Great, thoughtful thread on this. Read the whole thing; this post is from the middle of the thread.
Follow the money, congressional Democrats.
This is what happens when the executive branch is a kleptocracy.
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"they did seem to suggest that it was related to the installation of new technology in an antiquated system which caused older routers to be “overloaded with data” and fail."
If this is true...
C'mon guys. This is a *basic* distributed systems design problem. I deal with it at work every day. This is table stakes to do this kind of work. If you're not considering this, you have no business doing this work.
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just to be clear: I'm not a full-on AI doomer. I use it a lot in my work and it has made me VERY much more productive (but is not without it's MANY issues, and especially the climate impact and intellectual theft).
But I want to make my own choice whether to use it or not.
I do not at all like it being forced down our throats at every turn.
And ESPECIALLY in mission-critical systems like this. If this is true, this is gross negligence and heads should roll. Leadership heads.
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Aha. So yeah, sounds like maybe side-effect from the AI work.
INCREDIBLY stupid if true. Maybe this will slow down this pell-mell rush to AI:
Mullin appears to suggest older technology used by FAA was overwhelmed with data from new equipment
Briefing reporters at the White House on Friday, Sean Duffy, the US transportation secretary, and Markwayne Mullin, the homeland security secretary, used the nationwide outage to press for more funding to overhaul the nation’s air-traffic-control system.
Both secretaries appeared to suggest that the cause of Friday’s outage was that older technology became overwhelmed with data after new technology was introduced. The FAA announced three days ago that a new air traffic management tool, known as Smart, was activated at all 22 air route traffic control centers in the US. -
So was this just an extortion job?
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“This is what the leadership of president Trump looks like,” Markwayne Mullin, the homeland security secretary just said at the start of a briefing on the crisis at US airports.
</quote>Yeah: things going to shit at breakneck speed.
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forgot to remind my nephew I'm basically vegetarian.
it was very nice of him to order + pay for dinner.
but that's a lot more meat than I've eaten in a VERY long time
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of course me and 100,000 other people are now trying to figure out how to get home if US air travel *is* actually toast
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Pardon my french, but Boston Logan is a shitshow right now. Apparently 30+ flights got diverted from NYC because of the storm. I guess they're busing people down but a lot of people are obviously opting to rent cars, given the line here at rentals right now.
And traffic looks gridlocked.
Woohoo.
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In today's nice-people news: fit some reason the flight attendant's phone wasn't reading my JetBlue card (which gives me 50% off inflight purchases) so she comped me my drink.
(A lot nicer than the other flight attendant who was a little snippy when it didn't work for the snack)
(And yes, I usually avoid in-flight purchases but sort of treating myself)
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omg I haven't been on a plane with this many empty seats in... years... decades even...
I moved and have a whole row to myself. #travel
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Okay, not going to get my hopes up yet but this doesn't seem like a very full fight. When I checked in there was an empty seat next to me, let's hope it stays that way.
(And now I bet I've jinxed it by tooting this)
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this email could've been a carrier pigeon
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omfg they're already playing Christmas music in SFO. 🤮 Maybe it's just this store.
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Aha, turns out they didn't delay the flight until we were already well on the road to SFO. So I don't feel like a klutz now. #travel
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Oops. Should have checked flight status before I left home. Boarding delayed 1.5 hours. Not a problem, I'd rather chill at the airport than scramble. #travel
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My friend's picking me up in an hour to give me a ride to the airport. I'm ready now! Go me! 🙌🏼🛫
(and yeah, despite frittering away some of yesterday when I should have been prepping)
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once again I had ALL DAY to get lots of stuff done that I need to get done and I frittered a lot of it away. 😆
It's a good thing I love myself and can give myself some slack on this.
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dang, accident on 101 or something? Traffic in our quaint little town is ridiculous right now (at least Petaluma Blvd N). Or was it just the veteran's day parade? Dunno...
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I should *not* be on mastodon right now. Much to do before rehearsal tonight and air travel tomorrow
bye! 👋
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oh and thanks to all here for your input on EVs/hybrids...
I bought a car!
Somewhat unexpectedly that it happened so fast.
I went to test drive a few last weekend but this was a very good deal and the numbers worked out.
I am SO happy with this car. 2027 Toyota Corolla, extremely basic model but that's all I need (and honestly even pretty basic new cars come with plenty bells & whistles).
And I love love LOVE when I finish a trip and it tells me I averaged 65.5 MPG 💚 💚 💚 💚
(I *am* having to get used to not having a hatchback of some form. This is the first sedan I've had in... decades...)
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we're mostly out of fire season and there's nothing on Watch Duty...
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whenever a military-ish aircraft flies low overhead (which is not that frequent around here) my default assumption is always "well, Trump and the right wing have decided to make their move with martial law"
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Here was the response from The Atlantic's customer support:
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Thank you for sharing this with us. I was able to locate the advertisement and have blocked their domain from reappearing. Could you please clear your cache to prevent it from appearing on your phone again.
Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks!
</quote>I'd say that's a decent enough response, but the bigger question is... why would that show up at all. Do they not give a sh*t ahead of time what the advertising feed shows to their readers without the magazine knowing?