#seattlenews

[mostlysignssomeportents]

This day in history

For the rest of May, my bestselling solarpunk utopian novel THE LOST CAUSE (2023) is available as a $2.99, DRM-free ebook!

#20yrsago Matt Jones: refactor the UI https://web.archive.org/web/20040527124940/http://www.diepunyhumans.com/archives/000346.html

#15yrsago US corporations fighting to keep poor countries from getting patent-free access to green tech https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/may/19/wto-climate-change-intellectual-property

#15yrsago How digging up expense reports led a journalist to clobber British govt https://www.seattlepi.com/seattlenews/article/former-uw-student-shakes-up-british-government-888589.php?source=rss

#10yrsago Surveillance state: the NSA doesn’t stand alone https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/05/how-nsa-transforming-law-enforcement

#10yrsago Kleargear ruins customers’ credit over online criticism, refuses to honor US judgment https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/embattled-retailer-kleargear-fights-back-against-online-review-defeat/

#10yrsago Science fiction and the law: free speech, censorship, privacy and surveillance https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2439423

#10yrsago Brussels: Water cannons turned on anti-TTIP protesters fighting the Son of ACTA https://www.techdirt.com/2014/05/16/water-cannons-turned-peaceful-ttip-protestors-brussels-as-public-barred-negotiations/

#10yrsago Schneier: NSA’s offense leaves Americans undefended https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/05/should-hackers-fix-cybersecurity-holes-or-exploit-them/371197/

#10yrsago 100 creeps busted in massive voyeurware sweep https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/05/more-than-100-arrested-in-global-crackdown-on-peeping-tom-malware/

#5yrsago Massive, careful study finds that social media use is generally neutral for kids’ happiness, and sometimes positive https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1902058116

#5yrsago The government of Baltimore has been taken hostage by ransomware and may remain shut down for weeks https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/05/baltimore-ransomware-nightmare-could-last-weeks-more-with-big-consequences/

#5yrsago The empirical impact of Lyft and Uber on cities: congestion (especially downtown, especially during “surges”), overworked drivers https://www.sfgate.com/technology/article/Uber-Lyft-San-Francisco-pros-cons-ride-hailing-13841277.php

#5yrsago Facebook’s Dutch Head of Policy lied to the Dutch parliament about election interference https://www.bitsoffreedom.nl/2019/05/21/facebook-lies-to-dutch-parliament-about-election-manipulation/

#5yrsago Rogess: chess with roguelike combat https://pippinbarr.com/rogess/

#1yrago Rich People’s Gain is Worth Less Than Poor People’s Pain https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/21/rich-peoples-gain-is-worth-less-than-poor-peoples-pain/

#pluralistic

[ivisonguitars]

कश्मीर में पिछले 3 दिनों में आतंकियों के साथ एनकाउंटर में आर्मी और पुलिस के 3 अफसर शहीद हो गए। https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUc8Xoc8qaA युग चरण के साथ देखिये देश-विदेश की सभी महत्वपूर्ण और बड़ी खबरें | अमेरिका के सिएटल शहर में एक भारतीय छात्रा जाह्नवी कमडुला की पुलिस पैट्रोल कार से टक्कर लगने पर मौत हुई। An Indian student, Jhanvi Kamdula, died after being hit by a police patrol car in Seattle, USA. कश्मीर में पिछले 3 दिनों में आतंकियों के साथ एनकाउंटर में आर्मी और पुलिस के 3 अफसर शहीद हो गए। An Indian student, Jhanvi Kamdula, died after being hit by a police patrol car in Seattle, USA. पिछले 4 महीनों से हिंसा से जूझ रहे मणिपुर से असम राइफल्स को हटाने की मांग तेज हुई। The demand for the removal of Assam Rifles from Manipur, which has been battling violence for the last 4 months, intensified. प्रदेश में होने वाले विधानसभा चुनावों के मद्देनजर राज्य सरकार आचार संहिता लगने से पहले लगातार फील्ड में अधिकारियों की तैनाती कर रही है। In view of the assembly elections to be held in the state, the state government is continuously deploying officers in the field before the implementation of the code of conduct. राजस्थान में विधानसभा चुनाव से पहले वोटर्स को लुभाने के लिए राजनेता क्रिकेट का सहारा ले रहे हैं। Before the assembly elections in Rajasthan, politicians are taking the help of cricket to woo voters. Watch the latest Hindi news Live on the World's Most Loved News Channel on YouTube. Latest News about Politics , Sports , Entertainment, Crime at Yugcharan Channel. Un Biased News Reporting ! Follow this link to join our WhatsApp group to get Latest News Updates : https://chat.whatsapp.com/ESor6YJXGEIL9y7DZRCtim Subscribe our channel for the latest news: https://www.youtube.com/@yugcharan Like us: https://www.facebook.com/theyugcharan Follow us: https://twitter.com/theyugcharan Telegram : https://t.me/TheYugCharanpaper Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/theyugcharan/ Website : https://yugcharan.com #today_breaking_news #Breaking_news #Latest_news #Hindi_News #News #NewsHindiLive #LiveTVNews #HindiNews #indianarmy #indianarmynews #kashmirnews #indianpolitics #indianpoliticalnews #politicalnews #politics #politicalcontroversy #politicalconflict #americanews #seattlenews #crimenews via Yugcharan News https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbT6O9BlRulH48ph5QmCYEg September 15, 2023 at 06:46PM

#Yugcharan News #Youtube

[gojackenmitracoolas]

कश्मीर में पिछले 3 दिनों में आतंकियों के साथ एनकाउंटर में आर्मी और पुलिस के 3 अफसर शहीद हो गए। https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUc8Xoc8qaA युग चरण के साथ देखिये देश-विदेश की सभी महत्वपूर्ण और बड़ी खबरें | अमेरिका के सिएटल शहर में एक भारतीय छात्रा जाह्नवी कमडुला की पुलिस पैट्रोल कार से टक्कर लगने पर मौत हुई। An Indian student, Jhanvi Kamdula, died after being hit by a police patrol car in Seattle, USA. कश्मीर में पिछले 3 दिनों में आतंकियों के साथ एनकाउंटर में आर्मी और पुलिस के 3 अफसर शहीद हो गए। An Indian student, Jhanvi Kamdula, died after being hit by a police patrol car in Seattle, USA. पिछले 4 महीनों से हिंसा से जूझ रहे मणिपुर से असम राइफल्स को हटाने की मांग तेज हुई। The demand for the removal of Assam Rifles from Manipur, which has been battling violence for the last 4 months, intensified. प्रदेश में होने वाले विधानसभा चुनावों के मद्देनजर राज्य सरकार आचार संहिता लगने से पहले लगातार फील्ड में अधिकारियों की तैनाती कर रही है। In view of the assembly elections to be held in the state, the state government is continuously deploying officers in the field before the implementation of the code of conduct. राजस्थान में विधानसभा चुनाव से पहले वोटर्स को लुभाने के लिए राजनेता क्रिकेट का सहारा ले रहे हैं। Before the assembly elections in Rajasthan, politicians are taking the help of cricket to woo voters. Watch the latest Hindi news Live on the World's Most Loved News Channel on YouTube. Latest News about Politics , Sports , Entertainment, Crime at Yugcharan Channel. Un Biased News Reporting ! Follow this link to join our WhatsApp group to get Latest News Updates : https://chat.whatsapp.com/ESor6YJXGEIL9y7DZRCtim Subscribe our channel for the latest news: https://www.youtube.com/@yugcharan Like us: https://www.facebook.com/theyugcharan Follow us: https://twitter.com/theyugcharan Telegram : https://t.me/TheYugCharanpaper Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/theyugcharan/ Website : https://yugcharan.com #today_breaking_news #Breaking_news #Latest_news #Hindi_News #News #NewsHindiLive #LiveTVNews #HindiNews #indianarmy #indianarmynews #kashmirnews #indianpolitics #indianpoliticalnews #politicalnews #politics #politicalcontroversy #politicalconflict #americanews #seattlenews #crimenews via Yugcharan News https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbT6O9BlRulH48ph5QmCYEg September 15, 2023 at 06:46PM

#Yugcharan News #Youtube

[themaggiesun-blog]

Seattle, a city on Puget Sound.

#realestatenews #realestate #seattlenews

[guenthergroup]

Hanging out with the old NorthWest Cable News gang.😁 Been years and years. . . *** #nwcn #tvnews #seattlenews #goodtimes #goodfriends #kingtv #northwestcablenews @bkaczaraba @jacquecoe @a.paisleyfish (at Black Bottle) https://www.instagram.com/p/CWjfvmUvJrU/?utm_medium=tumblr

#nwcn #tvnews #seattlenews #goodtimes #goodfriends #kingtv #northwestcablenews

[alinevida]

@alineandwes are proud to present our first music video for one of the songs, "Work is Never Done" from our debut EP Lavender Lemonade. The song was inspired by the societal challenges we are currently witnessing. Directed by Rob the Prospect @robtheprospect Filmed at @earwigstudio We look forward to performing this song and others at our upcoming release show 11/15 @hollowearthradio featuring Payge Turner, Aline & Wes, Tobias the Owl, Dearly Departed Doors open at 8pm. See link in bio for show details and for our YouTube channel. #alineandwes #musicvideo #seattlemusic #newmusic #seattlelive #seattlenews #seattlemusicvideos #seattlemusicvideo #musicvideodirectors Share if you care..... (at Seattle, Washington) https://www.instagram.com/p/B41B6WipiV1/?igshid=1nqgv1u0qgwyq

#alineandwes #musicvideo #seattlemusic #newmusic #seattlelive #seattlenews #seattlemusicvideos #seattlemusicvideo #musicvideodirectors

[alineandwes]

We are proud to present our first music video for one of the songs, "Work is Never Done" from our debut EP Lavender Lemonade. The song was inspired by the societal challenges we are currently witnessing. Directed by Rob the Prospect @robtheprospect Filmed at @earwigstudio We look forward to performing this song and others at our upcoming release show 11/15 @hollowearthradio featuring Payge Turner, Aline & Wes, Tobias the Owl, Dearly Departed Doors open at 8pm. See link in bio for show details and for our YouTube channel. #alineandwes #musicvideo #seattlemusic #newmusic #seattlelive #seattlenews #seattlemusicvideos #seattlemusicvideo #musicvideodirectors Share if you care..... (at Seattle, Washington) https://www.instagram.com/p/B41BPvBJIr0/?igshid=1spfzaksruykk

#alineandwes #musicvideo #seattlemusic #newmusic #seattlelive #seattlenews #seattlemusicvideos #seattlemusicvideo #musicvideodirectors

[donnallycaia]

Today, the SR99 closed. I've been on this ride nearly everyday for the last 4+ years. So thankful to be out of town while we all get ready for the new normal. . . . #changeisconstant #SR99closure #newviaducttunnell #seattlenews #farethewell #transit #pnw #avoidingtrafficwithvacation (at Seattle, Washington) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bsix1pjHGnz/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=88s72xxj9h0x

#changeisconstant #sr99closure #newviaducttunnell #seattlenews #farethewell #transit #pnw #avoidingtrafficwithvacation

[pacificnorthwestcore]

“There's a new, happy surprise swimming around in the cold waters of the Salish Sea: an orca calf.

The Orca Network reported Wednesday that L-86 — also known as Surprise! by researchers after her surprise birth in 1991 — recently gave birth to a baby calf identified as L125. The successful birth marks the first calf born into L pod since Jan. 2019.”

#newsfromthepnw

[bigfinllc]

Discover how Seattle companies want to develop Artificial Intelligence for the greater good by potentially removing human bias with neutral data.

#technology #ai #artificialintelligence #seattlecompanies #seattletech #seattlenew #tech news #aitech

[peppypanda-com]

#happy news #uplifting news #good news #peppypanda.com

[wethajacksons-blog]

WE are in Seattle and steady on course. Slated to travel further North to Bellingham on Monday, WE are trying to make a early journey later today. The colder temperatures mixed with the wet weather stalls our ability to touch more people but WE are getting around. A gun drawn police incident upon the local train which featured a man threatening to shoot everyone on board didn't sit well with the wife and girls but by the Grace of Time... all are ok! Welcome to Seattle, it can only get better from here, right? #seattleseahawks #seattlefoodie #seattlenews #seattle #tacoma #tacomawashington #seattlewashington #usa #travel #america #Americans #travelmore #diversity #television #love #adventure #familytravel #family #america #tour #washington #motivation #encouragement #progress #bellinghamwa #loveamericatour #wethajacksons

#americans #television #america #wethajacksons #seattlenews #familytravel #usa #adventure #loveamericatour #travel #tour #seattlewashington #tacomawashington #seattlefoodie #tacoma #travelmore #seattle #washington #family #encouragement #motivation #progress #love #bellinghamwa #diversity #seattleseahawks

[djelgroucho]

Urban Planning: Seattle’s Cake

If you walk through Seattle’s South Lake Union, you’ll have to avoid the hordes of tech workers on break in their natural habitat outside Amazon headquarters. What many Seattleites, in particular of certain age, may not know are the proposed and now-discarded urban planning visions once proposed that litter Seattle’s annals of history. Perhaps this is merely the condition of Seattle; a city whose dreams and self-defeating hubris are larger than its stature.

Origins

In 1851, the Denny Party landed on Alki Point. Later, the majority of the settler relocated across Elliot Bay to its eastern shore to what is today Pioneer Square, selected because it was a better harbour. The remaining members of the party named the original landing point “New York”, after one of the party member’s hometown. The settlement was later renamed “Alki”, meaning “by and by” (“someday”) in Chinook jargon and underscoring the aspirations of the settlement [1]. 

After the Great Seattle Fire in 1889, with the wooden city rebuilt in brick and stone, the first grand planning proposal came in the form of an opera house and 12-storey tower, where fittingly, the Benaroya Hall was built in 1998. Later came proposals of an underground subway in 1906 and 1907 [2].

Bogue Plan

In the early 20th century Seattle was prosperous from the Gold Rush [2]. In 1910 the city hired the civil engineer Virgil Bogue “to take charge of the plans for the beautification of Seattle, which the commission has undertaken, paying particular attention to thoroughfares and a uniform set of improvements of a municipal character” [3]. 

Borrowing from Beaux-Arts in Europe as a proponent of the City Beautiful movement, Bogue proposed in 1911 capping downtown buildings in height (like Paris), radial boulevards, and city government offices located in a civic centre south of Denny Way and from where Seattle Center now sits [3]. In the Bouge Plan [4], [5] he also proposed urban rail ( for a city then expected to have a population of over one million people [6]. Of the 90 miles, 33 were proposed to be underground. Moreover, Mercer Island would become a park four times as large as Vancouver’s Stanley Park. The Bouge Plan, though approved by the city, would be rejected by voters in 1912 who saw it as too expensive and too much work [2], [3], [6].

Bouge’s Civic Center, from the Seattle Municipal Archives [3].

Seattle Commons

In 1991, Seattle Times columnist John Hinterberger and architect Frank Bassetti proposed a 61-acre central park running from Westlake to South Lake Union [2]. The plan was to transform the then low-rise, light industrial, low-income residential area to high-rise, high-tech development with a park at its centre to satisfy a city long-deficient of a green space that are not small (e.g., Westlake Park) or distant from downtown (e.g., Seattle Center). The park would rival Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, Stanley Park in Vancouver, and Central Park in New York [7].

Draft plan from 1995 (Seattle Municipal Archives) [8].

Microsoft co-founder and billionaire Paul Allen \$20 million to the Commons campaign in order to purchase 11.5 acres of land. This loan was to be forgiven if voters approved of the \$111 million property-tax levy [9]. The plan would have displaced 130 existing small businesses but was estimated to attract 12,000 high-tech and bio-tech jobs. Opponents argued that the \$250 million project would make homeowners pay \$48 a year more for nine years to subsidise developers. The measure failed twice, in 1995 and 1996 [10], [11].

Irony

Allen kept the 11.5 acres and continued to develop South Lake Union without a park [2], [11]. Jump to the present. In 2010 Amazon began to lease the properties and buildings from Allen’s Vulcan as its headquarters [9], [12]. Amazon purchased from Allen’s Vulcan the property \$1.16 billion in 2012. [13] Of course, the irony of it all is that Seattle has been unable to have its cake and eat it too. This isn’t the only example of this proverb. 

In 1970 Seattle voters rejected the Forward Thrust [14] measure that would have raised \$400 million in local bonds for a \$1.3 billion regional transit system, 90% of which would have been financed by the federal government [15]. Instead, voters opted for highway and automobile-centric urban planning [10]. The 3-mile tunnel connecting the University of Washington and Capitol Hill to the 16 miles of Link light rail track to SeaTac cost \$1.8 billion alone [16].

Are the NIMBYs and anti-tax activists to blame? No, according to Dan Savage. He writes [17]:

The person at most fault for the failure of the Seattle Commons is Paul Allen. The billionaire co-founder of Microsoft asked voters to approve \$250 million in new taxes to build the park. During the second Commons campaign Allen made \$1 billion during a stock rally on a single day. If Allen had any sense—or any decent advisors around him—he would've cashed out a quarter of that day's haul and given the city the \$250 million and asked the mayor to name the park after his mother. Allen Park would've been his legacy.

That didn't happen, of course, because Allen is more carny than Carnegie. The Experience Music Project and Totally Awesome Science Fiction Stuff and Museum—what Allen thinks of as his legacy—will be a Taco Time fifteen minutes after he dies. 

And, yes, Allen would've benefited from the construction of the Seattle Commons. But he was going to be benefit—he was going to make money—one way or another.

References

[1] https://www.historylink.org/File/303

[2] https://www.seattletimes.com/pacific-nw-magazine/the-seattles-that-might-have-been/

[3] https://www.historylink.org/File/9779

[4] https://archive.org/details/planseattlerepo00bogugoog/page/n5

[5] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Bogue_Plan_of_Seattle

[6] https://www.seattlepi.com/seattlenews/article/The-grandest-plan-for-Seattle-6399834.php

[7] https://crosscut.com/2015/12/south-lake-union-could-have-been-seattles-central-park

[8] http://lulab.be.washington.edu/omeka/items/show/832

[9] http://pcad.lib.washington.edu/building/13448/

[10] https://crosscut.com/sponsored/walking-tour-south-lake-union-might-have-been

[11] https://www.historylink.org/File/8252

[12] https://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Allen-displays-his-vision-for-South-Lake-Union-1171298.php

[13] https://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon-gobbles-up-campus-for-1-billion/

[14] https://www.historylink.org/File/3961

[15] https://www.seattlemag.com/article/seattle-could-have-been-now-mohai

[16] https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/transportation/university-link-light-rail-service-starts-march-19/

[17] https://www.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2012/10/06/we-really-showed-paul-allen

#seattle #urban planning #south lake union #amazon #paul allen #dan savage #cities #rapid transit

[glompcat]

The misinformation is still ongoing.

I saw a post on here the other day about that video of Sinclair owned stations. 

About how Sinclair owned stations made their anchors read an identical script bashing MSNBC and CNN and CBS (none of those stations in the video are owned by the major outlets, they are owned by Sinclair. The logos in the corner - of those more familiar large brands - are because they are affiliate stations, they are paying NBC, CBS, ABC etc for the right to put that logo there and are not owned by them). 

Yet the post I saw on here with that video attached had it framed as if it is the major large networks creating propaganda against the smaller local news stations.... which is literally the exact opposite of what is happening in that video.

What we are seeing in that video is a right-wing media company that swooped in and purchased as many small local news stations across the country that they could, and is now forcing them to read a script that bashes all news sources outside of right-wing control.

Yet it is so easy to foist a narrative onto things like that on this site and others, regardless of what is actually going on, which is very much the exact problem.

Given what I am talking about specifically, here are some sources, so you know I’m not just creating spin here or editorializing about what that video showed:

https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/how-americas-largest-local-tv-owner-turned-its-news-anc-1824233490

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/02/business/media/sinclair-news-anchors-script.html

http://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-defends-sinclair-media-company-takes-fire-false/story?id=54174966

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/media/2018/04/02/sinclair-defends-itself-over-uproar-after-local-news-anchors-read-anti-false-news-screed/477531002/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stations_owned_or_operated_by_Sinclair_Broadcast_Group

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/04/02/why-trumps-support-for-sinclair-broadcasting-is-so-concerning/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2018/04/02/the-real-problem-with-sinclairs-fake-news-script/?tid=pm_opinions_pop

https://www.seattlepi.com/seattlenews/article/KOMO-fake-news-Sinclair-promos-12792032.php

http://money.cnn.com/2018/04/01/media/sinclair-anchor-promos/index.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvtNyOzGogc (This is a John Oliver segment explaining what Sinclair  Broadcasting is)

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/980799183425802240

Basically, and I know I keep saying this over and over and over again, don’t believe everything you read on tumblr, and please please don’t use this site as your primary news source.

[rupeegroupie]

Woo this photo of me was used in a wonderful @seattlepi article about the @shoutyourabortion book and I’m reading the book right now and can’t believe I get to be a part of it and that something so good and powerful exists and I am counting the seconds until the book launch event on Saturday night! #shoutyourabortion https://seattlepi.com/seattlenews/article/Shout-Your-Abortion-Amelia-Bonow-book-interview-13356041.php# (at Seattle, Washington) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bp843XwlIFh/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=13bh7yb25q365

#shoutyourabortion

[darius09]

Picture References

https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/cute-red-panda-pulling-tongue-out-32201191?irclickid=02d2WAVp0xyIT-2Wt41wdxdNUkD0frwRzQulUU0&irgwc=1&utm_medium=Affiliate&utm_campaign=TinEye&utm_source=77643&utm_term=&c3ch=Affiliate&c3nid=IR-77643

https://sedo.com/brokerage/acquisition.php?partnerid=323869&language=us&domain=dreamdictionary.online&origin=partner

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9781437778137000069

https://www.thoughtco.com/red-panda-facts-4172726

https://helpwhitetigers.weebly.com/food-web--trophic-pyramid.html

https://mapsontheweb.zoom-maps.com/post/667827842853322752/the-red-panda-an-endangered-species-on-the-iucn

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9781437778137000069

https://www.seattlepi.com/seattlenews/article/Seattle-red-panda-fans-Get-your-fix-before-13739462.php

http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Quirks/2007/04/25/miss_america_helps_nab_online_predators/

https://www.petsfoto.com/

https://twitter.com/RedPandaEveryHr/status/1489197052731047937

https://ftw.usatoday.com/2018/08/oh-look-heres-some-adorable-baby-red-pandas

https://www.syracuse.com/zoo/2015/10/cute_overload_syracuse_zoos_red_panda_cub_caught_licking_viewing_window.html