I don't quite understand the folks responding to this by saying, "Yeah, it's not great but there are no alternatives." That's the point! Calling things out is the first step in fixing a problem. "It's bad, but what can anyone do about it?" is an example of motonormativity!

"I need AI art, otherwise I can't make my project." Randy Savage cut a promo with nothing but a coffee creamer he swiped from craft services. Stop making excuses and do better.

The best time to expand our bike infrastructure was decades ago. The second best time is now.

The only way I can possibly see fighting this is people building their own open source ALPR/facial rec mesh net, but only publicly discloses activity on every senator who isn't opposed and discards all other information. But even that's rife for abuse. (Did we not learn from Watch_Dogs' ctOS?)

This is what the "AI IS GOING TO REPLACE ALL HUMANS" headlines will look like 5 years from now.

Sabey Data Centers has scrapped their plans to expand in Seattle. Equinix and Prologis are the two remaining companies seeking to use 249 megawatts of electricity. Seattle council is working on a one-year data center moratorium after 83,000 have been sent to their offices.

Flock cameras have useful, modular electronic components in them, including: - Rechargeable lithium iion battery with solar panel - 5G LTE modem - 5MP 16mm camera with IR filter Plus various other components with precious metals that can be harvested for scrap.

posting for academic purposes

AOC on possibly running for the Senate or President: They assume my ambition is a title or a seat. My ambition is way bigger than that. My ambition is to change this country. Presidents come and go, elected officials come and go, single payer healthcare is forever.

I'm gonna sound like one of those annoying jackass influencers but if you're seeing less activity from me on socials it's because the less I engage with them the better I feel as a human being. I look at you with my big beautiful eyes as I say the words; log off

I find myself routinely angered learning history and viewing the scope of opportunity every generation had to grasp problems like the energy crisis and just - fix it. Innovate, install & support renewable sources, enforce regulation that would have improved fuel efficiency - instead, they didn't.

If schools have money for AI, I'd rather they use that to pay teachers more

Reading books and touching grass

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One additional thing I'd note is that visitors increased 5.6% for the market while at the same time visitation for downtown Seattle was flat. Pike Place Market is outperforming the rest of downtown Seattle during the time period of the pedestrianization pilot 🤔

As people prepare to strike for May Day, we recommend this text comparing the last two general strikes that took place in Oakland, California (in 1946 and 2011) in order to distill lessons about how to organize a general strike today: crimethinc.com/twoGeneralSt...

Reminding everyone again:

remember folks - companies have no problem throwing millions (if not hundreds of millions) of dollars at shitty tech to try and not pay you to do a job so when they do come to you to do the job you could have done for a fraction of the cost they spent on stupid AI - your labor rate needs to go up.

some good hopeposting for y'all

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

A fascist worked out today, did you?™

oh gee, thanks outlook, for notifying me that i have a meeting that started 58 minutes ago that i'm currently in. so helpful. *slow clap*

this is why there’s been mass revolt and opposition to data centers being built in communities. it is genuinely a health hazard to live this close to something emitting this much sound. these need to stop being built

YOU MUST MAINTAIN YOUR STRENGTH AND POWER! HAVE SOMETHING TO EAT.

@seattle.bikedis.co crosses the bridge about 115 strong, if you aren’t here you’re missing out tonight!

I guarantee that the first person to create a device that either jailbreaks or serves as a dummy activator so people can bypass the "smart" features/surveillance/subscriptions is going to be rich as all hell. (but seriously, let's please put in some consumer laws that prevent this shit)

This sounds like a job for @writnelson.bsky.social, as long as the chaos factor can reach 10,000%

The famous Andor line is that "tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle." Here is a perfect example of that through malicious compliance: Idaho forced the city of Boise to remove its Pride flags. So the city painted rainbows everywhere else.

"it rained the whole time. I'm sorry you missed the few weeks of good weather"

fuck my diet, i'm going to buy two bags of $5 potato chips and inhale them

I've said it before, but this novel is a must read, if not for the sake of the pure dripping satire that will get you to emit multiple guttural laughs, inbetween the poignant evergreen philosophies that could be considered a starter guide to morality.

Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users. ALL ROAD USERS. What about painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them. Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org

The PWHL takes the World's Most Famous Arena.

passively overheard at a bar: "yeah! I went to the Mariner's game last week on the light rail now that it's open!" "Right? I just leave my car parked here because I hate parking down there" I tell you - trains are the goddamn future and people won't want it any other way.

Okay, that's it. I'm becoming a supervillian. I'm going to hire henchmen to hit up the traffic lanes at night and realign them to be hoatile to car traffic. I'll stick the whole of the city into car gridlock so bad everyone will be forced to take the train, bike, and walk only.

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Buy an ebike now, folks

today was an excellent day and i need not want for anything to have gone different

In one of the biggest applause lines of the morning, Dow said light rail would get to Ballard, West Seattle, Tacoma and Everett (as promised in ST3 ballot measure).

I will confirm that this strategy works

Quick reminder of the benefits of not using LLMs/AI in your company: One less major attack vector.

Free.

I swear it's the best but mildly bothersome problem to routinely go to the library to *only* return books and then walk out with two more when I'm still in progress with 3 others. I'm honestly thinking of just riding the train end to end so I can just read for a while.

love watching openai going bankrupt in real time

I wrote about “Slow LLM,” a new web tool that discourages AI use by… making chatbots really really slooooooowww It can be run as a browser extension or even deployed at the network level as a DNS service, making everyone experience mysteriously slow response times. @404media.co

Citibike users have pedaled more than 650 million miles since the program's launch, replacing hundreds of millions of motor vehicle trips. Sounds like mass transport to me.