smart. funny. bald.
Seattle, WA
Joined January 2007
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For my DC folks if you want to hear about the great work WordPress is doing in the public sector, join me here!
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In case you were wondering @ColbyPoulson we have the stats: shoeinthedoor.com/d4toJSON/p…
Top Race: Custom Lineage
Top Class: Fighter
Top Subclass: Hexblade
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Iconic West Seattle restaurant (no, really, that word is overused, but fully deserved here) for sale westseattleblog.com/2024/07/…
Jeffrey and I lost touch, but the world has lost a great husband, dad, and friend as much as they have lost a generational artist.
Jeffrey Veregge, perhaps best known for his comic-book art and works in the breathtaking art style he dubbed “Salish Geek,” died April 12. st.news/44eCghb
In case you are wondering why AI hype men are, well, a lot of white men, and AI detractors are often from marginalized communities.
A team of @UW researchers found that the AI image generator Stable Diffusion produced stereotypical and biased images of people based on their continent, country and gender. The images were often white, male, and sexualized depending on the prompts, @lisa_stiffler reports. geekwire.com/2023/ai-imaging… via @GeekWire
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.@helenhousandi at @WordCampUS is showing off the #WordPress built editing experience for whitehouse.gov. #WCUS
Excited to be going to #wcus next week. If any of you cats and kittens will be there, let me know.
DOJ arrests a dozen white guys, it is rotten to the core. Local police kill hundreds of (mostly) black and brown people it is a few bad apples.
Who is trying to defend the police now?
nytimes.com/2023/06/15/us/po…
Obviously @Lin_Manuel is a genius. His work is immediately affecting even after dozens of listens.
We are the same age, and grew up 200 miles and worlds apart because of race and privilege.
But something of the music and culture growing up when we did is encoded in us both.
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Well worth the 12 minutes it takes. Deep wisdom from a man who’s obviously done hard work in the work of becoming human.
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Having a baby is more expensive in the US than in any other country and still has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the industrialized world.
We deserve better.
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Data from @BLS_gov. Absences from work due to Childcare problems hit a record high in October, 2022. Trifecta of kids filling ICUs with RSV, flu and out sick to COVID. ⬇️
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But this might be the most important chart I’ve drawn in years: The U.S. labor market is trying to recover without any corresponding recovery in the childcare sector. The magnitudes here are just enormous and they speak to the very different structure of work and family life.
