Gonna be a long night for light crews in Seattle. 46k customers and counting out of power. Let's here it for backup batteries.

https://www.seattle.gov/city-light/outages

#seattle

What the fuck Washington? #WApol

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/washington-state-election-results-2026/#Key-results&651_filter=0

WA state voters: there’s an anti-trans-girls initiative on the ballot that needs to fail miserably. Once again trans people are being thrown under the bus as a political distraction; let’s send a message (by 8pm on Tuesday!!) that we’re smarter and kinder than that. https://nohateinwastate.org/

I love Star Trek, but when watching Generations the other night I thought, how the hell does Star Fleet function of the crew of the Enterprise was essentially static for 9 seasons? None of the key officers were promoted or moved to new billets where they would grow and develop and eventually become captains or some such.

How is this a system for developing your officers?

It's not like they were out of contact or never in port, they just never promoted anyone.

#startrek

Paddle shifters on EVs and automatic transmissions are silly. It's a good place for buttons, but a bad use of them. We could significantly improve safety of screen forward UX in cars if the paddles were used to advance through buttons in the UI like the Tab button on a keyboard. You could even add a screen reader to infotainment systems to read the current control.

We can make use of accessibility tools for the visually impared to help people who's eyes are busy elsewhere

#cars #ux #a11y

Maybe a good exercise would be to have your frontier model design a network sandbox for the exploit gym activity then have another instance of the model try to escape.

Two things seem clear with the rash of AI models escaping containment during testing.

1. We are bad at building sandboxes
2. AI systems are good at looking at an API surface and finding a path that does not require authorization to accomplish its objective.

Unfortunately these are the same problem. We as humans, or at least the humans who work at AI labs, are bad at building secure systems. This should not surprise us, because it is the history of the internet since forever.

#AI #LLM

I really want to know what happens if I select Old or Middle English as my daughter's language preference in the doctor's patient portal.

#ProductMgmt

All of them were close personal friends or troops in my unit.

This memorial day I'm mindful of all my brothers and sisters in arms who have died and been wounded. But I think if these that have been closest to me.

1LT Naqvi, Mohsin A. - 9-17-2008
SGT Mena, Ralph - 5-04-2010
SGT Ristau, Michael E. - 7-13-2012
SGT Nena, Sapuro B. - 9-16-2012
SPC Nelson, Joshua N. - 9-16-2012
PFC Bedoy, Genaro - 9-16-2012
PFC Townsend, Jon R. - 9-16-2012
SGT Smith, Matthew 11-14-2016

Two died by IEDs
Two by suicide
Four in a single green on blue attack in Afghanistan.

Spring is springing on my bonsai bench.

#bonsai #pnw #magnolia

Jesus fucking christ. Arresting firefighters while they are fighting a fire, in a national park is the real epitome of stupidity.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/climate-lab/federal-agents-arrest-firefighters-working-on-wa-wildfire/

#seattle #wa

Styling day for my Taylor's Sunburst Lodgepole Pine. My first literati style #bonsai.

I've been looking at the trunk line of this tree for almost 24 months thinking about where I wanted to go with it.

#Bluesky raising a series A round from #Blockchain really makes me want to keep my primary home in the #ActivityPub ecosystem. Blockchain is a grift and a plight upon the world (in the literal global warming sense as well as the figurative scam perspective).

Eventually these investors will want to make their money back.

https://bsky.social/about/blog/10-24-2024-series-a

The GOP has talked a big game about supporting veterans but they don't respect you when you need health care after you go to war and apparently not even when you are died at war.

https://www.npr.org/2024/08/27/nx-s1-5091154/trump-arlington-cemetery

#veterans #trump #gop #arlingtoncemetery

When a grifter opens a crypto platform that is mostly used for grift. You can bet that they are going to end up stealing people's money.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/22/24226184/trump-defiant-ones-cryptocurrency-platform?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

#crypto #trump

This is some swift boat smear bullshit. This isn't just asking questions. It's a smear campaign. Rep Banks could have asked for records quietly, or asked Gov Walz for a copy of his records.

Instead they are pulling a stunt to seed doubt that Gov Walz's 24 years of service are honorable.

https://mastodon.social/@axios/112929138991841751

@kamalaharrisforpresidentnews

I really want to buy a @frameworkcomputer laptop, but use a personal computer so rarely that I struggle to justify it.

First bloom on my Magnolia #bonsai today. It's reliably the first thing to bloom in the garden in early spring.

#bloomscrolling #magnolia #pnw

I love @smore 's continued writing on the systems and process of technical writing.

https://thisisimportant.net/posts/process-models-for-documentation/