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Harrell’s folks might be spending buckets of money on the Seattle mayoral race, but I’ve had multiple door knockers from Katie Wilson and nothing from Harrell.

Excited to vote for Wilson & hopeful she’ll be my next mayor.

It’s such a classic scene, the bicycle in the tornado turning into the witch on her broom!

A photo of Angela Lansbury as Jessica Fletcher from “Murder She Wrote”, riding a bicycle.

A still from the Wizard of Oz, with Margaret Hamilton as Miss Elmira Gulch / the Wicked Witch of the West riding a bicycle.

When I’m riding around on my bike I channel one of these two women

A news story from Geekwire, a blurb that reads: Gig Harbor-based Heritage Distilling Holding Co. Inc. announced it has raised $223.8 million. Heritage raised the money through a private investment in public equity (PIPE) financing, which is a means for public companies to sell shares to select investors at a discount. According to an Aug. 25 news release, $95 million will be cash and $128.8 million will be in the cryptocurrency token $IP, the native token of the blockchain company Heritage, founded in 2011, makes whiskeys, vodkas, gins, rums and canned cocktails.

A screenshot of the heritage distilling website, a blurb reads: By aligning its reserves with Story’s AI-native infrastructure for registering, licensing, and monetizing IP, Heritage gains exposure to the biggest opportunities disrupting the asset class.

“distillery raises money using crypto” is … a real thing?!? 🥴 (via seattle Inno)

Personally, I don’t care about my whisky having “exposure to the biggest opportunities disrupting the asset class.”

Evergreen.

Looks very interesting.

TLDR, Soundcloud has put it in their terms of service that must agree to letting them use your music to train AI.
If you're on the site, get off now and move your stuff elsewhere.

A street view screenshot of the area just south of Montlake bridge in Seattle

Modern day street view from about the same point.

Now there are: trolley buses, a light rail station just over the bridge, two nearby bike trails, an intersection with a major state highway a block away, and lots of cars.

A screenshot of a post from “Citizen Portal News Washington.” The image shows a blond woman, the post & linked article refer to this person as he/him/his

Screenshot of the article from citizenportal.ai, referring to Exec Braddock as he/him/his. There is a note “This article was created by AI using a video recording of the meeting”

TLDR: AI-generated news erases women’s achievements.

Recently a woman was appointed as Interim Executive of King County, WA. She is the first woman in that role & local news mentioned it.

I then saw this AI “news” account generated an article…repeatedly calling the exec he/him/his.

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TBC because the OP is framing this like libgen is evil: META are the bad guys here. Libgen is one of the only tools archiving rapidly disappearing digital libraries of ebooks. Now more than ever with banned books on the rise, we need resources like libgen. Meta has no right to scrape that archive.

Tosca - Wikipedia

Seattle Opera is performing Tosca soon, so I looked up the Wikipedia page.

Love that they contain public domain recordings of arias from over 100 years ago!

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tosca

Now more than ever.

Ah, that makes sense!

A photo of the hockey arena during gameplay, at the PWHL Seattle takeover game between Montreal Victoire and Boston Fleet, at Climate Pledge Arena.

The #pwhl hockey game in Seattle had great energy!

Unsure how they decided that Boston would be considered the home team, though.

A fluffy brown and black and silver dog with expressive eyebrows and point ears, looking sad and resting his head on his human’s knee to beg for food.

Yes, he got to lick the bowl when I was done with my oatmeal.

Recently tripled my time in front of the light therapy lamp (to over an hour in the morning) and it’s made a huge difference.

"While Esri is the 'industry standard' in the majority of GIS training programs, it also develops mapping and geo-spatial analysis services for police departments across Canada and the USA. [... this zine] consists of open source and low cost alternatives to Esri" geoz.one/zines/esri/

Seattle folks, if anyone is interested, the Seattle Bach Choir is holding a concert Sunday Nov 23 (tomorrow!) at 3 pm, at trinity parish episcopal church downtown. Program is about an hour long; free but donation suggested.

seattlebachchoir.org/event/dawn/

There is the Transit Go App, where you can buy tickets for buses, light rail, etc. No tapping & need to buy the tickets through the app.

(Definitely not the same thing as being able to tap the iphone directly like in many major cities.)

Thinking I’ll check out the (free!) SeaGL conference this Fri & Sat.
(SeaGL = Seattle GNU/Linux)

pretalx.seagl.org/2024/schedul...

Column | They made a public Rolodex of our faces. Here’s how I tried to get out. Face search websites can help protect your privacy, but they can also be abused. Try these steps to protect yourself.

I wrote about the face search website PimEyes, the creepiness of finding my images in there, and the absurdities of opting out.

Gift link: wapo.st/3NRDqbg

Illustration depicting a goldfish in a bowl with the text "Drink More Water".

Illustration depicting a hamster chewing on a sunflower seed with the text "Eat Some Food"

Illustration depicting a frog taking a deep breath with the text "Remember to Breathe"

Illustration depicting a hen cuddling a chick with the text "Be Kind to Yourself"

Friendly reminder (2019)

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A poster ad for the Claude LLM by the AI company Anthropic, in the San Francisco airport. Large text in white on an orange background reads “A jet pack for your thoughts”, with “Claude by Anthropic” in smaller black letters underneath.

The United Airlines in-flight entertainment system showing an ad for JIRA by Atlassian, as a panel in the selection menu. The text is black on a white panel and reads “In-flight inspiration starts with Jira” in the middle, with a small logo & “Atlassian Jira” in the lower right corner.

I took a vacation and United showed ads for Jira in my entertainment & the airport had ads for Anthropic.

Can’t escape #tech.

Seattle/King county has a LOT of articulated buses. I got curious and according to Wikipedia 42% of the bus fleet is articulated.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Co...

Yes, looks like you found a bus depot. The buses at the 3 o’clock position match the colors for King County Metro RapidRide (red & yellow) and regular (green & yellow) bus service. Enjoy your stay!

Comedian John Mulaney roasts SF techies at Dreamforce "Let me get this straight," he said. "You're hosting a 'future of AI' event in a city that has failed humanity so miserably?"

I’m not the biggest John Mulaney fan but fuck yes.

sfstandard.com/2024/09/19/c...

ICYMI: LinkedIn is using your data to train its AI by default. I was opted-in without giving explicit consent; you may be too.
The opt-out link is here: linkedin.com/mypreference...
Steps: Click "Me" on top, Settings and Privacy > Data Privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement

angela lansbury as jessica fletcher

the purpose of the postmenopausal female is to write novels and solve murders in the picturesque town of cabot cove, maine

PSA, especially for US folks: there was a massive data breach. Now is a great time to freeze your credit with the 3 credit bureaus. Links to do this:

www.experian.com/freeze/cente...
www.transunion.com/credit-freeze
www.equifax.com/personal/cre...