“The indispensability of a liberal education is the freedom from being tied to the zeitgeist of one’s age or situation to love what is true, good, and beautiful, and to be initiated into the world while cultivating a love for it.” www.liberalcurrents.com/upholding-li...

let's go!

I gotta hand it to Altman here, deciding to sign up to be the new face of the regime’s AI efforts right as they start an unpopular and out of control war with Iran was a real masterstroke in PR bonus points for letting a major competitor position themselves as The Ethical AI Company

“If we raise taxes back to the rates we had in the 1970s, no one will found the next Microsoft or Apple!” 🤡

Easily one of the top charts of all time

BREAKING: A group of WA House Democrats is FINALLY taking a stand against the half billionaire corporate giveaway in the millionaires tax. They urge the House Finance committee to pass the tax WITHOUT a sweetner for big business on Friday www.theburnerseattle.com/post/group-o...

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

Remember Seattle no jaywalking when swarming the streets 😂😂😂🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳

all glory to the pacific northwest

go seagulls

Great work by Greg Sargent. We are, right now, deciding whether we want to be a land of giant concentration camps and ethnic cleanings. newrepublic.com/article/2060...

This needs to be repeated: Our housing plans should not revolve around "Corridors." Homes belong in neighborhoods. We voted for new leadership on housing. Unfortunately, it has not yet arrived.

REP. OMAR after being attacked with liquid: “We will continue! These fucking assholes are not gonna get away with this! Here is the reality people like this ugly man don’t understand — we are Minnesota Strong. We’ll stay resilient in the face of whatever they might throw at us.”

if bovino is out and conservatives are turning on noem then there is a real opportunity to demand that miller resign too.

Please examine what body cams *didn’t do* to stop police violence over the last decade plus since they were initially touted as a solution and understand that some of you are now rallying behind a false solution that will be a tool of criminalization more often than anything else.

Voting NO on the DHS funding bill is the bare minimum. Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum. Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum. ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.

It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing

in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today

Here is the full transcript of Trump saying he isn't planning to use force in Greenland. What stands out to me is the incoherence of his comments: there are so many internal contradictions in this short passage that it's hard to treat as a credible renunciation of violence.

The moment it was crystal clear we were in the worse case scenario, was exactly a year ago when Trump pardoned every single Jan 6 perpetrator, including the ones that beat the crap out of cops and were convicted of seditious conspiracy.

Enshittification proceeds apace.

Crockett: "Everyone wants to talk about how Maduro was illegitimate. As we sit here on January 6, I do want to be clear: somebody else was trying to be a Maduro of the United States. Somebody else wanted to do the exact same thing. The difference is Maduro was successful."

In competitive authoritarian regimes, the government deters and undermines opposition by using its powers to inflict costs on those who challenge it rather than recognizing their legitimacy as democratic opponents

I think the most straightforward framing that captures the severity of the situation is that the government of the United States has been seized by a mad authoritarian regime not meaningfully distinct from Putin or Kim or, well, Maduro, and its members must be brought to harsh justice

"A city that values the pursuits that create beauty and community, whether or not they ever turn into careers. A city that thinks you should have time to read a book and lay on the grass looking up at the clouds." -Katie Wilson

"We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism." 🔥🔥🔥

a required skill for being able to use an LLM in any professional capacity is discernment, essentially already being an expert in the field so you know when (and why) its outputs are incorrect. now, LLMs are being deployed to non-expert groups in a way that ensures they will never *be* experts

After a terrible, stormy week: An amazing sunset over Elliott Bay here in Seattle (taken from Pike Place Market)

One of the most common replies in any discussion of universal basic income is "but how do we pay for it?" and not once do those same people ever question the costs incurred by not doing UBI. We spend $1.5 trillion every year on the costs of child poverty alone. Poverty ain't free, folks. WE ALL PAY.

“Camera doorbells are social cancer as a technology, breaking down social solidarity and further encouraging people to see strangers with suspicion.”

After much deliberation and a grueling interview process, I’m pleased to announce that I’ve accepted a new job and will not need any financial support from my parents to cover the high costs of childcare going forward. #AmericanDream #ThisIsYourCity

I don’t want to seem out of touch but I don’t actually understand the economy anymore.

Wow. While we wait for the few remaining ballots to be counted, we feel like we have won this race. The recent drop put us nearly 1,400 votes ahead, just under the .5 percent threshold for a mandatory recount.

I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!

As the prophets prophesied:

If sandwich shops don’t start offering a sandwich named “the acquittal” then what are we even doing

Lots of advice for Dems flying around, but here's a modest suggestion: how about more fulsomely embracing the one non-fascist people-powered movement that's actually succeeding?

lot of messages tonight...but i don't think there's any as strong or replicable as having an identity, an ideology, and a clear message for people and then staying, without ever wavering: "I refuse to apologize for any of this."

Here's a look at the raw numbers in the Seattle mayoral contest, with 2021 for scale. Harrell has lost a lot of ground from his 2021 win. Wilson gained 17,221 votes more than Harrell between the primary and general. That would be more than enough to eliminate the 8,319 vote gap here.

Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’

I address the first scandal of my political life—Momgate.

this headline hums with ancient autumnal dread

No Kings Seattle! #NoKings

Got my performance review.

For anyone concerned there may be something to the Tylenol-autism BS, I present:

The whole administration in one quote

Smart cities know that, as hot as they already are, they’re just going to keep getting hotter. Greening the city not only cools it down, it cleans the air, quiets the noise, improves mental health & happiness, saves public money, & more. Strand Aldwych, London. 2021 vs. 2025. Via @modacitylife.com

Irony is alive and well

Words/phrases Democrats should never use: * bipartisan * my Republican friends * real, valid, legitimate, serious, important (to describe issue raised by Republicans) * yea (when voting on Republican bills) * distraction (to describe bad thing Republicans did) * woke (in derogatory sense)