Dave Mandl
@dmandl.bsky.social
WFMU DJ, writer (The Wire, Los Angeles Review of Books, etc.), bassist, photographer, amateur linguist. Founder, Brooklyn Psychogeographical Association.
Web: dmandl.tumblr.com
Instagram: @dmandl
Playlists from my radio show: https://wfmu.org/playlists/GX
Web: dmandl.tumblr.com
Instagram: @dmandl
Playlists from my radio show: https://wfmu.org/playlists/GX
Leaf jambalaya, Park Slope.
November 27, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Leaf jambalaya, Park Slope.
Reposted by Dave Mandl
Come and join myself, @jothekendall.bsky.social and @sidsmith.bsky.social for a listening party celebrating Lizard by #kingcrimson at The Water Rats, London on Dec 7. Tickets and more info here! www.tickettailor.com/events/themo...
#70sProg #MusicSly #70sprogressiverock
#70sProg #MusicSly #70sprogressiverock
November 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Come and join myself, @jothekendall.bsky.social and @sidsmith.bsky.social for a listening party celebrating Lizard by #kingcrimson at The Water Rats, London on Dec 7. Tickets and more info here! www.tickettailor.com/events/themo...
#70sProg #MusicSly #70sprogressiverock
#70sProg #MusicSly #70sprogressiverock
Thanksgiving playlist negotiations.
November 27, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Thanksgiving playlist negotiations.
Bushwick, rainy day.
November 27, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Bushwick, rainy day.
Loved the first few episodes of "Wayne" (thx @andrewmale.bsky.social)—fun road-trip plot, sweet teen romance—but some of the violence crosses a line for me. Not condemning it, just saying it's hard to watch. I see very little contemporary TV/film violence, so I wonder if I'm just not inured to it.
November 27, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Loved the first few episodes of "Wayne" (thx @andrewmale.bsky.social)—fun road-trip plot, sweet teen romance—but some of the violence crosses a line for me. Not condemning it, just saying it's hard to watch. I see very little contemporary TV/film violence, so I wonder if I'm just not inured to it.
#NowPlaying JJ Whitefield, "Off the Grid." Filmic, library music–ic. Nice mellow grooves for a gray fall morning. From the Italian label Sonor Music Editions. jjwhitefield.bandcamp.com/album/off-th...
November 26, 2025 at 1:43 PM
#NowPlaying JJ Whitefield, "Off the Grid." Filmic, library music–ic. Nice mellow grooves for a gray fall morning. From the Italian label Sonor Music Editions. jjwhitefield.bandcamp.com/album/off-th...
I "appeared drowsy" for about seven hours last night.
November 26, 2025 at 1:39 PM
I "appeared drowsy" for about seven hours last night.
Dude being absolutely horrified by people "lecturing the creator of Flask and Django/datasette" 😮 says a lot about the techbro mindset. The responses are priceless.
Wow 80% bad-faith responses, and people lecturing the creator of Flask here and the creator of Django/datasette in the comments on why AI is useless for software engineering...
Is this platform still massively against AI or has it moved more towards acceptance?
November 26, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Dude being absolutely horrified by people "lecturing the creator of Flask and Django/datasette" 😮 says a lot about the techbro mindset. The responses are priceless.
Good piece on how mountains of cash are moving into private investment vehicles, which are much more opaque, less scrutinized, and less regulated than public companies.
As companies eschew IPOs for private funding, wealth and power are concentrating in the hands of private equity, credit funds, and venture capitalists. Our essay of the week exposes the $22 trillion world of private capital.
By Nick Lichtenberg in @fortune.com
buff.ly/kBqfZxl
By Nick Lichtenberg in @fortune.com
buff.ly/kBqfZxl
November 26, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Good piece on how mountains of cash are moving into private investment vehicles, which are much more opaque, less scrutinized, and less regulated than public companies.
Reposted by Dave Mandl
You know it's a bubble when...
November 25, 2025 at 5:36 AM
You know it's a bubble when...
I want to see a review of an organ concert where they say "He/she pulled out all the stops."
November 25, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I want to see a review of an organ concert where they say "He/she pulled out all the stops."
Hearing again and again from friends whose moderately wealthy parents are having all their money extracted by the elder-care industry, which bilks the elderly out of *tens of thousands* a month, leaving their kids with zero. "They keep you alive long enough to drain all your money." What a racket.
November 25, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Hearing again and again from friends whose moderately wealthy parents are having all their money extracted by the elder-care industry, which bilks the elderly out of *tens of thousands* a month, leaving their kids with zero. "They keep you alive long enough to drain all your money." What a racket.
This continues a long tradition of destroying historical artifacts using faddish new technologies that aren't what they're cracked up to be. Examples: creating crappy digital copies of analog recordings, and storing old newspapers on microfiche. The latter described in the great book "Double Fold."
Somebody posted an old photo in a Facebook local group and asked if anyone could clean it up. Well-meaning people turned to #AI. Lots of responders seemed happy with the results, but this is how you destroy historical records.
November 25, 2025 at 1:40 PM
This continues a long tradition of destroying historical artifacts using faddish new technologies that aren't what they're cracked up to be. Examples: creating crappy digital copies of analog recordings, and storing old newspapers on microfiche. The latter described in the great book "Double Fold."
Join me tonight at 7 p.m. ET for this week's installment of "It's Complicated" (an hour of prog and prog-adjacent music), broadcast live from WFMU's Studio A in Jersey City. Listen anywhere in the universe at wfmu.org or via the free @wfmu.bsky.social app. (Pictured: Shonen Bat.)
November 24, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Join me tonight at 7 p.m. ET for this week's installment of "It's Complicated" (an hour of prog and prog-adjacent music), broadcast live from WFMU's Studio A in Jersey City. Listen anywhere in the universe at wfmu.org or via the free @wfmu.bsky.social app. (Pictured: Shonen Bat.)
This will age well.
Over many interviews, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Michael Scherer about how he plans to remake America’s public-health system. Can he lead the scientific establishment he’s spent much of his life crusading against?
Read more in our new cover story: theatln.tc/q9hXxlbM
Read more in our new cover story: theatln.tc/q9hXxlbM
November 24, 2025 at 11:13 PM
This will age well.
Reposted by Dave Mandl
Karel Martens: Every Day Is a New Day Calendar for 2026
November 24, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Karel Martens: Every Day Is a New Day Calendar for 2026
Heard Sun Ra's "Lanquidity" on my real stereo, with the big speakers and everything, last night, and realized I'd only ever heard it on earbuds, Bluetooth speakers, etc., in the past. Holy cow, what a difference. An indisputable sonic masterpiece.
November 24, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Heard Sun Ra's "Lanquidity" on my real stereo, with the big speakers and everything, last night, and realized I'd only ever heard it on earbuds, Bluetooth speakers, etc., in the past. Holy cow, what a difference. An indisputable sonic masterpiece.
"I finally got a pair of bike gloves."
"How are they different from regular gloves?"
"I bought them at a bike shop."
"How are they different from regular gloves?"
"I bought them at a bike shop."
November 24, 2025 at 1:53 PM
"I finally got a pair of bike gloves."
"How are they different from regular gloves?"
"I bought them at a bike shop."
"How are they different from regular gloves?"
"I bought them at a bike shop."
You know AI poses no dangers at all when insurance companies start excluding it from their coverage.
November 24, 2025 at 12:25 PM
You know AI poses no dangers at all when insurance companies start excluding it from their coverage.
On "Quiet, piggy": The words were bad, obviously, but they're a lot more ominous when you see a video showing how they were spoken. It's easy to picture how this man reportedly told a girl that he was capable of having her whole family killed if she revealed what he'd done.
November 24, 2025 at 12:14 PM
On "Quiet, piggy": The words were bad, obviously, but they're a lot more ominous when you see a video showing how they were spoken. It's easy to picture how this man reportedly told a girl that he was capable of having her whole family killed if she revealed what he'd done.
Delighted to learn that Keyboards, one of my favorite accounts on Mastodon, is here on Bsky also. @keyboards.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Delighted to learn that Keyboards, one of my favorite accounts on Mastodon, is here on Bsky also. @keyboards.bsky.social