

Ethan Lindenberger, a high school senior, testified Tuesday before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, and underscored the importance of “credible” information. In contrast, he said, the false and deep-rooted beliefs his mother held — that vaccines were dangerous — were perpetuated by social media. Specifically, he said, she turned to anti-vaccine groups on social media for evidence that supported her point of view.

The misinformation of Mark Zuckerberg.

My membership for Font of the Month Club has been automatically renewed today. The past two years had been wonderful. I enjoyed playing around with the fonts David has been making for the club. I have used them on this site, my portfolio, and a few projects at work. I look forward to every first of the month for a new font. Cheers to another wonderful year filled with fun fonts.

The headline says it all: “Billionaire Diamond Trader Dies During Penis Enlargement.”

This blog still runs on WordPress. It’s a theme I have designed and developed years ago in B2, which was the father of WordPress. I coded the theme from scratch using only PHP hooks specifically for my blog. Even to this day, my theme has three files: index.php, style.css, screenshot.png.

These days WordPress has become way too complex to start from scratch. I can still take a starter theme like Gutenberg and go from there, but it already packed too many things I don’t need. I prefer to have control of WordPress instead of the other way around. I want to know exactly how my HTML ended up in the browser. I tried not to sweat it and just lived with whatever an existing theme spits out, but it just feels wrong.

I would love to learn how to make a WordPress theme from scratch using the Gutenberg’s blocks. I have not found any tutorial like that. If you do, please let me know.

Because WordPress has lost me, I can no longer develop clients’ website with it. I turn to Kirky instead. Kirby is not free, but it is worthwhile paying for. Kirby allows me to stand up a site quickly and doesn’t get into the way I design the website. Every piece of HTML is rendered exactly the way I have coded. The best part is that the panel knows which piece can be updated by content editors. As a result, Kirby is an ideal CMS for a small websites.

At fifty-four, Shapiro discovered an unsettling truth about herself through a DNA test. Writing this book is a way for Shapiro to cope with her new identity and the the people who were involved (related or not). In addition, Shapiro’s investigative journalism shows how easy it is nowadays to find out anything about ourselves through online technology and social media. It’s a beautiful, moving, and deeply personal memoir.

Michael Grothaus reports in Fast Company:

Last year it came to light that Facebook was using the phone numbers people submitted to the company solely so they could protect their accounts with 2FA for targeted advertising. And now, as security researcher and New York Times columnist Zeynep Tufekci pointed out, Facebook is allowing anyone to look up a user by their phone number, the same phone number that was supposed to be for security purposes only.

I deactivated my account for two weeks already and I might end up deleting it.

David Remnick profiles Buddy Guy in The New Yorker:

Three chords. The “one,” the “four,” and the “five.” Twelve bars, more or less. Guy’s devotion and sense of obligation to the blues form began long before the death of B. B. King. The story goes like this.

The son of sharecroppers, George (Buddy) Guy was born in 1936, in the town of Lettsworth, Louisiana, not far from the Mississippi River. On September 25, 1957, he boarded a train and arrived in Chicago, another addition to the Great Migration, the northward exodus of black Southerners that began four decades earlier. But Guy hadn’t come to Chicago to work in the slaughterhouses or the steel mills; he came to play guitar in the blues clubs on the South Side and the West Side. He was twenty-one.

Worth a read—or listen.

Jane Mayer reports in The New Yorker:

Trump has made the debate a point of pride. He recently boasted to the Times that he’d won it despite being a novice, and despite the “crazy Megyn Kelly question.” Fox, however, may have given Trump a little help. A pair of Fox insiders and a source close to Trump believe that Ailes informed the Trump campaign about Kelly’s question. Two of those sources say that they know of the tipoff from a purported eyewitness. In addition, a former Trump campaign aide says that a Fox contact gave him advance notice of a different debate question, which asked the candidates whether they would support the Republican nominee, regardless of who won. The former aide says that the heads-up was passed on to Trump, who was the only candidate who said that he wouldn’t automatically support the Party’s nominee—a position that burnished his image as an outsider.

Of course they colluded.

A few weeks ago after failing to search for upcoming design or typography conferences in the DC metro area, I asked Twitter for help. An Event Apart was recommended and I already knew about AEA in DC, but I was not planning on attending.

I went to AEA once about five years ago and I have tremendous respect for the organizers, but it has not changed much except the price. The three-day pass is $1,500. Although my work would cover the cost, it is still expensive. While most of my colleagues attended conferences cost around $500, here I am requesting a conference for triple the price.

My primary reason for not wanting to attend is the lack of new and diverse speakers. AEA has done a great job of adding many women speakers to the roster, but the line up for DC as of today is lacking minority representation. Furthermore, most of the speakers are within a small circle. They are fantastic, but I would love to see different voices.