Eric Swalwell’s fart is the toot heard round the world. But what’s up with Washington state’s greenhouse gases: Are they trending lower or higher? The answer is at the bottom of this post 😉💨
The closing statements from today’s impeachment hearing are finally wrapping up: This thing has been going on for twelve hours. Jesus. Republicans tried to get Lt. Col. Vindman to break the law during today’s hearing. That other guy praised Biden the whole time. Devin Nunes used his closing remarks to attack the Democrats and called the inquiry “the Ukraine hoax.” You know, the usual. Someone should go check up on Christopher. We’ve chained him to his TV:
My big takeaway from today’s impeachment hearing: is that we all need more coffee to get through this shit. In this coffee-drinker’s gulps, we can see America.
When the coffee is just that good pic.twitter.com/8vPBoIY34H
— Colin Jones (@colinjones) November 19, 2019
Disney says it doesn’t need Netflix’s Big Data to be successful: The new streaming giant, Disney+, made headlines today for saying it relies on—gasp—its leaders’ creative instincts instead of warehouses of data points. More from Recode:
“We might not always follow the data,” Mayer told Kafka. “We might have great, creative ideas that don’t fit right into where the data would point you to make a program, so we’re going to use both our judgment or the ideas we have in place, the capacities that we have in place, and the data that tells us what to make. Certainly, we will be paying attention to that.”
Mayer said he believes it’s a “fallacy” that data can and should be used to make minute-by-minute creative choices. “Creative processes fundamentally don’t yield to that sort of analytical look,” he said.
The Seattle City Council passed its 2020 budget out of committee: Next, it’s headed for final approval on Monday. The budget unanimously passed out of committee 8-0. The committee did not make any changes based on Tim Eyman’s I-976. “I don’t think any of us in this room think that cutting these essential transportation services is appropriate, particularly while we are fighting the constitutionality of I-976,” said Council Member Sally Bagshaw. More from David Kroman at Crosscut here.
The sun: It’s coming, Seattle.
5G technology will soon sweep the streets and light poles of Seattle: The technology requires the installation of small antennae boxes. What’s the best way to install them? The city wants your feedback.
Washington’s gentry will not be spared the effects of climate change: Waterfront homeowners around King County will face rising tides in the coming century. “It’s going to destroy a lot of neighborhoods,” a climate expert told KOMO News. “It’s just going to disappear and it’s going to happen.”
I’ve twiddled the data: And here’s the most overperforming Facebook post among progressive media outlets today:
Cows???? On the other end of the spectrum, here’s the most overperforming Facebook post among conservative media outlets today:
Not sure what the takaway of all that is supposed to be: I’ll leave the commenters to decide. Meanwhile, BREAKING NEWS: a majority of Seattle’s millennials are not on track to buy a home in the next five years.
Where in the country are you most likely to get run over by a driverless truck? Right here in the PNW (probably)! Experts say the Pacific Northwest is a “perfect case study for a palette of autonomous vehicle deployments,” reports Gregory Scruggs for GeekWire. “Guys are driving massive trucks and when the fog rolls in, it’s a scary scene,” the director of the ACES Northwest Network pitched to GeekWire. “If we’re able to get them out and driving the truck from a remote, padded, warm place—that’s a better job.”
Washington’s greenhouse gases: are trending higher. Damn.
You don’t think I forgot about Cats, did you? Of course I didn’t. I never forget about Cats. Those hot kitties dance under my eyelids as I purr myself to sleep each night. Here’s the new trailer. It is appropriately horrifying.
