Please send this to anyone you know protesting data centers. Also take a look at difference in the city over last twenty years. Still plenty of farmland and the DCs are effectively in the city. 2003 - 2026)

Stores need to realize that if they're going to lock everything up, they need people to unlock promptly. I'm about to stop going to Lowe's for this reason alone.

Does anyone else have institutions sending emails with subject lines like "from the desk of the person on the from line"? What a colossal waste of time and respect to recipients. and by the way do you really only work from a desk and want to tell me that? And then add an image to talk about your desk? Thank you @Yale and @YaleAthletics - this is inane.

It's true, there is so much amazing international food in paris beyond french! (what even is that american whopper?)

they were smart and anticipated this - had the trash and milfoil / water weed skimmer working hard all morning!

Narrator: This did not go the way Brian planned... thanks @aliromman for the good times I guess?

This is the most aggressive/interesting use of an analyst report (Forrester Wave here) I have ever seen - on the main Vanta login screen!

it's almost worse for Copilot... After spreading it on everything, they now have "Office Agent" after they killed the Office brand (Microsoft 365 yo!). I am amazed that MS hasn't just undone that mistake yet. Just go back to Office, and re-center copilot to what it actually does well.

Wait lawyers who haven't built anything and are pedants don't make good leaders of a state?

Am I the only one who sees this similarity, that is a bit odd? Browning and Om...

I was yesterday years old when I learned that the tubs of screws that come with a screwdriver head have a holder for it in the inside of the lid, so you don't need to play go fish in the tub with all the screws! 🤯

FOR SHAME!

Oh boy, this is spot on. Someone shared this with me in chat, but some genius put it together. Seattle is spiting itself even more than WA state is. What a shame to lose the handle on constructive capitalism so terribly.

This is super interesting - I had never seen this. I also imagine it is a lagging indicator, which makes me worried the steep drop in rankings is understating our relative problem (the second image George shared is the composite ranking for WA relative to the other states - where we've started dropping off in last few years. table is pasted below). thanks @roussos_g for sharing this - will keep an eye on this over time.

OK folks who are new to WA state. let me explain this in a way that might be more approachable. Let's start with this video - of how Eddie Vedder came to Seattle piped.video/VX9dJhefT6k He was from Chicago, had moved to San Diego, and came to Seattle because DAYUUMMM the music scene was great here! (so cool that people invited him up here - so many great musicians here!) Could the music scene have been good in other places? yes. but WE WINNINGGGG! Seattle 1996 also got all sorts of computer nerds up in this. For the last 30 years we've pulled WAY above our weight for companies starting or scaling. it's mostly because of all the momentum.... but we have a great tax system too. that's how you make it obvious. you feel the vibe... but you convince yourself with the taxes. I know many of you are like "oh, my loins feel this. Lauryn hill and Roberta flack, you can't make me feel things like Brian Hall does". and yeah, I hear that a lot. but I digress. it turns out, if you have it - the people want to come. and Seattle is a tiny town in the grand scheme, Redmond and Bellevue are wonderful cousins. If you think for a moment we have manifest destiny for the next Microsoft/Amazon/Google/Meta job you are a damned fool. they are just hiring the best that are already up here, and hoping they leave now. Microsoft is the only place looking over her shoulder saying "what? am I the sucker?". If you love Seattle area like I do - then you need to realize that your legislators (non-job creators) are trying to send your kids out of state. they don't want them to go to UW. and they don't want to make jobs for them. that's f'd in my book.

don't stop me know.... I'm having a good time

I'm the year of our Lord (and AI overlords) 2026 I am looking to buy the movie Roadhouse and I get carpal tunnel clicking through TV keyboards ...

#1: Ad fail of the year. Let's shine the brightest lights at the cockroaches in our strategy and pretend it's great? Ring Is Watching You... / "Be the Creep in your Neighborhood" piped.video/watch?v=OheUzrXs… #2: the OG! Alexa can do cool things and we know cool people! this was actually a fine ad, if it had ever worked like that. reminder, this was 2016... piped.video/watch?v=qTz5jAn-… #3: "Alexa Loses Her Voice". how many celebs can we pay? piped.video/watch?v=iNxvsxU2… (oh, and #4, This year's Superbowl ad - tell me how in 10 years Alexa has gotten better by looking at the 2016 and the 2026 versions? piped.video/sCyiXmxHqSg)

Seattle: surprised that increasing costs decreased demand? This is from KUOW / NPR BTW. "Customers still want the convenience, but many balked at the fees that the apps tacked on after the new law." Seattle and WA state - Now do taxes on specific businesses and classes of people - will it increase them or decrease them in the city/State? and the restaurant owners are the ones that suffer. just like the city or state will if they do silly things with taxes.

That's pretty good - but that "Redemption" front page was somewhere between stupid and silly. This is about this team, not the last team. And those of us who were fans 12 years ago are fine with just celebrating this team, those who weren't are fine w/ just celebrating this team. classic example of a Seattle Times self own at a big moment.

NPR in Seattle just reminded listeners to celebrate peacefully after the Superbowl. I, for one, would like to meet a Sunday morning NPR listener who has ever, or plans to, rampage after a football game.

really? :-)

Not sure how to feel about the four holes in the 737-900ER row ten. On one hand, I could caulk that in two minutes so must not matter. On the other hand you didn't? Left me to wonder? Huh. Hi @Delta !

Android has a convenient "Modes" setting. Airplane mode is not there and accessed in a separate page, of course. 🤷‍♂️😂

LOL, this is one of the funnier editing disclaimers I've seen in a while! @bgurley for the irony.

Huh, some of the most wealthy orgs in the world collectively investing $250M sets a price over $100B. Can someone explain to me why that's not most likely performative favor giving to establish that "validated" valuation?

this was much better done... ;-) piped.video/watch?v=sbPdiRKy…

Hey party people, is there a weirder thing you can think of that we've all been exposed to and never ever heard of anyone getting in trouble for than this? I cannot tell you how many people I've had to explain to that the law is only what goes after you. Is this not the best example?

Larry Bernandez piped.video/3HVZuMjm3Y0

are you sure this isn't a larry bernandez situation? piped.video/3HVZuMjm3Y0

For those of you in Seattle, or who care about public schools in general, this article that will follow is well worth a read - explaining how Seattle lost students. Unfortunately we ar "disappearers" with two of our kids and know so many people who did the same (or moved to adjoining cities not doing this). Getting rid of highly capable / more challenging courses was a big part for a number of folks - in the guise of "equity".

Microsoft is totally losing the plot with individuals. They are my first love, and I poured my heart into building the Surface business. My 17 yo daughter's Surface battery is swelling (DANGEROUS!) and I just had to fill out a clueless web form to try to get it safely taken care of. RIP Microsoft for individuals.

Stay weird Seattle...

Sometimes I just marvel at how weird it is we have one day of seven spelled Wednesday. That Woden guy must have been a baller...

Starbucks ad is my winner so far for Superbowl. So back to basics and grounded in what people love about the brand and experience. piped.video/lPbsMJr5lr4?si=_K-d…

There was snow in Seattle today. But I'm really sorry I think I have to report a murder I came upon on the dog walk...

And you all thought Bitcoin and Nvidia were good investments...

I love that we still use the term "cc" for adding someone to email or a google doc, from the original "carbon copy" that literally was a pressure-created copy underneath the original. It's fantastic to see how terms evolve with the times...

What was in head... How my straw dog version came out...

With all this excitement over Llama 3.1 - which is well deserved - we know all us veterans in tech are giddy for Llama 3.11 for Workgroups!!!

It is very meta that Gretchen Wieners managed to make "fetch" happen - as a broadly used term for when you're trying to coin a new term. It's so Fetch of her!

AI technology is so fun right now! Lots of interesting conversations and twists and turns for sure, but let me give Gartner credit where credit is due here (and encourage looking at this in more than just two dimensions too)...

I had this bad boy setup in the 90s too!