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  #trains #airo A First Look at the New Amtrak Cascades Fleet https://www.theurbanist.org/a-first-look-at-the-new-amtrak-cascades-fleet/

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  "portfolio career" — precarity eating its way up the corporate food chain see also: gig economy, side hustle #economy #jobs #career

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  @ShadSterling@mastodon.social @mcc@mastodon.social @cr1901@mastodon.social things change very slowly, and then all at once

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  "moderate" Democrats are just smugly polite Republicans "Centrists Are Soft-Launching the Idea That We Have a Little Too Much Democracy" | The Intercept https://theintercept.com/2026/09/13/centrist-liberals-democracy-small-dollar-donors/

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  choose your own adventure (to hell) "The Revolving Door Project (RDP) scrutinizes executive branch appointees to ensure they use their office to serve the broad public interest, rather than to entrench corporate power or seek personal advancement." one of their 3 main focus areas is: "how the Trump administration’s corrupt governance is helping oligarchs and hurting ordinary people." here's the nicely organized catalog of harms: https://therevolvingdoorproject.org/tag...

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  RE: https://defcon.social/@ai/117272554275488734 "I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit"

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  #VoteEarly October 17th https://www.nokings.org/

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  what ever happened with the retinal display? https://www.hitl.washington.edu/projects/vrd/ #vr #vrheadsets

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  #flock don't forget about #Axon edit: and others https://www.newsweek.com/flocks-major-rivals-cameras-spark-increasing-backlash-12362093

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  chaotic weather in the forecast #Seattle #wawx

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  August 10 is National Lazy Day https://nationaltoday.com/tomorrow/

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  VOTE! :possum_cursing: Voter Turnout Lags as Washington's Primary Election Enters Home Stretch https://www.theurbanist.org/voter-turnout-lags-as-washingtons-primary-election-enters-home-stretch/ #Seattle #elections #election #kingcounty #kingcountymetro

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  #Seattle #election #vote #kingcounty for anyone doing last minute coloring inside the lines, The Urbanist has their own endorsement guide, in case you wanted an alternative to the election control board https://www.theurbanist.org/2026-primary-election-endorsements/ (and one that didn't make the edit into the guide): https://www.theurbanist.org/op-ed-vote-gabe-rothstein-for-seattle-municipal-court/ and if you like to see where everyone agrees, here's a Stranger vs Times comparison f...

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  #Seattle #smoke #SmokeSeason this smokecast looks like one of the old nuclear bomb simulators https://firesmoke.ca/forecasts/current/

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  wat?

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  "The Left Is Rising, So Centrist Dems Are Cynically Woke Again "The Democratic establishment said it was getting rid of the grating, cynical style of wokeness it blamed for its 2024 loss to Donald Trump. Then the Left began winning primaries, and those same Democrats changed their tune." "...After handing the White House to Donald Trump a second time and scrambling to dump the blame on someone else, Democrats did what they usually do when they royally screw up: they blamed...

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  #labor #economy #work #weekend #fourDayWeek #union A 4-Day Work Week Sounds Great. How Do We Get One? - In These Times "Workers deserve far more time off the job. But getting to a shorter work week will require a labor movement that can wield power to extract such demands." https://inthesetimes.com/article/four-day-work-week-labor-unions-juliet-schor

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  "... across the press the last week, the hacking intrusion news cycle seamlessly flowed into another "CEO said a thing!" news cycle where Altman was allowed to spew a whole bunch of bullshit unbothered by anything close to actual journalism... " AI Doomsday Bullshit Is Getting Tired https://karlbode.com/ai-doomsday-bullshit-is-getting-tired/ #noAI #AI #media #journalism

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  burying the lede? "In addition to the humanoid robots, the FCC also barred connected power inverters, which enable renewable energy sources and batteries to connect to grids and datacenter equipment." US bans humanoid robots from China, citing ‘unacceptable risks’ | Trump administration | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/28/fcc-ban-humanoid-robots-china #greenenergy #greentransition #solar #renewables

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  what's up with the #cert on kernel.dk? #infosec #letsencrypt

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  RE: https://fediscience.org/@MichaelEMann/116981550635871216 this part: "El Niño is intrinsically a chaotic event in a climate system that doesn’t always respond in simple, proportional ways, Mann explained. Its greatest impacts come from its connections to the larger atmosphere, such as the trade winds and upper atmospheric winds, but those teleconnections can be hard to predict. Small differences in conditions such as ocean temperatures or the trade winds can alter what happens later....

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  RE: https://halo.nu/@theguardian_us_environment/116973889802258999 EU right now: tell me more about this AMOC collapse

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  @lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org it's the never being told "no, that's stupid/bad/wrong" ever which is the same madness that has now infected the managerial class via AI chatbots

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@yaelwrites/116971216470144604 a quality parody (not actually slop)

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  evidently, not enough of you have been installing ad blockers on the devices of anyone who gets within 10ft ... "Google reports 12th consecutive quarter of strong revenue gains" https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/22/google-earnings-report #adblock #adblocker #ublock

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  RE: https://kind.social/@dtod/116964155536199112 this: "America's load-bearing private institutions – like the Big Four accounting firms and the bond rating agencies – have self-immolated, thanks to decades of lax regulation by successive US administrations through scandal after scandal. Quiggin points out that there's no reason to replace these giant, structurally important (but terrifyingly unreliable) cartels with trustworthy versions. It's cheaper and more robust to rebui...

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  What is the #resistance governing agenda? - by Dan Froomkin "Over the last several months, I’ve grown increasingly interested in what a resistance governing agenda would look like – first in Congress, if Democrats win one or both chambers in November, and then across all three branches, if Trumpism is rejected by the voters in 2028. So I’m thinking about adding a new focus to this newsletter: examining what those two agendas might look like, by aggregating and analyzing the latest ideas s...

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  RE: https://flipboard.com/@theseattletimes/outdoors-on7epu9pz/-/a-85qSsmnuR5uHgfweJ2B6tQ%3Aa%3A2857557016-%2F0 #seattle #smoke

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  wet bulb temperature in Pakistan pushing right into the lethal range in the next few hours #climatecrisis #heat

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  RE: https://flipboard.com/@independent/sports-c4jth40vz/-/a-iHh0PYE4TeSXPpJdayVJAA%3Aa%3A1855170754-%2F0 California Classic #NBA summer league starting in 10m 🏀