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Lovely Autumn day in the Columbia gorge.

Mixed day. Had some disappointing conversations and interactions. Also, fell into an entertaining photo walk I'm calling "Don't Rank Torres". If you're in D3 and you haven't voted, yet. Don't rank her. Don't put any marks whatsoever on the row with her name. She is bad mojo. @chalkgirl.bsky.social

The distinction between Cassandra warning about the Trojan horse and Cassandra running a successful Trojan horse distribution business is that the latter probably has some explaining to do.

master of Opsec at it again (check out the bottom)

AI researchers warn technology 'months away' from being able to get reimbursement using Concur

Proud to be the 582nd weirdo 😎 on @BackerKit Crowdfunding for Portland Oregon Trail! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/9...

The Roads Have Eyes! 👁️ Turn on the Surveillance Layer in Map Options to see known license plate readers from Flock Safety, Motorola Solutions (Vigilant), Genetec, Axis Communications, Axon, Leonardo (ELSAG), Neology, Rekor, PlateSmart, Ubicquia, Verkada, and other outdoor surveillance cameras.

passage of time and seeing what the generational theft AI has undertaken has only made the prosecution of swartz all the more enraging

We have a policy proposal to support small businesses and address affordability, and to raise millions for things like parks, transportation safety, violence prevention, Portland Street Response, and summer programs for youth and seniors. Portlanders want this. Here are some powerful testimonials.

The Fair Share Tax is coming to the Committee of the Whole this Thursday for debate and possibly a vote (agenda item 5). We need your help to get it passed out of committee. Here's how you can support: 1) Submit written testimony 2) Email your lawmakers 3) Join us in chambers this Thursday

New on the site! I'm very excited to share a complete set of PRL&P interurban railway right of way plat maps, kindly provided to me by PGE. Download each division as a high-resolution PDF here: pdx-streetcar-history.notion.site/PRL-P-Interu...

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

I uploaded my TTRPG essay from Sprigs & Kindling Volume 7 on how to use Carved from Brindlewood mechanics in Monster of the Week to itch. Free download! iamatrex.itch.io/what-can-hur...

Conway's law's second order effect + Goodhart's law is a particularly nasty combo. Now imagine that applied to agentic work. And then to the agile process managing agentic work.

PBA/Metro Chamber PACs. You get digging on it and it’s just a handful of real estate developers/investors and a few assorted regular complainers. 147 entities, 570 transactions, $8,320,892.51. Trans Date 5 Oct 2020 through 25 Sept. Data current as of post date.

The United for Portland PAC is basically a list of people The @oregonian.com asks to complain about topics in their newspaper.

Kellie Torres is the only person on stage who explicitly said she would have supported using PCEF funds for police funding had it made the ballot. Note: this directly contradicts Torres' claim that she supports 350PDX's Climate Justice Platform.

Software engineering could and should be done with the same care as any other type of engineering. This is a post in honor of Margaret Hamilton (and also a subtweet of all vibe-coders everywhere).

These billionaires are truly pathetic. "masters of the universe" in their imaginations; lickspittles in reality.

What do you want the new default styling to be for HTML fieldset? Here’s what it’s been forever — a box around things, with the legend text placed over the middle of the line at the top left. (See developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W... for more.)

What are you trying to hide Dan?

More than half of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. Starbuck's CEO took home $31 million - 1,794 times more their median worker. Live Nation's CEO made $33 million - 976 times the median pay. The system has been rigged against the working class, but the Fair Share Tax starts to change that.

Our Fair Share Tax proposal is coming to Committee of the Whole this Thursday morning at 9:30. If you think it’s a good idea to cut taxes for small businesses, raise taxes on large mega corporations, while raising more money to fund critical services then we need to hear from you.

When I set out to fact check “The Cities That Said Yes to Drugs” which argues that harm reduction may increase overdoses, I expected some cherry picking and misdirection. But not to find basic math errors and debunked right wing talking points asserted as fact in the Atlantic’s print edition.

Don’t rank Metro Chamber’s most loyal soldiers. #DontRankOliviaClark #DontRankEricZimmerman #DontRankEliArnold

Of course, sometimes it IS appropriate in Apocalypse World to use "acting under fire" when you're cooking a meal. For instance, when someone's shooting at you while you cook. When somebody's shooting at you while you cook, I think it's okay for a 7-9 to be a kind of failure instead of a success...

the democrats who put themselves in a panic over hasan piker are the same democrats who push the party to be anti trans, and a generation ago were the ones saying we cant oppose the war in iraq these people are never right they doom the party they hurt america stop listening to them

IBR funding exceeds TriMet funding. The IBR hasn’t even broken ground yet.

Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows...

Man Confident He Would’ve Been Brave Enough To Send Thumbs Down Emoji In Cornell Group Chat

Missed this when it was first out, but really enjoyed Eye on Juliet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_on_...

This x 1000. Tell me the problem you are trying to solve. Do not give me an implementation plan.

How can I get on one of these furry staffed flights? Sounds like fun!

3/ Tech fascism in a nutshell: “Computers are so much more rule-based, controllable, fixable, and comprehensible than any human will ever be. As many political schools of thought do, these technolibertarians make a philosophy out of a personality defect.“ She wrote this in 2000!

Be vigilant, friends.

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HUGE EXCLUSIVE from @bloomberg.com Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School Pentagon investigators discovered that flawed intel, outdated imagery & overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Some issues never change. You just write about 'em once, and the charlatans raise 'em again every time they think there's a public waiting to be fooled.

Run Leo, run! youtu.be/P-vmM5m-9rc?...

Today is the 20th anniversary of the death of James Chasse. Chasse was beaten to death by Portland Police in the Pearl District despite not posing a threat. Having broken 16 of his ribs, they took him to jail instead of a hospital at first, and only after the jail declined to admit him due to ...