Notices by Jon Lasser is Hanging in there (disappearinjon@wandering.shop)

@tk what’s to remember? It was only open for a heartbeat before it closed.

@skinnylatte FYI, that’s by the Seattle *Convention* Center. “Seattle Center” is the place at the other end of the monorail with the Space Needle, MoPop, KEXP, etc.

@quinn @dangillmor and I think they should be stopped! But also we have opportunities to address domestic companies and there seems to be bipartisan consensus that we shouldn’t. :(

@quinn @dangillmor I don’t think it does, no. It’s just pulling on the thread of national interests as relates to foreign governments. There are potentially other legitimate interests too, but they seem to me to have somewhat different characteristics.

@quinn @dangillmor I mean, maybe a foreign government manipulating the point of view in America’s public conversation is a national interest.

Not sure a ban is the answer but if you believe in nation states it strikes me as a real problem.

@lilithsaintcrow @daviddlevine @cstross the folks in VC get to vacuum up a percentage of the pretend money, making it real. While it’s a smallish percentage, the absolute numbers are enormous.

I mean, the real news to me in this article is that in Washington State, transgender people are more popular than gun owners.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/never-thought-id-see-it-theres-now-a-group-less-popular-than-atheists/?utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all&utm_source=press.coop

@NanoRaptor if someone said “famous in…” I’d take that literally. If they said “big in…” I’d take it metaphorically.

My grammatical expectations may be overprecise.

@wordshaper @deathkitten @mekkaokereke most of the shrink (over half by most studies) happens from their own employees, who they desperately underpay and mistreat and see it as either revenge or survival.

Funny enough, the companies with the best reputations for employee treatment have the lowest shrink.