BrutalRain

Certified Zip-tie Technician / The greatest crime against humanity is to intentionally prevent us from realizing our full potential / God guides my path

[🧬Maxpein🧬 @maximumpain333]

SO EVERYTHING IS FREE BUT WE HAVE TO PAY?

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

HOLY SH*T

Bellingham High School in WA held a pride event where drag queens danced provocatively in front of CHILDREN

They are coming for your children.

You can contact the school here: 360-676-6575

[Andy Ngo @MrAndyNgo]

Washington state — A Bellingham Public Schools board director who runs an "all ages" sex shop is hosting events for children as young as nine at the WinkWink boutique.

Jenn Mason, owner of the sex shop, has hosted many events for children there. Leftists believe it is "sex positive" to introduce young children to sexual subjects and content.

[Isaac Holyk for U.S. Senate @voteholyk]

Woke activists in Oregon are now trying to ban hunting, fishing, pest controls, rodeos, slaughtering livestock, and commercially raised chickens.
Coming soon to Washington State.
Had enough of these people yet?

[Isaac Holyk for U.S. Senate @voteholyk]

Hey WA,
I need your help.
I am asking @GovBobFerguson to call a special session to suspend the CCA to immedietly lower gas prices and utilities.
If you want Bob to suspend the CCA to help working families and lower gasoline and electricity costs then share this post and like it.
Others in the legislator are starting to call for it.
Let's see if Bob actually cares about working class people in Washington.
#waspecialsession2026

[Future 42 @future42org]

'State weighs proposed toll increases on I-405 and SR-167'

But its more than just toll increases (to $18). On the table is also tolling 405 during weekends, and requiring 3 people most times for the use of the HOV Flex Pass.

Lets take a walk back in time to see how we got here, shall we?

* In 2015, the first HOT lane opened on 405 with a $10 Max Toll. The law was written that HOT lane traffic had to be moving at a minimum 45mph for 90% of the time AND revenue goals met. This had to be accomplished by the end of a 2yr trial.
* In 2017 when the trial was up, the HOT lanes did NOT achieve the minimum 45mph required to keep operating. That is where then Attorney General Bob Ferguson stepped in.
* AG Bob Ferguson told the state the AND was actually an OR, and the state could continue operating the 405 HOT lanes, even though it failed to achieve its goals set in the RCW
* In 2024, the Max Toll on 405 was increased by 50% to $15. The state said 'that toll rate would rarely happen'. Data shows it happens on about 80% of the time on morning commutes.

Back to 2026.

Governor Ferguson appointed the members of the Washington State Transportation Commission. They are not elected.
The WSTC is now looking at two options:
A)
Toll 405 during the weekends (currently free).
Extend peak hours for toll requirement.
Require 3+ HOV during peak hours
B)
Max Toll to $18
Extend peak hours for toll requirement
Toll 405 during the weekends
Require 3+ HOV during peak hours.

(It's going to be option B guys, because why wouldn't they?)

So to recap; an unelected board is seriously talking about raising the toll rate to 80% over what it was 11 years ago, on lanes that (still) fail to achieve rules set out by the legislature, that require a $15 flex pass to use HOV, which is also about to be raised to 3 people.

But they pinkie promise tolls will rarely hit that $18 max toll...

@PaolaTArruda | @KIRO7Seattle
Special thanks to @NEWSGUYSULLY at KIRONewsradio
Article: https://t.co/yrAFvFrAtq

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

I can now probably say this:

Two months ago, inside Anthropic someone suggested building a token leaderboard.

A heated internal debate followed and the decision was made to *never* ever do it… because several people inside Anthropic simply thought ahead of the consequences

[Corey Quinn @QuinnyPig]

Local company discovers "Frugality" leadership principle incompatible with asking employees to compete at incinerating money.

[BrutalRain @crawlzpace]

@his4Everz People fantasize about where we could be if we moved at or faster than the speed of light. Maybe more importantly we should fantasize about where we could be if we just moved at the speed of time? No resistance no distraction. What if we could actually make every second count?

[Sir Escanor (𝘏𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘶𝘮 𝘚𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘦𝘳) @EscanorReloaded]

CEOs are quietly realizing the AI replacement plan has a problem.
Two problems, actually.

One: the token costs for running AI agents are now exceeding what they were paying the employees they fired.

Two: when the tokens run out, the AI stops. Just stops. No continuity. No workaround. Just a spinning wheel where your workforce used to be.

You fired humans to save money and bought a subscription that bills you into a corner.

The employees you let go knew what to do when things broke.
The AI just invoices you for the outage.

And then there’s the permission problem nobody wants to talk about.

To do its job, the AI agent needs access. Full access. Your systems, your patents, your contracts, your future plans. Everything you spent years building, handed over to a process that has no loyalty, no discretion, and no skin in the game.

You didn’t hire a replacement.
You gave a stranger with no soul the keys to everything you own.

Enjoy.

[Vivek Sen @Vivek4real_]

SAM ALTMAN: “WE SEE A FUTURE WHERE INTELLIGENCE IS A UTILITY, LIKE ELECTRICITY OR WATER, AND PEOPLE BUY IT FROM US ON A METER.”

[Alex Prompter @alex_prompter]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

[Future 42 @future42org]

In 2018, Washington's Department of Licensing discovered it had left its systems vulnerable to hackers...and then it didn't tell anyone.
Not the victims.
Not the media.
Nobody.
And they didn't fix it for years.

Now we know the details of the scandal and oh boy are they bad.

If you knew somebody's name and birthday, you could go onto the DOL website and change information like address, email, and even order unlimited amounts of replacement drivers licenses. There is at least one recorded case of this being used to change voter registration information. There are also cases of stolen licenses being used to start Uber accounts.

The victim count is about 10,000 and growing.

John Curley interviews Joel Ard, an attorney representing some of the victims, about the details.

@jcurleyshow | @KIRONewsradio
'The WA DOL Fraud Keeps Growing?!'

[Kekius Maximus @Kekius_Sage]

Big Tech make nearly $1 million from your data and you get nothing.

A new report from Web3 Foundation claims Big Tech and AI companies could generate as much as $831,497 in inflation-linked lifetime value from a single internet user.

Suddenly those free services do not feel so free anymore.

[Lara Logan @laralogan]

26 years. There is nothing else to say. That says it all.

[Future 42 @future42org]

Ever wondered what happens to the $0.55 per gallon of gas you pay to Washington state for "climate change"?

KIRO's John Curley breaks it down on how your money ends up in the pockets of individuals and NGOs, and gives us all a great 'alarm bells' lesson from the French.

@jcurleyshow | @KIRONewsradio
'Where Are Your Climate Tax Dollars Going?'

[Viet Q Nguyen @VietQNguyen]

There have been a lot of recent local news stories covering tons of fraud, misconduct, improper controls, and waste in Washington State.

News stories come and go. And people forget them. We shouldn’t. We are only as good as our attention span.

I put together this website so that there is one place for people to go to find this information.

For researchers and the public, this site is for you: https://t.co/qqmH5o0frl

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸 The U.S. government is now a direct shareholder in quantum computing.

The Trump administration is taking $2 billion in equity stakes across nine quantum companies, including a new IBM venture.

The explicit goal: counter China's quantum advancement before it becomes a national security problem.

This is significant. Governments don't take equity positions in speculative tech. They do it when the technology is too important to lose.

Quantum computing breaks current encryption standards, accelerates drug discovery, and rewrites financial modeling at a level classical computers can't touch. Whoever leads this race sets the rules.

Washington just decided it's not leaving that to the private sector alone.

Source: Reuters

[Sassafrass84 @Sassafrass_84]

Couldn't have said this any better. How do we even fix this?