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I continue to be fascinated by the phenomenon whereby an expert engages with any of the LLMs on their field of expertise and is instantly horrified by the wrong answers, and then goes on to use it for things they are not experts in as though it won’t be just as bad for those.

There is no amount of money in the world that would lead me to fight a Vietnamese refugee that grew up in Louisiana

(Also I really want to try a Korean style Po’ Boy)

fuck war

Being aware of signs of chronic alcohol use would be helpful. I wonder if one reason this is rare is that people at libraries care for and check on patrons?

7th grade Issaquah resident Michael Miller giving the best public commentary I think I've ever heard

Lots of great Issaquah folks at yesterday's Sound Transit board meeting, but 7th grader Michael Miller gave the best public testimony I've ever heard. He'll be 28 when the Issaquah line opens. He's not asking for something now, he's asking us to build the right future
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“We here in Lynnwood want to protect all of our undocumented residents as well as those who want the fact that they had to live in Lynnwood for some reason to stay undocumented.”

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"Thank god this isn't being recorded," CM Michael Luis said after that set of comments.

Incredible stuff:

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Love this about Ryan!

I scrolled back specifically to see the recap and you should, too.

Bad cops are expensive.

The updated figure for light rail ridership for the Super Bowl victory parade earlier this month was 225,000, according to CEO Dow Constantine just now at the monthly ST board meeting.

That's 65,000 more riders than the previous one-day ridership record.

This is what should happen if you honk at a pedestrian in a crosswalk or creep forward while they're crossing

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Lynnwood City Council cancels Flock camera contract - My Lynnwood News The Lynnwood City Council at its Feb. 23 business meeting voted unanimously to cancel the City’s contract with the controversial Flock Safety license plate reader system. The matter was originally […]

Lynnwood City Council voted 7-0 to cancel Flock camera contract. The issue was originally scheduled to be considered as a regular agenda item later in the meeting, but CM Isabel Mata moved that the cancellation be added to the council’s consent agenda

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Meeting adjourned (to applause!) at 7:15👏

(Lynnwood Council Summit vid is 6+ hours, but I watched for you so AMA!)

Council Summit Recap - people encouraged to watch: lynnwoodwa.v3.swagit.com/videos/375919

Lynnwood Council supports the Mayor spending up to $600k from the Affordable Housing Fund on supporting building housing and rental assistance.

Next: how to spend the Affordable Housing Fund...

#Lynnwood Flock contract *canceled!* (It was moved up into the consent agenda, allowing it to move up from being last to breeze through unanimously)

I was a little late but caught comments to cancel flock, to defund the police, and against abortion, so far...

Also: "This is my first meeting and I'm really nervous"🏅

#Lynnwood City Council will vote on whether to cancel Flock Cameras tonight - which is bringing out a wiiide variety of public comments (& news coverage) - watch live: www.lynnwoodwa.gov/Government/C...

Tonight the Lynnwood City Council will vote on whether to terminate their contract with Flock Safety.

If passed, Lynnwood could become the next major Western Washington city to end its use of Flock surveillance, following Mountlake Terrace.

So you get out your Fascism for Dummies book for the 15 things you do, and we tried to include as many of them as we could in the most artful way possible. How were we supposed to know that this clown car in Washington was going to basically use the same book that we used? So I don't think it's prescience so much as the sad familiarity of fascism and the karaoke menu of things that you go through to do it. You could list them from the show, or you could list them from the newspaper.

Tony Gilroy, creator of Andor, wasn’t allowed to use the word “fascism” during press junkets in 2025.

Interesting interview in The Hollywood Reporter.

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Summary The Council directed the staff to bring forward an Interim Official Control Ordinance (IOC) on bulk building regulations. The purpose of the IOC is to ensure that while the middle housing codes are being implemented that Medina doesn’t create housing that burdens the other residents with noise, light, and loss of privacy. The attached IOC makes the following changes to the Medina Municipal Code: 1. Increases side yard setbacks to increase separation and privacy between homes. (MMC 16.22.030.A.) 2. Requires a new side yard setback that is 5’ wider than the base side yard setback for second stories and above. (MMC 16.22.030.A.) 3. Reduces the extent of side yard protrusions and requires a landscape buffer for structures over 30 inches. (MMC 16.22.040.) 4. Reduces extent of protrusion for decks or patios into side yard setbacks from 50 percent to 25 percent intrusion and requires a dense landscape buffer when protrusion is a deck or patio. (MMC 16.22.040.C.2.c.) 5. Requires fountains and other similar installations in setbacks that make noise to not be heard by neighboring properties. (MMC 16.22.040.K.7.) 6. Eliminates height bonuses. (MMC 16.23.050 and MMC 16.23.060.) 7. Requires vacant homes to keep interior lights off if those lights are visible to neighbors when the house is not occupied (MMC 16.44.040.H.) 8. Requires vacant homes to avoid exterior lighting that creates light trespass to neighbors. (MMC 16.44.040.I.)

Oh my god. Medina is set to adopt an emergency ordinance adding a bunch of restrictions to prevent "housing that burdens the other residents with noise, light, and loss of privacy."

They include a ban on yard fountains that can be heard from neighboring properties & interior lights in vacant homes.

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The concentration camps will not only be for immigrants, documented or otherwise. They already aren't.

They won't only be for brown and Black people.

The targets will keep expanding. It will not end.

The only way it will is if we stop it. Both in and out of the system. There is no other way.

Mia Valentina Paz Faria A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas Detained for 70 days “I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by @micarosenberg et al for ProPublica:

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.

Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.

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