Well, well. US Bank to leave the US Bancorp Tower. "The email does not give a reason for the decision." Yeah, but we know why. Better to move out to Kruse Way like everyone else.
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Bellevue Arts Museum closes, citing ‘significant financial challenges’. Even Bellevue can't have nice things. Life in the Biden era.
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Gee, ya think? Seattle seems to be accepting a new normal of higher gun violence. Just like tolerate the loss of our Constitutional rights. The loss of our personal wealth and safety. Just like much of a lot of things. Who wants four more years of this?
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In a series of blind assessments, the generative AI summaries of real government documents scored a dire 47 percent on aggregate based on the trial's rubric, and were decisively outdone by the human-made summaries, which scored 81 percent.
Open AI needs to hoover up copyrighted material for training. They want it, and they're begging the British Parliament to allow them access to it. But "It would be uncomfortable to our bottom line if we had to pay for the copyrighted materials we'd much rather just take from its owners." So they just want it for free. That's not right, of course. But do you think OpenAI will win anyway?
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In the PNW, you don't see a lot of masculine-looking jock types anymore. But there are a group of youth looking for fitness videos to be stronger and healthier, and YouTube is blocking these from teenagers. Apparently something about giving them anxiety of their appearance and being bad for their mental health. Huh? Does that make sense?
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