#Seattle #Elections I just turned in my ballot at the NewCastle City Hall #Ballot2026
Sundar Balakrishnan
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Polymath, UW Bothell School of Business. AI/ML pioneer in Marketing. Academic Editor PLOS ONE; Management & Business Review. Analytics, Negotiations. Marketing, Analytics, Distinguished Teaching Medal. orcid: 0000-0002-2856-55
Finally read this incredible book - Chai time at Cinnamon Gardens by Shankari Chandran. www.sbs.com.au/audio/podcas...
🌱Why did Yerba Mate get popular while our North American tea, Yaupon is still neglected?
An ethereal moonrise over Seattle tonight. Ribbons of wildfire and Blue Angels smoke painted the moon in deep red and amber, softening its usual glare until it looked almost otherworldly above the Space Needle.
in portland someone spray painted penises around potholes, and they got filled pretty immediately www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
A crude pothole graffiti tactic got Portland’s attention. Please don’t copy it, officials say
Nearby apartment dwellers had a bird's eye view of the graphic murals.
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Microsoft on Monday unveiled MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, its first purpose-built cybersecurity AI model, and launched Project Perception, an agentic security platform The system scores 96% on the CyberGym benchmark, which Microsoft says is 12 points above Anthropic’s Mythos
Microsoft Unveils A.I. Cybersecurity Tools
As some executives fret over the safety of new A.I. systems, protecting against them could be a big business for tech companies.
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On Thursday, ICE needlessly detained Eduardo Aguirre Esparza, a local Seattle small business owner with no criminal history. This is a man who is married to an American citizen and with deep ties to our local community who was working hard to pursue a legal pathway to lawful permanent residence.
Is #Bluesky so uptight about sex that literally every thing is blocked for me?
The New York Times@nytimes.com · last wk.Nordstrom’s Anniversary Sale is here. It’s a good time to save on trendier items that don’t see many discounts outside of Black Friday — think swanky skin care and makeup, chic clothing and shoes, and higher-end travel gear. nyti.ms/4woM8lM
#Editorial | The resignation of Dharmendra Pradhan as Union Education Minister, after a sustained agitation by youth led by the satirically named Cockroach Janta Party, is more than just a ministerial casualty of the “paper leaks” scandal. https://mrf.lu/2c26f
#Fox News announces: “We’re in a commercial break.” Apparently, the editors are not merely on a break; grammar is, too. We used to be ***on commercial breaks.*** Now we are trapped inside them. The decline of writing skills, one preposition at a time.
Biden conserved more lands and waters than any President in history, creating the largest corridor of protected lands in the lower 48 states; the Moab to Mojave Conservation Corridor. Trump is undoing it w/ the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Monument reductions 🌎 www.npca.org/articles/644...
N8628 Landed in College Station, Texas, United States. Apx. flt. time 22 min.
President Trump used to brag about all the money we were making from tariff revenue. Last month, that trend flipped to a $26 billion loss as the government started paying back the tariffs the Supreme Court ruled illegal. The refund bill is just getting started.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @cfcamerer.bsky.social and the dogs of war #PeteHegseth Single-Dose Testosterone Administration Impairs Cognitive Reflection in Men Gideon Nave doi.org/10.1177/0956... #PsychSky men received testosterone or placebo and took the Cognitive Reflection Test (CRT)
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Oh, no no no. There's a whole chapter in the book from the authors who successfully resurrected Rushton's work after it was scientifically discredited, one of whom wrote a bizarre paper claiming Asian men "are more fully dissimilar" from gorillas & chimps than other races doi.org/10.1177/2158...
President Donald Trump's teleprompter operator is on unpaid leave after reports that he used his inside knowledge to make bets about the president's speeches on the online prediction market Kalshi, the White House said Thursday. https://to.pbs.org/3T8eWAn
Trump's teleprompter operator on unpaid leave over alleged Kalshi bets on Trump speeches
President Donald Trump’s teleprompter operator is on unpaid leave after reports that he used his inside knowledge to make bets about the president’s speeches on the online prediction market Kalshi, th...
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Senior director @ashley.dev shares why she calls automations in the GitHub Copilot app an accessibility tool. github.blog/developer-sk...
I automated my job (and it made me a better leader)
Explore how my day as a senior leader looks now that I use 40 automations to help, and learn more about some of my favorites.
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"The Fed worries about unanchored inflation expectations; I am starting to worry about a Fed Chair who is unanchored from inflation data." stayathomemacro.substack.com/p/2-of-what
2% of What?
Redefining inflation is not the way to achieve price stability.
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Interesting choice of feling word "Shame" I suspect in other cultural milieu that operative might be " Embarasment"? Cultural Psychology experts please help.
Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · 3w agoWe started with men (as relevant to the joke she'd heard), and then she had some additional questions after that. My approach parenting-wise is that I'm always willing to answer questions with no judgments or shame, because I'd rather my kids get correct info from me than be confused or misled.
The orange one tries end runs around congress, again Trump fires new U.S. attorney in Seattle within an hour www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Trump fires new U.S. attorney in Seattle within an hour
Roger Rogoff, former director of the state office of independent investigations, is now the rope in a tug-of-war with the Trump administration.
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#AcademicSky Number of times I, as student, asked a professor for: ✳️ registration in class without having prerequisite: 0 ✳️ personalized due date or assignment type: 0 ✳️ extra assignments: 0 ✳️ professor notes: 0 ✳️ boost to my grade: 0 Times sure have changed.
This is another level of AI style writing. PERFORMATIVE that has little grounding in PERSUASION, INFLUENCE or anything we learnt from classical literature or modern say Social Psychology. Genre/Genus: "i will spout off without impact" Phenotype : "Waste Electricity"
Alt National Archives@altnatarchives.altgov.info · 3w agoI want all of you to stop with your casual use of AI to make cute pix and answer dumb questions. AI is fucking evil. It’s taking our land and resources with its data centers. AI’s insidious slide into every aspect of on line life is impacting our ability to think for ourselves. Just. Fucking. Stop.
Big payment today from the U.S. president to journalist E. Jean Carroll, whom he sexually assaulted and then repeatedly defamed. Worth a moment to remember that this is nuts and totally unprecedented
Roger Parloff@rparloff.bsky.social · 3w agoHer atty @robbiekaplan.bsky.social : “Three years ago, a unanimous nine-person jury found President Trump liable for sexually assaulting and defaming E. Jean Carroll. Today, we are pleased to report that she has received the damages payment the jury awarded her as a result of that verdict.”
Accidental RStudio #rstats hotkey discovery of the day Alt (Option) + Shift + Up/Down I knew it incremented numbers, but not words too!? in/out true/false - what else? Is there a list of these words somewhere?