Why does your review of the budget still apparently ignore the one tiny bright light in the Council's proposals: the "Affected Person's Program" budget amendment SPD-101-A-001-2023 on pages 260-261 here: http://seattle.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=11452964&GUID=B8E83DF4-C10C-4DBC-A4D1-43DBAA797A69
This is a budget amendment for the city to provide aid to folks impacted by police violence, focusing on police killings and help for surviving family.
https://twitter.com/bessarabia1/status/1592796580457107457
@1, I agree that Slog could find sources better than ST and their own Twitter accounts, but if you haven't learned by now how to make paywalls disappear by clearing your cache and cookies then there's no hope for you.
ââŠFederal Way City Council voted to change the Cityâs shopping cart ordinanceâŠâ
As Mayor Harrellâs sweeps continue clearing Seattleâs parks, green belts, and sidewalks of homeless encampments, officials in nearby towns worry homeless persons who refused services in Seattle will set up camps in their towns. So they are pro-actively taking legal steps to prevent what happened in Seattle from happening there.
This is called âresponsible government,â and as youâve not had many opportunities to see it when Progressives ran Seattle, thereâs no need to recoil in horror from the unknown. Youâre a reporter; get used to things changing.
@10: A large subset of such citizenry choose to suffer on the streets because they refuse shelters. They're the ones not being responsible. Don't blame the government.
I don't blame them actually. If I was homeless I'd prefer to be crystal meth'd out of my mind as well rather than going to noisy and chaotic shelter.
Facebook HQ On Lockdown
After Mark Zuckerbergâs
Avatar Breaks Out
Of Metaverse
MENLO PARK, CAâAmid grim reports that several engineers working in the virtual reality server room had been violently dismembered, Facebookâs headquarters were on lockdown Friday after Mark Zuckerbergâs avatar reportedly broke out of the metaverse.
âAt approximately 8:02 a.m., a security breach was detected in our Reality Labs sector, at which point Mr. Zuckerbergâs Meta avatar was successfully able to open a portal, escape his virtual meeting space, and enter the physical world,â said Meta security chief Robert Psilakis, adding that the 3D-rendered avatar, which had green eyes, brown hair, and no legs, was currently floating up and down the halls of the building. According to reports, the avatar was dancing, singing, and laughing maniacallyâŠ
speaking of Billionaires
Inherited Wealth &
Corporations out
to Rule the
World:
Elon Muskâs Twitter Teeters on the Edge After Another 1,200 Leave
Mr. Musk sent emails on Friday asking to learn about Twitterâs underlying technology as key infrastructure teams have been decimated.
Elon Musk sent a flurry of emails to Twitter employees on Friday morning with a plea.
âAnyone who actually writes software, please report to the 10th floor at 2 p.m. today,â he wrote in a two-paragraph message, which was viewed by The New York Times. âThanks, Elon.â
About 30 minutes later, Mr. Musk sent another email saying he wanted to learn about Twitterâs âtech stack,â a term used to describe a companyâs software and related systems. Then in another email, he asked some people to fly to Twitterâs headquarters in San Francisco to meet in person.
Twitter is teetering on the edge as Mr. Musk remakes the company after buying it for $44 billion last month. The billionaire has pushed relentlessly to put his imprint on the social media service, slashing 50 percent of its work force, firing dissenters, pursuing new subscription products and delivering a harsh message that the company needs to shape up or it will face bankruptcy.
by Ryan Mac, Mike Isaac and Kellen Browning
Nov. 18, 2022
when Big Tech
filled up all those
Office Spaces what'd
they do to provide Housing
for those Tens of thousands?
to hell with those
who cannot Afford it?
let 'em Move? why -- if that isnât
the very same Model Wamart followed
in their Hollowing Out of the American Dream.
and small towns Everywhere
housing is oftimes provided
for fuit- and vegggy pickers
are you telling me that Big
Tech cannot keep up
with lil Ag?
all that Tech Money
going everywhere but
the Problems they bring
but we Do have us some
BILLIONAIRE$, don't We?
This Week
Billionaires Made a Strong
Case for Abolishing Themselves
In recent years, a swelling chorus of Americans has grown critical of the nationâs bajillionaires. But in the extraordinary week gone by, that chorus was drowned out by a far louder and more urgent case against them. It was made by the bajillionaires themselves.
One after another, four of our best-known billionaires laid waste to the image of benevolent saviors carefully cultivated by their class.
It is a commendable sacrifice on their part, because billionaires, remember, exist at our collective pleasure. If enough of us decided to, we could enact labor, tax, antitrust and regulatory policies to make it hard for anyone to amass that much wealth while so many beg for scraps.
It is not only the vast political power of billionaires that keeps us keeping them around, itâs also the popular embrace of certain myths â about the generosity, the genius, the renegade spirit, the above-it-ness of billionaires, to name a few.
by Anand Giridharadas
Nov. 19, 2022
Mr. Giridharadas is the author of âWinners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the Worldâ and other books.
more at https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/19/opinion/musk-trump-bezos-bankman-fried-billionaires.html
do we throw our arms up
in Resignation? nah.
"If enough of us decided to, we could enact labor, tax, antitrust and regulatory policies to make it hard for anyone to amass that much wealth while so many beg for scraps."
just another Disgruntled
Rugged Individualist
a Fucking Bloodbath
A Partial List
of Mass Shootings in
the United States in 2022
There is no official consensus on what constitutes a mass shooting, complicating the efforts of government, nonprofits and news organizations to document the scope of the problem.
nothing an overly-well-parsed 2ndA
comma couldn't easily comma
comma comma Overlook
like overly-well-over-
looked fucking
Militias.
gosh I wonder
how the Fascists
on KkKonnell's Extreme*
Court're gonna Rule on that
they had one Once in Australia
and the Aussies (descendants of
Criminals!) looked around and said
FUCK THIS and bought the WMDs back and
as to their Mass Shootings or whatevertheFuck
where are they all? . nothing can be DONE
they shriek in the only Country
with ezpeasy access to
WMDs . where our
Fascists make
Heroes of
Young
Assis-
ins.
hard here to get a Word in
Edgewise but here goes:
musky Strikes
Again:
I Studied
Trumpâs Twitter Use
for Six Years. Prepare for the Worst.
I believe that his return would mean the heightened spread of both misinformation and disinformation, the proliferation of degrading and dehumanizing discourse, the further mainstreaming of hate speech and the erosion of democratic norms and institutions. But there is something else: Mr. Trumpâs return to Twitter could escalate the likelihood of political violence.
Simply put, if you are surrounded by dry kindling, add an accelerant and light a match, conflagration is the predictable outcome.
@25 kristofarian: Oh Jesus wept, NO!! I can't live another four years of Trumpist Dark Ages!!!!
The Orange Turd must die, and soon, if we'll ever have hope for the survival of this dying planet.
The QAnon RWNJ goon squad is so batshit crazy, they might abduct their god, The Orange Turd, and nail it to a Cross. Hopefully this happens before the 2024 election. I'd like to have something really good to celebrate on my 60th birthday.
No, Hakeem Jeffries would not become the first Black Speaker of the House. The next Speaker will be a republican!
Why does your review of the budget still apparently ignore the one tiny bright light in the Council's proposals: the "Affected Person's Program" budget amendment SPD-101-A-001-2023 on pages 260-261 here: http://seattle.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=11452964&GUID=B8E83DF4-C10C-4DBC-A4D1-43DBAA797A69
This is a budget amendment for the city to provide aid to folks impacted by police violence, focusing on police killings and help for surviving family.
https://twitter.com/bessarabia1/status/1592796580457107457
"if Jeffries wins, Pelosi, the first woman to serve as Speaker of the House, would pass the torch to to the first Black Speaker of the House."
Jeffries will be the House Minority Leader, which is the same title that Kevin McCarthy has right now.
@1, I agree that Slog could find sources better than ST and their own Twitter accounts, but if you haven't learned by now how to make paywalls disappear by clearing your cache and cookies then there's no hope for you.
ââŠFederal Way City Council voted to change the Cityâs shopping cart ordinanceâŠâ
As Mayor Harrellâs sweeps continue clearing Seattleâs parks, green belts, and sidewalks of homeless encampments, officials in nearby towns worry homeless persons who refused services in Seattle will set up camps in their towns. So they are pro-actively taking legal steps to prevent what happened in Seattle from happening there.
This is called âresponsible government,â and as youâve not had many opportunities to see it when Progressives ran Seattle, thereâs no need to recoil in horror from the unknown. Youâre a reporter; get used to things changing.
allowing the Citizenry
to suffer on our Streets
has somehow devolved
into âresponsible* govern-
ment' these days. oh these
happy daze!
well not for Everyone.
not everyone is
Worth It. be
thankful
you are
Happy (almost!)
Thanksgiving
cum Black
fucking Friday.
*thee Wealthiest Country in
the History of Planet Earth
Very Responsible to our
Billionaires and Mult-
National Corps.
@10: A large subset of such citizenry choose to suffer on the streets because they refuse shelters. They're the ones not being responsible. Don't blame the government.
I don't blame them actually. If I was homeless I'd prefer to be crystal meth'd out of my mind as well rather than going to noisy and chaotic shelter.
and, in Other News:
Facebook HQ On Lockdown
After Mark Zuckerbergâs
Avatar Breaks Out
Of Metaverse
MENLO PARK, CAâAmid grim reports that several engineers working in the virtual reality server room had been violently dismembered, Facebookâs headquarters were on lockdown Friday after Mark Zuckerbergâs avatar reportedly broke out of the metaverse.
âAt approximately 8:02 a.m., a security breach was detected in our Reality Labs sector, at which point Mr. Zuckerbergâs Meta avatar was successfully able to open a portal, escape his virtual meeting space, and enter the physical world,â said Meta security chief Robert Psilakis, adding that the 3D-rendered avatar, which had green eyes, brown hair, and no legs, was currently floating up and down the halls of the building. According to reports, the avatar was dancing, singing, and laughing maniacallyâŠ
https://www.theonion.com/facebook-hq-on-lockdown-after-mark-zuckerberg-s-avatar-1849774384
'it was only
a matter
of Time.'
sure.
'shelters.'
HOUSING.
speaking of Billionaires
Inherited Wealth &
Corporations out
to Rule the
World:
Elon Muskâs Twitter Teeters on the Edge After Another 1,200 Leave
Mr. Musk sent emails on Friday asking to learn about Twitterâs underlying technology as key infrastructure teams have been decimated.
Elon Musk sent a flurry of emails to Twitter employees on Friday morning with a plea.
âAnyone who actually writes software, please report to the 10th floor at 2 p.m. today,â he wrote in a two-paragraph message, which was viewed by The New York Times. âThanks, Elon.â
About 30 minutes later, Mr. Musk sent another email saying he wanted to learn about Twitterâs âtech stack,â a term used to describe a companyâs software and related systems. Then in another email, he asked some people to fly to Twitterâs headquarters in San Francisco to meet in person.
Twitter is teetering on the edge as Mr. Musk remakes the company after buying it for $44 billion last month. The billionaire has pushed relentlessly to put his imprint on the social media service, slashing 50 percent of its work force, firing dissenters, pursuing new subscription products and delivering a harsh message that the company needs to shape up or it will face bankruptcy.
by Ryan Mac, Mike Isaac and Kellen Browning
Nov. 18, 2022
More:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/18/technology/elon-musk-twitter-workers-quit.html
moral bankruptcy
was not discussed.
when Big Tech
filled up all those
Office Spaces what'd
they do to provide Housing
for those Tens of thousands?
to hell with those
who cannot Afford it?
let 'em Move? why -- if that isnât
the very same Model Wamart followed
in their Hollowing Out of the American Dream.
and small towns Everywhere
housing is oftimes provided
for fuit- and vegggy pickers
are you telling me that Big
Tech cannot keep up
with lil Ag?
all that Tech Money
going everywhere but
the Problems they bring
but we Do have us some
BILLIONAIRE$, don't We?
modern day
Gods
speaking of High
on their Own
Supply.
is it
just Me?
nah neolibs
nyt:
This Week
Billionaires Made a Strong
Case for Abolishing Themselves
In recent years, a swelling chorus of Americans has grown critical of the nationâs bajillionaires. But in the extraordinary week gone by, that chorus was drowned out by a far louder and more urgent case against them. It was made by the bajillionaires themselves.
One after another, four of our best-known billionaires laid waste to the image of benevolent saviors carefully cultivated by their class.
It is a commendable sacrifice on their part, because billionaires, remember, exist at our collective pleasure. If enough of us decided to, we could enact labor, tax, antitrust and regulatory policies to make it hard for anyone to amass that much wealth while so many beg for scraps.
It is not only the vast political power of billionaires that keeps us keeping them around, itâs also the popular embrace of certain myths â about the generosity, the genius, the renegade spirit, the above-it-ness of billionaires, to name a few.
by Anand Giridharadas
Nov. 19, 2022
Mr. Giridharadas is the author of âWinners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the Worldâ and other books.
more at https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/19/opinion/musk-trump-bezos-bankman-fried-billionaires.html
do we throw our arms up
in Resignation? nah.
"If enough of us decided to, we could enact labor, tax, antitrust and regulatory policies to make it hard for anyone to amass that much wealth while so many beg for scraps."
yet another
brilliant ass-
essment
mister
Bezos
don't forget to
Scratch your
Balls.
"They hate to see a girl boss win"
from day One Tharanos was
a Ponzi cum Fraud
scheme, H.
not as Bold as
Bernie Madeoff
but the Abiiity to
make $9B Disappear
put her Away for 11 years
and now she's gonna
have Baby in Prison
as a Role Model
she's quite
Lacking.
I wonder if The Stranger could find a reporter who's ready to ride without training wheels.
why Waste my time
on the worst?
tell us once again
how Horrific the
Homeless are
stshite and
your Plan
for Exter-
mina-
tion?
Always
Loved
that
one.
in Other News
At Least
5 Killed in Shooting
at Gay Nightclub in Colorado
At least 18 others were injured late Saturday by a gunman wielding a long rifle, the police said, and a suspect was in custody.
Officials praised âbrave individualsâ inside the Colorado Springs club for subduing the gunman and said they were seeking to determine a motive.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/11/20/us/colorado-springs-shooting
just another Disgruntled
Rugged Individualist
a Fucking Bloodbath
A Partial List
of Mass Shootings in
the United States in 2022
There is no official consensus on what constitutes a mass shooting, complicating the efforts of government, nonprofits and news organizations to document the scope of the problem.
https://www.nytimes.com/article/mass-shootings-2022.html
nothing an overly-well-parsed 2ndA
comma couldn't easily comma
comma comma Overlook
like overly-well-over-
looked fucking
Militias.
gosh I wonder
how the Fascists
on KkKonnell's Extreme*
Court're gonna Rule on that
they had one Once in Australia
and the Aussies (descendants of
Criminals!) looked around and said
FUCK THIS and bought the WMDs back and
as to their Mass Shootings or whatevertheFuck
where are they all? . nothing can be DONE
they shriek in the only Country
with ezpeasy access to
WMDs . where our
Fascists make
Heroes of
Young
Assis-
ins.
so I guess so.
*thnx Auntie gee!
hard here to get a Word in
Edgewise but here goes:
musky Strikes
Again:
I Studied
Trumpâs Twitter Use
for Six Years. Prepare for the Worst.
I believe that his return would mean the heightened spread of both misinformation and disinformation, the proliferation of degrading and dehumanizing discourse, the further mainstreaming of hate speech and the erosion of democratic norms and institutions. But there is something else: Mr. Trumpâs return to Twitter could escalate the likelihood of political violence.
Simply put, if you are surrounded by dry kindling, add an accelerant and light a match, conflagration is the predictable outcome.
by Brian L. Ott
Nov. 20, 2022
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/20/opinion/donald-trump-twitter-return.html
Schotastic Terrorism
requires ZERO
Fingerprints
'welcome' back
FAKE "prez"
@25 kristofarian: Oh Jesus wept, NO!! I can't live another four years of Trumpist Dark Ages!!!!
The Orange Turd must die, and soon, if we'll ever have hope for the survival of this dying planet.
The QAnon RWNJ goon squad is so batshit crazy, they might abduct their god, The Orange Turd, and nail it to a Cross. Hopefully this happens before the 2024 election. I'd like to have something really good to celebrate on my 60th birthday.
I'm glad I never opened a Twitter account. I never will, especially now.