Coming to you live

Published 5:14 pm Thursday, December 3, 2015

We now join your friend’s teeth cleaning in progress: Facebook is testing a new feature that will allow users to post live video from their smartphones to their Facebook feeds so friends can watch as it happens.

We haven’t even put a dent in our Netflix queues, and now we have to set aside time to watch live feeds of steam rising from lattes and kittens on the verge of doing something cute.

Are they interested in KPLU? Seattle public television station KCTS-TV, Channel 9, is merging with nonprofit regional news website Crosscut to provide content on the web and for broadcast.

The merger also means more options for pledge premiums during the next PBS membership drive: Your choice of a Knute Berger Mossback totebag or bobblehead doll.

Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1783, Gen. George Washington bade farewell to his Continental Army officers at Fraunces Tavern in New York.

By the time his officers realized he had left them with the bill, Washington was two towns away.

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