Okay, mostly I'm sour because I just found out Ada's Technical Books is closing in June. Possibly the last coffee shop open until 8 p.m. (Attn: @jseattle.bsky.social)

Seattle 2016-2026 distilled into one comic

Would be interesting to take stock of what sorts of institutions and businesses have budded and flowered during Seattle’s economic boom and which have withered or been wiped out by the cost pressures

It’s been a tough run for Seattle arts groups. What do layoffs foretell? At least 250 Washington arts workers have been laid off recently. We analyzed potential impacts on the local arts scene, from artists to theaters and audiences.

Link: Seattle arts groups are laying off staff. What do arts lovers lose?

www.seattletimes.com/life/culture...

Another story that makes one wonder what Seattle has gained from a decade-plus of wealthy newcomers flooding in for tech

Costs skyrocketing, institutions struggling, arts shrinking

Could we look back and realize all this money, rather than an infusion, was like an antibiotic hitting the gut biome

Dragged my 8-months-pregnant wife to the Tim Heidecker and Gregg Turkington show. She’s thrilled!

Thanks for making the list!

Nice. Thank you!

That makes sense. Thank you!

Ah, gotcha. Thank you!

Thank you!

Anyone know why several dozen people started following me in the past few hours? Disconcerting.

This is precisely the goal of the last episode.

Thanks so much for engaging with the series. I'm really glad you're seeing these themes in it. We've learned a lot about the series from listeners sharing their takeaways from it, like this.

They put us in the newspaper.

Nice! Thanks for the heads up, dude.

Focus: Adults in the Room Focus is KUOW’s home for immersive audio documentaries.

If you're not listening to Adults in the Room, you're missing a lot. 4 episodes in, it explores a Seattle SD crisis 25+ years ago over abuse by a respected HS teacher and how fiercely communities and institutions attack those seeking accountability from the powerful

www.kuow.org/podcasts/focus

Focus: Adults in the Room Focus is KUOW’s home for immersive audio documentaries.

Really enjoying this so far! Basically, what if you went back 20 years later and re-investigated "the incident" from your high school.
www.kuow.org/podcasts/focus

This is my life's mission.

Unkind things are fine! There's just something uniquely dark about someone saying, "This is good, but I don't have the attention span for it."

Sometimes it feels like it's getting less and less fun to make things, and I wonder if an underappreciated factor is that the audience is just getting worse and worse.

As usual from this team, KUOW Focus's new podcast is excellent. If you were an AP kid or went to a high-performing high school around Y2K I think you'll find it particularly engaging.

Sorry this was a reality at your school, Ian. Since putting out the podcast, we've heard from more and more people who find this dynamic familiar.

Thanks for the endorsement of the podcast.

I'm on episode three and damn. This is an incredible piece of journalism, reflection, and examination of things we take for granted.

Update

KUOW is coming for you, Joe.

I’m utterly uninterested in “debates” about whether AI can do things well. I wouldn’t care if it could. 1. It stole from me. 2. I prefer me having my job to a computer having it. 3. I don’t teach “with” Lockheed or Raytheon; why wld I teach with Anthropic or OpenAI?

Hey look, a podcast made by a local public radio station is at the top of Apple Podcasts.

Obey Apple and listen to "Adults in the Room" by @kuow.org.

Lost Patients Mental healthcare in America is a maze — by design.

"Adults in the Room" shares a podcast feed with "Lost Patients," the series I hosted in 2024.

Our goal is to keep this sort of deep storytelling alive, even as other news outlets retrench — to give this intense, high-quality treatment to local stories here in the Pacific Northwest.

In 'Adults in the Room,' a KUOW investigative journalist re-reports the story that's haunted her for nearly three decades The new series launches today as part of Focus, a dedicated podcast channel for immersive audio documentaries.

I'm really proud to have helped produce this. It's the start of a new era of investigative, documentary storytelling at @kuow.org.

"Adults in the Room" launches our new Focus podcast channel, where we'll drop more deeply-reported series — some of which are already in production.

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Another way to frame the question: Which "side" (AI adopters vs. non-adopters) would benefit more from this system?

And what does that mean?