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The ‘Maude’ Abortion Episode Wouldn’t Air Today —Norman Lear Tried, and ‘It Wasn’t Green Lit’
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The ‘Maude’ Abortion Episode Wouldn’t Air Today —Norman Lear Tried, and ‘It Wasn’t Green Lit’
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@rooftopjaxx @hamishcampbell @MediaActivist
Ah, the cockerel crows and the full moon glows, a fine moment to scratch at the compost pile.
You’re right, most are merrily skipping through walled gardens, hashtagging selfies and feeding the #dotcons. But seeds don’t need mass attention, they just do need rich compost. That’s what we need to build. Slow, damp, a bit smelly, but fertile.
The #sheeple and not my flock, they belong to the algorithmic shepherds. We’re feeding the stray goats and curious crows.
You don’t convert people by preaching. You do it by making better paths, ones they choose when the old ones crumble. We don’t sell the #openweb like snake oil — we show it, live in it, fix it when it breaks, and compost the crap. It’s #DIY, not #drm
As for silos and skips, good compost needs oxygen, not airtight boxes. So yeah, a messy open pile — full of half-rotten ideas, posts, drama, even the occasional troll turd.
We trust in tools not gatekeepers, the #4opens are the shovels, rakes, and sieves. The people bring the scraps, and over time, it breaks down into something usable.
No army of mods, no paywalls, simple trust, process, and a lot of patience. Think rural anarchism, not startup governance.
On scaling... Ah, the eternal #techshit question, "Does it scale?" That’s the wrong frame. Nature doesn’t scale, it sprawls.
We’re not building an empire. We’re nurturing a network. Think mycelium, not megastructure.
The #OMN isn’t about numbers. It’s about resilience and agency. If it sprouts in some cracks, the monoculture breaks. And yes, nettles welcome
The #Kolektivas, the #fashernista paradoxes, the semi-anarchic infighting, it all goes in the pile. Break it down, stir it up, give it time…
And what do you get? Fluffy, fertile humus — ready for new growth. That’s the cycle. That’s the plan.
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@rooftopjaxx @hamishcampbell @MediaActivist
Ah, the cockerel crows and the full moon glows, a fine moment to scratch at the compost pile.
You’re right, most are merrily skipping through walled gardens, hashtagging selfies and feeding the #dotcons. But seeds don’t need mass attention, they just do need rich compost. That’s what we need to build. Slow, damp, a bit smelly, but fertile.
The #sheeple and not my flock, they belong to the algorithmic shepherds. We’re feeding the stray goats and curious crows.
You don’t convert people by preaching. You do it by making better paths, ones they choose when the old ones crumble. We don’t sell the #openweb like snake oil — we show it, live in it, fix it when it breaks, and compost the crap. It’s #DIY, not #drm
As for silos and skips, good compost needs oxygen, not airtight boxes. So yeah, a messy open pile — full of half-rotten ideas, posts, drama, even the occasional troll turd.
We trust in tools not gatekeepers, the #4opens are the shovels, rakes, and sieves. The people bring the scraps, and over time, it breaks down into something usable.
No army of mods, no paywalls, simple trust, process, and a lot of patience. Think rural anarchism, not startup governance.
On scaling... Ah, the eternal #techshit question, "Does it scale?" That’s the wrong frame. Nature doesn’t scale, it sprawls.
We’re not building an empire. We’re nurturing a network. Think mycelium, not megastructure.
The #OMN isn’t about numbers. It’s about resilience and agency. If it sprouts in some cracks, the monoculture breaks. And yes, nettles welcome
The #Kolektivas, the #fashernista paradoxes, the semi-anarchic infighting, it all goes in the pile. Break it down, stir it up, give it time…
And what do you get? Fluffy, fertile humus — ready for new growth. That’s the cycle. That’s the plan.
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@rooftopjaxx @hamishcampbell @MediaActivist
Ah, the cockerel crows and the full moon glows, a fine moment to scratch at the compost pile.
You’re right, most are merrily skipping through walled gardens, hashtagging selfies and feeding the #dotcons. But seeds don’t need mass attention, they just do need rich compost. That’s what we need to build. Slow, damp, a bit smelly, but fertile.
The #sheeple and not my flock, they belong to the algorithmic shepherds. We’re feeding the stray goats and curious crows.
You don’t convert people by preaching. You do it by making better paths, ones they choose when the old ones crumble. We don’t sell the #openweb like snake oil — we show it, live in it, fix it when it breaks, and compost the crap. It’s #DIY, not #drm
As for silos and skips, good compost needs oxygen, not airtight boxes. So yeah, a messy open pile — full of half-rotten ideas, posts, drama, even the occasional troll turd.
We trust in tools not gatekeepers, the #4opens are the shovels, rakes, and sieves. The people bring the scraps, and over time, it breaks down into something usable.
No army of mods, no paywalls, simple trust, process, and a lot of patience. Think rural anarchism, not startup governance.
On scaling... Ah, the eternal #techshit question, "Does it scale?" That’s the wrong frame. Nature doesn’t scale, it sprawls.
We’re not building an empire. We’re nurturing a network. Think mycelium, not megastructure.
The #OMN isn’t about numbers. It’s about resilience and agency. If it sprouts in some cracks, the monoculture breaks. And yes, nettles welcome
The #Kolektivas, the #fashernista paradoxes, the semi-anarchic infighting, it all goes in the pile. Break it down, stir it up, give it time…
And what do you get? Fluffy, fertile humus — ready for new growth. That’s the cycle. That’s the plan.
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@rooftopjaxx @hamishcampbell @MediaActivist
Ah, the cockerel crows and the full moon glows, a fine moment to scratch at the compost pile.
You’re right, most are merrily skipping through walled gardens, hashtagging selfies and feeding the #dotcons. But seeds don’t need mass attention, they just do need rich compost. That’s what we need to build. Slow, damp, a bit smelly, but fertile.
The #sheeple and not my flock, they belong to the algorithmic shepherds. We’re feeding the stray goats and curious crows.
You don’t convert people by preaching. You do it by making better paths, ones they choose when the old ones crumble. We don’t sell the #openweb like snake oil — we show it, live in it, fix it when it breaks, and compost the crap. It’s #DIY, not #drm
As for silos and skips, good compost needs oxygen, not airtight boxes. So yeah, a messy open pile — full of half-rotten ideas, posts, drama, even the occasional troll turd.
We trust in tools not gatekeepers, the #4opens are the shovels, rakes, and sieves. The people bring the scraps, and over time, it breaks down into something usable.
No army of mods, no paywalls, simple trust, process, and a lot of patience. Think rural anarchism, not startup governance.
On scaling... Ah, the eternal #techshit question, "Does it scale?" That’s the wrong frame. Nature doesn’t scale, it sprawls.
We’re not building an empire. We’re nurturing a network. Think mycelium, not megastructure.
The #OMN isn’t about numbers. It’s about resilience and agency. If it sprouts in some cracks, the monoculture breaks. And yes, nettles welcome
The #Kolektivas, the #fashernista paradoxes, the semi-anarchic infighting, it all goes in the pile. Break it down, stir it up, give it time…
And what do you get? Fluffy, fertile humus — ready for new growth. That’s the cycle. That’s the plan.
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#philsci #philsky #neurosci PAPER'S OUT youtu.be/OnXJm8m1xdE?... #music #electronic #jazz NO THIS IS NOT AI SLOP Mike Melvoin loved his MOOG (so it's Mike Melvoin Slop) Spinning wheel + 1969 cont:
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#philsci #philsky #neurosci PAPER'S OUT youtu.be/OnXJm8m1xdE?... #music #electronic #jazz NO THIS IS NOT AI SLOP Mike Melvoin loved his MOOG (so it's Mike Melvoin Slop) Spinning wheel + 1969 cont:
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#philsci #philsky #neurosci PAPER'S OUT youtu.be/OnXJm8m1xdE?... #music #electronic #jazz NO THIS IS NOT AI SLOP Mike Melvoin loved his MOOG (so it's Mike Melvoin Slop) Spinning wheel + 1969 cont:
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#philsci #philsky #neurosci PAPER'S OUT youtu.be/OnXJm8m1xdE?... #music #electronic #jazz NO THIS IS NOT AI SLOP Mike Melvoin loved his MOOG (so it's Mike Melvoin Slop) Spinning wheel + 1969 cont:
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Spannend, ich dachte bis jetzt, dass nur #Fleisch vergoldet wird, aber nein. Es wird auch #Gemüse bzw. Gerichte mit Gemüse vergoldet. #notmyworld #vegan #vegetables #meat
https://www.perplexity.ai/search/welcher-prominente-hat-n-letzt-dnb.HG26QTOgcARAqpKBIQ
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Spannend, ich dachte bis jetzt, dass nur #Fleisch vergoldet wird, aber nein. Es wird auch #Gemüse bzw. Gerichte mit Gemüse vergoldet. #notmyworld #vegan #vegetables #meat
https://www.perplexity.ai/search/welcher-prominente-hat-n-letzt-dnb.HG26QTOgcARAqpKBIQ
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Spannend, ich dachte bis jetzt, dass nur #Fleisch vergoldet wird, aber nein. Es wird auch #Gemüse bzw. Gerichte mit Gemüse vergoldet. #notmyworld #vegan #vegetables #meat
https://www.perplexity.ai/search/welcher-prominente-hat-n-letzt-dnb.HG26QTOgcARAqpKBIQ
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Spannend, ich dachte bis jetzt, dass nur #Fleisch vergoldet wird, aber nein. Es wird auch #Gemüse bzw. Gerichte mit Gemüse vergoldet. #notmyworld #vegan #vegetables #meat
https://www.perplexity.ai/search/welcher-prominente-hat-n-letzt-dnb.HG26QTOgcARAqpKBIQ
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Spannend, ich dachte bis jetzt, dass nur #Fleisch vergoldet wird, aber nein. Es wird auch #Gemüse bzw. Gerichte mit Gemüse vergoldet. #notmyworld #vegan #vegetables #meat
https://www.perplexity.ai/search/welcher-prominente-hat-n-letzt-dnb.HG26QTOgcARAqpKBIQ
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Who or what do we blindly trust with our #health? 🤔
White Coats or Black Boxes?
Some thoughts on AI, medicine, human judgment, and how #AI could help us think more instead of less.
Reflections from a conversation with #healthcare leaders on trust, transparency, and who really benefits from AI in #medicine
I grew up in a world where you didn't question your doctor. You didn't ask about lab results. You didn't research your medications. "Doctor's orders" was gospel.
My grandmother never saw her own test results. She wouldn't have known what to do with them anyway.
We like to think we've evolved past that. But have we? Or have we just traded blind trust in white coats for blind trust in #algorithms?
That's the question that kept surfacing in my head after this Expert Panel Discussion I hosted with Sean Martin, CISSP and an extraordinary group of people:
Dr. Robert Pearl, M.D. (former CEO, The Permanente Medical Group, Inc.)
Robert Havasy (HIMSS)
John Sapp Jr (Texas Mutual Insurance Company)
Jim St. Clair (Altarum)
Robert Booker (HITRUST)
We gathered to discuss AI in healthcare. What emerged was something deeper: a reckoning with how we've always delegated medical decisions—and whether AI might actually force us to become smarter, more analytical, more inquisitive about our own health.
Here's my theory: AI doesn't have to make us dumber. It could make us think more, not less. But only if we choose to engage. Only if we demand transparency. Only if we resist trading one form of blind trust for another.
400,000 people die annually from misdiagnoses in America. That's not AI failure—that's human failure we've learned to accept.
The question isn't whether AI will transform healthcare. It already is.
The question is: Will we finally start asking questions?
About our doctors AND our algorithms?
Then tell me—what kind of trust are we building? Who benefits? Who bears the risk?
Let's keep exploring what it means to be human in this Hybrid Analog Digital Society.
Comment, share, and be merry! 🙂
Studio C60 / ITSPmagazine
#HealthcareAI #MedicalEthics #DigitalHealth #technology #cybersecurity #PatientEmpowerment #HealthTech #CriticalThinking #podcast
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Who or what do we blindly trust with our #health? 🤔
White Coats or Black Boxes?
Some thoughts on AI, medicine, human judgment, and how #AI could help us think more instead of less.
Reflections from a conversation with #healthcare leaders on trust, transparency, and who really benefits from AI in #medicine
I grew up in a world where you didn't question your doctor. You didn't ask about lab results. You didn't research your medications. "Doctor's orders" was gospel.
My grandmother never saw her own test results. She wouldn't have known what to do with them anyway.
We like to think we've evolved past that. But have we? Or have we just traded blind trust in white coats for blind trust in #algorithms?
That's the question that kept surfacing in my head after this Expert Panel Discussion I hosted with Sean Martin, CISSP and an extraordinary group of people:
Dr. Robert Pearl, M.D. (former CEO, The Permanente Medical Group, Inc.)
Robert Havasy (HIMSS)
John Sapp Jr (Texas Mutual Insurance Company)
Jim St. Clair (Altarum)
Robert Booker (HITRUST)
We gathered to discuss AI in healthcare. What emerged was something deeper: a reckoning with how we've always delegated medical decisions—and whether AI might actually force us to become smarter, more analytical, more inquisitive about our own health.
Here's my theory: AI doesn't have to make us dumber. It could make us think more, not less. But only if we choose to engage. Only if we demand transparency. Only if we resist trading one form of blind trust for another.
400,000 people die annually from misdiagnoses in America. That's not AI failure—that's human failure we've learned to accept.
The question isn't whether AI will transform healthcare. It already is.
The question is: Will we finally start asking questions?
About our doctors AND our algorithms?
Then tell me—what kind of trust are we building? Who benefits? Who bears the risk?
Let's keep exploring what it means to be human in this Hybrid Analog Digital Society.
Comment, share, and be merry! 🙂
Studio C60 / ITSPmagazine
#HealthcareAI #MedicalEthics #DigitalHealth #technology #cybersecurity #PatientEmpowerment #HealthTech #CriticalThinking #podcast
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Who or what do we blindly trust with our #health? 🤔
White Coats or Black Boxes?
Some thoughts on AI, medicine, human judgment, and how #AI could help us think more instead of less.
Reflections from a conversation with #healthcare leaders on trust, transparency, and who really benefits from AI in #medicine
I grew up in a world where you didn't question your doctor. You didn't ask about lab results. You didn't research your medications. "Doctor's orders" was gospel.
My grandmother never saw her own test results. She wouldn't have known what to do with them anyway.
We like to think we've evolved past that. But have we? Or have we just traded blind trust in white coats for blind trust in #algorithms?
That's the question that kept surfacing in my head after this Expert Panel Discussion I hosted with Sean Martin, CISSP and an extraordinary group of people:
Dr. Robert Pearl, M.D. (former CEO, The Permanente Medical Group, Inc.)
Robert Havasy (HIMSS)
John Sapp Jr (Texas Mutual Insurance Company)
Jim St. Clair (Altarum)
Robert Booker (HITRUST)
We gathered to discuss AI in healthcare. What emerged was something deeper: a reckoning with how we've always delegated medical decisions—and whether AI might actually force us to become smarter, more analytical, more inquisitive about our own health.
Here's my theory: AI doesn't have to make us dumber. It could make us think more, not less. But only if we choose to engage. Only if we demand transparency. Only if we resist trading one form of blind trust for another.
400,000 people die annually from misdiagnoses in America. That's not AI failure—that's human failure we've learned to accept.
The question isn't whether AI will transform healthcare. It already is.
The question is: Will we finally start asking questions?
About our doctors AND our algorithms?
Then tell me—what kind of trust are we building? Who benefits? Who bears the risk?
Let's keep exploring what it means to be human in this Hybrid Analog Digital Society.
Comment, share, and be merry! 🙂
Studio C60 / ITSPmagazine
#HealthcareAI #MedicalEthics #DigitalHealth #technology #cybersecurity #PatientEmpowerment #HealthTech #CriticalThinking #podcast
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Who or what do we blindly trust with our #health? 🤔
White Coats or Black Boxes?
Some thoughts on AI, medicine, human judgment, and how #AI could help us think more instead of less.
Reflections from a conversation with #healthcare leaders on trust, transparency, and who really benefits from AI in #medicine
I grew up in a world where you didn't question your doctor. You didn't ask about lab results. You didn't research your medications. "Doctor's orders" was gospel.
My grandmother never saw her own test results. She wouldn't have known what to do with them anyway.
We like to think we've evolved past that. But have we? Or have we just traded blind trust in white coats for blind trust in #algorithms?
That's the question that kept surfacing in my head after this Expert Panel Discussion I hosted with Sean Martin, CISSP and an extraordinary group of people:
Dr. Robert Pearl, M.D. (former CEO, The Permanente Medical Group, Inc.)
Robert Havasy (HIMSS)
John Sapp Jr (Texas Mutual Insurance Company)
Jim St. Clair (Altarum)
Robert Booker (HITRUST)
We gathered to discuss AI in healthcare. What emerged was something deeper: a reckoning with how we've always delegated medical decisions—and whether AI might actually force us to become smarter, more analytical, more inquisitive about our own health.
Here's my theory: AI doesn't have to make us dumber. It could make us think more, not less. But only if we choose to engage. Only if we demand transparency. Only if we resist trading one form of blind trust for another.
400,000 people die annually from misdiagnoses in America. That's not AI failure—that's human failure we've learned to accept.
The question isn't whether AI will transform healthcare. It already is.
The question is: Will we finally start asking questions?
About our doctors AND our algorithms?
Then tell me—what kind of trust are we building? Who benefits? Who bears the risk?
Let's keep exploring what it means to be human in this Hybrid Analog Digital Society.
Comment, share, and be merry! 🙂
Studio C60 / ITSPmagazine
#HealthcareAI #MedicalEthics #DigitalHealth #technology #cybersecurity #PatientEmpowerment #HealthTech #CriticalThinking #podcast
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The White House movie theater demolition ends a storied era in presidential history – Virginia Public Media (VPM)
Eric Lee / Getty Images / Getty Images An excavator works to clear rubble on Thursday after the East Wing of the White House was demolished in Washington, D.C. The historic White House Family Theater was destroyed as part of President Trump’s effort to make way for a new ballroom.The White House movie theater demolition ends a storied era in presidential history
NPR | By Chloe Veltman, Published October 25, 2025 at 6:23 PM EDT
George Bush Presidential Library and Museum/NARA / April 14, 1989: President George Bush and first lady Barbara Bush host a screening in the White House movie theater. The first lady is sharing a seat with her grandson Jebbie Bush.Former President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama wear 3-D glasses during a Super Bowl party in the White House Family Theater in 2009.It was, on occasion, used by presidents to rehearse important speeches such as the State of the Union address; and at other times, as a spot for visitors to dump their hats, bags and coats. But for more than 80 years, the White House movie theater was mostly a place where the first family and their guests went for entertainment.
Demolition began this week of the White House Family Theater — along with the rest of the White House’s East Wing where the snug, shoe-box-shaped auditorium was located — to make way for a new $300 million ballroom. It marks the end of an era in American movie theater history.
Since its conversion from a cloakroom by Franklin Roosevelt in 1942, the private, 40-ish-seat theater has screened everything from newsreels and documentaries to westerns and musicals. It has been through several facelifts, most recently ditching cream and red floral curtains, and beige walls and seating for all-round “movie-palace red” ornamented with gold molding and dark wood trim following a renovation overseen by first lady Laura Bush in 2004.
“The best perk of the White House is not Air Force One or Camp David or anything else, it’s the wonderful movie theater I get here,” then-President Bill Clinton told film critic Roger Ebert in a 1999 interview.
Jimmy Carter was also a big fan. In a single term, the 39th president screened at least 400 films between this venue and Camp David, starting with All the President’s Men — a movie about the Watergate scandal — soon after he was sworn in. Richard Nixon saw Patton, about the controversial World War II Gen. George S. Patton, multiple times during the Vietnam War. Barack Obama’s many screenings at the theater ranged from Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom and Selma to Julie & Julia and Star Wars Rogue One. President Trump’s picks have included Finding Dory and Sunset Boulevard. John F. Kennedy, who loved James Bond movies, saw From Russia With Love the day before he was assassinated in 1963.
Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: The White House movie theater demolition ends a storied era in presidential history
#2025 #America #Audio #DonaldTrump #Education #Health #History #Libraries #Library #LibraryOfCongress #NPR #October26 #Opinion #Politics #Resistance #Science #Sunday #Transcript #Trump #TrumpAdministration #UnitedStates #VirginiaPublicMedia #VPM
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The White House movie theater demolition ends a storied era in presidential history – Virginia Public Media (VPM)
Eric Lee / Getty Images / Getty Images An excavator works to clear rubble on Thursday after the East Wing of the White House was demolished in Washington, D.C. The historic White House Family Theater was destroyed as part of President Trump’s effort to make way for a new ballroom.The White House movie theater demolition ends a storied era in presidential history
NPR | By Chloe Veltman, Published October 25, 2025 at 6:23 PM EDT
George Bush Presidential Library and Museum/NARA / April 14, 1989: President George Bush and first lady Barbara Bush host a screening in the White House movie theater. The first lady is sharing a seat with her grandson Jebbie Bush.Former President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama wear 3-D glasses during a Super Bowl party in the White House Family Theater in 2009.It was, on occasion, used by presidents to rehearse important speeches such as the State of the Union address; and at other times, as a spot for visitors to dump their hats, bags and coats. But for more than 80 years, the White House movie theater was mostly a place where the first family and their guests went for entertainment.
Demolition began this week of the White House Family Theater — along with the rest of the White House’s East Wing where the snug, shoe-box-shaped auditorium was located — to make way for a new $300 million ballroom. It marks the end of an era in American movie theater history.
Since its conversion from a cloakroom by Franklin Roosevelt in 1942, the private, 40-ish-seat theater has screened everything from newsreels and documentaries to westerns and musicals. It has been through several facelifts, most recently ditching cream and red floral curtains, and beige walls and seating for all-round “movie-palace red” ornamented with gold molding and dark wood trim following a renovation overseen by first lady Laura Bush in 2004.
“The best perk of the White House is not Air Force One or Camp David or anything else, it’s the wonderful movie theater I get here,” then-President Bill Clinton told film critic Roger Ebert in a 1999 interview.
Jimmy Carter was also a big fan. In a single term, the 39th president screened at least 400 films between this venue and Camp David, starting with All the President’s Men — a movie about the Watergate scandal — soon after he was sworn in. Richard Nixon saw Patton, about the controversial World War II Gen. George S. Patton, multiple times during the Vietnam War. Barack Obama’s many screenings at the theater ranged from Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom and Selma to Julie & Julia and Star Wars Rogue One. President Trump’s picks have included Finding Dory and Sunset Boulevard. John F. Kennedy, who loved James Bond movies, saw From Russia With Love the day before he was assassinated in 1963.
Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: The White House movie theater demolition ends a storied era in presidential history
#2025 #America #Audio #DonaldTrump #Education #Health #History #Libraries #Library #LibraryOfCongress #NPR #October26 #Opinion #Politics #Resistance #Science #Sunday #Transcript #Trump #TrumpAdministration #UnitedStates #VirginiaPublicMedia #VPM
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The White House movie theater demolition ends a storied era in presidential history – Virginia Public Media (VPM)
Eric Lee / Getty Images / Getty Images An excavator works to clear rubble on Thursday after the East Wing of the White House was demolished in Washington, D.C. The historic White House Family Theater was destroyed as part of President Trump’s effort to make way for a new ballroom.The White House movie theater demolition ends a storied era in presidential history
NPR | By Chloe Veltman, Published October 25, 2025 at 6:23 PM EDT
George Bush Presidential Library and Museum/NARA / April 14, 1989: President George Bush and first lady Barbara Bush host a screening in the White House movie theater. The first lady is sharing a seat with her grandson Jebbie Bush.Former President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama wear 3-D glasses during a Super Bowl party in the White House Family Theater in 2009.It was, on occasion, used by presidents to rehearse important speeches such as the State of the Union address; and at other times, as a spot for visitors to dump their hats, bags and coats. But for more than 80 years, the White House movie theater was mostly a place where the first family and their guests went for entertainment.
Demolition began this week of the White House Family Theater — along with the rest of the White House’s East Wing where the snug, shoe-box-shaped auditorium was located — to make way for a new $300 million ballroom. It marks the end of an era in American movie theater history.
Since its conversion from a cloakroom by Franklin Roosevelt in 1942, the private, 40-ish-seat theater has screened everything from newsreels and documentaries to westerns and musicals. It has been through several facelifts, most recently ditching cream and red floral curtains, and beige walls and seating for all-round “movie-palace red” ornamented with gold molding and dark wood trim following a renovation overseen by first lady Laura Bush in 2004.
“The best perk of the White House is not Air Force One or Camp David or anything else, it’s the wonderful movie theater I get here,” then-President Bill Clinton told film critic Roger Ebert in a 1999 interview.
Jimmy Carter was also a big fan. In a single term, the 39th president screened at least 400 films between this venue and Camp David, starting with All the President’s Men — a movie about the Watergate scandal — soon after he was sworn in. Richard Nixon saw Patton, about the controversial World War II Gen. George S. Patton, multiple times during the Vietnam War. Barack Obama’s many screenings at the theater ranged from Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom and Selma to Julie & Julia and Star Wars Rogue One. President Trump’s picks have included Finding Dory and Sunset Boulevard. John F. Kennedy, who loved James Bond movies, saw From Russia With Love the day before he was assassinated in 1963.
Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: The White House movie theater demolition ends a storied era in presidential history
#2025 #America #Audio #DonaldTrump #Education #Health #History #Libraries #Library #LibraryOfCongress #NPR #October26 #Opinion #Politics #Resistance #Science #Sunday #Transcript #Trump #TrumpAdministration #UnitedStates #VirginiaPublicMedia #VPM
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The White House movie theater demolition ends a storied era in presidential history – Virginia Public Media (VPM)
Eric Lee / Getty Images / Getty Images An excavator works to clear rubble on Thursday after the East Wing of the White House was demolished in Washington, D.C. The historic White House Family Theater was destroyed as part of President Trump’s effort to make way for a new ballroom.The White House movie theater demolition ends a storied era in presidential history
NPR | By Chloe Veltman, Published October 25, 2025 at 6:23 PM EDT
George Bush Presidential Library and Museum/NARA / April 14, 1989: President George Bush and first lady Barbara Bush host a screening in the White House movie theater. The first lady is sharing a seat with her grandson Jebbie Bush.Former President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama wear 3-D glasses during a Super Bowl party in the White House Family Theater in 2009.It was, on occasion, used by presidents to rehearse important speeches such as the State of the Union address; and at other times, as a spot for visitors to dump their hats, bags and coats. But for more than 80 years, the White House movie theater was mostly a place where the first family and their guests went for entertainment.
Demolition began this week of the White House Family Theater — along with the rest of the White House’s East Wing where the snug, shoe-box-shaped auditorium was located — to make way for a new $300 million ballroom. It marks the end of an era in American movie theater history.
Since its conversion from a cloakroom by Franklin Roosevelt in 1942, the private, 40-ish-seat theater has screened everything from newsreels and documentaries to westerns and musicals. It has been through several facelifts, most recently ditching cream and red floral curtains, and beige walls and seating for all-round “movie-palace red” ornamented with gold molding and dark wood trim following a renovation overseen by first lady Laura Bush in 2004.
“The best perk of the White House is not Air Force One or Camp David or anything else, it’s the wonderful movie theater I get here,” then-President Bill Clinton told film critic Roger Ebert in a 1999 interview.
Jimmy Carter was also a big fan. In a single term, the 39th president screened at least 400 films between this venue and Camp David, starting with All the President’s Men — a movie about the Watergate scandal — soon after he was sworn in. Richard Nixon saw Patton, about the controversial World War II Gen. George S. Patton, multiple times during the Vietnam War. Barack Obama’s many screenings at the theater ranged from Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom and Selma to Julie & Julia and Star Wars Rogue One. President Trump’s picks have included Finding Dory and Sunset Boulevard. John F. Kennedy, who loved James Bond movies, saw From Russia With Love the day before he was assassinated in 1963.
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"We are not aid workers, but a group of athletes that knows how to make things happen in Gaza. We launched this community aid campaign to provide essentials to our communities. Our network of Staff, Athletes and Volunteers work together to secure and distribute resources across the South of the Gaza Strip."
#mutualaid #gaza #sunbirds
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"We are not aid workers, but a group of athletes that knows how to make things happen in Gaza. We launched this community aid campaign to provide essentials to our communities. Our network of Staff, Athletes and Volunteers work together to secure and distribute resources across the South of the Gaza Strip."
#mutualaid #gaza #sunbirds
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"We are not aid workers, but a group of athletes that knows how to make things happen in Gaza. We launched this community aid campaign to provide essentials to our communities. Our network of Staff, Athletes and Volunteers work together to secure and distribute resources across the South of the Gaza Strip."
#mutualaid #gaza #sunbirds
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Accessibility needs that are not accessibility aids.
A device that creates structural inequality for other people (and perhaps yourself) is not an accessibility aid. It may be true that someone needs to use it for material reasons, and that need may be tied to a disability, but structural inequality is not aid.
Prime example is the car. An accessibility need prompted by living in car-first infrastructure does not retroactively make the car an accessibility aid. Indeed, most people who discuss the car that way have disabilities that cause the majority of people like them to be unable to drive at all.
The problem with identifying the building blocks of fundamental inequality into our concept of aid is that people who have accessibility needs begin to identify with the dominating group (which does not care about accessibility) through the lens of their own oppression. When this happens, it becomes impossible to discuss accessibility as a positive force for change in that context because these people with accessibility needs will prioritize their present comforts over long-term liberation that they are not in a position to imagine.
A world built to accommodate accessibility needs is not one in which people weaponize their accessibility needs against each other. It is one in which we have designed the world to accommodate everyone. Structural inequality is not accommodation.
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Mandatory labels for things made with "AI" are insufficient. It's better than nothing, but we're probably not even going to get that, so why not aim for what's *really* needed?
How about ```if anyone sends you something made with "AI", brick up their doors and mailbox and disconnect them from the internet permanently''' ?