As a pioneer square resident, I really don't appreciate these efforts to try to turn it into a mausoleum

Because Iran's being bombed right now, I figured I'd share a thread of home videos of Iran (20+ years old) recorded by members of my family, just so people can see what Iran looks like without smoke/fire everywhere and to preserve those memories

January 2006, Tehran (I think)

And apparently okay with parking garages as open latrines since there's literally no alternative in the neighborhood

this sounds good though ngl

Super disappointed in Lin. This area right around the stadium is not being used for industry, there are only upsides to allowing housing.

Photo of Pioneer Square in 1910 with streetcar tracks and people walking in the streets.

Historic character means pedestrianized streets with trolleys everywhere, I don't make the rules!

Blurry photo of a small house listed for $1,090,000.

Seattle housing is so cooked 😩

Gov. Bob Ferguson to meet with the NBA commissioner on Thursday Gov. Bob Ferguson is meeting with NBA Commissioner Adam Silver on Thursday, although neither the agenda nor context for the meeting are yet known.

Katie Wilson bringing back the SuperSonics would be the funniest timeline, so I choose to believe www.seattletimes.com/sports/sonic...

A plot showing BTC falling over the last several months.

Turns out you don't actually need a central bank to debase your currency. Such innovation!

Yeah I get that she's very policy focused and maybe not inclined to do nonstop short form videos, but she's not bad at it and should do more of it anyway imo

Was thinking about that when I saw this take. Wilson is very much not talking every day, and I kind of wish she would. bsky.app/profile/lowr...

One the one hand, hyperinflation would be a generational catastrophe, on the other, us I-bond holders will able to buy gas and ammo in the wasteland

I feel like a lot of these guys really just want to be podcasters and are annoyed at having any other responsibilities.

Glad we won't have to hear from this guy anymore soon bsky.app/profile/kuow...

Please no one tell Sacks that Seattle exists

This was super interesting! I wish OUP didn't charge $120 for his book 😭

This is such a pure distillation of the city as a shopping destination view that the times loves to publish

How Regulation by Litigation Strangled American Abundance Environmentalists aren't blocking housing. Wealthy homeowners are.

"We often blame bureaucrats or red tape for the country’s paralysis. But the fault lies less in the rules than in who has the resources to weaponize them."
open.substack.com/pub/data4dem...

I'd strongly recommend updating, particularly if you're segmenting Visium HD or other whole-ish transcriptome data.

github.com/dcjones/pros...

I went all out optimizing proseg this week, and after many rounds of profiling and tinkering, the new release is as much as 1.5-4x faster and reduces memory usage by around 10%.

More importantly, I discovered and fixed a subtle bug that reduced segmentation accuracy for large gene panels!

tfw the guy who made this chart is going to be in charge of the fed

Good Neighbor policy - Wikipedia

Feel like pure shit just want her back
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Ne...

Your posts (plus my sister in law working at modular) have really piqued my mojo interest!

It'll get fixed in a decade or so, like the "University Street" station.

I'm somehow just discovering that there's pretty compelling deep learning framework being built in rust burn.dev/books/burn/m...

How to Make Prosthetic Arm for Handless People. Korean Artificial Body Part Making Company YouTube video by All process of world

We're in a golden age of How Its Made style content on YouTube these days. One of my faves is the Korean channel "All Process of World" youtu.be/GE29Df9q7cU

Congratulations to Seattle's Sound Transit, America's fastest-growing train network, which is opening an 8-mile, 3-station extension to Federal Way today!

This is the system's 4th new segment opened in less than 2 years, continually pushing ridership up to new record highs!

Episode 103: Fire Safety in Multifamily Housing with Alex Horowitz (Incentives Series pt. 6) Explore why multifamily homes are often safer from fires than single-family housing, as Alex Horowitz shares research on building age, fire risk, and single-stair safety in our Incentives Series.

Pew's main findings:
- Newer multifamily is safer than older multifamily
- Newer multifamily is safer than newer single-family
- Single-stair multifamily buildings are as safe as buildings with two stairwells

www.lewis.ucla.edu/2025/12/03/1...

2020 me: 64GB should be enough for my workstation

2025 me: hmm should I upgrade my ram or pay rent this month?

Micron to exit consumer memory business amid global supply shortage Memory chipmaker Micron Technology said on Wednesday it will exit its consumer business, as it doubles down on advanced memory chips used in artificial intelligence data centers amid a global supply s...

I'm never going to be able to afford memory again. Might just pivot all my work towards probabilistic data structures and online stats.
www.reuters.com/business/mic...