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You're right about that for sure

I've read the law now and read more context on this case and I think you're ultimately right. But I don't agree it's all that clear. I also don't think this comment by Judge Birk means he necessarily disagrees with the city

The language the judge was commenting on was in the title of the act, which isn't exactly part of the law itself, but can be used to help discern the legislative intent behind the law. If you think anything about SEPA or GMA is clear, I'm genuinely impressed

That's sad to hear, Judge Birk is far better than the other judge running for that seat, and his opinions are some of the most thorough and well researched. I'm not immediately understanding what was wrong with the one line of his quoted in this article

fwiw I have an extreme aversion to AI but I thought what you did was super interesting and I read the whole thread

Just finished picking up trash with our neighborhood group that does this once a month. Going to go support a bake sale for a local high school mock trial team to go to State, my supervisor coaches them (so we're basically the same because she coaches me for real trials 😅)

in the criminal justice system, the people are mostly represented by a public defender, who protect their rights against the crimes of the state. these are their stories.

I'm soooo grateful for your presence in the courtroom and your reporting on stuff like this

I thought this said "POSE" at first and I was thinking "there's no way that Ryan Murphy show was this deep but I wouldn't know because I stopped watching after they killed off Angelica Ross's character"

Nickelback isn't pop though

really wishing it need not have happened in my time rn

Onika is basically the Wagner of our time. I can't bring myself to listen to her music now but I hope some future twink into classical music thinks "it's a shame she was a Nazi, but now that she's long dead I don't feel quite as bad listening to her incredible music"

i really can not emphasize enough that the most materially impactful thing you can do for trans people right now is hire them.

My uncle and grandma live in NY-03 so I sent them this website and I'm going to make it a personal project to get them to vote for @daniwelch.bsky.social

maybe Larry Krasner?

Now would be a great time for blue states to start decriminalizing driving with a suspended license

it's 2016: north carolina introduces a bill to ban trans people from using bathrooms safely. there's a national outcry; companies withdraw business up to and including the NCAA cancelling a publicized game. the bill fails.

it's 2026: kansas passes a law nullifying trans people's licenses. crickets.

I'm surprised she used the term "cops," I feel like The Government usually avoids that term in official stuff

Felony murder is right up there with civil forfeiture and qualified immunity as something you can just point to and say "if cops were good, they wouldn't be doing this".

The political effects of X's feed algorithm https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2 Received: 16 December 2024 Accepted: 4 January 2026 Published online: 18 February 2026 Open access • Check for updates Germain Gauthier,5, Roland Hodler?5, Philine Widmer35 & Ekaterina Zhuravskaya3,4,5 m Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects'. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk's platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects. Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users' feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X's algorithm has persistent effects on users' current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.

A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right.

Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement.

This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.

This is a CAT checkpoint. Show me the most recent cat image on your phone.

It's strange and concerning to me how carceral a lot of YIMBY/transit-oriented progressives are. I also want to live in a world that's safe for pedestrians but if locking people up was the solution to DUI/dangerous driving, we would have solved it by now

Flyer from Sound Transit that shows a 1 Line train and a 2 Line train in love with text "Half the wait, twice the love!" and explanation that trains will be arriving every 4 minutes starting February 14, 2026

Tried to get bloodwork done only to learn my go to lab is not open on Saturdays as of two weeks ago 🧍 but at least I got to experience the light rail coming every 4-5 minutes and got this cute valentines card thing

get the kid in the brown hoodie a scholarship

The quickest fix I see right now would be to change it from >30 above the limit to a ratio, like over 1.75 times the limit or something. But I think a per se definition of a crime is just kind of lazy and overbroad no matter how you write it

In other words, if this passes, you can now be pulled over and arrested for going 90 mph on I-5 EVEN IF you weren't in wanton disregard for safety or negligent and likely to endanger anyone

So that language is one current definition of negligent driving, the current definition of reckless driving is driving with "willful or wanton disregard for the safety of persons or property." The problem I see is that this adds a second definition to reckless driving connected by an "or"

I hope there is some nuance added. This seems hastily thought out. There's a huge difference between going 50 in an active school zone vs going 90 on I-5 in the middle of the night with nobody around

It looks like the engrossed bill that passed just makes >30mph over the limit per se reckless driving, doesn't do anything to the other definitions of reckless or negligent driving like the substitute bill would have

We talked in my tiny tenement apartment and then walked to get pizza by the slice. I think he thought that's all I could afford since I was a law student, so he didn't suggest any alternatives for dinner, but I just like pizza 🤷 we had a real first date later on but it was a perfect NYC first date