Linotype Pilgrim

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COULD I PLEASE GET HELP ITS COLD WE HAVE NO HEAT AND WE NEED FOOD

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I FOUND IT!

MARTHA WAS COOKING! 😏

🙏 i'd save him too

Typeset in Bodoni: … I called the Fibonacci series arising from the relationship ϕ based on the unit 108 the red series, and that series based on the double uit 216 the blue series. I drew a man of a height of 1·75 m. engaged at four points: zero, 108, 175, 216. Then the red strip on the left, the blue on the right, the series of ϕ going towards zero below, and that progressing towards infinity above. Disembarking from my cargo-boat in New York on the 10th of January 1946, I had an interview with Mr Kaiser, the famous constructor of Liberty ships during the war. His latest project had been to construct 10,000 houses a day in the United States. But, he told me, I have changed my mind, I am going to make motor cars instead. . . ! ! ! What I told him about the purpose of my visit is related farther on in this book. Let us leave our calculations aside for a minute and make a digression into economics and sociology. The U.S.A. gives Mr Kaiser, a businessman of genius and a leading industrialist, full authority to produce three million houses a year. These houses are to be mass-produced, in other words they are to be family dwellings. They will cover a certain amount of ground; they will be erected along streets; these streets will not be in the towns, where there is no room, but in the country. The towns will be expanded to enormous size by suburbs, vast, tremendous suburbs. It will be necessary to create huge transport systems to make these suburbs accessible and mutually connected: railways, underground railways, trams, buses, etc. . . . This will involve the construction of innumerable roads, a huge network of mains (water, gas, electricity, telephoe, etc.). What boundless activity, what wealth this will bring! Or don't you think so? I think this is just another example, carried to disastrous lengths, of the Great American Waste which I had already observed and analysed in 1935. No one is entitled to breathe a word of warning

in Mr Kaiser's ear, no one may even dream of calling a halt to his activities, no machinery is set on foot to channel his indomitable energy towards social and economic ends. . . . And then it so happens that after six months of cogitation, when all is said and done, Mr Kaiser decides, quite off his own bat, that he is not going to make houses after all, but motor cars. Now motor cars are used for transport, they are an aid to transport, they make it possible for the unnatural phenomenon of the American town to appear tolerable. Here, the problem is quite a different one: cheapness and efficiency of the motor car itself, efficiency in general. But the competition in the United States is tremendous, gigantic. The makers of a new motor car must bid for the public's favour, they must outbid all other bidders. People must be told that a car is a sign of importance, the first rung on the ladder of social position. Therefore, let us flatter the public taste: a stream-lined body, a car as large as any of the most fashionable makes, a manifestation of power, yes, of magnificence. The new car is splendid, glittering, a standard-bearer of optimism and an ambassador of strength. But it is huge, it has a bonnet and a radiator which is like the face of a god of Power with gigantic chromium-plated jaws. That American streets are congested is a well-known fact. The car is twice as long as it need be. It blocks the road when it turns; it lies upon the ground like a carapace. Efficiency? Speeds prohibited by the regulations, double consumption of steel and paint and petrol. And so there we are again, face to face with the problem of the human scale. . . . I end my digression and return to the 'Modulor'. My second visit was to Knoxville, to see Mr Lilienthal, the Director-General of the Tennessee Valley Authority and the guiding spirit of that great harmonious plan, sponsored by President Roosevelt, which built the dams on the Tennessee River and the new towns, rescued American ag

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But y'all can't even keep Mark Cuban off this web site

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Really useful analysis of data to show how many people are going to ICE detention from local jails. These arrests are less visible to the public - as compared to raids or street arrests -- so we don't see the full scope.

Last years Eurovision winner Nemo sending back his trophy in protest of Israel’s continued inclusion in the contest

seems like an own goal

that consequent doesn't follow from the premise

yep, never Libs, never. not even provincially.

FPTP screwed us yet again

Carney's conservative party
#cdnpoli

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All TT fonts 50% off—seems like a pretty generous holiday offer.

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👉 “The moment I pointed to the fact that there are businesses who are profiting from it, yes, I get sanctioned.” The first UN expert in 80 years to be sanctioned by the U.S. explains why she now faces a U.S. travel ban, frozen accounts, no ability to bank anywhere, cancelled health insurance, and even hotel bookings in Europe voided. UN Special Rapporteur @FranceskAlbs had already reported that Israel’s actions in Gaza constitute genocide. But Washington moved against her after she documented corporate complicity — naming Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Palantir, banks, pension funds and others enabling an “economy of occupation turning into an economy of genocide.” Criticizing Israel wasn’t enough to trigger U.S. retaliation, she says. Exposing who profits from what Carlson called the “mass murder” was. 🎥 Albanese spoke to @TuckerCarlson in the interview clipped below. The full interview is linked in reply.

See new posts Conversation Ahmed Eldin | احمد الدين @ASE “Tucker! This is my only weapon … it’s a pen!” — @FranceskAlbs Don’t worry @TuckerCarlson , you aren’t the only person confused by the US sanctioning the person documenting the crime of genocide, rather than the people committing it.

👉 “The moment I pointed to the fact that there are businesses who are profiting from it, yes, I get sanctioned.”

The first UN expert in 80 years to be sanctioned by the US explains why she now faces a US travel ban, frozen accounts, no ability to bank anywhere, cancelled health insurance & even...

Adding a Reverse Centaur boss to my Fall of the Nerd Reich RPG, you can only defeat him by unionizing tech workers

Yes indeed.

Here are some more I've noted: typography.symbo1ics.com

please Mark, step up onto this raised platform at Place de la Concorde where we can all hear you better

he needs to exit it

go away

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lmao

why did he come back here

ah fuck, I thought we'd successfully run Cuban off this site.

We are being poisoned every day, so why do we keep voting for more pollution? Ask a lobbyist | George Monbiot The dirty industries that dominate politics deceive us into accepting dangerous pollutants such as ammonia as part of life, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

I think about this quote from @georgemonbiot.bsky.social a lot:

“The idea that some people may freely poison others is one of the most astonishing but least contested aspects of modern life.”

Mark Carney Took Speech Ideas From Billionaire-Founded ‘Build Canada’ The pro-AI and fossil fuel group tells DeSmog that it’s great to see its ideas “get taken up by government.”

Guilbeault called it: Climate Carnage

"The Canadian group was founded in part by Canada’s leading tech billionaire Tobias Lütke, who is CEO of the Ottawa-based e-commerce company Shopify. It is also associated with oil and gas investor and billionaire Adam Waterous."

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