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I'm sure LLMs will get better than this. But as it stands, everyone who posts this kind of thing — with an example that wows them — is just announcing that they can't evaluate what makes writing effective, or aren't used to understanding the meaning of the things they read.

If you have horrible, terrible, awful news you want to dump, do it right NOW. Nobody — really nobody — will cover it.

Are we stuck with high end Club blather about Abundance for the next few years? It feels like forced attendance at a self-help seminar that never ends.

UPDATE: Tonight's double-fatality collision in Gig Harbor was a two-car crash - a rear-ender that might have started with a medical emergency, per police. thenewstribune.com/news/local/art…

I keep thinking about this terrible story and Travis Decker, still on the run. Maybe he's dead already - that wouldn't surprise me. The thought I can't shake: why run at all? thenewstribune.com/news/local/art…

“We had guys that were set to play the next day, their last high school game,” said Gig Harbor coach Ben Sleeter. “That was ripped away from them.” Jon Manley on the fallout from the WIAA’s decision to cancel state baseball consolation games: thenewstribune.com/sports/high-sc…

Tears

"Nothing has generated as much sheer unadulterated glee for me as watching the Oklahoma City Thunder lose, which is exactly what happened on Wednesday." Columnist Danny O'Neil, diehard Sonics fan, laughed like Jabba the Hutt's monkey lizard last night: thenewstribune.com/sports/article…

At the end of this column, Brier Dudley quotes state #waleg lawmakers hemming and hawing about "legislative privilege," the dubious public records exemption they created for their very own. Give 'em an inch, they'll take a mile. seattletimes.com/opinion/corrup…

Update: Tacoma police have arrested a man in connection with a fatal shooting near the city's South End. thenewstribune.com/news/local/cri…

Amber Alert in Tacoma: thenewstribune.com/news/local/art…

Sartre was right - hell is other people. seattletimes.com/entertainment/…

The attention economy comes with built-in lies no one discusses. 1. People hate being bombarded with notifications. 2. Nobody reads them all. 3. Everyone knows this, but no one says it out loud. Instead, leaders insist on MORE noise.

"Fandom isn’t being nurtured anymore. It’s being mined." nytimes.com/2025/06/16/opi…

Coal miners used to form study groups to read Gibbon & Thucydides. Lincoln and Douglas delivered speeches that lasted three hours with no pauses. C. S. Lewis, like many kids of his era, read Paradise Lost at age nine and was translating Homer by sixteen. The brain rot is real.

Those who worship at the altar of efficiency fail to see that inefficiency can be a Good by nature. For instance, talking to people in real life is inefficient, but the byproduct is community.

Wherever you are tonight, Howard Schultz … Please know that Seattle hates you.

The best work I’ve done in academics, teaching and journalism has always involved deep immersion in content, to the point of knowing it cold. Yes, it takes time, but time makes knowledge stick.

Saw a cooking hack vid/reel of someone claiming to cook frozen hamburger patties in a toaster. Serious disinformation.

I know the news is about bigger NYC offices, but I still can't believe this loser had the nerve to try.