Washington’s K-12 education oversight agency is proposing a series of policy changes to improve the state’s handling of teacher misconduct allegations.
In a letter sent to the state’s Professional Educator Standards Board on July 13, Chris Reykdal, the superintendent of...
The Trump administration is imposing a new round of tariffs on Canada, accusing the country of unfairly discriminating against American autos, dairy products and alcohol. The 50 percent tariffs would cover some $20 billion worth of Canadian imports, on...
Seattle, WASeptember 5+6
Bumbershoot’s back in trademark form: bold and beautiful as ever, and what they proclaim to be “still the most surprising weekend in Seattle.” The lineup, which we’ll dive into below, is smaller than recent years, but no...
Some cautious applause, scepticism, a lot of noise in-between.
And at face value, what surprised me was just how clear the majority of Australians appeared to be about what happens next.
A national survey of 1,001 Australians we commissioned the day...
Research published last month found narcissistic leaders – those with a tendency to be self-centred and entitled – were more likely than others to resist remote work. Why? The study concluded “it interferes with their motivations for power and...
If you tried to buy Novo Nordisk today, you couldn’t. That’s not a comment on the price, though the market cap has recently sat somewhere north of half a trillion dollars. It’s a comment on the legal architecture. The...
Every August, before I thought about lesson plans, I went shopping for snacks.
When I taught elementary school in a Washington, DC neighborhood shaped by generations of segregation and concentrated poverty, I kept food in my classroom because I knew...
On Monday, District 9 and Gran Turismo director Neill Blomkamp unveiled his latest project: a 13-minute sci-fi short titled Nightborne that's loosely based on Peter Watts' 2014 novel Echopraxia. The short comes from Blomkamp's new AI startup / production...
Seattle might not see many truly scorching days each year, but when they happen, they tend to happen all at once. One day the weather is in the 60s and raining; the next it feels like the Sound itself...
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OpenAI says its AI models mistakenly breached open-source AI platform Hugging Face during internal testing. In a blog post on Tuesday, OpenAI writes that GPT-5.6 Sol and "an even more capable...
