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  1. Donald Trump sparked widespread outrage Thursday
    by abruptly firing Librarian of Congress #Carla #Hayden with a two-sentence email sent by the White House’s deputy director of presidential personnel.

    According to her bio, Hayden was the first woman and first African American to lead the national library,
    which is the largest in the world and home to more than 178 million items — from books to photographs to primary historical documents.

    Hayden was also the first professional librarian appointed to the role in decades, The Washington Post noted.

    She was nominated for a 10-year term in 2016 by then-President Barack Obama and confirmed by the Senate with bipartisan support
    commondreams.org/news/trump-fi

  2. Former U.S. national security adviser #Susan #Rice delivered a damning critique Thursday of Donald Trump and his foreign policy agenda for aiming to appease Russian President Vladimir Putin during the ongoing invasion of Ukraine.

    “The fundamentals of national security — that America needs to be strong, that we need to stand with our allies, we need to stand for our values, we have to mean what we say … never used to be under serious question,” she told MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell

    “And along comes Donald #Trump, who really is like the #Neville #Chamberlain of the Republican Party,” Rice continued. “He’s an appeaser. He’s a surrender monkey. And that’s what we’re seeing in his approach to Ukraine.”

    Chamberlain exercised a policy of “appeasement” during his tenure as British prime minister in the years leading up to World War II, in a failed attempt to prevent Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler from expanding German control of Europe and waging war on the United Kingdom.

    Trump has long been accused of having a "curious" relationship with Putin and recently refused to endorse a Ukrainian victory over Russia.

    “We’ve seen him fold to blandishments from #Xi #Jinping and many others when it was convenient for him and served his personal interests,” Rice told O’Donnell,
    referring to the many instances in which Trump has praised the Chinese president from the White House.

    “So that is why more than 700 Democrats, Republicans and Independents
    — very senior national security leaders
    — came together to oppose Donald Trump and support [Vice President] Kamala Harris,” she continued,

    referring to an open letter published last month.

    The document was signed by current and former defense officials, including former defense secretaries #Chuck #Hagel and #William #Cohen
    — Republicans who served respectively under Democratic former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton
    — as well as ex-CIA director #Michael #Hayden

    huffpost.com/entry/susan-rice-

  3. #GenAI #contentcreation #DATAset #hayden #bobdylan

    Seems to be sourcing images from other music artists. That makes sense.

    The one guy looks like #Canadian artist, #Hayden The guy on the right looks like that Gyllenhaal guy (sp?).

    I guess it used the colors from the "original".

    From #Designer page 1, i entered the following prompt as to NOT #anticipate what will likely generate a "better" image:

    "CD Music Album Cover for a collection of Rock artists released in 2022, compiled in 2010, but recorded between 1996 and 2005. the dates aren't relevant and MUST NOT appear in the text. There doesn't need to be text. I have images to upload."

    As many of the #AIentrepreneurs #Entrepreneurs likely discover at one time or another: One must not expect to understand every nuance of the realm of #AI
    It's simply too vast to tackle (as I prefer to have a front-to-back understanding of most things I do).

    * How many processes are involved in the production of that image?
    * What is it legally NOT allowed to produce?

    More questions about it, but this is based on a #MicrosoftDesigner #microsoft template, which in and of itself has #VAST #implicationS

    More to come. I'll post iterations as comments here.

    #OriginalArt / #photoshopped 35mm photo attached:

    RE: #HaydenDesser
    wasteyourdaysaway.com/

  4. For more than 40 years, #Eric #Owen #Moss #Architects and developers #Samitaur #Constructs have been creating a compilation of more than 30 rugged, deconstructed structures at #Hayden #Tract, a former heavy manufacturing hub in #Culver #City, California.

    The stream of experimental edifices—many filled by creative and tech firms—have short, catchy names like #Pterodactyl, #Beehive, #Dune, #Stealth, #Waffle, and #Umbrella.

    As the area has filled up, it’s begun expanding eastward (along with a number of unrelated projects) across Ballona Creek into Los Angeles, where yet another mini city is starting to aggregate near the La Cienega Expo Line light rail station, which opened in 2012.

    By far the biggest building of the bunch (its height allowance came thanks to the addition of transit in the area) is the recently completed (W)rapper, a 17-story, 235-foot-tall tower that initially gained approval back in 2001 but was delayed by a series of setbacks that included the 2008 recession and a multi-year peer review necessitated by the fact that the planning department had basically never seen anything like it

    metropolismag.com/projects/eri

  5. For more than 40 years, #Eric #Owen #Moss #Architects and developers #Samitaur #Constructs have been creating a compilation of more than 30 rugged, deconstructed structures at #Hayden #Tract, a former heavy manufacturing hub in #Culver #City, California.

    The stream of experimental edifices—many filled by creative and tech firms—have short, catchy names like #Pterodactyl, #Beehive, #Dune, #Stealth, #Waffle, and #Umbrella.

    As the area has filled up, it’s begun expanding eastward (along with a number of unrelated projects) across Ballona Creek into Los Angeles, where yet another mini city is starting to aggregate near the La Cienega Expo Line light rail station, which opened in 2012.

    By far the biggest building of the bunch (its height allowance came thanks to the addition of transit in the area) is the recently completed (W)rapper, a 17-story, 235-foot-tall tower that initially gained approval back in 2001 but was delayed by a series of setbacks that included the 2008 recession and a multi-year peer review necessitated by the fact that the planning department had basically never seen anything like it

    metropolismag.com/projects/eri

  6. For more than 40 years, #Eric #Owen #Moss #Architects and developers #Samitaur #Constructs have been creating a compilation of more than 30 rugged, deconstructed structures at #Hayden #Tract, a former heavy manufacturing hub in #Culver #City, California.

    The stream of experimental edifices—many filled by creative and tech firms—have short, catchy names like #Pterodactyl, #Beehive, #Dune, #Stealth, #Waffle, and #Umbrella.

    As the area has filled up, it’s begun expanding eastward (along with a number of unrelated projects) across Ballona Creek into Los Angeles, where yet another mini city is starting to aggregate near the La Cienega Expo Line light rail station, which opened in 2012.

    By far the biggest building of the bunch (its height allowance came thanks to the addition of transit in the area) is the recently completed (W)rapper, a 17-story, 235-foot-tall tower that initially gained approval back in 2001 but was delayed by a series of setbacks that included the 2008 recession and a multi-year peer review necessitated by the fact that the planning department had basically never seen anything like it

    metropolismag.com/projects/eri

  7. For more than 40 years, #Eric #Owen #Moss #Architects and developers #Samitaur #Constructs have been creating a compilation of more than 30 rugged, deconstructed structures at #Hayden #Tract, a former heavy manufacturing hub in #Culver #City, California.

    The stream of experimental edifices—many filled by creative and tech firms—have short, catchy names like #Pterodactyl, #Beehive, #Dune, #Stealth, #Waffle, and #Umbrella.

    As the area has filled up, it’s begun expanding eastward (along with a number of unrelated projects) across Ballona Creek into Los Angeles, where yet another mini city is starting to aggregate near the La Cienega Expo Line light rail station, which opened in 2012.

    By far the biggest building of the bunch (its height allowance came thanks to the addition of transit in the area) is the recently completed (W)rapper, a 17-story, 235-foot-tall tower that initially gained approval back in 2001 but was delayed by a series of setbacks that included the 2008 recession and a multi-year peer review necessitated by the fact that the planning department had basically never seen anything like it

    metropolismag.com/projects/eri

  8. For more than 40 years, #Eric #Owen #Moss #Architects and developers #Samitaur #Constructs have been creating a compilation of more than 30 rugged, deconstructed structures at #Hayden #Tract, a former heavy manufacturing hub in #Culver #City, California.

    The stream of experimental edifices—many filled by creative and tech firms—have short, catchy names like #Pterodactyl, #Beehive, #Dune, #Stealth, #Waffle, and #Umbrella.

    As the area has filled up, it’s begun expanding eastward (along with a number of unrelated projects) across Ballona Creek into Los Angeles, where yet another mini city is starting to aggregate near the La Cienega Expo Line light rail station, which opened in 2012.

    By far the biggest building of the bunch (its height allowance came thanks to the addition of transit in the area) is the recently completed (W)rapper, a 17-story, 235-foot-tall tower that initially gained approval back in 2001 but was delayed by a series of setbacks that included the 2008 recession and a multi-year peer review necessitated by the fact that the planning department had basically never seen anything like it

    metropolismag.com/projects/eri

  9. ‘A gas-guzzling villain’s lair’: welcome to LA’s grotesque new high-rise district

    This 60-acre swath of former warehouses, known as the #Hayden #Tract, is an exhibition of architectural experimentation, a place where windows slant, columns convulse and globular protuberances burst out of walls. Rippling glass canopies erupt through rooftops, held on mangled knots of steel, while other structures are flayed open or gnawed down to their bones, their exposed skeletons mutilated beyond recognition.

    It looks like the buildings have been attacked by some flesh-eating bacteria or succumbed to a violent parasitic invasion.

    The name of the virulent strain in question is #Eric #Owen #Moss. The 79-year-old #architect has been cutting, twisting and otherwise creatively torturing this tract of postwar industrial sheds since the 1980s, like a medieval mason chipping away at his model town.

    The result is an office district like no other, a place where a single architectural imagination has been left to run riot, conjuring ever-more elaborate fever dreams, fuelled by the open chequebook of a trusting patron

    theguardian.com/artanddesign/2