What Is the NYU Policing Project, and Why Did the Police Chief Resign from their Board?
Until Monday, Police Chief Shon Barnes was on the board of the Policing Project, which Mayor Wilson has tapped to do a security audit of police surveillance cameras here. By Erica C. Barnett On Monday,…
Latest piece for The Guardian, digging into the ways new SEC guidance around crypto may be a boon for the Trump family’s various crypto projects:
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
POLY IN OLY:
Olympia WA just became the first Washington city to pass protections for people in polyamorous relationships. Is Seattle next?
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the most delightful thing i’ve seen this week: @chum.news has a new column from a Washington State Ferries deckhand! www.chum.news/ferry-tales-...
To do this, anti-trans lawmakers in Kansas moved fast to change the law, overrode the governor’s veto, and pushed for the legal changes to go into effect nearly immediately. That kind of power—to void gender on official documents, to compel gender conformity—is terrifying and it will not stop here.
waiting for the vacant pickleball complex to “market rate apartments” pipeline in 10 years
WEEKEND READ: On February 9, youth activists converged on Olympia, with the Millionaires Tax’s future hanging in the balance ⚖️
We sent investigative reporter Brandon Block to cover the activists’ trip to the Capitol, along with a bag of disposable cameras:
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My latest piece for @theguardian.com covers Jeffrey Epstein's newly revealed ties to the crypto sector, including his early-stage investments in Coinbase and the Bitcoin ecosystem:
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
The young activists serving on Katie Wilson's transition team have a political platform: That includes establishing a *paid*, elected youth advisory council that'd report to the Mayor—helping entrench youth political power in Seattle.
[warning: cheeky article title]
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Author Max Delsohn looks at the camera, arms crossed on a table at Hood Famous Coffee Shop in the C-ID neighborhood of Seattle.
Author @maxdelsohn.bsky.social’s first-ever published book, Crawl, a series of short stories about transmasc life in Seattle in the 2010s, is the most delightful—and sometimes also devastating—thing we’ve read this year.
The first in our “Dining and Writing” series:
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Issue #1 included:
• An exit interview with the drag-queen doppelgänger of our city council’s unpopular president
• Speculative fiction about the “Seattle Freeze”
• Coverage of transmasc life in 2010s Seattle
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We also have a deep dive into credit unions, which began as an alternative to increase community lending and now have behemoths that act more like big banks, including by purchasing banks wholesale and making them tax-exempt.
This is from freelance writer Adam Willems:
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I don't know if this election will follow the same pattern because the counting has been a little different this year, but here's M. Lorena Gonzalez's vote share by day from 2021. Friday was her peak.
Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell has a 7-percentage-point lead (53.3% to 46.2%) over progressive challenger Katie Wilson.
But there is a very good chance he will end up losing.
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Quoted here about the increasing intersection of right-wing Christianity & Tech. Had a very much longer conversation than there was space for, touching on mutations of Christian-inflected belief & eschatology in re: the Singularity hype & pushes toward, e.g., "consciousness uploading" & now "AGI"…
My first piece for @theguardian.com covers ex-Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger’s role at Gloo; he’s helping the company build AI products for Christian ministry, and soft-power advances Gloo’s mission in Silicon Valley, DC, and beyond.
Good job Sora 2 has watermarks on its videos (people have already made tools that instantly remove the watermark)
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Larry Ellison envisions a surveillance state in which techbros rule. '“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison said in an hour-long Q&A during Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting last week.'
Today, I was laid off from Cascade PBS along with my entire team and most of the newsroom. I'll have more to say, but I have loved my time as news editor alongside some of the best journalists I have ever worked with. Every time a newsroom closes, stories go with it. The silence that follows is loud
All mayors seek political advice, but Mayor Bruce Harrell had his campaign strategist on a city funded contract for the first 3 years of his term, a legal but “strange” and “different” arrangement. W/ @jimbrunner.bsky.social
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The GENIUS Act barred stablecoin issuers from paying interest. But in allowing cryptocurrency exchanges to offer rewards, it set off a high-stakes clash with the US banking industry. www.wired.com/story/genius...
46 Seattle journalists and media workers have now signed onto our open letter condemning Israel's killings of Palestinian journalists in Gaza and calling for their protection
ah, very exciting
For @wired.com, I covered the fundraise of Erebor Bank, the “pay to play” regulatory landscape allegedly taking shape, and its potential implications for banking writ large
