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I work on technology I know will change the world. I create music I hope will make it kinder. 1990s community policing reformer: I'm sorry we failed.
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LOL that's why people with beards are all dead
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Well I've never heard this one before so there's that. 
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Yeah sure I plead guilty to being a data geek who digs deep into stats and worries about probabilistic forecasts: but the fact of the matter is that 4 members of extended family are straight up suffering from post-COVID-infection complications. That's ground truth unambiguous.
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By this point, in order not to know somebody with #LongCovid, you really have to be *trying*, like really committing to not noticing, not listening, not trusting
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100% on point in Seattle
Here's why
theurbanist.org/2021/10/05/how
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"What the fuck do we even pay these idiots for?" is probably a pretty safe position to build a majority coalition around, and cop unions will react exactly the same to it as to everything else.
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Peeps who's in to meet an awesome progressive elected official and candidate?
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It's good this was done but my 1st department would have had the beat cop assigned to 3rd Ave & their sergeant shepherd this through in 1991.
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Before you can solve a problem you need to define it.
Despite all the rightful concern over 3rd Ave, nobody had ever done the work of building a census of who is there and why. Until now 
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Not to toot my own horn but if you're trying to understand what #AI means to your business, read (1) consumers don't know what it is, but they love it + (2) developers do and they are clamoring to work on it: cio.com/article/465285 on
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Real-time AI has crossed two critical thresholds
Best-of-breed tools are open source & available as-a-service, on demand, to anyone
It has become a powerful determinant of satisfaction & loyalty among consumers
Insights from @bryan_kirschner 
cio.com/article/472498
Best-of-breed tools are open source & available as-a-service, on demand, to anyone
It has become a powerful determinant of satisfaction & loyalty among consumers
Insights from @bryan_kirschner
cio.com/article/4724983
This is a powerful way to look at it: in the US, 26k homicides in 2021, +7k over 2019; 416k COVID deaths in 2021...+416k over 2019
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Lots of talk about the increase in violent crime and none about the deadly virus that caused thousands of Canadians to lose their jobs, life savings, housing and killed their family members. Maybe we shouldn't have closed CERB the first second we got.
"We have a sworn officer staffing shortage so we will mandate OPA investigations be conducted by sworn officer with a gun and the power of arrest when exactly 0 percent of such investigations require neither"
Effing clown show
Total disgrace
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Meaningful police oversight =
police don’t investigate themselves.
Per the SPOG contract, all OPA investigators must be sworn officers (i.e. SPOG members). twitter.com/OPASeattle/sta…
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According to data from Korea and Australia in-hospital transmission has death rates between 8% and 10%
By comparison the combat death rate of US Marines in Vietnam was less than 2%
In-hospital transmission in WA needs to be 0 and the data needs to be transparent
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Thank you @KUOW for mentioning Seattle Still Care’s activism to #KeepMasksInWA- the fight isn’t over kuow.org/stories/washin
Nailed it
"Come join a dept that runs like a 911 hamster wheel, frequently manifests embarrassingly stupid juvenile s**t, and is often in the press for hyper-aggressive use of force, racism, and both DGAF over response & lack of results."
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Handing out bonuses isn’t helping Seattle recruit more police, amidst a nationwide police shortage. The reality: people don’t want to join a toxic right-wing workplace that resists reform. axios.com/local/seattle/
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Well said I grew up in a "Little Italy" neighborhood in the US and could walk to church, school, bakery, restaurants, stores, library, park within 15 minutes...
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I was born in Italy where, as a Catholic boy, I could walk to the church in my parish in less than 10 minutes. And I could walk to my park, school, friends houses, and lots more. This prejudice and misinformation about 15-minute cities is honestly unbelievable
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And imagine you could very effectively neutralize those aliens with things you can order overnight from Amazon...
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Imagine if a new thing came along and killed the parents of 10 million children in 3 years. Say aliens invaded, killed us and never stopped. Would we live with them? A pathogen is a malevolent force. We should never accept living with this level of ongoing suffering
Hey if you follow me & you are in Seattle - King County this is a radically good candidate / elected official and I can't state strongly enough how important it is to show your support
Thanks for coming to my TED Talk
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As Seattleites we're a bit bummed city council member @TeresaCMosqueda's running for county council but the scourge of exclusionary zoning is countywide & in our view *no one* has done more & better to fight it
She deserves support+donations & will still help #rezoneseattle
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Gonna put my old police department hat on to comment on this professionally: the job is *not* "using as much force as you can possibly justify," it's "using as little as possible" The comment is s**t but also unprofessional - good cops take (took? :/) pride in de-escalating
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A thread from inside the national highway safety conference happening today in Seattle. twitter.com/ethan2sea/stat…
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D4 peeps: want to wipe the stain of exclusionary zoning stooge CM Pedersen from the our district? Drink in some progressive goodness from @seattle4ron and then show some love with your Democracy Vouchers for a candidate who wants to #rezoneseattle
theurbanist.org/2023/01/31/urb
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I don't think anyone needs to justify masking but FWIW I'm 52 & I could take the Pepsi Challenge with a Division I athlete in the gym any day of the week so there's no way in hell I'm gonna let your aerosolized COVID / interest in "seeing my smile" risk knocking me off my regimen
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Saving this one for the next time someone says there's a shortage of good people applying to police departments because BLM used harsh words
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In the first 3 months of 2023, US police:
- Killed a double amputee
- Assassinated an environmentalist
-Beat a man to death
-Killed a violence interruption volunteer
- Killed an unarmed man over some sunglasses
-Stole a little girl’s goat
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Just went for a walk with @SeattleCouncil candidate @ronpdavis -- if you have democracy vouchers burning a hole in your pocket I'd send them his way, he's the kind of leader we need to make #Seattle work for everyone, now and into the future cc @seattle4ron
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I've worked in 2 startups and there is no ambiguity: if you are going to make taxes a factor in your growth & talent strategies just pack up now, don't pass go, you aren't playing to win (nor will you)
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Local VC @crashdev on the cap gains tax.
“Great founders are rarely tax optimizers but rather focus on creating massive new value[; the] impact on our startup economy won’t amount to much, and the benefits to our civil society will far outweigh the cost.”
geekwire.com/2023/seattle-s
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(1990s Community Policing Guy blast from the past:)
"If the best you can do with your time is make random / nothing burger stops to interdict guns or stop crime, you don't know one good god damn about your beat."
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“It’s a terrible strategy, it’s an illegal strategy, it’s an unconstitutional strategy. Targeting entire communities to stop them and treat them as criminals alienates [them and]… makes police woefully ineffective at addressing real issues of violence.” injusticewatch.org/news/police-an
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COVID is a hard medical problem: evolving to evade immunity & antivirals, affecting multiple organs & immune system, Long COVID etc...
It 👏is 👏an 👏easy👏engineering 👏problem
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“The air cleaner with the HEPA filter continuously removed the infectious SARS-CoV-2 from the air in a running-time-dependent manner, and the virus capture ratios were 85.38%, 96.03%, and >99.97% at 1, 2, and 7.1 ventilation volumes, respectively.” pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35947419/
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Imagine a world in which mom and pop restaurants get reported by public health for Norovirus transmission (as well they should, NB) but facilities literally responsible for treating matters of life and death get to hide giving people COVID, American's 3rd leading killer
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We should not accept *any* hospital acquired covid.
When hospital outbreaks happen, they should be publicly reported.
#KeepMasksinHealthcare twitter.com/amapresident/s…
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People keep saying masks are bad for mental health.
But by masking, I know I'm relying on high-level science and fighting misinformation; I'm protecting my family and community; I'm supporting those being pressured to take theirs off.
All that is excellent for my mental health.
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The triple deckers I grew up in were an amazing housing innnovation; the "perfect six" (think duplexed triple decker) too
Legalize 'em everywhere, now
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This is such an important point.
Family-sized apartments with access to light and outdoors are largely illegal to build in most US cities.
That’s one reason they’re so expensive compared to suburbs: We build a lot more family-sized homes in suburbs.
This is not necessary. twitter.com/BashfulBits/st…
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Here's an idea: if this doesn't pass we'll max out to any Dem who primaries any of them
Anyone else want onboard?
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Dems hold a 3-2 committee majority, so if Lovelett supports it means either Jesse Salomon or Claudia Kauffman are against it and the bill doesn't have the votes.
It sure would be nice to know who actually opposes it rather than this "needs more time" nonsense.
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Case in point the Lyft app has a "Safety" feature that does *not* include "Masked driver" or "Windows open"
(Also too cabs in Japan have CO2 monitors)
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“It’s a battle against staying at home. How do we get people out? How do we get them playing and working together?”
Maybe get rid of the pandemic virus in the air?
marketwatch.com/story/new-lyft
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Black Washingtonians asked for help preventing displacement and achieving homeownership and your answer is "not yet?"
That's not simply unacceptable it is a disgrace
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"I think it's a really good policy," committee chair Liz Lovelett says of the lot splitting bill, "but I think it could use a bit more time." Says they had an ambitious housing agenda this year and that she wants to revisit it next year after passing the other zoning bills.
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He put the "Ron" in "Rezone" - join us April 1 in Wallingford! (DMs open to RSVP)
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Thinking of a *jump start* to your weekday?
I have quite a lot to say about the proposal to put a pause on our Jump Start tax program. The CliffsNotes version: 
The slightly longer version: Click here to listen to my initial thoughts: 
share.vidyard.com/watch/XkSMGtTv
The slightly longer version: Click here to listen to my initial thoughts: share.vidyard.com/watch/XkSMGtTv3
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"I think it's a really good policy," committee chair Liz Lovelett says of the lot splitting bill, "but I think it could use a bit more time." Says they had an ambitious housing agenda this year and that she wants to revisit it next year after passing the other zoning bills.
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"But is it worth the cost to clean the air" ask folks as if 6M+ and counting US COVID hospital admissions have graciously been paid for by the Tooth Fairy
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Slowly but surely. Hygienic infrastructure en route:
“Bars in Belgium could be among the healthiest places to have a drink…a new law…requiring public venues to meet air-quality targets and display real-time…[CO2] concentrations—a proxy for…clean air”
nature.com/articles/d4158
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"But it costs too much to clean the air" retort folks who one way or another pay a municipal water bill every single month for their entire adult lives.
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12/ historyofvaccines.org/content/articl\...\See where it says "Water-related spread of cholera bacterium has been eliminated in the United States due to modern water and sewage treatment systems"? We need to do the same kind of thing for COVID, and we can.
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This is going to be fun - if you are in Seattle and want to attend hit me up
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Well @seattle4ron we're sorry you can't turn back time - but hey #rezoneseattle peeps, we *can* move forward with city council members like Ron who will turn away from exclusionary zoning and toward equity & affordability...join us April 1 (no joke!)
(DMs open) twitter.com/seattle4ron/st…
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If a hospital *gives* a patient covid, they should NOT be reimbursed for the care that follows! Medicare doesn't pay for hospital acquired infections and errors - ADD COVID to the list now! Since public health measures are being abandoned, it's time for the payors to step in.
As a technology executive who might well be one of the very, very few people subject to this high threshold capital gains tax at some point, I say: this is great news for both our equity and our economy equity and thank you ! #WALeg listen up!
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I’m encouraged by this ruling, and our work on reforming our tax system so the wealthiest few pay what they owe must continue with our Washington State Wealth Tax #WALeg senatedemocrats.wa.gov/frame/2023/03/
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"We had a package stolen off our porch today. The police came out to our house to speak with us and a report has been filed."
Nextdoor comment showing w "sTaFfing sHOrt" SPD continues to set taxpayer money on fire.
(You don't need $$$ sworn officers in person for this)
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"It's impossible to filter air" retort folks who universally expect 100% filtered tap water as a result of legally mandated infrastructure in every building connected to 100s-1000s of miles of underground pipes fed by massive factory-like facilities running 24x7.
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Trying to imagine what it’s gonna be like to be a high performing software engineer at Amazon or Apple called into a meeting with HR because you only came into the office twice last week.
Such an incredibly penny wise and pound foolish policy.
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One day as an employer you will realize that forcing your teams to commute to the office to work when they've been successfully hitting goals for 3 years remotely is more about you than them.
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Imagine how powerful / educational it could be if folks would take a second to make & hold up a sign that says "This room has 12 ACH from HEPA" or "This room has Far UV"
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It is possible to be unmasked in an indoor environment and be relatively safe: ventilation, filtration, GUV, etc. But the only thing that can be seen in a picture is whether a mask is worn.
Even if donning a respirator is performative, the symbolism is crucial for the safety msg. twitter.com/dontwantadothi…
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