Can't believe that Massachussetts currently runs diesel pilled trains on the Providence line even though it's entirely electrified. It's like powering your laptop off a diesel generator!

Love this not-so-scientific experiment where they get Charles Mudede (who has never driven a car in real life) to crash playing Mario Kart 64 drunk

most affirming moment as a mixed race trans person: getting pork-butchering scam texts in Chinese that refers to me as "big sister" 🥹

Everyone who shows code on their screen as a part of their job (e.g., lecturers, TAs, streamers) should have a light-mode giant font size profile in their text editor. You don't have to use it when you're not presenting, but nobody should have to strain their eyes to read your code.

你開我的玩笑嗎？！道歉這麼弱... 他要在微信提出中文的

The Korean girl with a septum piercing in the Pitt who is so done with all of it is the representation we need

People love to talk about how we should become more collectivist but then turn around and say "actually you should have to endure being harassed in public" Collectivism also means demanding that people follow basic social norms. Get them help, yes, but don't just tolerate it.

I needed this 🥹

Part of why it's difficult to discuss what LLMs are is that until recently, artifacts of intelligence necessitated sentience, at least, and sometimes consciousness. But LLMs mimic text/speech with high stochastic accuracy. We are not used to nonsentient interlocutors.

There are communities of practice everywhere for those with eyes to see them. Work and school are pretty obvious ones, but they also show up in places you wouldn't expect. The authors of the framework wrote about how alcoholic's anonymous is a CoP. For me, it's urbanism, mahjong, and organizing~

The reason why I'm willing to adopt NIMBY tactics to stop concentration camps is because the NIMBYs never wanted housing/transit/etc. to get built in the first place. Similarly, I don't want the camps to be built at all.

You're visiting Vancouver to take pictures by the Gastown clock and ride bikes along the seawall. I'm visiting Vancouver to take pictures of scissor stairs and ride an automated metro. We are not the same.

Saint Louis is the most hostile city to pedestrians I've ever visited. Walk signs don't even count down, it just goes 🚶 for two seconds and then starts flashing red ✋ as you try to cross five lanes of lifted trucks trying to kill you

My local video rental store out here lookin like the final scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark

What do a literal billionaire and socialists like Zohran Mamdani and Katie Wilson have in common? They all agree that we need to build more housing, and you should have the freedom to build on your own property, regardless of whether your neighbors think it looks pretty.

As always, it's insane that the densest neighborhood in WA state doesn't have pedestrianization or at least major traffic calming

Just discovered you can copy a network request as a cURL command in Firefox devtools and wow! curl really is the backbone of the internet

Medicare for All - a truly universal single-payer system - would among many other positives be a huge boost to small businesses

Seattle now has two 1 Lines: Green 1 Line and Blue 1 Line.

Has anyone made a browser plug-in that estimates that carbon emissions of your chatbot usage? Doesn't have to be 100% accurate, but just a good benchmark based on the # of model params and tokens generated. That would be a great tool to show my students.

I tried out the tap to pay ORCA readers on the G Line when I went to George's Polish Deli. It accepted my Discover card and gave me a transfer after I picked up my paczki, but still a few questions: Why is the charge still pending >24hr later? Why was it only $1? Metro bus fare is $3...

Took a bus from downtown Vancouver BC to downtown Seattle in less than 3.5 hr, including border check. Rode the light rail to the Polish deli to pick up my paczki for Fat Tuesday, and bused to the UW, in time for my afternoon office hours. I love public transit

"Yeah I like mustard, how did you know?"

Every so often 7/11's North American CEO is like "we're gonna make it more like Japanese 7/11" but then after I buy the healthiest looking thing in the store, I flip it over and the nutritional info be like "trans fats: 100% dv"

My dial a ride transit just triggered a speed camera 😅

Bro my students literally asked me to reschedule the midterm, ICANT

If statistics were part of the core secondary math curriculum in North America, we probably wouldn't have as big of a sports betting problem. I'm not stupid, I know it wouldn't go away, but at least we would have a shared vocabulary to dismiss these grifters.

For more than a decade now, I've admired the work and the wisdom of Keith Ellison. It's inspiring to see how no matter what the national media said about his home of Minneapolis in 2020 and again in 2026, he finds a way to rededicate himself to justice. Let us all have that kind of strength

I don't think the average Californian fully appreciates how bad this situation has become. We're essentially sitting on a ticking time bomb.

I've been using the same laptop for 6 years, and before that I had been using a secondhand laptop for 4 years. It's honestly helped me write better software, because I think about managing resources much more than someone with a GPU, 48GB of DRAM, and a >1TB SSD

I get that Mayor Wilson wants to keep competent people in charge as long as they're aligned with the vision, but frankly this new map demonstrates that the OPCD director is not aligned with her vision. We need to create homes that working families can afford. Instead, they downzoned the proposal.

Sound Transit is bringing light rail across Lake Washington in March. Scarecrow Video just bought their building to secure their future in the U-District. The Vera Project will open a new all-ages venue in Georgetown in 2027. The Seahawks are in the Super Bowl. There is some good news out there.

It should be illegal to make a job posting that's actually an applicant pool for a future (nonexistent) vacancy, if it doesn't say so in the title "We don't actually have any jobs, but we wanna get the search engine optimization from pretending like we do"

Damn these bagels actually slap, and they're on my bus route as well!

Today I submitted my 100th job application. More than one year searching for full time employment. I knew our economic system wasn't a meritocracy, but now I'm living that truth. Hard work doesn't guarantee success, even if you made the "right choices".

While the pasty incels who work the federal agencies continue to churn out feeble, bloodless AI pastiches of Axis propaganda, here’s how a living breathing artist powerfully invokes design history. This is by illustrator Emily K in South Philly, a free poster-sized download on her website: →

Sound Transit announced Thursday it will launch a overnight pilot program, offering bus service between Sea-Tac Airport and downtown Seattle every 30 minutes between midnight at 4 a.m., starting March 28.

Messed up that there's a Ferry County in Washington state and it's not served by Washington State Ferries. Actually, it doesn't have any ferries at all!

Folks who live, work, and play in Shoreline! The Tree Code Update survey is a chance to voice support for more housing development flexibility! The tree code already requires trees to be replaced. Let us remove and replace trees to build homes! engage.shorelinewa.gov/tree-code-up...

This bill to restrict the use of facial coverings by law enforcement officers is getting a public hearing on the very first day of Washington's legislative session, next Monday. You can weigh in on it, without testifying, here: app.leg.wa.gov/csi/Testifie...

Her: "Three words. Say them and I'm yours." Me: "Four minute headways"

Your job application site should not require me to use a specific web browser to submit my application. Setting aside how annoying it is, this is an accessibility issue for users of custom browsers for better screen reader integration etc.

Seeing my sister and other young students struggle with the effects of grade inflation is pretty sad. You shouldn't be expected to get a 4.0, in fact it should be pretty rare! We are not perfect, so why do we grade as if most students are? I mean, the course I teach professionally now? I got a 3.6

A bunch of people I know are stuck in Seattle traffic today, while I was riding the bus, listening to the @volts.wtf episode about congestion pricing in NYC Congestion pricing helps drivers! It makes it easy to get to work on time or cut through the city if you're in a rush.

Postdoctoral positions: Our team at the University of Washington's Center for an Informed Public is accepting applications for up to two postdoc positions, starting in Fall 2026. Priority deadline is Jan 15. If you know someone who might be interested, let them know!

Just wait till F*x News finds out that the mayor of Seattle's name has the mark of the beast in it KatieB (6) arrett (6) Wilson (6)

I think what was magical about growing up in Boy Scouts (now BSA) was how it gave kids an outlet for athleticism, teamwork, and exploring nature in a way that was not fiercely competitive. I disliked competing _against_ other teams, but when everyone is on one big team? 👨‍🍳💋

Julius Caesar of Shakespeare was a millenial "Friends, roommates, family, lend me your Netflix; I come to binge shows, not to review them"

I am a girlfailure, but not because I'm trans, just for normal reasons like not folding my laundry within 24 hours

Every Northernlion clip follows the same format: He's talking about the realest shit ever while playing a salad sorting simulator, then throws in a nonsequitor reference, an SAT vocab word, and immediately goes back to asking chat for advice on which skill to pick