Stephen Long

B&W photo of a building facace

Relief sculpture of a lithe figure in a dancing-like pose

I'm just a lowly art historian, but in moments like these I always think back to one early sign of Trump's wanton, pointless destructiveness: his demolition of the priceless & irreplaceable Art Deco relief sculptures on facade of the Bonwit Teller building, which he tore down to build Trump Tower

really would love to them (panarin) to figure it out...

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.

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

I went to find who would say it. Thankfully didn't have to scroll too far. 🤝

same & now bucky getting an MRI?!?!

a few small beers

Martinez vs Mbilli was one of the best fights I've watched in recent years

Since June this has been an unfathomable stretch of inconsistent, terrible baseball

when i chirp shawty chirp back

PLEASE MR KENNEDY

damn.

King take Bishop

Important to remember that everyone involved in renaming the DoD to the Department of War is afraid to take the subway.

I'm not sure if I'm remembering this right or not but I feel like at some point in this game I had amassed something like 999 lives? Either way, knuckles flying was so legit.

CDC’s Pledge to the American People 1. Be a diligent steward of the funds entrusted to our agency: CDC accomplishes agency-wide fiscal accountability and oversight of appropriations, acquisitions, assistance, and financial management of government funds. This aids in CDC's public health mission by ensuring appropriate fiscal stewardship of taxpayer dollars. 2. Provide an environment for intellectual and personal growth and integrity: CDC expects that employees know and follow the fourteen principles of ethical conduct for executive branch personnel. These principles help foster growth for both individual employee and agency wide progress to further public health science, and maintain the public's trust. 3. Base all public health decisions on the highest quality scientific data that is derived openly and objectively: CDC ensures its science and research activities, as well as employees, comply with various federal laws, regulations, and policies in order to exercise the highest level of scientific integrity. To "enhance the quality, integrity of and access to CDC science," is one of 4 pillars the Office of the Associate Director of Science at CDC considers a priority and responsibility. 4. Place the benefits to society above the benefits to our institution: CDC employees are prohibited from participating in any matter that would pose a conflict of interest or appearance of bias. This helps ensure CDC achieves the highest quality of scientific research, and works to protect the nation's health. 5. Treat all persons with dignity, honesty, and respect: The Principles of the Ethical Practice of Public Health is intended principally for public and other institutions in the United States that have an explicit public health mission. It contains values and beliefs underlying the code, principles of the ethical practice of public health, and supplemental materials.

Worth reading CDC's Pledge to the American People from 2024. It is, put simply, the antithesis of RFK Jr.'s actions in office to date. www.cdc.gov/about/pledge...

City of Atlanta opening grocery store to clear up downtown food desert The Azalea Fresh Market opens on Friday.

The City of Atlanta is opening its first municipal grocery store today.

The city is spending $3.5 million in partnership with a neighborhood grocery chain in an effort to eliminate a downtown food desert.

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Would you mind sharing the artist of those prints you have? I had followed them on X but have since deleted my account there!

...a most unsettling question of our time

lol

Ministry of Plenty

"Kill the Devil" by Tony McCaulay & Juvens Nsabimana is a novel about post-conflict Rwanda. Tony is from Northern Ireland and was drawn to the stories of reconciliation in Rwanda, esp with personal history in the Troubles. Juvens is a playwright from Rwanda and they collaborated to write the novel.

Queens in the house

preordred on @bookshop.org 💪

yeah...it's time.

I was disappointed to see it wasn't getting a theatrical run. Would've definitely gotten me and the boys out for a night at the movies!

Opinion | JD Vance Claims One of Our Worst Traditions as His Own

come for the extended intro where i call jd vance a loser, stay for my analysis connecting vance's argument to the most reactionary antebellum views of citizenship

Wow. This perfectly captures why I feel so disappointed when reading so many pieces about film and TV these days. We get an entire recap, sometimes scene for scene, of an episode and then one paragraph about "what this might mean". It's empty calories and I'm constantly left hungry.

The secret to Baltimore's extraordinary year This April, Baltimore saw five homicides.

For everyone who has ever asked, on seeing my Baltimore homicide charts, "How did they do that?"

ladies & gentlemen....ya got me

we really need our fellow creative new yorkers to start making videos from all over the city to show it's pretty much the exact opposite of everything they claim about our home