Premium Newsletter: The Hater's Guide To OpenAI, a 17k word guide to Sam Altman's decade-long con built on lies about the capabilities and economics of AI, helped by the media, analysts and the magnificent 7. OpenAI's IPO poses huge risks to retail investors. www.wheresyoured.at/hatersguide-...

It’s sea lion season in Seattle - lots of barking by the beach!

"When a hedge-fund billionaire named Brian Heywood, working hand in glove with the state Republican party, sought to overturn a state capital gains tax introduced three years earlier... the voters upheld the tax, by a resounding margin." This is great coverage of how we got a Millionaires Tax in WA

For a sense of the scale of the federal occupation of the Twin Cities metro this winter... Chicago and LA were too big so they tried picking on somewhere smaller. They were thick on the ground here but they still left in disgrace. www.axios.com/local/twin-c...

wedges and fire, actually

Nightmare blunt rotation...

It's literally what NYT asked for when it got rid of the public editor position! www.politico.com/story/2017/0...

New — I wrote about how journalists proudly using AI to help them write their stories obscures the deeply human process that makes journalism a societal necessity, and one that feeds the soul of those who create it. Hope you’ll give it a read. I promise I wrote the whole thing.

Shoot i forgot this one.

that's right

With Tax Day coming up, here's our reminder that TurboTax owner Intuit spent two decades fighting to prevent Americans from filing their taxes online for free. (Published 2019)

www.microsoft.com/en-us/micros... is it good to build an entire economy and software infrastructure on this

Travel writer Rick Steves on Washington's newly signed "Millionaires Tax"

Spotted a Daihatsu HiJet Deck Van GX in Edmonds last night and felt a little MPG envy

The AI economy looks...really precarious. So @matteowong.bsky.social & I did a bunch of reporting to try to figure out what happens when a potential bubble collides with a war in Iran and a potential resource shortage. The answer is...arguably the most dire stuff i've heard from smart ppl in a while

Free newsletter: The AI industry is lying to you about progress. Only 5GW of data centers are under construction, it takes 6 months to bring online a single quarter's worth of NVIDIA GPU sales, and LLM code is actively breaking big tech. www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-industry-is-lying-to-you/

Don’t blame me— I left them both! “Jeff Bezos’ The WaPo saw the largest print circulation decline among the top 25 newspapers, plunging some 21% last year, followed by Patrick Soon-Shiong’s Los Angeles Times, dropping 20%.” open.substack.com/pub/harrylit...

The work we’ve been doing at the airport is some of the most important I’ll ever have a chance to participate in; thank you for covering it so eloquently, @maddow.bsky.social.

look at this baby beaver and feel better briefly (@ wildheartrescue on TT)

"You don't platform lies." I believe this will interest the BlueSki community. MacFarlane Moves to Meidas: www.status.news/p/cnn-layoff...

Star magnolia in bloom

If you're not familiar, the format for a "truth sandwich" is: * start with a true statement * introduce the newsworthy lie or distortion * true statement again The idea is that the false claim should not be the first or last impression. It's useful when you think a lie should not be ignored.

one fun consequence of LLMs replacing human-created content across a huge number of domains is just.........too much text, constantly. LinkedIn comments are like 1000 word essays now. Emails are like a cruise ship of meaningless slop. It's killing communication

Tips For Saving On Gas https://theonion.com/tips-for-saving-on-gas/

Federal prosecutors indicted Harvest Plus for luring migrant workers to WA under false contracts. Victims were forced into unsafe labor at a vineyards owned by the billionaire family behind the Vancouver Canucks where they faced wage theft and cartel threats. www.inlander.com/news/washing...

I have seen the flying squirrels of Uptown! Here's a 50% speed video of them in action tonight.

NEW STORY// ICE Ramping Up Activity in Washington State, UW Report Shows by Amy Sundberg via @theurbanist.org

There's a six page appendix listing out all of the many many times these lawyers appeared to rely on hallucinated citations. YIKES.

Scrolling through this now and it's SO good. Beyond first-year college students, this would be really good for just having conversations with like... your parents. Your colleagues. Really clearly written, nicely designed, breaks for discussion questions. Sharing this widely!

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

777X Boeing 001 Heavy Experimental over Edmonds WA today #n779xw

@ottergoose.net Saw n532fr MSP-BFI today - ICE?

Fascinated by this glowing Seattle Times profile of longtime Seattle Times publisher Frank Blethen that’s like “haha yes, there were bumps in the road, for example, he was ruthlessly anti-labor, compromised the paper’s editorial independence, and shot a dog” www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Guys... we don't have exact numbers, but we've gotta be close. membership.theonion.com

torrents are undefeated: www.404media.co/the-removed-...

Huge snowflakes falling faster than my 401(k) in Edmonds WA (@washingtontrails.bsky.social magazine for scale) #wawx

Mike Eliason and Steven Smith are doing for stairs what Don Shoup did for parking. Single-stair buildings promote better, more affordable multi-family housing and more livable cities. It's something cities can do, right now, to make homes more affordable. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/b...

The Atlantic gave McKay Coppins $10k to bet for a year and the miracle is that he did not lose more than that. I do not know how I feel about this stunt! It could have gone very, very wrong. It's some great writing but it sure feels weird to read it. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

"Do you think it's inappropriate in any way that someone in their 20s with no experience with grants or federal government was making personal judgement calls about what grants to cancel?" "No, I don't think it's inappropriate."

it is "what plainly is: a presidency in terminal decline, if not outright collapse." @jamellebouie.net 🎁⛓️‍💥 www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/o...

Everyone stop what you're doing, the Mariners are selling fries, nachos, and fish and chips in ferries now. www.mlb.com/mariners/bal...

Renfer: I accidentally deleted my original brief because I was overwhelmed so I used AI to try and replicate my prior work

USS Nimitz leaving Bremerton, WA for the last time on Saturday.

OMG they released the deposition videos where they revealed that these two DOGE bros were just feeding grants into ChatGPT and saying "tell me if this is DEI in less than 120 characters." www.techdirt.com/2026/02/19/d...

Mount St. Helens and Tahoma through my window just after sunset tonight. #wawx

We're in uncharted territory- if WTI crude holds these gains tomorrow- the current rise of 29.9% or $27.16/bbl would be its largest single day price jump- in both percent and amount- ever. Ever. EVER.

ok this is at least very funny

Ask your financial advisor if adding a hollowed out mattress and a gun to your retirement portfolio is right for you.

They had names. They had beautiful faces. And they had the same dreams as your kids - crushed when American "precision" bombs slammed into their Minab elementary school, killing 175 Don't blame AI for this. Blame the sick humans who see war as a game My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/iran...