The earliest known use of the term[1] is a passage in Henry George's best known work, Progress and Poverty[2] (1879). From book IV, chapter 2: It is a well-provisioned ship, this on which we sail through space. If the bread and beef above decks seem to grow scarce, we but open a hatch and there … Continue reading Spaceship Earth: Buckminster Fuller at MIT
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It Feels like (AI) summer
You can feel it in the streetsOn a day like this, the heat Childish Gambino, (Donald Mckinley Glover) It Feels Like Summer. Seven billion souls that move around the sunRolling faster, faster, not a chance to slow downSlow downMen who made machines that want what they decideParents tryna' tell the children please slow downSlow down … Continue reading It Feels like (AI) summer
Conservative Lies And The Sewage Briefing
Water companies made £2.8 billion of collective profits in 2020 and discharged raw sewage 400,000 times - for more than 3.1 million hours total. Shockingly, these figures are low-end estimates.Liberal Democrats, The Sewage Briefing. UK Conservatives seem to be caught up in a net of partygate lies like a gaggle of rotten trout, soaked in … Continue reading Conservative Lies And The Sewage Briefing