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Emily Y @eyspahn.bsky.social · 14d

Harrell’s folks might be spending buckets of money on the Seattle mayoral race, but I’ve had multiple door knockers from Katie Wilson and nothing from Harrell.

Excited to vote for Wilson & hopeful she’ll be my next mayor.

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Emily Y @eyspahn.bsky.social · Sep 24

It’s such a classic scene, the bicycle in the tornado turning into the witch on her broom!

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Emily Y @eyspahn.bsky.social · Sep 23

When I’m riding around on my bike I channel one of these two women

A photo of Angela Lansbury as Jessica Fletcher from “Murder She Wrote”, riding a bicycle.

A still from the Wizard of Oz, with Margaret Hamilton as Miss Elmira Gulch / the Wicked Witch of the West riding a bicycle.

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Emily Y @eyspahn.bsky.social · Aug 27

“distillery raises money using crypto” is … a real thing?!? 🥴 (via seattle Inno)

Personally, I don’t care about my whisky having “exposure to the biggest opportunities disrupting the asset class.”

A news story from Geekwire, a blurb that reads:

Gig Harbor-based Heritage Distilling Holding
Co. Inc. announced it has raised $223.8 million.

Heritage raised the money through a private investment in public equity (PIPE) financing, which is a means for public companies to sell shares to select investors at a discount.
According to an Aug. 25 news release, $95
million will be cash and $128.8 million will be in the cryptocurrency token $IP, the native token of the blockchain company

Heritage, founded in 2011, makes whiskeys, vodkas, gins, rums and canned cocktails.

A screenshot of the heritage distilling website, a blurb reads:

By aligning its reserves with Story’s AI-native infrastructure for registering, licensing, and monetizing IP, Heritage gains exposure to the biggest opportunities disrupting the asset class.

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Green Jacket Lady @greenjacketlady.bsky.social · May 9

Evergreen.

Green Jacket Lady @greenjacketlady.bsky.social · May 1

Hey City Council. Please stop disappointing us at every turn. This is gross.

Julia Grant Reed @juliareedwa.bsky.social · May 1

It’s very troubling to read that the City Council is considering legislation to weaken city ethics codes so that folks with financial interests in legislation can more easily vote on legislation that impacts CMs wallets #Seattle

www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

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Emily Y @eyspahn.bsky.social · May 10

Looks very interesting.

Vikas @vikasshiva.bsky.social · May 10

Hey all! I'm co hosting a panel on alternative proteins so if you're in the Seattle area, please join :) otherwise, share: lu.ma/xdxbvq7o

The Future of Alternative Proteins Panel · Luma

Agenda: 5:30 - 6:00 pm - Networking 6:00 - 6:45 pm - Panel discussion 6:45 - 7:00 pm - Q & A 7:00 - 7:30 pm - Networking Our Amazing Panelists:

lu.ma

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Gilamasan @gilamasan.bsky.social · May 9

TLDR, Soundcloud has put it in their terms of service that must agree to letting them use your music to train AI.
If you're on the site, get off now and move your stuff elsewhere.

The Flight @theflightmusic.bsky.social · May 9

ok then... deleted all our songs that we uploaded to Soundcloud and now closing account:
soundcloud.com/terms-of-use
(open the link and search for the word "train")

Terms of Use - Listen to music

soundcloud.com

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Emily Y @eyspahn.bsky.social · Apr 16

Modern day street view from about the same point.

Now there are: trolley buses, a light rail station just over the bridge, two nearby bike trails, an intersection with a major state highway a block away, and lots of cars.

A street view screenshot of the area just south of Montlake bridge in Seattle

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Emily Y @eyspahn.bsky.social · Apr 4

TLDR: AI-generated news erases women’s achievements.

Recently a woman was appointed as Interim Executive of King County, WA. She is the first woman in that role & local news mentioned it.

I then saw this AI “news” account generated an article…repeatedly calling the exec he/him/his.

A screenshot of a post from “Citizen Portal News Washington.” The image shows a blond woman, the post & linked article refer to this person as he/him/his

Screenshot of the article from citizenportal.ai, referring to Exec Braddock as he/him/his.

There is a note “This article was created by AI using a video recording of the meeting”

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Allen Orr @allenorr.bsky.social · Mar 24

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Zach Hazard Vaupen @emo-sludge.com · Mar 20

TBC because the OP is framing this like libgen is evil: META are the bad guys here. Libgen is one of the only tools archiving rapidly disappearing digital libraries of ebooks. Now more than ever with banned books on the rise, we need resources like libgen. Meta has no right to scrape that archive.

Michael Livingston @michaellivingston.com · Mar 20

Meta used at least 16 of my books, and numerous articles, to help train the AI it will use to make billions.

Authors, search your name here:

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

www.theatlantic.com

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Emily Y @eyspahn.bsky.social · Mar 20

Seattle Opera is performing Tosca soon, so I looked up the Wikipedia page.

Love that they contain public domain recordings of arias from over 100 years ago!

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tosca

Tosca - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · Feb 7

Now more than ever.

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Emily Y @eyspahn.bsky.social · Jan 6

Ah, that makes sense!

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Emily Y @eyspahn.bsky.social · Jan 6

The #pwhl hockey game in Seattle had great energy!

Unsure how they decided that Boston would be considered the home team, though.

A photo of the hockey arena during gameplay, at the PWHL Seattle takeover game between Montreal Victoire and Boston Fleet, at Climate Pledge Arena.

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Emily Y @eyspahn.bsky.social · Dec 31

Yes, he got to lick the bowl when I was done with my oatmeal.

A fluffy brown and black and silver dog with expressive eyebrows and point ears, looking sad and resting his head on his human’s knee to beg for food.

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Emily Y @eyspahn.bsky.social · Dec 22

Recently tripled my time in front of the light therapy lamp (to over an hour in the morning) and it’s made a huge difference.

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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · Dec 10

"While Esri is the 'industry standard' in the majority of GIS training programs, it also develops mapping and geo-spatial analysis services for police departments across Canada and the USA. [... this zine] consists of open source and low cost alternatives to Esri" geoz.one/zines/esri/

Beyond ESRI Resource Guide – GEOZONe

An archive of mayhem-making zines and radical geographic print ephemera

geoz.one

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Emily Y @eyspahn.bsky.social · Nov 23

Seattle folks, if anyone is interested, the Seattle Bach Choir is holding a concert Sunday Nov 23 (tomorrow!) at 3 pm, at trinity parish episcopal church downtown. Program is about an hour long; free but donation suggested.

seattlebachchoir.org/event/dawn/

Dawn – Seattle Bach Choir

seattlebachchoir.org

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Emily Y @eyspahn.bsky.social · Nov 23

There is the Transit Go App, where you can buy tickets for buses, light rail, etc. No tapping & need to buy the tickets through the app.

(Definitely not the same thing as being able to tap the iphone directly like in many major cities.)

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Emily Y @eyspahn.bsky.social · Nov 7

Thinking I’ll check out the (free!) SeaGL conference this Fri & Sat.
(SeaGL = Seattle GNU/Linux)

pretalx.seagl.org/2024/schedul...

https://pretalx.seagl.org/2024/schedule/#2024-11-08

[1mSeaGL 2024[0m Get different formats: curl https://pretalx.seagl.org/2024/schedule/\?format=table (default) curl https://pretalx.seagl.org/2024/schedule/\?format=list [33m2024-11-08[0m...

pretalx.seagl.org

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Shira Ovide @shiraovide.bsky.social · Nov 4

I wrote about the face search website PimEyes, the creepiness of finding my images in there, and the absurdities of opting out.

Gift link: wapo.st/3NRDqbg

Column | They made a public Rolodex of our faces. Here’s how I tried to get out.

Face search websites can help protect your privacy, but they can also be abused. Try these steps to protect yourself.

wapo.st

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Camila 🌷 @nekomori-art.bsky.social · Oct 26

Friendly reminder (2019)

[ #art ]

Illustration depicting a goldfish in a bowl with the text "Drink More Water".

Illustration depicting a hamster chewing on a sunflower seed with the text "Eat Some Food"

Illustration depicting a frog taking a deep breath with the text "Remember to Breathe"

Illustration depicting a hen cuddling a chick with the text "Be Kind to Yourself"

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Emily Y @eyspahn.bsky.social · Oct 26

I took a vacation and United showed ads for Jira in my entertainment & the airport had ads for Anthropic.

Can’t escape #tech.

A poster ad for the Claude LLM by the AI company Anthropic, in the San Francisco airport. Large text in white on an orange background reads “A jet pack for your thoughts”, with “Claude by Anthropic” in smaller black letters underneath.

Emily Y @eyspahn.bsky.social · Oct 14

Seattle/King county has a LOT of articulated buses. I got curious and according to Wikipedia 42% of the bus fleet is articulated.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Co...

King County Metro fleet - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

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