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📬 Kita-Kinder als KI-Trainingsdaten? Eltern stoppen umstrittenes Forschungsprojekt
#Datenschutz #KünstlicheIntelligenz #404Media #GailEJoseph #KITrainingsdaten #OptoutModell #UniversityofWashington #Unterrichtsqualität #Vorschulkinder https://sc.tarnkappe.info/4bf5e6

Japanese middle distance runner Sherry Drury is preparing to open herself up to new philosophies and training methods with her impending move to the University of Washington. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2026/05/21/more-sports/sherry-drury-university-washington-move/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #moresports #sherrydrury #universityofwashington

Family and friends of 19-year-old Juniper Blessing remember her as intelligent, talented, and sensitive, highlighting her kindness and love of music.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/juniper-blessing-uw-student-fatally-stabbed-remembered-for-her-magnificent-voice
#KUOW #News #Crime #Crime #UniversityOfWashington #Transgender

Filed #TitleIX complaints. #Retaliation on record at #UniversityofWashington. Left academia. Sign the petition for #DoubleBlind #TitleIX to protect academics, not just their work. buff.ly/vcwI9nY 🪜 🎓 📜 🍎 ♀️ #PhDSky #Blackademia #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #MeToo #HigherEd #PhDChat #WomenInStem

A 31-year-old Bellevue man has been criminally charged in connection with the murder of a University of Washington student last week.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/bellevue-man-charged-with-murder-in-stabbing-death-of-uw-student
#KUOW #News #Crime #Seattle #UniversityOfWashington

The King County Medical Examiner's Office has identified a University of Washington student who was killed on Sunday as Juniper Blessing.
She was 19.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/university-of-washington-student-killed-sunday-king-county-medical-examiner-identified
#KUOW #News #Seattle #Lgbtq #UniversityOfWashington

Seattle police have released photos of a suspect in the fatal stabbing Sunday night of a 19-year-old University of Washington student.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/seattle-police-release-photos-of-suspect-in-uw-murder
#KUOW #News #UniversityOfWashington #Crime #Seattle #Transgender #Crime

The Seattle Police Department is looking for a suspect in the murder of a University of Washington student Sunday night.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/university-of-washington-seattle-student-killed
#KUOW #News #UniversityOfWashington #Crime #Crime

April Housing Report: Inventory Surges While Sales Slow | Home + Garden https://www.allforgardening.com/1751900/april-housing-report-inventory-surges-while-sales-slow-home-garden/ #April2025 #April2026 #condominiums #FederalReserve #garden #GraysHarborCounty #inventory #JeffersonCounty #LewisCounty #March2026 #MasonCounty #MedianSalesPrice #MortgageRates #NorthwestMultipleListingService #PierceCounty #SingleFamilyHomes #StevenBourassa #ThurstonCounty #UniversityOfWashington #WashingtonCenterForRealEstateResearch

Universities have won legal battles that have protected some federal funding, especially for existing research. But when it comes to money for new scientific experiments, the amount of money the University of Washington receives has fallen off a cliff.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/what-does-uw-s-declining-federal-money-mean-for-seattle-s-innovation-economy
#KUOW #News #Science #Economy #Science #Research #Economy #Seattle #UniversityOfWashington

More illegal drug users in Washington state are smoking drugs rather than injecting them.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/more-drug-users-are-smoking-rather-than-injecting-uw-study-finds
#KUOW #News #Health #Drugs #Fentanyl #UniversityOfWashington

Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon posted on social media Monday that her Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice will investigate the University of Washington’s “handling of antisemitism.”
https://www.kuow.org/stories/doj-investigating-how-the-university-of-washington-handles-antisemitism
#KUOW #News #Politics #UniversityOfWashington

Muon detectives share the Breakthrough Prize glory
University of Washington physicist David Hertzog can’t wait to find out how hundreds of researchers who worked on a geeky project known as the Muon g-2 Collaboration will react when they hear they’ve each won thousands of dollars for that work.

The money is coming
https://cosmiclog.com/2026/04/18/muon-detectives-share-the-breakthrough-prize-glory/
#GeekWire #BreakthroughPrize #ParticlePhysics #Physics #Science #UniversityOfWashington

A California man is using AI as a team of lawyers, claiming colleges who rejected his son's application, including the University of Washington, did so based on racial discrimination.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/ai-as-attorney-this-student-is-using-it-to-sue-uw-over-alleged-racial-discrimination
#KUOW #News #Education #LawAndCourts #Education #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #LawAndCourts #UniversityOfWashington #Technology

Its a dog’s day

Hello

If this is your first visit, welcome to Musings. Today I am musing about my furry canine friends. If you have been here before, welcome back. Over time we are going to talk about many things: the past, the present, perhaps the future, travel,

Gone to the Dogs

drawing by Heinrich Kley

I’m a dog person.

The only time I remember when I didn’t have a dog or two was the period when I went to college and the four years after. I’ve had more than one mutt, and a Collie, a Boxer, a Cocker Spaniel, two Australian Sheperds, a German Sheperd. a Samoyed, several American Staffordshire Terriers, two Norfolk Terriers, and a Terrier mix. I have probably forgotten some.

With the exception of the Cocker Spaniel I loved them all and when we lost them I was depressed for days.

Teddy

Twelve years ago we drove up to Virginia and picked up a Norfolk Terrier puppy we named Teddy. He is a grand old man now, still active but he sleeps more these days. In dog years, I reckon he is the same age as me. I sleep more these days.

He has had issues this year. Several months ago he had surgery to repair a torn ligament in his hind leg. Without the surgery he would have had the use of only three legs. It took him about eight weeks to be healed.

Just as he was getting over that he got diarrhea. He was very sick and it was questionable if he would live. You cannot imagine how bad it was. I considered just burning the house. He spent a week in the hospital, expensive little sucker.

But he is back! He is perky and doing fine.

Miley

About two years ago I saw on the internet a little female black and white puppy for which a woman was trying to find a rescue home. She was interviewing people who expressed an interest, coming to their home to see in what kind of place they lived , did it have a yard, was it fenced etc. Eventually, we were the ones she chose.

The Couple

Now we have two dogs, one 12 years old, a mature old gentleman and the other 2 and a half, a teenager. Miley bosses Teddy around and he puts up with it.

Teddy is the time keeper. At 7 in the morning he comes up on the bed (we have little stair case for him) and wakes me up. He licks my face. All over. That will do it. If I try to ignore him or hide under a pillow he keeps trying. IT IS 7AM. TIME TO GET UP!

He knows when it is 3PM. That is when he eats his dinner. About 2:30 he comes to me and sits and stares at me. I say to him “Not now. In a little bit. It’s not 3PM”.

When it is time he runs excitedly to his bowl, sometimes jumping and barking.

Miley sits about 10 feet from her bowl and calmly waits. When the food bowl is placed on the mat she will calmly, slowly walk over and, if it meets her approval, she will calmly eat. Often when she if done she walks way. If there is still food in her bowl which there often is, Teddy will rush over and gobble it up.

Miley is the one attached. If I am sitting in front of the television she jumps up and sits in my knee. It’s a recliner and when I have the lower part extended she likes to lay between my legs head toward the floor . That is her preferred position.

Wherever I sit she jumps up to sit on my leg. When I go to bed she lays curled against me. I think I am her security blanket.

If you like dogs that bark come to our house. Daily both watch through the window in my studio door the activity on the street. And there is a lot of things going on … gardeners, guys with leaf blowers, workmen, neighbors, garbage trucks, postmen, kids, delivery trucks, sightseers, people on bikes, dog walkers . . . I can go on and on. All of these illicit barking.

Miley also barks when people come to the house, especially men. It took a while for her to decide I was OK. I think she was abused as a puppy. If I scold her she gets in her dog bed and cowers until she feels safe. So when we have guests over, we put the two in my studio and close the door while people arrive. Once people are seated Miley is fine.

Have a great week.

DOG WORKS

Suppertime

Red Ball

Lancer

On a Different Note

I used to be a banker, but then I lost interest

Suppertime

Red Ball

Tempest

Take a look at my website:

www.ttribby.com

Works on Paper

On The Waterfront

Impressions of Florida

Rubin Observatory team discovers 11,000 new asteroids
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s science team has discovered more than 11,000 new asteroids — a feat made possible by the Simonyi Survey Telescope’s advanced capabilities and data-crunching software developed at the University of Washington.

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https://cosmiclog.com/2026/04/03/rubin-observatory-team-discovers-11000-new-asteroids/
#GeekWire #Asteroids #Astronomy #BigData #DIRACInstitute #RubinObservatory #Space #UniversityOfWashington

Speaking of which, consider supporting the SUPER UW 33.

They are currently being prosecuted for a May 2025 protest against Boeing on the University of Washington campus, occupying an engineering building to pressure a major US company and UW partner to stop materially supporting genocide in Gaza:

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/law-justice/protesters-charged-with-trespassing-in-uw-building-plead-not-guilty/

#SuperUW #SuperUW33 #UniversityOfWashington #Gaza #FreePalestine

There is a flaw in the system

Hello

If this is your first visit, welcome to Musings. Today I am musing about fate or the flaw in the system. If you have been here before, welcome back. Over time we are going to talk about many things: the past, the present, perhaps the future, travel,

New Car

Three weeks ago I finally replaced my 2008 van.

It had been a great ride. We drove from Florida to central Mexico and back five times and up to new York and surrounds several. It hauled paintings and plants and an unimaginable variety of stuff over the years, never complaining, always dependable. In the end it had dents, a cloudy GPS screen, a broken side mirror and failing paint. But it still ran, never complaining.

It took a long time for me to let go. It was like I was forsaking an old friend. Letting go when the chaise showed age for a new shiny ride. Ah . . . well, I went ahead just the same.

I bought a new Subaru Outback, shiny, full of features and with a reputation of reliability and safety. The first house I bought cost half the price of the car.

Two days later I was rear ended . . . stopped in traffic and “BAM bam”.

The officer said, “She hit you twice didn’t she? Yeah, they hit you the first time and the momentum carries them forward and they hit you the second. Yep, That’s what happened.”

My assailant was a young woman aged 21. She had just bought her car, aged 24. They told her “It was in good shape”. Was is the key word. Not anymore.

I felt sorry for her. She looked so defeated. She claimed “the brakes failed“. The officer said, “They all say that“. The boy friend said he put brake fluid in her car that afternoon. Who knows? Fortunately she had insurance.

So now I needed to deal with the insurance company, State Farm. They were very accommodating, approving the repair, a rental car for the time the car was being repaired with a list of approved repair companies close to me . . . all in about ten minutes.

The next day I went to the approved repair garage I had selected and did the paperwork. And we ran into a problem . . . .!

The car is a new model . . . too new. The dealers don’t have replacement parts. Who knows when they will have them?

I wonder what my old van would think about this.

On A Different Note

RECENT WORKS

Whispers in the night

Tempest

What the clouds remember when the sky parts

The piece above is a diptych and can be hung as two panels or one.

On a Different Note

I used to be a banker, but then I lost interest

Lillies

girlfriends

Red Beach Two

Morning Symphony

Take a look at my website:

www.ttribby.com

Works on Paper

On The Waterfront

Impressions of Florida

Scientists find evidence of faraway worlds colliding
Astronomers say unusual readings from a star system 11,000 light-years away suggest that two of the planets circling the star crashed into each other, creating a huge, light-obscuring cloud of rocks and dust.

The analysis, laid out this week in a paper published
https://cosmiclog.com/2026/03/12/scientists-find-evidence-of-faraway-worlds-colliding/
#UniverseToday #Earth #Exoplanets #Gaia #Moon #planets #Space #UniversityOfWashington

Rubin Observatory revs up its astronomical alert system
An astronomical alert system developed at the University of Washington started off with a bang this week, sending out 800,000 notifications about moving asteroids, exploding stars and other celestial changes detected by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile
https://cosmiclog.com/2026/02/25/rubin-observatory-revs-up-its-astronomical-alert-system/
#GeekWire #Astronomy #BigData #DIRACInstitute #RubinObservatory #UniversityOfWashington

Microsoft will ramp up its investment in the University of Washington.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/microsoft-promises-more-ai-investments-at-university-of-washington
#KUOW #News #Technology #Education #UniversityOfWashington

The University of Washington's cherry blossoms blooming several years ago. An annual spring pilgrimage for many in the Seattle area.

📷 Nikon D750 / Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 / March 2018

On Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/djwudi/39135968290/

#photography #nikon #d750 #nikkor #50mmf14 #seattle #UniversityOfWashington #UW

Valentine’s Day can bring a lot of expectations to the romantic dinner table. There’s a sense that couples have to have this perfect night out, one that may even end with some intimacy.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/uw-sex-professor-nicole-mcnichols-consent-manifesto-keep-romance-healthy-fresh
#KUOW #News #UniversityOfWashington #Health #Sexuality #Health

University of Washington staff and students are required to take a new civil rights training as part of a voluntary agreement with the federal government after allegations of unchecked antisemitism on campus in 2023 and 2024.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/uw-requires-civil-rights-training-after-federal-antisemitism-probe
#KUOW #News #Education #CivilRights #Education #UniversityOfWashington

Perhaps the most compelling finding from a UW Medicine study to help stroke victims recover hand movement is that if its first subject applied to be part of the study today, he would not qualify.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/he-suffered-two-strokes-this-electric-brain-implant-helped-him-regain-use-of-his-arm
#KUOW #News #Health #UniversityOfWashington #Science #Technology #MedicalTreatments #Research #Technology

The legacy of UW goalie Mia Hamant’s time on and off the field was on display Tuesday night during a celebration of life at Alaska Airlines Arena on the UW’s campus.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/remembering-the-mia-way-family-teammates-honor-uw-goalie-mia-hamant
#KUOW #News #Cancer #Sports #Soccer #UniversityOfWashington #Sports

This asteroid is spinning fast enough to set a record
Astronomers say they’ve found an asteroid that spins faster than other space rocks of its size.

The asteroid, known as 2025 MN45, is nearly half a mile (710 meters) in diameter and makes a full rotation every 1.88 minutes, based on an analysis of data from the Vera C. Rub
https://cosmiclog.com/2026/01/07/this-asteroid-is-spinning-fast-enough-to-set-a-record/
#GeekWire #AAS #Asteroids #RubinObservatory #Space #UniversityOfWashington

How the buzz over an ‘alien’ interstellar comet went viral
Is an interstellar spacecraft zooming through our solar system? That’s the big question for fans of unidentified flying objects — and for a researcher at the University of Washington who analyzed the speculation over the interstellar com
https://cosmiclog.com/2025/12/06/how-the-buzz-over-an-alien-interstellar-comet-went-viral/
#GeekWire #3IATLAS #A11pl3Z #Aliens #InterstellarObjects #SocialMedia #Space #UniversityOfWashington