Linotype Pilgrim

The page reproductions of metal and manuscript are to die for.

#typography

Time Bandits (#1 of 2) High Resolution / HD Movie Poster Image (#1 of 2) for Time Bandits

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Poster for TIME BANDITS, directed by Terry Gilliam, whose hand is also evident in this poster. Poster shows a scene from the movie in which a giant stands rising out of the sea, with a sailing ship sitting on his head. An airbrushed sky has been gridded into squares (resembling a dropped ceiling) and some of these squares are open black holes to space(?)…won't expand on this without spoiling the movie. The poster features thumbnail images of main actors including the late Katharine Helmond, the late Ian Holm, Michael Palin, the late Sean Connery, the late Shelley Duvall, and the late David Warner. The main title is rendered in Dürer-like geometrically constructed capitals, with the construction lines intact. This evokes a "blueprint" which is a major theme of the movie. Subhead is in Goudy Bold: "…they didn't make history, they stole it!" So the major plot points are covered by the poster in visual metaphor.

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(Time Bandits; 1981)

Why, I read something there just this minute!

since Trajan

I have yet to come across an AI bot that helps me out when I need human assistance

Delta did not change this

If you don't get on the damn street and fight for your rights you will lose them. In fact, you are losing your civil liberties at pace and there has been very little sustained pushback.

Google’s healthcare AI made up a body part — what happens when doctors don’t notice? The basilar ganglia does not exist.

I don't think AI is ready for medicine but Google sure thinks otherwise www.theverge.com/health/71804...

At the top of the slide reads the report title in black front: “Buried Burdens: The True Costs of Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) Ownership” Below it is artwork by Brett Huson, depicting an oiled being standing over a pipeline. The yellowhead institute logo sits in the bottom left corner.

Below a centred black quotation mark icon, the slide reads: “No matter your understanding of economics, we must understand that our obsession with unrestricted growth is killing the very thing that sustains us. Our relationship with and actions upon the environment are interconnected: We cannot exist without a healthy environment and the tools to steward it according to Indigenous laws.” The special report information lines the bottom of the slide in a green bar: “From the Yellowhead Special Report, Buried Burdens: The True Costs of Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) Ownership

Title text reads: “LEARN MORE.” Below it, body text reads: “With major resource projects set to expand in Canada, including the controversial Prince Rupert natural gas pipeline in B.C. – and Indigenous communities encouraged to participate – what are the financial, environmental, social and cultural risks?” And “How can Indigenous Nations navigate the complex challenge of resource development when some Nations support (and invest) while others oppose?” The special report information lines the bottom of the slide in a green bar: “From the Yellowhead Special Report, Buried Burdens: The True Costs of Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) Ownership

Pictured is a photograph by Mike Graeme of the Skeena River

As governments pass legislation to fast track resource development, a long-delayed LNG pipeline in B.C. has been approved. Buried Burdens considers PRGT's history, identifying a number of issues.

Read the full Special Report on our website: yellowheadinstitute.org/buried-burde...

Janna Wale and Michaela McGuire review BC's Bill 14 and 15, finding much to be concerned about related to Indigenous rights and the health of the environment – both sacrificed for "fast-tracked" industrial development in the province.

Read the full Brief on our website.

i wanted to see if i could do raycasting on an oscilloscope (i can)

not sorry

So many things to Not Like about this picture

#gentrification

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Photo of nameplate of Burroughs adding machine. Lettering is gold paint on glass, elegant serif'd copperplate capitals, with a rectangular block underneath with "DETROIT MICH. U. S. A.". The gold text is outlined in black as customary. The remarkable feature of the logo is that the O in "BURROUGHS" has been slashed. The machine is clearly very heavy and complex. Behind the glass is a register of a value in pennies: 0,000,000.00, with the commas and decimal point painted in gold also. The front of the machine has a flat unpainted metal face with an engraved serial number.

Burroughs Adding Machine

picture: @dectape.bsky.social

I am increasingly convinced that the most important part of community self-defense is prophylactic.

It is helping each other find and use resources we need to be whole and secure and safe and healed BEFORE we are faced with direct incursions from those who wish us harm.

now that last week's sudden acknowledgments in media are getting hurriedly twisted back to plausible deniability, tapping the sign again:

There is a class of governors within viable systems that we call homeostats. A homeostat is a regulatory mechanism, that holds some critical variable within physiological limits. Body temperature makes a good example. I said earlier that there is no thermostat in the body with a marker set at 98.4°F. Nor, let me now add, is there any way of knowing for certain how far our temperatures may stray from this norm before we ought to be considered ill, or before we are dead. That is the meaning of 'physiological limit'. The limit is a function of the operation of the total system. When the physiological limit of the critical variable is exceeded, homeostasis has failed, and the system is in catastrophe. Again, we have the mathematics of all this cybernetic apparatus: it comes from algebraic topology. Within the class of homeostats that control a critical variable within physiological limits, there is a sub-class. It is concerned, not with _any_ sort of homeostasis, but with autopoiesis. According to the biologist and cybernetician Maturana, all life is autopoietic: it is his explanation for life itself. An autopoietic system is a homeostat for which the critical variable held within physiological limits is its own organization. Thus an autopoietic system produces itself. Maturana is explicitly NOT saying that it re-produces itself: he considers that a side issue. And this is why he uses the rather ugly word autopoiesis—it is simply the Greek for self-making. You and I have maintained our integrity as the living systems we are over the last ten years. But now, in cytological terms, we are wholly different. We have remade ourselves. I have talked about self-regulating, and about self-organizing. This passage is about self-making. The proposal is that the main business of the government is to produce itself. _That_ is what all those people are really doing at Westminster and Whitehall; and autopoiesis is their special Law of Anarchy. Please suspend your disbelief…

…for the few minutes it will take to examine what effect this view of things has on our model of the world. According to the model of the world most people carry in their heads (which includes the hierarchies, and the greater and lesser decisions, and the centralized and decentralized modes), government sounds like this. There is a stream of input from the people to the government. This input makes demands of every kind, at every level. It says: be capitalist, be socialist. It says: my firm will go bust unless you reduce corporation tax. It says: up, or down, with Concorde. It says: I have no money and I am ill, help me. The government accepts all these inputs, filters them; computes with them; undertakes operations on them; makes decisions, political and administrative. Then there flows from the government a stream of outputs, which results from all this activity, and answers all these questions—for better or worse. But if we use the model of an autopoietic system, the government looks completely different. The government is now a living thing, in business to produce itself. What we last called the stream of inputs is now seen to be a succession of buffets that threaten its survival. What the government does to offset those threats is to adjust its position a little. The result of this adjustment is that things are now a bit different at the receiving end, and that is what we last called the stream of outputs. The perception is staggeringly different. You will have noticed that I have not distinguished between government qua Westminster and government qua Whitehall. That is because I see no need to make any distinction. Both are autopoietic systems, and they live together in an autopoietic symbiosis.

If so, then this is where the anarchy really lies. It does not lie with bomb-producing students, but with self-producing governments. This is why society is leaderless: it has no concern to lead. We also know the laws of this anarchy: These are the autopoietic laws. Maybe it does not matter. Maybe it matters very much. I think that it does. Because this government, this autopoietic system, is sucking the people into its autopoiesis, and using us as fodder to produce itself. You can see it in the growth of the bureaucracy at Whitehall. You can see it in the appeal for national unity at Westminster. The idea that now is the time for moderation, for consolidation, for 'not rocking the boat', for not going either to the extreme left or the extreme right, has taken a firm grip on our society today. This attitude sounds very reasonable to 'all' right-thinking men and women. In fact, it is robbing the people of their perceptions and their purposes. They have to give up. If they have no purpose, let them eat television. I call this movement: The Extreme Centre. It is the black hole from which the light of mankind may never emerge again. The Agency of Change How do we change all this? I am perfectly clear about my own purpose, which is not to watch (still less appear any longer on) television. My purpose is, as far as the little effort I have can take me, to change the world. So may I end with a personal testament about that. It is based on having actually effected a modicum of change, and I perceive three components in the _agency_ of change. The first component is science, by which I (still) mean simply 'ordered knowledge'. That could , of course, include music and art, and did for me in Chile. Then I am not advocating technocracy. I am saying that if in the gigantic task of changing the world we do not use all the knowledge that mankind has accumulated, then we really are the crazy apes that (page ends)

Cover: "Think before you Think. Social Complexity and Knowledge of Knowing." Stafford Beer Edited by David Whittaker Foreword by Brian Eno

"The Laws of Anarchy", Irvine Memorial Lecture, Univ. of St Andrews, 5 March 1975.

"[The Extreme Centre] is robbing the people of their perceptions & their purposes. They have to give up. If they have no purpose, let them eat television… the light of mankind may never emerge again."

—Stafford Beer

Elon Musk is a symbol of American collapse in many ways, but one of the big ones is how for years he has constantly engaged in multi-billion-dollar securities and consumer fraud, and the "consequence" has been him making billions more, including from the federal government paying him directly.

I agree, bsky.app/profile/symb...

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I could not agree more

Usually true! Good score!!

Yep:

It's a good time to grab the dwindling stock of Tek/HP XY monitors (6xx and 13xx families, for example).

These CA tomato pickers make 86¢ per bucket. The worker runs back to try and make as many buckets as they can. Because of the hot weather they often only work 4 to 5 hours a day, so every bucket counts towards paying their bills. #WeFeedYou

that seems extremely predictable

ISRAEL DETAINED AND then deported an American nurse who tried to save the life of Awdah Hathaleen, a Palestinian activist who worked on the Oscar-winning documentary film “No Other Land.” After Israeli settler Yinon Levi allegedly shot and killed Hathaleen on Monday in Umm al-Khair, a village in the occupied West Bank, the critical care nurse gave Hathaleen four rounds of CPR. She cradled his head in her hands, checking his pulse and whispering “You’re OK,” as he bled out, the nurse told The Intercept. The medical worker asked not to be named because they fear for their safety. Hathaleen was then taken away in an ambulance, where he died before reaching the hospital.

Israel just detained and then deported an American nurse for trying to save a Palestinian life.

theintercept.com/2025/08/01/a...

an absurd thing to say

ikr! ltns