The Permission Story Comes Home
2026-05-28
Thursday of W22. The leyline lands in the Pacific Northwest. We open with an in memoriam for S. Soma Somasegar, who shaped Microsoft’s Developer Division for twenty-seven years and then, at Madrona, quietly built the infrastructure layer Seattle’s AI buildout runs on. Then: Meta files WARN notices for one thousand three hundred ninety-five Washington state workers the same Tuesday Zuckerberg’s superyacht passes through the Ballard Locks. And the Yakama Nation says no to a three-point-three-billion-dollar pumped-hydro project on Pushpum, a sacred site, with a data center developer already in talks for adjacent land. The permission story when it stops being a press release.
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