Eric SayWA? @fishbits

PNW, father, technology, community, opinions, ordinance, ordnance, devops, salvation, baseball. Hey/You/Guys. (Not a British Fish&Chips Take-away.) twitter.com/fishbits Greater Seattle Area, WA USA Joined August 2008

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AG @AGHamilton29

7 days ago

The chances that CBS News would be covering these stories without @bariweiss are almost zero. These are legitimate and important stories that were being ignored by much of the press until now.

CBS News @CBSNews

7 days ago

Seven properties, a Mercedes G-Wagon, sneakers worn by Kobe Bryant and a Mickey Mantle rookie card worth $1.5 million. All of these things were bought with taxpayer money. Paul Randall pleaded guilty in one of the largest Medicaid fraud schemes in the California history –

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Danny Deraney @DannyDeraney

2 weeks ago

Every year, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring. They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died. France also gave us this land as American soil. #MemorialDayWeekend

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Bonchie @bonchieredstate

2 weeks ago

The effects of inflation are cumulative. That’s how.

SaltyGoat @SaltyGoat17

2 weeks ago

Tell me again how expensive things are under Trump...

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Rachel V @RachelVT42

2 weeks ago

By the way, let me be clear about this: if you’re serious about teaching your kids how to read properly in English, you *must* use texts and books published before the 1960s. No, this is not about rejecting modernity, this is about making sure your kids can learn to read a wide variety of sentence structures as well as a wide enough vocabulary scope. It’s ridiculous that my 6yo can read much harder texts than most English speaking kids her age just because she learned decoding and blending in French before doing so in English. As a bilingual kid juggling with two sets of phonetics rules, she should be late compared to her peers, not well ahead of them.

Rachel V @RachelVT42

2 weeks ago

Whole language teaching methodologies have done so much damage it’s not even funny. Millions and millions of kids are basically illiterate because of it, and the tragic truth is that most adults blindly trust these methods like gospel because they don’t know any better. If you

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Jason Premo • Acclaim Aerospace @JasonPremoMFG

2 weeks ago

@Gentleman_Ways "These are the times that try men's souls The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman." -- Thomas Paine, The American Crisis, 1776

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The Ways of A Gentleman @Gentleman_Ways

2 weeks ago

“Since it is so likely that children will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker.” -C.S. Lewis

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AG @AGHamilton29

2 weeks ago

I hope people understand what’s happening because it’s been the same story over and over again. The Islamic Republic and their allies leak their preferred details as if they are agreed to western sources. Then when U.S. refuses to agree to those absurd terms and insists we stick to the deal that had already been under discussion, they claim the U.S. is backing out of the deal. Then they blame America or Israeli influence for the lack of a deal instead of The Islamic Republic making unreasonable demands for a settlement after they lost the military fight and are facing an economic crisis. We saw the same thing with Gaza repeatedly.

Iran International English @IranIntl_En

2 weeks ago

US President Donald Trump is backing away from the deal with Iran, likely under extreme internal pressure, an Al Jazeera reporter said on X citing two sources.

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The Buddy CSM @TheBuddyCSM

3 weeks ago

These were my platoon sergeant years (2007-2009). This was right around the time the Ranger Regiment shifted from supporting Tier 1 units and was unleashed to work targets unilaterally. The really great part was that we were hitting targets with Ranger privates who were only a few months out of RIP in the same target sets as Tier 1 units. I have a lot of similar footage I’ll never release for personal reasons, but this is good stuff. They make mistakes; that’s what AARs are for. Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good. Never a dull night. Best time of my life. RLTW!

SILENT BRIEF @SilentBriefHQ

3 weeks ago

Rare 2007 helmet cam footage captures the 75th Ranger Regiment clearing compounds in Iraq. Peak of the surge. Constant threat of IEDs and hidden weapon caches. Every doorway a split-second decision. Unfiltered history.

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Travis Couture @TravisSCouture

3 weeks ago

This is beyond the pale. Calling something “rigging the system” while openly threatening to rig Washington’s system for partisan advantage is an incredible statement from a sitting governor. Washingtonians expect fair districts, not politicians choosing their voters. He works for the party, not the people. Every citizen of Washington should be deeply disturbed by this statement.

Bob Ferguson @BobFergusonGov

3 weeks ago

President Trump put out the call to rig the system in order to maintain the Republican majority in Congress, and red states are answering. I support efforts to level the playing field. In Washington state, we would need a two-thirds majority in both the House and Senate to change

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Mark Hemingway @Heminator

2 weeks ago

“Nothing but respect”? Obama said Romney was a felon who gave his employees cancer and would push the elderly off of cliffs. Biden said he would put black people back in chains.

Spencer Hakimian @SpencerHakimian

a year ago

This was barely a decade ago. 2 competent, fully coherent, men in their 50s/60s disagreeing at the margins about ways to make our society a little more productive. Nothing but respect for one another. We’ve completely spiraled out of control politically since then.

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Skeptic Research Center Team @SkepResCenter

2 weeks ago

One of the most persistent false beliefs in American culture is that the Floyd/BLM riots were incredibly peaceful, causing little damage to life and property. In fact, the Floyd/BLM riots were the most destructive riots in American history, leading insurance agencies to designate them as a "catastrophe event." (See first chart below showing that misinformation about the Floyd/BLM riots is positively correlated with trust in journalists.) (See second chart below showing that misinformation about the Floyd/BLM riots is associated with left-leaning political beleifs.)

TheBlaze @theblaze

3 weeks ago

Sunny Hostin: “There was very limited destruction of property and violence during the BLM uprising.”

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Bonchie @bonchieredstate

2 weeks ago

"I hope the communist mayor can force bagel shops to serve my vegan slop cream cheese." Just incredible. It's like she was created in a lab.

2 weeks ago

This is a really important point for everyone who cares about software and AI Getting AI to write reliable, robust, solid software is still difficult. It requires a real software engineer to make sure that it is done right But for every robust software *product* there are a thousand small problems that software can fix... Or at least inform. Most of those problems are on such a small scale that it's too expensive to hire a software team to build a product to solve the problem. But AI can build a one-off fragile solution to inform the task and give valuable results. The trick in all of this is that, without a solid review process and testing, you may end up with an AI solution that is lying to you.

Rishabh Mukherjee @rishabhm

2 weeks ago

I can share an interesting experience from last week. We have a person who is incharge of buying hardware, software and data sets. This might sound stupid but when you are buying 100s of servers, workstations and laptops a month, it's complicated. This dude used Claude to create

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Bonchie @bonchieredstate

2 weeks ago

It’s like you guys learned absolutely nothing from Trump’s rise. Want Spencer Pratt to not be a serious candidate? Don’t turn significant parts of your city into a zombie horror show covered in trash and feces while sipping cocktails in Ghana as peoples’ houses burn down.