Steven Sinofsky

From 2021 to 2023, Massachusetts lost more than 2X adjusted gross income (AGI) than in any year prior to 2020. Billions in AGI are leaving and taking future tax revenue with them.

Meanwhile Florida, South Dakota, Indiana, North Dakota, Georgia, Texas, Kansas, Illinois, Penn, Oklahoma, Ohio, Michigan, Nebraska are among the dozen+ states that are on a considered path to statewide significantly reduce or even eliminate property taxes.

OUCH Massachusetts lost $4.18B in adjusted gross income in 2023, the first full year of the "millionaire's tax" new data show. Chart by @PioneerBoston issued with warning "persistence and scale of these losses signal structural competitiveness challenges" for MA #mapoli

@ct_andersen That’s the meme. Not my choice for the 90s for sure.

@stevesi Any post about Seattle in the 90's set to a Goo Goo Dolls song will be immediately and summarily dismissed

Saw this insta post on the “what were you like in the 90s”. Seattle edition. (Unsure of OP)

@Pitchezandnotez That’s cool!

@stevesi Working at Cellophane Square on the Ave in the 90s was maybe the best job I've ever had.

@dalewhitakerwa The most interesting thing is what happens to the luxury home market when people moved out and many are sitting on losses PLUS due taxes and improvements with zero _potential_ buyers. At some point we have unoccupied and unmaintained private homes to go with office space.

> Pass millionaires tax > 3 State Supreme Court Justices Resign > Fergie Packs the Court with Justices who will say millionaires tax isn't an income tax > Tax goes in to effect > People want to leave > Have to pay tens of thousands in unnecessary renovation costs just to sell because of government "home energy score" requirements > No one can afford to leave > Lower the tax threshold > Millionaires tax becomes everyones tax > Makes it even harder to leave > Democrats continue to tax you in to poverty > You become a slave to marxism

The biggest surprise of the MacBook Neo "This means that the average PC is more than twice the cost of the MacBook Neo. Now that is a surprise." @asymco // read why -- super interesting. asymco.com/2026/03/18/the…

@GovBobFerguson What about protestors?

I just signed a historic bill. In Washington state, law enforcement officers, including ICE, are now prohibited from wearing masks.

My latest conversation with the always incredible @benedictevans: OpenAI’s moat problem, the rise of ephemeral and improvised sofware, OpenClaw & agents. 00:00 Intro 01:06 OpenAI's Focus Shift 03:12 ChatGPT usage: a "mile wide, inch deep" 09:03 Why better models do not solve the real problem 13:58 Why AI product teams are strategy takers, not strategy setters 15:38 Do agents help create defensibility? 20:06 OpenClaw and the "Desktop Linux" moment for AI 25:52 Why "everyone will build their own software" is completely wrong 28:09 Improvised software vs. institutionalized software 29:23 Why there will be more software, not less 36:15 Are we heading toward value destruction before value creation? 38:03 Circular revenue, leverage, and AI bubble dynamics 38:53 Big Tech's Trillion-Dollar CapEx Crisis & Financial Gravity 45:23 Why AI job exposure charts can be misleading 52:15 How Fortune 500 Execs are actually deploying AI today 56:45 The White Space: What this means for founders and investors

@fromedome There were a number of folks. Bob Bejan was the leader of the MSN properties like Sidewalk I believe. Windows had a design leader and Office. There was a corporate team that led a collaboration of much of the graphic design across everything.

@stevesi Who was MSFT's creative director / agency during those years? Even I, a rabid Mac dork, enjoyed this aesthetic, and thought IE looked way better than Netscape for a while there.

@abhijitathavale Singles, Disclosure, Sleepless In Seattle. It all started with Elvis Worlds Fair. And one of the best “McQ” with John Wayne and an awesome car chase / tour through the city. 1974. youtu.be/M0P1yim4SPc

@stevesi Well, I think one could also watch Disclose. I think there are a few Seattle locales being used in that movie

The cost to replace the Interstate Bridge between Washington and Oregon increased ~ 140% from a 2022 estimate of $6 billion to a new "target" of $14.4 billion. How much of this cost is not related to actual construction and is instead fees of consultants and lawyers?

‘Your Frustration Is the Product’ @gruber @daringfireball // No matter how much you agree with this (I do) it is important to understand how long in the making this has been and how much the industry rallied around preventing consumer protections or defending the experience that should have been. When we built long forgotten Internet Explorer 7 we implemented a "DO NOT TRACK" feature primarily focused on the vast amount of surveillance that happens just visiting the home page of a typical site. Our example was always NYTIMES.COM. Yes it was "third party cookies" but it was also just the sheer number of tracking and network ad third party sites you visit every time you click a link. And all that followed you around. What was worse was how the privacy policies of companies just said something like "we are not responsible for third parties" but it was ALL THIRD PARTIES. And still is. Finally even worse than that was the sheer brazenness with which the ad industry DC-based trade group went after us for proposing this feature. It was viewed as monopolistic -- given our market share of browsing (which was about to tank completely). All we wanted was accountability for the third party connections a site made. All companies needed to do was only use URLs matching their own domain. Absolutely no one thought they should, could, or would do that. That would "break the web" we were told. As if what they were doing wasn't breaking the web. I tell this story in "Hardcore Software" here (excerpt below) …rdcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/p/094-first-pu…

@bxlewi1 Screen savers dealing with arbitrary graphics files for a long time were at the mercy of video drivers and codecs.

Literally reading this 'what you need to do to log back into your computer' message from Hyperland makes irrationally angry. @stevesi what kind of validation is in the windows lock screen to ensure that it doesn't make a user hard reboot their computer?

California is no longer the number 1 state for new people moving into Idaho The number 1 state that people are fleeing from and moving to Idaho is now Washington State California is second Americans are fleeing Democrat states

King County to weigh 0.1% sales tax hike for roads as transportation funding crisis grows: komonews.com/news/local/kin…

oops lost all my tabs.

@stevemur There is not a single restroom you can use downtown.

Here in a Starbucks in the Lake Tahoe region of Nevada -- tables, chairs, comfortable seating, fireplace... just like the Seattle Starbucks of old. I can't recall a single Starbucks in Seattle proper that still has soft seating or restrooms without combination locks. It's amazing how Progressives have not only inflated everything, but eroded formerly high-trust spaces. I know it can get tiring to read someone ranting on about it all... But wow, such incredible destruction of everyday trust and norms. It doesn't have to be this way. Voters let it be so, and some even seem to like the destruction.