This is an astronomical showing of the need for deeply affordable housing in our region.

Welp the San Diego biotech park is on fire

If a Starbucks employee were to agree to relocate to from Washington to Tennessee their likelihood of dying in a car crash would double

The right BUILDS on historic fissures and issues that “the left” rediscovers every four to five years . And it’s not on individual authors but teh same platforms have the same views and no one sits and tries to rectify it And they use teh spectre of “white working class” to justify it

An EFF analysis reveals a troubling pattern of mission creep with ALPRs. Without a warrant requirement, law enforcement agencies are shifting from using the technology for specific criminal investigations to using these surveillance networks for minor personal whims. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Two papers came out last week that suggest classical asymmetric cryptography might indeed be broken by quantum computers in just a few years. That means we need to ship post-quantum crypto now, with the tools we have: ML-KEM and ML-DSA. I didn't think PQ auth was so urgent until recently.

I think anyone who worries about security should read this paper asap. @filippo.abyssdomain.expert does not mince his words.

It really hurts differently to watch as Chicago and Seattle both mourn members of their cyclist community unnecessarily killed at the same time.

The members of Christian Salyer's family that are here were clearly appreciative and moved by the incredible turnout of folks to this event, arranged on short notice. Bike advocates are still keeping the street closed at this moment while folks place flowers on and around the ghost bike.

a Mormon hedge fund millionaire from California wants to force mandatory genital inspections on our children

Paging Jennifer Godfrey and Toby Thaler Why won’t they answer???

in seattle - our codes allow wealthy people to store junk along the waterfront but don't you dare think about building housing our environmental laws consider multifamily housing to be pollution

where is “Orca Appeal” when it comes to housing incredibly environmentally destructive cars and yachts on the sensitive coastline habitats needed for salmon and orca survival? Oh, right. Because enviro-NIMBYs like “Orca Appeal” only protests housing for people, never housing for yachts.

In Seattle, they're selling million dollar storage units to rich people, but God forbid we tax millionaires. www.seattletimes.com/business/whe...

a dear friend who is no longer with us used to say 'climate eats first' and increasingly he is proven correct

Don’t forget that every time some NIMBY stands up at public comment and goes “I’m a fifth generation Seattlite”, this is what they’re actually saying. Xenophobic bs

Virginia and Kentucky just passed state bills to enable land value taxes. Renewed interest in LVT has been popping up all of the country. @sightline.org is working with legislators and advocates to develop a bill for 2027 in Washington. progressandpoverty.substack.com/p/two-states...

People from the UK are saying their visas to watch World Cup matches in the US suddenly changed from “approved” to “not authorized.”

Today marks the end of the CDC actively updating and presenting data for Covid-19 genomic sequencing data per proportions. We also have continued degradation of the empiric proportions page with second month of unavailable Nowcast estimates, despite a decrease to monthly reporting.

Which begs the obvious question: 🤔"If crime and murders are down without additional cops, like Black civil rights leaders have been saying for decades... Then why did they need to add 580 more cops?🤡" The answer of course is that they didn't meet to add them, and more cops don't reduce crime.

Remember this? This is not out of the goodness of their hearts. www.reuters.com/technology/m...

When big companies call for regulation, they are calling for the kind of regs that will protect their business--not jobs, the environment, or consumers. We most definitely need to regulate AI. But we shouldn't be taking cues from the companies that stand to profit trillions from the industry.

In just 17 years, Seattle went from not having light rail to having the most ridden system in the nation. We’ve proven how leadership & investment can change a city and people’s lives for the better

I support Ron because I know him and I think he's a good person. He's knowledgeable, persuasive, politically astute, kind, and he values the programs I value. I don't know Will and he says good things, but the fundraising bothers me, so I'll be keeping tabs. You can too, it's free. Primary August 4.

Here is another way to see these contributions. Here horizontal is time, and each circle is a campaign donation from donors w/ demographics (usually ≥$250). Look at the fundraising pattern. You can hardly see Dreher’s campaign donors in WA state. It’s a wall of out of state and AI-employer donors.

Maybe we should rename Northgate Station to Northgate Parking Lot.

If you want change to come faster in Seattle in housing and public transportation, we need a much better councilmember in the D5 seat. @niluj.bsky.social is the candidate for this seat. Please volunteer or donate to www.neighborsfornilu.org

This is the single most alarming thing I’ve seen yet from RFK Jr. He is attempting to get identifiable medical records from ALL OF US. “Under the proposal, HHS would get data from 90% of the population’s medical records by 2028”. This CANNOT be permitted to happen.

won't someone speak up for the orcas? cathcart's 144 acres is *EIGHT* times the area of total tree loss due to multifamily development in seattle between 2016-2021 - when almost 48,000 homes were added. youtu.be/BanZ9XOnHy4

Just saw some drone footage of a nearly 150-acre new development project up in Snohomish where my dad used to live. Clearcut god knows how many trees for more suburban sprawl. Makes me sick, and also angry at the urban "tree advocates" who think getting rid of one tree for infill is somehow worse.

Don’t forget the other co-top* use of helium: MRIs. Many hospitals have already started rationing MRI imaging. * helium top usage was always #1 MRI, #2 chip fabrication; the two probably have flipped in the recent boom

It's funny learning that the reason there's going to be a crippling helium supply shortage even though the United States once had a huge strategic reserve of it is literally because Republicans did the "jeff thinks the beans have to take turns lmao" thing to it

Yes! Inaction is not neutral. I think EISes should have to consider the environmental impacts of *inaction*, not just the environmental impacts of action. If we *don't* build housing or transit, what will the consequences be? A balanced EIS would include that.

Again, vehicle miles need to be slashed by any means possible, and cities must move to building dense housing AT LEAST 2+ blocks away from freeways and major roads, reason #19274:

A tire compound called 6PPD has decimated salmon populations in the Pacific Northwest. New research suggests that it also endangers human health. The compound could "contribute to an elevated risk of inflammation-driven diseases near roads."

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I need abled people to recognize the following pattern: 1. these "symptoms" aren't a disease 2. patient advocacy 3. ok they're a disease, but it's super rare 4. patient awareness campaigns, more diagnosis

As I've watched here from inside as companies let more and more workers go and rely more and more on burning LLM credits, the end game here is so clear that it hurts my eyes: they fire workers, you jack up cost of LLM credits. In 10 yrs you're paying more for LLM than you did for workers.

This person should permanently lose their driver's license. I cannot understand how you can accidentally drive up train tracks that go 35 ft overhead. This could have been horrific if a train collision had occurred.

I reeeeaally hope the tracks (or track side signaling cables) are not damaged from this or else this is going to be fucking expensive

"Mr. Pelley also wrote that senior managers at CBS News had pressured him to insert bias into stories for “60 Minutes” this past season, though he did not provide details about specific segments." Pretty important part of the story re his firing. Maybe *the* most important part. CBS = new Fox.

I worked hard on this story, it's important, & I want to share it. I'm also finding it difficult to put it out there without this context: Just as I wrapped up final edits last week, I got word that a friend vacationing in Arizona had died after overheating on a hike. www.eenews.net/articles/dea...

So let me get this straight, I have a conflict of interest because I live in an apartment but if a judge openly brags about their craftsman home in their profile they get to rule on this sort of thing

maybe it was because it was "before Elon went crazy" but not enough attention got paid to the time Tesla and Musk basically swatted a whistleblower in 2018

We have got to have better judicial ethics and conflict of interest enforcement mechanisms up and down the court system. This vibes based honors method is not working.

If one of the major appellants is the NIMBY historical preservation group “Friends of Ravenna-Cowen”… and the lead judge authoring the opinion wants to proudly tell you that “Judge Mann lives in Seattle's Ravenna neighborhood in a 120-year old craftsman home”… Is this a conflict of interest?