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  1. A jury just found Google guilty on all counts of antitrust violations stemming from its dispute with Epic, maker of Fortnite, which brought a variety of claims related to how Google runs its app marketplace.

    Epic ...wants the judge to order Google to fulfill its promise of "an open, competitive Android ecosystem for all users and industry participants." effectively crushing Google’s control over #Android

    pluralistic.net/2023/12/12/im-

    @pluralistic
    #Google #GoogleAntiTrust #Apple #Epic #Fortnite
    #Antitrust #anticompetitive

  2. New #lightrail expansion coming Aug 30! Mark your calendars, the light rail's 1 line extension to #Lynnwood opens over Labor Day weekend. Four new stops will open: #Shoreline South/148th, Shoreline North/185th, #Mountlake Terrace, and Lynnwood City Center.

    In other words, we will have about 1/16th the capacity of Tokyo's train system, not including the Shinkansen.

    #Seattle #LakeForestPark #Lynnwood #MountlakeTerrace #Brier #KingCounty #SnohomishCounty #Washington

  3. #californiaCondor #Condor #Condors dying from lead poisoning #Leadpoisoning.

    In Utah and Arizona, 53 condors have died from lead poisoning, and 90% of the birds that have been trapped have tested positive for lead in their blood since the birds were reintroduced to the region in 1996.

    sltrib.com/news/2024/08/24/zio

    #Zion #ZionNP #Endangered #EndangeredSpecies
    #EndangeredSpeciesAct

  4. @bojacobs Seems a likely non-rhetorical scenario: Cascading faults: BPA unable to maintain grid function leads to loss of pumps at Hanford tank sites. Pressure builds in tanks leading to criticalities and venting and possible explosions. Nobody can then go in because its too hot.

    Its all foretold in the prophetic song
    #OurStateIsADumpsite by Dana Lyons, track 16 on cowswithguns.com/album/animal/

    #Plutonium239

  5. @andyb Sea-Tac airport has a mascot now! Jett the S-E-A Otter.

    Coming Soon: Otters (from those _Other_ countries) that failed to get through security, and Otters asking "Where's my plane?"

    portseattle.org/news/seas-masc
    #seattle #tacoma #Seatac #Mascots #otter #otters