Frédéric Dubut

That's what T&S teams like ours are trying to do. Sometimes it can feel like an uphill battle but the stakes are too high to give up on this important work.

And look, I wouldn't have been mad if the 75-year bond passed. There are so many other things to be mad at these days 😅 but I think it would have been a small bad decision in a string of many small bad decisions that led WA to have one of the messiest and most unfair taxation systems in the world.

When the legislature decided to shift some revenue from sales tax to income tax, they could have made the parallel decision to allocate the replacement income tax revenue in the same way the sales tax was allocated. Bond or not, we shouldn't let them off the hook on that.

I wouldn't expect it either. But what the state legislature can do is to shift most (all?) of its revenue to a progressive income tax, freeing up property tax space for special local/regional authorities to tap into. Of course that all starts with defeating the inevitable repeal initiative...

And by that I mean having the courage to overhaul our taxation system and bring some overdue fiscal justice to this state rather than punting the problem to our great-grandkids.

My concern is exactly that it's more beneficial to bondholders than the public to keep collecting interest for 75 years. If the reason for such a long term is that payments for a 50-year bond would be too high, I feel it is *our* generation's problem to solve, not three generations down the line.

I hear you, but the same argument would go for a 100-year bond and my great-great-grandchildren 😅 being somewhat unfamiliar with the issue, it's not intuitive why we can't issue a 50-year bond, which seems to be more typical of large infrastructure projects (e.g. the Grand Paris transit extensions).

I don't have a good alternative solution or policy for the financial problems Sound Transit is facing, but part of me is happy we're not issuing bonds that my great-grandchildren would have been on the hook for.

Except they accepted the invitation. The women's team didn't. Five members of the men's team didn't. Those who attended are not neutral parties to this thing.

The hockey team truly speed ran their goodwill squandering. From national heroes to villains in just 30 minutes.

Honestly what we need is a legislature that works more than 60 days in even years. Nothing works better than the tiny short legislative sessions to entrench the status quo in this state.

A large Land Rover car is parked on the crosswalk at an intersection, in front of a bike corral.

I thought about you this morning @gordonofseattle.bsky.social. Bike corrals are great... when they are not so far from the intersection that a Land Rover parks between them and the crosswalk 🤦

This is so bizarre. If there's one, only one thing that transcends party lines in the PNW in 2026, it has to be the Seahawks. These soulless fucks are not just anti-libs, they are anti-joy.

I grew up with the open web and IETF RFCs. Many years later, I remember reading Peter Thiel's Zero to One, where he advocates for monopolies and walled gardens (and s**ts on Europe for good measure), and thinking "what a steaming pile of garbage". And here we are in 2026...

The current situation is that the state must follow the CDC recommendations, which unfortunately are rapidly drifting away from established science. If we want to keep Washington healthy (and free from measles and other preventable diseases 😖), these vaccines must stay covered by insurance.

Washington is one of the most innovative states in the country, and yet vaccination is as polarizing here as it is nationwide. Please take a minute to support this bill (opposed by Republicans) that allows the state to define the list of vaccines covered by insurance app.leg.wa.gov/csi/Testifie...

These should be standard across the entire urban core. And it also solves the problem of scooters and e-bikes parking on the sidewalk. Feeding two birds with one scone!

Vision Zero | We're accelerating Leading Pedestrian Interval (LPI) signal rollout throughout the city - SDOT Blog At-a-glance Failure to yield to pedestrians is one of the leading causes of crashes in Seattle. At traffic signals, incidents involving vehicle drivers turning account for 35 percent of all pedestrian...

Speed and recklessness likely played a more important role in this tragic accident, but I hate that the problem I reported through Find It Fix It last summer was never fixed and may have contributed to this. It truly acts as a *trailing* pedestrian interval. sdotblog.seattle.gov/2023/08/31/v...

This is horrific 😔 I walk and drive by this intersection all the time. One small thing I hate about this specific crosswalk is that the walk sign is completely obscured by a leaning utility pole, so you have to wait for cars to start turning into you to know that the walk sign is on.

The most worrying part of this chart is that billionaires used to have "only" enough money to buy yachts and mansions, and now they are outright buying our public institutions.

IANAL but my intuition is that the primary responsibility falls on the AI controller (whoever started the bot) unless the AI provider advertised that their AI "just works" without human in the loop or did not perform a reasonable risk assessment prior to releasing their AI.

As AI bots are executing more and more complex tasks (correctly or not, it doesn't matter), people and corporations can't hide behind "it's not my fault, the AI did it". We can't let them off the hook for the AI equivalent of "it's not my fault if n*zis are organizing on my social media platform".

You heard the story: an AI bot wrote and published a hit piece targeting the maintainer of a popular open-source library. But what's been missing from the narrative is that *somebody* started that bot and sent it to the library repository, and that person is still escaping all accountability.

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It's only February but...

Hating the Game The cooperation game, the murder game, and acting in good faith with people you know are acting in bad faith.

The reality is America is a huge multicultural multilingual country, not a white ethnostate, and venomous white supremacist MAGA crybabies lose it whenever that reality becomes unignorable. We should always seek to increase, not decrease, their discomfort. www.the-reframe.com/hating-the-g...

I have to say my mind does feel like it's 40 too, in a good way. I like the accumulation and richness of my past experiences and how they shaped me over time. I wouldn't trade back my 20-year old body for my 20-year old mind.

As someone about the same age as you, I think it's normal? My body has become really unforgiving if I sleep awkward or lift my daughter with "improper technique" 😅 but my brain has a bit of trouble accepting it and adapting accordingly.

Sounds about right. People need to realize there's so much more in common between all workers, from baristas to teachers to software engineers, exactly because of the reliance on a paycheck vs. capital (and the power dynamics of being an employee, with limited labor rights in most of the US).

From the stadium they sound like the Mariners home run horn. Super annoying after a gain of one yard for 3rd and 9.

A side note, when France did it, they mandated that overtime exempt employees would get an extra 4 hours of PTO every week. It should absolutely be the case whenever we talk about shorter workweeks, but it's also something that's critically missing in the bill.