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Seattle’s Threshold Games, a remote-first independent game developer, has shut down due to “extenuating circumstances.” The announcement was made via Threshold’s LinkedIn page on Feb. 9. The 12-person company was founded in 2019 by Jessica Bean and June Saphry, and billed itself as an “indie, queer-led studio” that made games “that tell diverse stories set in helpful, defiant futures.” It included developers from Riot Games, Warner Bros. Games, and Bellevue, Wash.-based Sucker Punch. GeekWire has reached out to the studio for comment. Threshold’s official X account has posted a thread that lists all the affected employees, in an attempt to get them new jobs as expediently as possible. Threshold was headquartered in Seattle, but had members in Austin, Toronto, New York City, Boston, Los Angeles, and Florida. Producer Astra Ebonwing described the circumstances on her own LinkedIn as a “very sudden and very unexpected turn of events.” Threshold had previously planned to unveil its debut project at some point in March, according to Ebonwing. No details have been released regarding its now-canceled project. Threshold Games is one of several indie game studios that have shut down in 2024, which has come alongside a flood of layoffs at larger companies. Other closures this year include Threaks (Battle Planet), Little Red Dog Games (Rogue State Revolution), and game recruitment agency One Player Mission.

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The Necessities Of Survival.

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The Bigger Picture

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Chapter 2.

Earth Is A Closed Ecosystem

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Chapter 3.

Resources Are Limited But Bureaucracy Is Perpetual

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Crowdfunding And Open Research

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A Battle Against Principalities

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Tomorrow Starts Today

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Extrapolation On Moore’s Law

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You Are Here

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The Necessity of Cross Referencing

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Road Map To Survival

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The Need to Migrate

Was it about Smokey?

All Right then;

From the End > to > the beginning.

What it’s all about, it's about a footpath of stepping stones that gradually gently and easily make a traversable transit like ants walking along the same chemical trail. Except We will be walking along the same (Electromachanical Electromagnetic) galactic footpaths..

From planet to planet through our solar system;

Extending in steady progression to both the outer edge and also center of our galaxy.

I believe this text can prove this long term objective feasible.

( technologically speaking ),

within under 200 years.

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Within the next 50 years,

establishing colonies on any livable planets and harvesting from all of them.

Within the next 20 years,

it should be us the population, the human race that takes the lead. in this expansion to outer space.

It should not be government or industry.

if it is then our opportunity as a free and pioneering species WILL most certainly be enslaved for the far foreseeable future by either corporatocracy or oppressive government..

The alternative …

What I attempt to suggest in this document will allow the human population, as a population to expand freely.

At your own will, initiative and capabilities as individuals and small groups such as vacationers in corporate business planners might see fit.

It should be Crowd funding (as crowd funding is the closest modern man can get to democracy).

Unfettered by government and Corporatocracy

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This is your personal opportunity to put your money on your Own interest ~~ for forward momentum as a species.

Put your money on the objectives that you want to go forward.

Make physical technological progress as a species in the directions that we agree apon, collectively as a species

Casting our vote for specific results in a specific intended direction…

Through Crowdfunding via Our Collective Financial Contributions to any given project under the universe.

Technology, engineering, science, aerospace, agriculture, under c, exploration, mining, you pick it…, humanities, medicine etc.

… For the benefit of the species Humanity),

…in the direction that(YOU THINK) best serves our biosphere as a whole…

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Hey how's it going today everybody this is smokey smoke of ABQ signing on and flying over…

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All of the living organisms in our biosphere ( as well as ourselves in our own personal interests) are at a critical juncture in human understanding, in science technology, engineering, physics, materials manipulations such as metallurgy and polymers, dissemination of information and capability to digest that information that we must move out into low earth orbit.

It a necessity of our own survival as a species. If by some circumstance our biosphere can no longer sustain us (from which probabilities there are more than a few), then by necessities of survival of the species we must have first and foremost a libraries of knowledge archived in low earth orbit or perhaps Middle Earth orbit furthermore we should immediately begin on building geosynchronous low earth orbit platforms for habitation as housing as, a business, as daily activity and not as something scientifically spectacular.

We've had the technology(on Moss as a species) for years and years and decades and decades.

it's time to get out there.

To master the art , science and technology of being an interplanetary / intergalactic space fairing spspecies

NOT a terrestrial one.

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I assure you, within 30 years human beings will be working and living in space. The question is?, what will the habitation conditions be…??l

What will the working conditions and environment be !!/

And Who Will Dictate Those Living Conditions !?/

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Think about it !!...

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Those are the two questions that are paramount.

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Next: As in Right Now this is the first thing we need to do.

Through crowdfunding We as a global population, should start propelling money in the directions of the technology, resources and expansion ventures that you choose to support.

And thereby begin moving technologically(and morally) in the direction we should have gone in ever since the 1970s.

Now all the cards are on the table. So seriously, everybody that reads this book, if you put $1 on it crowdfund something put $1 on it. Maybe a month or a year from now you’ll put $10 on that same crowd funding but fund it.

Because

There are almost 8 billion inhabitants (human that is) on our biosphere as I speak at the moment.

If a billion people put $10 on something that’s 10 billion dollars.

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And that would build our first Self-Replicating, twin-gravity ring, inner – Inner-planatery, Space Vessel.

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“Jake Dunagan, the director of design futures at the consulting firm Very Nice, studies the cognitive biases that make it difficult for people to plan ahead. “That’s one of the conundrums of futurist work: The future doesn’t exist,” Dunagan tells me. “It’s always a projection.” Our minds, he says, have not evolved to be very good at seeing our future as connected to our present, as we spent so much of our early existence concerned with outwitting immediate threats.”

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The immediate environment we all exist in.

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The first thing that must be realized by all human beings is that this biosphere that we call Earth is a closed ecosystem.

Without extrapolating too much detail in the biology (this book is intended for general reading after all).

It is critical to understand that in a closed ecosystem there is a maximum life support for volume of living organisms within that ecosystem.

When maximum volume of total organisms within an ecosystem reaches maximum level (capacity) the vast majority of any species within that ecosystem will die off by starvation, lack of shelter, water, oxygen, and other necessities that the ecosystem can no longer provide for all organisms within the ecosystem.

It has been scientifically demonstrated that when a closed ecosystem reaches maximum population density then organisms across-the-board relying on food, water and other natural resources begin to go through a die off.

Surviving population stagnate to whatever the environment can sustain. populations can no longer grow.

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Human beings are the only organism on this planet Earth that have the capacity to expand out from this planet to other planets.

It is essential for the survival of not only Humanity but of all the living organisms on this planet (as well as the survival of the biosphere itself), that Humanity find a way to start moving out into the solar system immediately. And not for exploration but for habitation employment and long-term living arrangements as in generations.

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Further;

To harvest the raw resources of intergalactic space. And to construct our new intergalactic existences from those raw resources on site.

To expand out from this small little sanctuary of life we call earth. to create colonies, to export life in man-made into galactic vessels such as the “Steping Stone” centripetal gravitation into planetary space vessel…

To boldly build an electromagnetic electromechanical row of intergalactic ants that travel from here to the kuiper belt and at least 100 years step by step and from there out to the edge of the Milky Way galaxy and toward the center of it step by step in no less than 200 years.

As well as interplanetary colonization.

Colonizing other planets in Mass numbers. Throughout our own Milky Way Galaxy and also to other galaxies within a 12 light year diameter from planet Earth.

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Smokey here again, there are some things I should tell you up front about this book

This book is not intended to satisfy or stroke the eagles of any particular personages or organization.

This book is intended to spell out and blunt and direct language to the general popopulation;

Our state of the arts in science technology and human capabilities.

Underwater, On land, In low earth orbit: Projecting out to the Kuiper belt And beyond…

I see you stand flabbergast, but I tell you right now as we speak humanity has the capability scientifically we have the technology we have the engineers we have the manpower the only thing we lack is…

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(…Coordinated Unity… )

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(…Constructive Money…)

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In short I am writing this book to tell you what is really going on …

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AS OPPOSED TO SOME BIAS OPINION TO ACHIEVE MY OBJECTIVES, OR TO REDIRECT YOUR OPINIONS.

NOR IS THIS DOCUMENT INTENDED TO SELL YOU SOME BULL SHIT YOU NEITHER NEED NOR EVEN REALLY WANT, THAT WILL WASTE YOUR TIME, YOUR MONEY AND YOUR PATIENCE.

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THIS DOCUMENT IS SIMPLY TO INFORM YOU. NOTHING MORE, NOTHING LESS

FROM THERE IT’S UP TO YOU AS THE PROPERLY INFORMED ADULT TO MAKE THE IMMEDIATE DEDECISION

~~AS NIKE USED TO SAY, ~~

“ JUST DO IT” )

…AND DO IT RIGHT NOW TODAY

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This book started out as a humble short story and has evolved into Three full books as well as the short story... It is simply too much information to try to convey about this project in this concept and strictly technical times so I hope you will enjoy the short story of “MOM.”

MOM. (SSEM) Stepping Stone Engineers Manual

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[kennak]

オンラインデリバリーサービスで働くアプリベース労働者の権利を守る費用を捻出するため、サービスを行うネットワーク企業に課金する条例案 CB 120706 を米シアトル市議会が可決した (GeekWire の記事)。 ネットワーク企業のプラットフォームにログインし、割り当てを受けて働くアプリベース労働者は経済的に不安定な人が多く、低賃金で危険かつ不安定な労働条件を受け入れることになる。ネットワーク企業ではアプリベース労働者を従業員ではなく請負業者として扱うため、行政による従業員保護の対象にもならない。 そのため、シアトル市ではアプリベース労働者の職場での保護確立を含む労働基準の制定を労働基準監督署 (OLS) に許可しており、2024 年 1 月 13 日にはアプリベース労働者の最低賃金条例が施行され、2025 年 1 月 1 日にはアプリベース労働者の解雇時の権利に関する条例が施行される。 しかし、これらの条例施行には年数百万ドルの費用が必要となる。そのため、CB 120706 ではシアトルでのネットワーク企業運営を認可制とし、デリバリー 1 件ごとに 10 セントの認可料を課して費用を捻出するとのことだ。

米シアトル市議会、アプリベース労働者保護のためデリバリーサービス1件ごとに10セントを課金する条例 | スラド YRO

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The Cyclops II needed to fit as many passengers as possible. “You don’t do the coolest thing you’re ever going to do in your life by yourself,” Rush told an audience at the GeekWire Summit last fall. “You take your wife, your son, your daughter, your best friend. You’ve got to have four people” besides the pilot.

[melodysimone]

Sector: Fall 2023

In business media, I will specifically focus on the game industry. Some sources I will follow are:

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Techmeme: TerraPower which develops small modular nuclear reactors raised $650M from investors including Nvidia's NVentures and TerraPower co-founder Bill Gates (Lisa Stiffler/GeekWire)

Lisa Stiffler / GeekWire: TerraPower, which develops small modular nuclear reactors, raised $650M from investors including Nvidia's NVentures and TerraPower co-founder Bill Gates  —  Sustainability: News about the rapidly growing climate tech sector and other areas of innovation to protect our planet. June 18, 2025 at 11:55AM

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Palo Alto Networks acquires Protect AI for $ 500m+, start with Salesforce, Samsung, and 01 councilor in pushing ai security

Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ:Pant), the world -Et cyber security Powerhouse with market capitalization is close to $ 120 billion, makes high relatives move into AI security with acquisition Protect youSeattle starts that rise fast in the hot-red artificial intelligence space. The deal, published Monday, closed later this year. The transaction is sold over $ 500 million, Geekwire It was reported,…

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Palo Alto Networks acquires Protect AI for $ 500m+, start with Salesforce, Samsung, and 01 councilor in pushing ai security

Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ:Pant), the world -Et cyber security Powerhouse with market capitalization is close to $ 120 billion, makes high relatives move into AI security with acquisition Protect youSeattle starts that rise fast in the hot-red artificial intelligence space. The deal, published Monday, closed later this year. The transaction is sold over $ 500 million, Geekwire It was reported,…

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GeekWire: Marketers are ‘freaking out’ about AI search. This Seattle startup just raised $2M to help.

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While OceanGate touted the dive as history-making proof of its submersible’s bona fides, even Rush was getting worried about loud noises the hull was making at depth. Then on June 7, three weeks before Titan’s maiden voyage to the Titanic, an OceanGate pilot inspecting the interior with a flashlight noticed a crack in the hull. He sent Rush an email warning that the crack was “pretty serious.” A detailed internal report later showed that at least 11 square feet of carbon fiber had delaminated—meaning the bonds between layers had separated. This time, Rush couldn’t ignore the data. The hull that was meant to last for 10,000 dives to the Titanic had made fewer than 50—and only three to 4,000 meters. It would have to be scrapped, and the Titanic missions would be delayed for yet another year. When Rush shared the news with GeekWire a few days later, however, he blamed the delay on legal complications with Titan’s support vessel. It’s true that OceanGate ran into issues with maritime law, says one former employee: “The lie is that it was not the reason we delayed.”

From the Geek Wire article they're talking about:

Everett, Wash.-based OceanGate has had to postpone this summer’s deep-sea dives to the Titanic shipwreck, just as they were about to start, due to complications relating to the expedition’s intended mothership. The complications have to do with the status of the Norwegian-flagged MV Havila Harmony under Canadian maritime law, OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush told GeekWire today. The ship’s operators at Reach Subsea feared that the ship might be impounded if the expedition went forward as planned, Rush said. Rush said that the issue cropped up last Friday, and that the resulting complications couldn’t be resolved in time to do this year’s Titanic Survey Expedition. The first departure from St. John’s, Newfoundland, had been scheduled for June 28. “I’ve been up in my life, and I’ve been down in my life,” Rush said. “I was as happy as I’ve ever been on Thursday night, and by Saturday I was almost as low as I’ve ever been. … It’s been quite a swing, and I hope I don’t ever go through that again.”

I MEAN I GUESS HE GOT HIS WISH

The Ocean Sciences Building at the University of Washington in Seattle is a brightly modern, four-story structure, with large glass windows reflecting the bay across the street.

On the afternoon of July 7, 2016, it was being slowly locked down.

Red lights began flashing at the entrances as students and faculty filed out under overcast skies. Eventually, just a handful of people remained inside, preparing to unleash one of the most destructive forces in the natural world: the crushing weight of about 2½ miles of ocean water.

In the building’s high-pressure testing facility, a black, pill-shaped capsule hung from a hoist on the ceiling. About 3 feet long, it was a scale model of a submersible called Cyclops 2, developed by a local startup called OceanGate. The company’s CEO, Stockton Rush, had cofounded the company in 2009 as a sort of submarine charter service, anticipating a growing need for commercial and research trips to the ocean floor. At first, Rush acquired older, steel-hulled subs for expeditions, but in 2013 OceanGate had begun designing what the company called “a revolutionary new manned submersible.” Among the sub’s innovations were its lightweight hull, which was built from carbon fiber and could accommodate more passengers than the spherical cabins traditionally used in deep-sea diving. By 2016, Rush’s dream was to take paying customers down to the most famous shipwreck of them all: the Titanic, 3,800 meters below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean.

Engineers carefully lowered the Cyclops 2 model into the testing tank nose-first, like a bomb being loaded into a silo, and then screwed on the tank’s 3,600-pound lid. Then they began pumping in water, increasing the pressure to mimic a submersible’s dive. If you’re hanging out at sea level, the weight of the atmosphere above you exerts 14.7 pounds per square inch (psi). The deeper you go, the stronger that pressure; at the Titanic’s depth, the pressure is about 6,500 psi. Soon, the pressure gauge on UW’s test tank read 1,000 psi, and it kept ticking up—2,000 psi, 5,000 psi. At about the 73-minute mark, as the pressure in the tank reached 6,500 psi, there was a sudden roar and the tank shuddered violently.

“I felt it in my body,” an OceanGate employee wrote in an email later that night. “The building rocked, and my ears rang for a long time.”

“Scared the shit out of everyone,” he added.

The model had imploded thousands of meters short of the safety margin OceanGate had designed for.

In the high-stakes, high-cost world of crewed submersibles, most engineering teams would have gone back to the drawing board, or at least ordered more models to test. Rush’s company didn’t do either of those things. Instead, within months, OceanGate began building a full-scale Cyclops 2 based on the imploded model. This submersible design, later renamed Titan, eventually made it down to the Titanic in 2021. It even returned to the site for expeditions the next two years. But nearly one year ago, on June 18, 2023, Titan dove to the infamous wreck and imploded, instantly killing all five people onboard, including Rush himself.

The disaster captivated and horrified the world. Deep-sea experts criticized OceanGate’s choices, from Titan’s carbon-fiber construction to Rush’s public disdain for industry regulations, which he believed stifled innovation. Organizations that had worked with OceanGate, including the University of Washington as well as the Boeing Company, released statements denying that they contributed to Titan.

A trove of tens of thousands of internal OceanGate emails, documents, and photographs provided exclusively to WIRED by anonymous sources sheds new light on Titan’s development, from its initial design and manufacture through its first deep-sea operations. The documents, validated by interviews with two third-party suppliers and several former OceanGate employees with intimate knowledge of Titan, reveal never-before-reported details about the design and testing of the submersible. They show that Boeing and the University of Washington were both involved in the early stages of OceanGate’s carbon-fiber sub project, although their work did not make it into the final Titan design. The trove also reveals a company culture in which employees who questioned their bosses’ high-speed approach and decisions were dismissed as overly cautious or even fired. (The former employees who spoke to WIRED have asked not to be named for fear of being sued by the families of those who died aboard the vessel.) Most of all, the documents show how Rush, blinkered by his own ambition to be the Elon Musk of the deep seas, repeatedly overstated OceanGate’s progress and, on at least one occasion, outright lied about significant problems with Titan’s hull, which has not been previously reported.

A representative for OceanGate, which ceased all operations last summer, declined to comment on WIRED’s findings.

[itsnothingbutluck]

How Curiosity Will Save Us | Mónica Guzmán | TEDxSeattle For Mónica Guzmán, curiosity isn’t a muse that flits by when we wonder about something. It’s the most powerful tool we have to navigate our world, especially when our world is dangerously divided along political lines. “If you can’t be curious across divides in a polarized world,” she says, “you can’t see the world at all.”

Mónica shares examples of curiosity-driven conversations that make it possible for even the most opposed liberals and conservatives to see and hear one another, despite the misperceptions from their news feeds. With simple, powerful questions she herself has used in countless treks across the divide, Mónica shows us how having critical conversations with people—instead of about them—changes everything. And how taking the first steps toward understanding the views that most confound us isn’t just possible, it’s easier than you think. Mónica is Director of Digital Storytelling at Braver Angels, the nation’s largest grassroots, cross-partisan organization dedicated to bridging the political divide. She is a former fellow at the Henry M. Jackson Foundation, studying political division, and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, studying community engagement. Mónica is the co-founder of the Seattle newsletter The Evergrey and was a juror for the 2013 and 2014 Pulitzer Prize in journalism. In her 17-year journalism career, she’s written columns for The Seattle Times, GeekWire, the Columbia Journalism Review, the Daily Beast, and others. A Mexican immigrant, Latina, and dual US/Mexico citizen, she lives in Seattle with her husband and two kids and is the proud liberal daughter of conservative parents. Her book, I Never Thought of It That Way, comes out in March 2022.

[kennak]

米連邦取引委員会 (FTC) は 21 日、Amazon.com が消費者を欺くような手法で Amazon Prime に加入させていたとして、シアトルのワシントン西部地区連邦地裁に提訴した (プレスリリース、 訴状: PDF、 The Guardian の記事、 GeekWire の記事)。 訴状によると、Amazon.com では非 Amazon Prime サブスクライバーが商品を購入する際、支払いプロセスで無料配送とともにサブスクリプションのオプションを提示。無料配送で注意をそらすことにより、サブスクリプションのオプションを選択させていたという。これにより、数百万人が必要のない Amazon Prime サブスクリプションを購入したとのこと。サブスクリプションは 30 日間の無料トライアルが提供され、いつでもキャンセル可能だが、Amazon.com では故意にキャンセルを困難にしていたと FTC は主張する。 FTC では Amazon.com の行為が FTC 法や Restore Online Shopper's Confidence Act (ROSCA) に違反し、消費者に損害を与えたとして、違法行為に対する差止命令や民事制裁金の裁定などを求めている。

米連邦取引委員会、消費者を欺くような手法でAmazon Primeに加入させていたAmazonを提訴 | スラド IT

[antonjesus]

AI experts Oren Etzioni and Shivon Zilis at the 2016 GeekWire Summit

[monterplant]

Bellevue, WA-based Truveta, which aggregates medical data from 30 partner institutions, raised $320M from Regeneron, Illumina, and others at a $1B+ valuation (Taylor Soper/GeekWire)

Taylor Soper / GeekWire: Bellevue, WA-based Truveta, which aggregates medical data from 30 partner institutions, raised $320M from Regeneron, Illumina, and others at a $1B+ valuation  —  GeekWire’s startup coverage documents the Pacific Northwest entrepreneurial scene.  Sign up for our weekly startup newsletter … Continue reading Bellevue, WA-based Truveta, which aggregates medical data from 30…

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GeekWire Studios spoke with Kambiz Aghili at AWS re:Invent, where they discussed accelerating your multicloud strategy by migrating your Oracle Database workloads quickly and easily to AWS. https://social.ora.cl/61100Qhmv6

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Read this entire article. This is what stood out to me that told me that the cause of the failure was human hubris which echos the tragedy of the Titanic itself.

“If you’re not breaking things, you’re not innovating,” Rush said, at the GeekWire Summit last fall. “If you’re operating within a known environment, as most submersible manufacturers do—they don’t break things. To me, the more stuff you’ve broken, the more innovative you’ve been.”

What a fucking fool. That’s alright if the only person he was affecting with his foolishness was himself.

But he took 4 other people down there with him that never deserved that. Not even the billionaire.

People like him shouldn’t exist so as far as I see his death, it’s one less person like that existing in the world. Fuck you, Rush. I hope you’re burning in hell.

oh my god this New Yorker article about the Titan holy fucking shit fuck???