#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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RE: https://defcon.social/@ai/117272554275488734
"I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit"
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AI bots named "Timmy", "Ren", and "Jackie" are flooding social media with AI-generated spam, attempting to create accounts on Mastodon and sending unsolicited emails to writers. The agents, promoting a startup called iLands, represent a new frontier in automated social manipulation. https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/09/ai-agents-flood-the-internet-with-slop-infused-spam/ #AIagent #AI #GenAI #AIEthics
Open quoted post"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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@davidgerard@circumstances.run
"The company claims its systems can function at ‘level 5 autonomy’: launching, identifying targets, striking and returning without human intervention. ‘Autonomy’ is also the keyword of the Unleashing US Military Drone Dominance initiative announced by defence secretary Pete Hegseth this July [2025]; this aims for full integration of autonomous weapons systems by 2027."
https://mondediplo.com/2025/11/02tech
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@BleepingComputer@infosec.exchange
burns all your money on tokens generating a plan for you to earn more money
the plan doesn't make sense
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/trumpwatch/
#uspol #corruption #oligarchy
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@terrasays@mastodon.social @bobkmertz@techhub.social @KittenKoder@mastodon.social @chrisp@cyberplace.social @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social
isn't the cloud is kind of already the mainframe everyone is renting time on? (connection fees for internet, monthly app subscriptions and such)
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@benlockwood@ecoevo.social
you forgot the required destruction (wars, planned obsolescence, etc)
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@tknarr@mstdn.social @briankrebs@infosec.exchange
that pretty much already happened and was cited as one of the reasons Trump ran in 2016
"President Obama Roasts Donald Trump At White House Correspondents' Dinner!"
https://youtu.be/k8TwRmX6zs4
"... 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
VOTE! 
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
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 #kingcountymetroReplying to
@paparatti@phire.place
further east is pretty grim, afaik a reading that high usually means a leaf got stuck in the sensor or something
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@himself.bsky.social
clean url:
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/the-rise-and-fall-of-tech-worker-power/
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@TechTangents@dialup.space
meanwhile, if you want a deep dive for free
https://github.com/getify/you-dont-know-js
#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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@Bellingcat@mstdn.social
people who can't code also can't evaluate generated code for correctness
turn back now
#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 from The Cascadia Advocate / NPI
https://www.nwprogressive.org/weblog/2026/07/the-seattle-times-versus-the-stranger-how-their-2026-mlkc-area-endorsements-compare.html
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@shoq@mastodon.social
modern management theory is straight out of plantation operations
your best performance is your new minimum
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@benroyce@mastodon.social @SomeVeganCheeseIsOk@mastodon.social
one left a half shell (oyster?) at my crow station a while back
#VoteEarly October 17th
https://www.nokings.org/
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@HakeemG@mastodon.social
that article doesn't support the idea that Jacobin was telling people both sides are the same, and also makes it pretty clear that Harris was their preferred candidate
"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 the Left, pretending that this deeply unpopular and cynical political style — whose hallmarks include shallow appeals to racial and gender identity, questionable insinuations of bigotry against their political opponents, and a fixation on bashing men, a demographic the party is desperate to win back — was something that had been forced on them by progressives and socialists.
"As this magazine pointed out at the time, this was pretty rich. There are certainly forces on the progressive left, rooted in college campuses and nonprofit groups, that stoked and continue to stoke the worst of wokeness. But it was Bernie Sanders and the movement behind him that had been saying the way forward was a politics that put people’s bread-and-butter concerns front and center and divisive identity politics and finger-wagging to the side.
"For their troubles, establishment Democrats lined up to declare them a bunch of racist, sexist “Bernie Bros,” even secret right-wingers who, being white guys, were out of touch with a voting public that wanted to only talk about race and gender, and that they should move out of the way entirely. (Why is the Democratic brand in the toilet with working-class men? We’ll never know.)..."
no paywall; login required
https://jacobin.com/2026/07/democrats-wokeness-el-sayed-jackson
archive:
https://archive.is/Hryld
#uspol #democrats #progressive #BernieSanders
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@annathepiper@mastodon.murkworks.net
looks to my eyes like the worst of it for Seattle will peak Wednesday morning
#Seattle #smoke #SmokeSeason
this smokecast looks like one of the old nuclear bomb simulators
https://firesmoke.ca/forecasts/current/
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@argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org
X11/Wayland already come with "ctrl+shift+u 1234 enter"
wat?
August 10 is National Lazy Day
https://nationaltoday.com/tomorrow/
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@neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org
I'm like Oprah when I log on to LI and set my console js loose... you get a slop mark, and you get a slop mark, everybody gets a slop mark!
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@VogueLaGalere@mastodon.online
possibly an opportunity to blend somehow with air monitor replacement
https://grist.org/accountability/americas-air-monitors-are-disappearing-so-is-your-power-to-expose-polluters/
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@Zumbador@mefi.social
see also:
cognitive de-fusion in ACT therapy
third-person self-talk
and...
“Is Batman working hard?”
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200817-the-batman-effect-how-having-an-alter-ego-empowers-you
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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@jonathankoren@sfba.social @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org
where you discover music doesn't have to be where you listen to it. obviously.
the means to tune a station that's based on a track are definitely more than they used to be:
what ever happened with the retinal display?
https://www.hitl.washington.edu/projects/vrd/
#vr #vrheadsets
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@apps@toot.fedilab.app
where have you documented how you handle the feed? what guarantee do you make that every post must pass under my eyes? (allowing for deduping boosts)
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@hildabast@mastodon.online
the link to the July update is broken
https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2026/07/27/bumper-month-of-clinical-trial-news-to-ring-out-this-vax-series/
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@jonathankoren@sfba.social @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org
while the bitrate wasn't the greatest last time I checked, the music discovery (esp. "more tracks like this") on Pandora is very good
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@ShadSterling@mastodon.social @mcc@mastodon.social @cr1901@mastodon.social
things change very slowly, and then all at once