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(Photo by Stewart L. – one of many small American flags that appeared along Harbor SW recently) Again this year, we start the (sunny! 70s!) holiday with an info list for you: TRANSIT/TRANSPORTATION Metro buses – Sunday schedules with extra late-night serviceWater Taxi – West Seattle route is on a regular Friday schedule today, including later-in-the-evening runs; Vashon route is on regular weekday scheduleWashington State Ferries – Fauntleroy/Vashon/Southworth is on its weekend scheduleSound Transit – Here’s the holiday planParking – No charge for street parking today in neighborhoods where the city charges for itTraffic cameras – Here’s SDOT‘s citywide map;…
Nordstrom. Neiman Marcus. TJ Maxx. And now, Sears and Kmart. Sears Holdings, the company that owns retail stores Sears and Kmart, reportedly said this weekend that it would remove 31 Trump-branded items from its website. The company pulled the products as part of a plan to focus on its “most profitable items,” Sears spokesman Brian Hanover told Reuters. Hanover told the news organization that items in the Trump Home line of furnishings were removed from the company’s website, although they could still be purchased through third-party vendors online. Neither store carried the items in their physical stores, he said. Searches…
CNN — Nelly Cheboi, who in 2019 quit a lucrative software engineering job in Chicago to create computer labs for Kenyan schoolchildren, is the 2022 CNN Hero of the Year. Online voters selected her from among this year’s Top 10 CNN Heroes. Cheboi’s nonprofit, TechLit Africa, has provided thousands of students across rural Kenya with access to donated, upcycled computers — and the chance at a brighter future. Cheboi accepted the award with her mother, who she said “worked really hard to educate us.” At the beginning of her acceptance speech, Cheboi and her mother sang a song onstage that…
Democratic socialist New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani once admitted that identifying himself as African American would be “misleading” — despite him ticking that as his race on his Columbia University application. Newly resurfaced video captured the 33-year-old making the acknowledgement as he was sprayed with questions on the campaign trial about his heritage. “I’m an Indian, Ugandan, New Yorker,” Mamdani told black performance artist, Crackhead Barney, when she approached him on the street in April. A resurfaced video of Zohran Mamdani showed him saying it would be “misleading” to identify himself as African American. AFP via Getty Images…
The so-called Big Beautiful Bill was always destined to pass, and it’s instructive to realize why: for Republican lawmakers, this was an up-or-down vote on President Donald Trump. The sprawling measure — which at its core was really one big, beautiful tax extender — was never about those tax rates or Medicaid or the deficit. The underlying legislation was no bill at all, but a referendum on Trump. And that left congressional Republicans a binary choice that also had nothing to do with the policy therein: They could salute the president and vote yes and or vote no and risk…
Tesla is bringing its electric cars to the heart of the oil producing world. The automaker announced Monday that its first official venture in the Middle East will be in the United Arab Emirates. The first cars — the Model S and Model X — will hit the road this summer. “Timing seems to be good to really make a significant debut in this region starting in Dubai,” Tesla (TSLA) CEO Elon Musk said at the World Government Summit in Dubai. Tesla owners will have access to two existing supercharging stations in the UAE, and Telsa plans to open five…
Suzanne BearneTechnology ReporterSarah SkiddSarah Skidd makes good money improving copy written by AIAI is making me extra money, says Sarah Skidd, a product marketing manager who writes for tech and start-up companies.In May Ms Skidd was approached by a content agency to urgently rework website copy that had been produced via generative AI for a hospitality client.What was supposed to save money had, instead, caused a host of problems. “It was the kind of copy that you typically see in AI copy – just very basic; it wasn’t interesting,” says Ms Skidd.”It was supposed to sell and intrigue but instead…
A band called The Velvet Sundown has had its tracks played hundreds of thousands of times on Spotify since appearing several weeks ago – without anyone knowing for sure what it is.The band has a verified page on the music streaming platform, with more than 850,000 monthly listeners.However, none of the four named musicians in the band have given any interviews or appear to have individual social media accounts, and there are no records of any live performances. It has prompted accusations that they and their music are artificial intelligence (AI) generated – something the band denies on social media.It…
Verizon has brought back its unlimited data plan. That’s great if you’re a Verizon customer. But it is terrible news for its investors. Verizon (VZ) stock fell nearly 1.5% in early trading Monday. It’s now down about 10% so far this year, making it the Dow’s worst performer of 2017. Verizon’s move is a clear sign the company has to pull out all the stops to remain competitive with wireless rivals AT&T (T), Sprint (S) and T-Mobile (TMUS). “In recent months, both T-Mobile and Sprint had some success taking additional share from Verizon by virtue of their unlimited offerings,” wrote…
President Donald Trump basked in victory Thursday, celebrating the passage of his sweeping domestic policy agenda in a demonstration of his dominance over Republicans in Congress. The president capped what was arguably the most successful week of his second term with a campaign-style speech in Iowa, where he said the megabill would usher in a period of prosperity. “There could be no better birthday present for America than the phenomenal victory we achieved just hours ago in Congress passing that one big, beautiful bill to make America great again,” Trump said, donning a ruby-colored USA hat and tie that matched…