David August

A voiceover I recorded for a sketch comedy script I wrote that does not yet have a time and place to be produced or performed: Intro to Law & Order: ChatGPT https://soundcloud.com/david-august/law-order-chatgpt-intro #actor #acting #voiceover #voice

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Not to be grim, but have bottled water on hand, a radio for updates, medications and if you can have a few dollars in cash in your wallet, do it. The cybersecurity issues cropping up 2 weeks before midterms while the president’s administration is actively working to thwart the will of the […]

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A six-year-old Chinese girl, Lian Yunzhi, broke the Rubik’s Cube world record this month, solving it in 4.27 seconds. American tech oligarchs warn that the US is falling behind in cube technology, and say, “you all gotta get on board with the cube or you’ll be left behind.”

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Cattle were on the loose in downtown Kansas City Sunday morning, after a truck carrying 120 of them crashed and overturned on the highway. No word yet on whether the cattle are ok with this, or if they have beef.

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The Associated Press reports Moscow agreed yesterday to resume three-way negotiations next month with Washington and Kyiv. There are reports of Putin is insisting on a reach-around. Ew.

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The U.S. government this month awarded funds to restore the Alexander Hamilton museum on the island of Nevis. Hamilton was born there, and they’re not gonna miss their shot to fix up the room where it happened.

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A voiceover I recorded for a sketch comedy script I wrote that does not yet have a time and place to be produced or performed: Intro to Law & Order: ChatGPT https://soundcloud.com/david-august/law-order-chatgpt-intro #actor #acting #voiceover #voice

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Worked a particular piece of text in a scene with an #acting #coaching client. Material wasn't coming easily (some does, some requires more work), but by working it, breaking it down and finding where it is, and wants to go, it opened up and got vivid. #ActingCoach #ActingCoaching #actorslife

Not to be grim, but have bottled water on hand, a radio for updates, medications and if you can have a few dollars in cash in your wallet, do it. The cybersecurity issues cropping up 2 weeks before midterms while the president’s administration is actively working to thwart the will of the […]

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The President joked during his speeches on Friday and Saturday that if people have lunch at his Mar-a-Lago club, “for $5,000, you’ll get one hamburger and a small dessert.” I think “let them eat cake,” was a more compassionate line. See lines like this (written by me) and more in This Week This […]

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Much to unpack in the rolling disaster that is Hague-seth, but turns out the globe that my mom had (from her parents) was the same type Eisenhower had. Also, I f*cking know how to move that globe without breaking it. I dusted it for years and vacuumed under it. Like weekly. I am not a […]

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Earlier today an AI large language model (LLM) said something in response that was either impressively insightful, or trite and very “I am 14 and this is deep.” I haven’t had coffee yet today so I cannot tell easily. Does this mean I am failing to meet my language processing benchmarks and need […]

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Worked a scene with an #acting #coaching client, had them do two takes, very differently in terms of vulnerability. On a third, sort of combined them. Like counterpoint, there was cool depth and tensions that came up for the character. Nice discoveries. #ActingCoach #ActingCoaching #actorslife

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. @bobchiarito writing for Evanston Roundtable gets union realities way wrong. Hopefully editing error: took almost 10 paragraphs to even mention @teamsters are in play. NNU spox says accurately: each bargaining unit gets 1 union. Bob, and Evanston Roundtable editors, fail to express that […]

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evanstonroundtable.comevanstonroundtable.com**Sign up for our free newsletters**! * Daily Brief Evanston’s latest news and features * Raising Evanston 1X week: everything E-town for families Sign up * * * For more than a year, nurses at Endeavor Health, which includes Evanston Hospital, have been trying to unionize. Now, with Wednesday’s announcement that Endeavor Health and Rush University System for Health — where nurses unionized in May — will merge, one union may have to make way for another. The merger is expected to close in 2027 and will operate under the Rush name, according to a press release from Rush. If the efforts of the Endeavor nurses to unionize succeeds before the merger, Rush may find itself with two unions representing one group of employees — which would force one to make way for the other, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. Representatives from Endeavor and Rush did not respond to requests for comment for this story. Under the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Labor-Management Standards OLMS, a union merger is when one union (or more) ceases to exist and its membership and assets are absorbed into another union or a new one. In that case, the union to be discontinued must file a terminal LM‑2 report, and only the surviving union continues to operate. By contrast, an affiliation is when two unions remain separate but are chartered under the same parent body or share a governance structure. In an affiliation, both unions continue to exist and represent different groups of employees — such as administrative staff and nurses. The nurses at Rush University System for Health, which has three hospitals in Chicago, Aurora and Oak Park, **voted to unionize** its Chicago hospital in May, which is represented by the National Nurses Organizing Committee (NNOC), an affiliate of the larger National Nurses United. Additionally, NNOC is also hoping to form a union at Endeavor’s Edward Hospital in Naperville and last week petitioned to hold an election. The petition was filed with the National Labor Relations Board by National Nurses United, the national affiliate of the NNOC. Meanwhile, nurses at Endeavor have been trying to unionize four other of its nine hospitals — Evanston, Skokie, Glenbrook and Highland Park hospitals — for more than a year by joining Teamsters Local 743. They have not yet filed to hold an election. The nurses have said their the effort is driven by concerns that Endeavor understaffed nurses to cut costs, jeopardized patient safety and routinely required nurses to work past their shifts without pay. Whether or not two unions can represent nurses at the new Rush after the merger is not clear. If the nurses are considered one bargaining unit, then one of the unions would have to step aside. However, NNOC union member told the RoundTable that there may be separate bargaining units at each hospital in the system, allowing both unions to negotiate. The NNOC union member said, “My understanding is that one union would represent one bargaining unit. The bargaining unit being the nurses at one hospital. The 1,200 registered nurses at Edward Hospital [in Naperville] are one bargaining unit. If they win their election, NNOC would represent RNs at Edward. Two unions cannot represent one bargaining unit.” Adding uncertainty to the Rush/Endeavor merger is the fact that the NNOC has not yet negotiated a contract with Rush and Teamsters Local 743 has not been voted in at any of the four Endeavor hospitals where it’s talking to employees. Brenda Langford, an RN who is a member of NNOC’s board of directors, said in an email that the NNOC, not the Teamsters Local 743, “is the only union that has filed for an election with any of the hospitals in the Endeavor system.” However, if Local 743 forms a union at Endeavor and both unions negotiate contracts before the merger, both would have to be honored, according to Timothy Egan, founder of Coalition Resources Group in Horizon City, Texas, which provides HR legal witnesses and consulting and specializes in labor issues. “All union contracts have an assign and successor clause in the contract. Basically that means if the hospital is sold or closed or goes bankrupt, that union contract is still in full force and effect for the duration of the contract,” Egan said. On Thursday, the day after the merger was announced, a Teamsters Local 743 spokesperson told the RoundTable that the merger will not derail efforts of Endeavor nurses to unionize. “This does not affect our organizing efforts. Teamsters Local 743 has seen tremendous support from thousands of nurses across the health care system, and we remain committed to engaging with them, listening to their priorities, and building the collective power needed to address their concerns,” the spokesperson said. Additionally, nurses supporting the proposed union at Endeavor **posted on Instagram** Thursday via an account called TeamsterNurses, saying that “mergers always mean change and we do not know what those changes will be.” The post urged fellow nurses to join them, saying that by unionizing they will have a voice. “The only way we can have a voice in the changes that come from the Rush/Endeavor merger is by forming our union … . 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threads.comPaul Van der Meer (@paul.vandermeer.779) on ThreadsVance on who to vote for in the midterms: "Vote for the people who have solutions to lower the cost of gas, don't vote for the people who made the problem to begin with."

I think JD Vance just suggested everyone vote for the Democrats, and not the Republicans, ya know, since the GOP are the ones who started the war with Iran. 😳🤦‍♂️😝 #USpol RE: https://www.threads.com/@paul.vandermeer.779/post/Devp8t5iKll

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What a walking joke our Vice President is. #USpol

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Looking through an #acting #coaching client's headshot proofs from their most recent photo session. So good to see their in-character energies, who they are as an actor, coming through. #ActingCoach #ActingCoaching #PhotoSelects #headshots

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threads.comMillesini Nielsen (@millesini) on ThreadsUkraine has destroyed its 6th datacenter in Russia and eliminated “PutinDaBest”, “Trumplover0472946” and “UkraineIsANaziState047280”. Slava Ukraini!🔥

russian data being uploaded to the cloud. 😲🔥 RE: https://www.threads.com/@millesini/post/DeovpGTiB8Y

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It is unpleasant how so much of the western world is now (and has been) preparing for war. The reality is, unless russia were to change their stances on things, russia is waging war (overt in Ukraine and hybrid elsewhere) and speaking of waging more war, to such a degree that it makes sense […]

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Working with an #acting #coaching client on a scene their character is threatening the other character, and had them make a single change that brought out the character's impatience and cruelty in a new way. Good discoveries. #ActingCoach #ActingCoaching #actorslife #audition

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Had an #acting #coaching client use substitution (AKA transference) in a rehearsal take, and it opened up a new level of devastation and specificity for the scene. I love when a technique does just what was hoped, and great to have clients who can run with them. #ActingCoach #ActingCoaching #act

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Inflation worsened last month, to 3.7 percent, in a sign that prices remain elevated as midterm elections near. President Trump warned that if you mention high prices again, he'll make sure ice disappears your whole family. Guess I should expect a visit. #USpol #satire

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Netflix is laying off 6 percent of its workforce after posting “are you still working” on their computer screens and not getting a “yes” response. #TV Threads

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Democratic leader Congressman Hakeem Jeffries has said that if the Democrats take a majority in the House after the midterms, impeachment is neither on nor off the table. In response, Schrödinger's cat said, “what the fuck is this shit?!”

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Actors routinely memorize thousands of words to do their work, but sure: almost no one can repeat back 5 words 30 minutes later. /s I learned a sequence of random band names in the last century, as part of a memory technique training. I can recite them now, in order. He is such a broken […]

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An #acting #coaching client did a take informing the other character of what was going on. For the next take, had them try something more personal too, and the subtle shift, the greater intimacy, was such a good layer to add. Good to see my client find that. #ActingCoach #ActingCoaching #actors

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. @senduckworth potus is on the cusp of liquidating Congress and you think people should “play nice” and not pursue impeachment?! You, personally, are in an existential fight, regardless of whether or not you want to be. You rep me, I voted for you, please recognize the fight you are in and […]

A voiceover I recorded for a sketch comedy script I wrote that does not yet have a time and place to be produced or performed: Intro to Law & Order: ChatGPT https://soundcloud.com/david-august/law-order-chatgpt-intro #actor #acting #voiceover #voice

A six-year-old Chinese girl, Lian Yunzhi, broke the Rubik’s Cube world record this month, solving it in 4.27 seconds. American tech oligarchs warn that the US is falling behind in cube technology, and say, “you all gotta get on board with the cube or you’ll be left behind.”

Cattle were on the loose in downtown Kansas City Sunday morning, after a truck carrying 120 of them crashed and overturned on the highway. No word yet on whether the cattle are ok with this, or if they have beef.

The Associated Press reports Moscow agreed yesterday to resume three-way negotiations next month with Washington and Kyiv. There are reports of Putin is insisting on a reach-around. Ew.

The U.S. government this month awarded funds to restore the Alexander Hamilton museum on the island of Nevis. Hamilton was born there, and they’re not gonna miss their shot to fix up the room where it happened.

Much to unpack in the rolling disaster that is Hague-seth, but turns out the globe that my mom had (from her parents) was the same type Eisenhower had. Also, I f*cking know how to move that globe without breaking it. I dusted it for years and vacuumed under it. Like weekly. I am not a […]

Earlier today an AI large language model (LLM) said something in response that was either impressively insightful, or trite and very “I am 14 and this is deep.” I haven’t had coffee yet today so I cannot tell easily. Does this mean I am failing to meet my language processing benchmarks and need […]

Worked a scene with an #acting #coaching client, had them do two takes, very differently in terms of vulnerability. On a third, sort of combined them. Like counterpoint, there was cool depth and tensions that came up for the character. Nice discoveries. #ActingCoach #ActingCoaching #actorslife

threads.comPaul Van der Meer (@paul.vandermeer.779) on ThreadsVance on who to vote for in the midterms: "Vote for the people who have solutions to lower the cost of gas, don't vote for the people who made the problem to begin with."

I think JD Vance just suggested everyone vote for the Democrats, and not the Republicans, ya know, since the GOP are the ones who started the war with Iran. 😳🤦‍♂️😝 #USpol RE: https://www.threads.com/@paul.vandermeer.779/post/Devp8t5iKll

What a walking joke our Vice President is. #USpol

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Looking through an #acting #coaching client's headshot proofs from their most recent photo session. So good to see their in-character energies, who they are as an actor, coming through. #ActingCoach #ActingCoaching #PhotoSelects #headshots

threads.comMillesini Nielsen (@millesini) on ThreadsUkraine has destroyed its 6th datacenter in Russia and eliminated “PutinDaBest”, “Trumplover0472946” and “UkraineIsANaziState047280”. Slava Ukraini!🔥

russian data being uploaded to the cloud. 😲🔥 RE: https://www.threads.com/@millesini/post/DeovpGTiB8Y

It is unpleasant how so much of the western world is now (and has been) preparing for war. The reality is, unless russia were to change their stances on things, russia is waging war (overt in Ukraine and hybrid elsewhere) and speaking of waging more war, to such a degree that it makes sense […]

Working with an #acting #coaching client on a scene their character is threatening the other character, and had them make a single change that brought out the character's impatience and cruelty in a new way. Good discoveries. #ActingCoach #ActingCoaching #actorslife #audition

Had an #acting #coaching client use substitution (AKA transference) in a rehearsal take, and it opened up a new level of devastation and specificity for the scene. I love when a technique does just what was hoped, and great to have clients who can run with them. #ActingCoach #ActingCoaching #act

Inflation worsened last month, to 3.7 percent, in a sign that prices remain elevated as midterm elections near. President Trump warned that if you mention high prices again, he'll make sure ice disappears your whole family. Guess I should expect a visit. #USpol #satire

Netflix is laying off 6 percent of its workforce after posting “are you still working” on their computer screens and not getting a “yes” response. #TV Threads