US FAA groundstop is: 👀
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@rysiek, I want to select both options…
@rysiek Both the Pilot and the CoPilot are down
@rysiek "Cause not yet known: The reason for the ground stop was not immediately clear, but an FAA spokesperson said there is a communications problem impacting Air Route Traffic Control Centers, which handle flights going across the country."
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/11/13/us/live-news/flights-ground-stop-faa
@rysiek I don't know if it's Microsoft-related, but by the numbers, there's got to be *at least* one sysadmin in the country who just had a hell week because of Microsoft's outage and was looking forward to forgetting all about it on a long-planned, well-deserved beach vacation somewhere in the Caribbean this weekend.
@rysiek @rysiek No, #Microsoft fixed their issue.
@realcaseyrollins are you familiar with the terms "knock-on effects" and "unintended consequences"
@rysiek @rysiek Yes. If anything, I am ignorant of how the system works.
But the reason for the #Microsoft outage (essentially a server status API went down) seems unlikely to affect the #FAA. And a fed I know told me that it didn’t affect the federal version of #Office365, #DoD365, because they’re completely different systems
@realcaseyrollins where are you getting the "server status API went down" bit from.
@mattwebbdev @rysiek My first thought was more along the lines of, "alright, who let code slop into the mission critical systems?"
Capitalism! Making things shitty in the name of obscene profits for the ruling class.
@rysiek nah, Huang wants out 
FAA advisory on FAA website:
https://www.fly.faa.gov/adv/adv_otherdis?adv_date=11132026&advn=111
Or at least it should be there. System might be overloaded.
Yesterday:
FAA expands AI advice to manage air traffic congestion across entire US airspace
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/11/faa-expands-ai-advice-to-manage-air-traffic-congestion-across-entire-us-airspace/
> The US government has expanded the use of an AI tool for advising air traffic controllers to assist in managing air traffic across the entire national airspace system. Airline executives have voiced support for the rollout, but the US labor union representing air traffic controllers has said it was not involved in designing or testing the AI-driven system.
@rysiek is this AI in the LLM sense? Seems not like it, but probably at least partially a non-deterministic system https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/09/faa-tees-up-875m-ai-tool-to-help-manage-air-traffic-congestion/
Anyway, just leaving this here since conflating all types of AI happens all too quickly
@grob it's on them to communicate clearly about the system they deployed.
@rysiek definitely, I'm not trying to excuse them. If I understood the article correctly, there have been issues raised about the system behaving non-deterministic when it shouldn't. I can't judge whether this is true but it seems plausible, especially in the wake of the LLM mania. Just as it seems plausible the system was (gold-)rushed (scnr) these days. But at least imo the term "slop" would be misleading here and the term "AI" is nowadays too easily misunderstood and a catch-all.
RE: https://mstdn.social/@rysiek/117611305034079517
No clue if this is the reason for the ground stop but I'm definitely getting some strong dramatic foreshadowing vibes
"You're absolutely right to push back.
Wait, no I didn't mean off the gate!"
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3n27ypzrmx62v
> Q: There are thoughts that this could be an AI related issue---
> MARKWAYNE MULLIN: We call it SI, remember. You can't rule out anything at this point
@rysiek ground stop more like ground slop amirite
@rysiek The pilot in Copilot is down
@catsalad can't spell "Airplane!" without AI!
@rysiek @catsalad You're right, Michael - and thank you for pushing back hard on this. I absolutely should not have chosen this particular week to stop sniffing glue, as you have noted. Let's reset and look over what dates and times might actually work for both us, based on the various issues that you have brought to my attention.
@rysiek link doesn't work fyi, think the FAA advisories system is overloaded
@rysiek what's really weird about that now:
@rysiek It's visible here, though it requires a little wait for JavaScripting: https://www.fly.faa.gov/ois/?legacy=true
@rysiek groundslop ^^"