Junuary came a few weeks early #pnw #photography #ferry #seattle

MurderBot, welcome to @thewaroncars.bsky.social (from Martha Wells' newest book in the Murderbot Diaries, "Platform Decay"

We are not asking Sound Transit to do something impossible. We are asking them to do what they said they would do. Build the connection. Build the future. Build the damn trains.

NEW OP-ED// Op-Ed: Join the Save Ballard Rail March on April 19 By Carl Aslund via @theurbanist.org

NEW OP-ED// Op-Ed: Reconnect and Automate Ballard to West Seattle Rail to Save ST3 By Scott Kubly, Trevor Reed via @theurbanist.org

Dave Somers is the Snohomish County Executive and chair of the Sound Transit board. He is arguing for abandoning promises made to voters and not trying to build all of ST3. We will not allow him to succeed. There is no universe in which we abandon any piece of rail to Ballard.

Humpy the redeemer was sacrificed to a bear during the salmon run so that the mariners could complete the comeback

I’m really hoping they make Humpy the Redeemer a permanent feature of the third base ramp #goms

Rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic

Once again, you are thinking way too small. Remove him! bsky.app/profile/edma...

The guardians have thrown one (1) strike to randy in three at bats #mariners

Welcome to 2026 Cole Young

The hotdogs from heaven throwers need to put a little mustard on it. Most ended up in the club seats

"'It helps you read 50 papers in a month rather than 50 in a year.'" What's lost when a goal of graduate school is volume rather than careful reading? A few things. I learned to write academic papers by learning to read academic papers and attend to their structure and authors' rhetorical moves. 🧵

ST3 wasn’t just a promise to spend X dollars on transit. It was a promise to deliver specific transit projects. And yet, the only effort so far is to cut projects, not find new revenue to deliver on promises.

Build the damn trains!

Ferries on the sound just after sunset #pnw #ferry #sunset #photography #abolishice

Also I’m sorry but I don’t think this is Claude developing a personality or ethical values. It is *simulating* those things because that is what humans value and reward. The programmers are falling for their own Clever Hans trick!

This article mostly cycles through shallow philosophical discussions (what even is intelligence, no one knows), strawman arguments, overwrought descriptions of the anthropic office and its employees, and wild anecdotes about Claude that clearly show it's a stochastic parrot

This technology already exists and is widely used. It doesn't involve 'government surveillance' and would not allow ICE or any other government agency to stop individual cars. Just say you think thousands of kids dying every year is worth it so you can speed! www.autoweek.com/news/a615322...

Why is Mike Tyson doing a Denethor on my tv

Classic Coby Bryant looking for the shot rather than the pass

A little late, but good to see SDOT do this sort of outreach. Would be even better if they implemented some of the other suggestions in this op-ed to defeat traffic woes www.theurbanist.org/2026/01/31/o...

I got scared when I saw the byline that Kadie Bell Sata had left SDOT but, whew, she's still on the org chart. Kadie's great. And it's cool that SDOT people can post in the Urbanist as private citizens under their own byline.

We need to address how SEPA is weaponized for anti-environmental ends

you know what's better for orcas? If we don't fill the Sound with microplastics. you know what generates microplastics? car tires. you know how you stop people from commuting so much? BY BUILDING DENSER HOUSING

That feeling when you’re a transit rider and Sound Transit is about to connect Seattle to the Eastside by rail. #thisisyourcity

Why don't well-respected people like our plagiarism machines and CSAM generators?

In our conservative estimate, 41 percent of Grok’s images — or 1.8 million — were sexualized depictions of women. Separately, CCDH analyzed how many were sexualized images across genders and ages. Their findings: an estimated 3 million images, including more than 23,000 of children.

Bike ride to work this morning got a little foggy near the train yard #photography #seattle

Oh hell yeah

“In my mind, the Seattle Transit Measure is about funding transit service. And so I know there’s a tendency to want to put a bunch of other stuff in there. I really do want to make sure that we are prioritizing getting our service levels and reliability back up.”

Help pass this bill to improve safety in two minutes: Go to app.leg.wa.gov/csi/House?se... 1) Select the agenda item HB 2095 2) Click that you want your position noted for the record 3) Sign in “pro” and fill out your info Done! You just helped pass a bill that will keep people safer

We don't need a more professional gestapo patrolling our streets.

This is simply not technically possible. You cannot generate enough writing in-house to train an LLM. You cannot generate enough art in-house to train a GAN. People who think they have a model "trained on our own material" are using a base model of mass-scraped data, unknowingly or disingenuously.

Sun breaking through the clouds #photography #ferry #pnw

Abolish and prosecute ICE. They did a murder in broad daylight today. Imagine what they're doing in the closed facilities we're somehow not even allowed to see.

I realize this is a story from like 50 years ago in internet time, but I wrote about how it was journalistic malpractice for major news orgs to claim that "Grok apologized" when it literally CANNOT do that, and there is no sign that xAI has made a single change to its deepfake porn generator.

Are there any editors at these legacy MSM outlets who have basic tech literacy? This should be disqualifying.

1. Headlines everywhere today read "Grok apologizes." This is bullshit. A chatbot is not something that can apologize. Pretending otherwise is simple laundering these companies' bullshit about what AI is, while diffusing blame away from the human beings that developed and released this system.

Clear skies over Mt Hood #photography #pnw

In my case, this painstaking labor in the process through which the science gets done. Science isn't measuring stuff in a lab. It's thinking deeply, extracting the heart of idea from the soup of thoughts running through my mind, molding it, and finding a way to communicate that idea to others.

My least popular (and most correct) view is that cars should be automatically limited to the local speed limit. Put the pedal to the floor and you still can't go over 25mph in a residential area. (15 in Manhattan btw)

…in case you’re wondering what’s going on behind the scenes with shared streets…

Sunsets exactly one year apart #seattle #pnw #photography #sunset

Even ignoring the obvious AI slop figure, the paper is essentially applying an existing model to 1 (one) tiny open dataset. Taking it at face value, it reads like an undergrad take-home assignment that would get an F

Wow this is bad.

Now's the time of year I have to bike home in the dark, but at least I get to see cool sunsets over the water #photography #pnw #seattle