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Dave Mandl @dmandl.bsky.social · 2h

Serious question: Does anyone have a good explanation for all this, beyond "They want to kill everyone"?

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 3h

Per CDC source: At internal leadership meeting this afternoon, it was shared that 1,257 people were RIF'd at CDC. Number may not be final. Apparently, chief of staff was unaware that RIFs were going to occur so not clear who is making decisions. (Short 🧵)

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Dave Mandl @dmandl.bsky.social · 3h

Midwood.

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Dave Mandl @dmandl.bsky.social · 3h

Little Haiti garage. #photography

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Dave Mandl @dmandl.bsky.social · 10h

...The Ohara project is a very '70s thing (1974, I think), obviously inspired by the popularity of chain letters, a big thing at the time.

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Dave Mandl @dmandl.bsky.social · 10h

...Some of the collages were obvious inspiration for the xerox-art movement that blossomed in the '80s. Surprised to see that this stuff was from the early '60s.

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Dave Mandl @dmandl.bsky.social · 10h

Great stuff at the Whitney right now: "Sixties Surreal," including some incredible paintings, sculptures, and ahead-of-their time collages from quite a few artists I'd never heard of, and CONTACTS by Ken Ohara, where he sent a camera to random people around the US and had them shoot rolls of film.

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Dave Mandl @dmandl.bsky.social · 21h

One of the current exhibits at Poster House is US National Parks posters, many of them (like this one) by the brilliant artist/illustrator Dorothy Waugh. Poster House remains one of the best-kept secrets in NYC.

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Dave Mandl @dmandl.bsky.social · 1d

That place may have been out of business for twenty years. I can't remember.

Dave Mandl @dmandl.bsky.social · 1d

Auto shop.

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Dave Mandl @dmandl.bsky.social · 1d

774 Alabama Ave.

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WFMU @wfmu.bsky.social · 1d

Today on WFMU: On Give the Drummer Some with Doug Schulkind (Give the Drummer Radio stream), a three-hour Yusef Lateef special! To celebrate this monumental artist's 105th birthday, Doug devotes this full episode to the sounds of Lateef in concert (9 a.m. ET).

Upcoming Special Programs on WFMU

www.wfmu.org

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Dave Mandl @dmandl.bsky.social · 1d

McSweeney's doing the Lord's work here.

McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 1d

We're close to completing our list for September. Look for it on our site next week. If you need a refresher, or, you know, lean toward masochism, here are all 416 atrocities committed by the Trump administration since the reality TV star/steak salesman/convicted felon took office.

Lest We Forget the Horrors: An Unending Catalog of Trump’s Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes

buff.ly

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Dave Mandl @dmandl.bsky.social · 1d

...Transitioning from Scene Five to Scene Six: What human is capable of such marvels?

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Damon K @dadadrummer.bsky.social · 6d

The Living Wage for Musicians Act would claim a portion of streaming platform earnings for *human* recording musicians, which means if they choose to do nothing about AI slop, they pay us for the privilege weareumaw.org/make-streami...

Make Streaming Pay - United Musicians and Allied Workers — United Musicians and Allied Workers

United Musicians and Allied Workers celebrates the introduction of the Living Wage for Musicians Act – led by Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Jamaal Bowman – to Congress. By creating a new streaming royalty, ...

weareumaw.org

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Dave Mandl @dmandl.bsky.social · 1d

People have been running schools, writing stories, writing plays, and composing music for millennia, and suddenly no can imagine how those things are possible without AI.

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Dave Mandl @dmandl.bsky.social · 1d

They haven't, and I was sure they wouldn't. Those people aren't going to give in to that schmuck. Others will and have, but not them.

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Dave Mandl @dmandl.bsky.social · 1d

What a fucking psycho. "Most Nobel experts and Norwegian observers believe it is highly unlikely that Trump will be awarded the prize, leading to fears in the country over how he will react to being overlooked so publicly." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Norway braces for Trump’s reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize

US president may impose tariffs, demand higher Nato contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says

www.theguardian.com

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Dave Mandl @dmandl.bsky.social · 1d

Generating alt text is much more basic and mechanical than writing an article or a paper.

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Dave Mandl @dmandl.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe, vaguely. But I don't remember the details or the reason he did that.

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Dave Mandl @dmandl.bsky.social · 2d

😮

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Dave Mandl @dmandl.bsky.social · 2d

But there's also blatant Gestapo stuff happening and that should be a much bigger deal.

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Dave Mandl @dmandl.bsky.social · 2d

Things have always been more or less the same here. It's what we've learned about in school and read about in books. People just can't accept that we're living under a drastically different kind of government right now, esp. the kind of government that we "know" we'd never have here.

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Dave Mandl @dmandl.bsky.social · 2d

...A pizza place is more useful to me today, tbh.

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Dave Mandl @dmandl.bsky.social · 2d

Is this what's become of Limelight, once NYC's hippest club?

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Dave Mandl @dmandl.bsky.social · 2d

Agreed. It's surprising how big they got in Europe, and surprising how they never managed to get much attention at all in the US. One of my favorite albums for years.

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