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Priorities and tradeoffs in disaster resilience (opens the original)
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“But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what watch the thief was coming, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken through.” Matthew 24:43When floods raced through narrow Nepalese mountain valleys, the tragedy was predictably used by climate change true believers as proof of climate apocalypse. What it really proves is how quickly humans seek scapegoats to rationalize disaster.Blaming climate change is a lazy excuse for not keeping watch for f
Where to put “The Cloud” (opens the original)
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What is a data center? The definition, according to the artificial intelligence responding to my ChatGPT query:“A data center is essentially a specialized building—or group of buildings—filled with computers and the equipment needed to keep those computers operating continuously and reliably. At its simplest, you can think of it as a large industrial facility whose product is computing rather than a physical good.”“The cloud” lives in a data center. A worldwide, con
Here come the judges - and the initiatives (opens the original)
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There are three critical citizen initiatives and five Supreme Court races on the 2026 midterm election ballot and midterm turmoil is not helping. Voters skipping those critical races or skipping the election entirely are the challenge for those who believe in a government of the people. The people have to show up.Midterms really are comingAt a family picnic over Labor Day weekend, a cousin who leans left approached me with a question. “So are we even going to have a midterm election?” he asked w
On Gloria Steinem, feminism and politics (opens the original)
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Gloria Steinem was a formidable political force behind my early adulthood.Barriers facing a gender non-conforming girl entering high school in the late 1960s were just beginning to fall thanks to second-wave feminism. That makes Gloria Steinem (may she rest in peace) someone who shaped my early adulthood in college and career. Steinem also gets credit for planting the seeds for a perennial harvest of political cynicism and souring me on the Democratic Party.In 1969 the Spokane Public Schools dre
Pick your favorite 2026 Washington initiative (opens the original)
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In conservative rural communities where raising taxes is always a triggering topic, the results of a recent county fair straw poll were surprising. Repealing the new state income tax was not the top priority out of three initiatives on the ballot.Two Initiatives to the Legislature (IL) and one Initiative to the People (IP) will be on the November ballot:Initiative IL26-001: Concerning parental rights relating to school communications with parents of children in public school.Initiative IL26-638:
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