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"This Ain’t No Disco This Is CBGB," a WBAI Radio series marking the 50th anniversary of the former Bowery music venue's opening, continues with episode 3.2 tomorrow (Sunday) at 2 p.m. 

Trump said he’s building these things because, well, no one is going to build a monument to him after he’s gone. He’s 💯 right. We’ll be spending years tearing down and undoing as much of what he did as possible.

I watched Katie Parrott talk on Every’s AI & I this week. Natalia Quintero asked her how a working writer uses a model, and Parrott did not start with a manifesto. She started with a kitchen. The model is the kitchen, she said. The outline is closer to chopping. Composition is closer to heat. None […]

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Hans Holbein the Younger, Chased Silver Medallion, 1532–43 #hansholbeintheyounger #chndm

@yolandevillemai Have you seen Guggenheim Museum @guggenheimbot? Cheers, @andreitr

What could possibly go wrong? As we discussed here, Army Secretary Dan Driscoll recently resigned over clashes with Pete Hegseth and Trump, and now he's been replaced with someone with zero military experience: Trump names Adam Telle as acting army secretary following depar...

“President Trump said Friday that tariff-free imported beef will be coming from Brazil and Argentina, among other places, as his administration works to alleviate stubbornly high prices,” NewsNation reports. Said Trump: “It’s coming from Argentina. It’s coming from Brazil. It’s coming from a couple of other places. We have our inspectors down. It’s very clean. […]

I was out walking the dog when I got in a nice chat with a neighbor. When the chat was done, the woman noted the full poop bag I was carrying, and offered to take it from me and put it in her trash. “No thanks!” I replied, chipperly. “I’m good.”

That was years ago. I still think about it now and then and wonder what kind of message I was sending.

Thank you Caro Henry, Quentin Robinson, Brian Cano, Susan DRENNAN GABRIEL, Pattye Ludwig🇺🇸🇨🇦, and many others for tuning into today’s episode of “Dead Air” with Dean Blundell and me, and brought to you by The Save America Movement.

Thinking about the OpenAI industry’s PR problem, I’m reminded of Anthropic’s ad during the Super Bowl. People said it was clever, but it reinforced the idea that AI companies are just like other big tech: tracking you and selling your data. For next year’s ads, we will see a more optimistic vision.

Gloria Steinem, in a posthumous essay for The New Yorker: For me, saying that I am a feminist has always meant that I believe in the social, economic, and political equality of all males and females of all races and groups. I know this sounds too simple to need a word, b...

Marcel Duchamp, Nude Seated in a Bathtub, 1910 #marcelduchamp #museumarchive

Donald J. Trump has essentially acknowledged that the grand construction projects he is pushing around Washington are monuments to himself. In a revealing interview with New York Magazine, Trump was asked directly about projects such as the proposed 250-foot triumphal arch...

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“Donald Trump’s super PAC, MAGA Inc. spent $10 million this week to support Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in his tight Senate race, a financial disclosure filed Saturday afternoon revealed,” NOTUS reports. “The president faced criticism from Republicans for not spending enough money to support Paxton, whom he endorsed over incumbent Sen. John Cornyn this […]

“A federal judge ruled Friday that former Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) can be sued under North Carolina’s homewrecker law for her romantic relationship with a married member of her security detail,” NewsNation reports.

The US voted against a UN resolution to replace the standard Mercator Projection map of the world.

The new map accurately shows the size of land masses in relation to each other. In the Mercator Projection, designed in the 16th Century, Africa and Greenland are shown as about the same size, but in reality, Africa is 14x larger.

The US explanation for its vote is just plain stupid. I feel 14X stupider after reading it.

164 nations voted in favor of the resolution. The US was the sole “no” vote. We’re the stupidest country in the world now.

This kind of thing makes me angry in the way that greater abuses don’t. It’s just so goddamn petty.

Via jwz.org

Blynman Bridge, 1923 #edwardhopper #hopper

The Baltimore Orioles and Boston Red Sox benches cleared after a tense moment involving Blaze Alexander. On Friday night Alexander was on first when Luis Robert Jr. grounded into a double play. After Alexander slid hard into second base, he exchanged words with shortstop Trevor Story. The confrontation led to both benches and bullpens emptying.