YAHOO FOR EARTHLINK: “When you see a résumé with a Hotmail address, what do you do?” journalism strategist Sree Sreenivasan wrote on LinkedIn last year. “Treat ’em same as others? Reject ’em right away? Some other response?” I investigated, and it turns out that snubbing job applicants based on their choice of email provider is shortsighted at best, and borderline illegal at worst. But who are the people with AOL and EarthLink addresses in 2019? OneZero, a tech and science publication on Medium, found millennials, programmers and otherwise tech-savvy folks firing off emails from vintage addresses — in other words, not who you’d expect.

RED TALK: A week ago, at about the same time the Pulitzer board announced she was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in national reporting, Carole Cadwalladr was onstage delivering a TED Talk that accused the billionaires of Silicon Valley of destroying democracy. She called out “the Gods of Silicon Valley: Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg, Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Jack Dorsey” at a conference that was sponsored by Facebook and Google and at which Dorsey, Twitter’s co-founder, was speaking. It’s bold and humanizing and worth a watch.

THE FONTS: It may seem like a stretch to think of a font as a digital tool. But fonts are the original digital tools. They can shift meaning. Consider a phrase like “Brexit talks fail” in Times New Roman vs. Comic Sans — the former conveys stark meaning, the latter possibly a sarcastic jab at Theresa May. They can convey importance. A bold, blocky typeface works as a headline but would be ridiculous and overbearing as body copy. On a macro level, they’re a significant marker of our values as a culture. Minimalist, balanced fonts like Helvetica have been popular for decades, but times are changing. Who knows if they’ll shift slightly, to a new but familiar font like Helvetica Now, or majorly, to the groovy and curvy fonts of the ’70s? Or, just maybe, the next great font will just be a bunch of wee people.