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Hello, world. I've been offline for a few hours, can I just get this straight ...
FAA announces yesterday, 'bout the same time Microsoft shit the bed, that they were going live with new "AI" infrastructure for air traffic control?
FAA this past... what, hour? Has issued a FULL NATIONAL GROUND STOP for any and all US airport departures?
Have we realized yet that half a dozen techoligarchies that have been huffing their own farts for years are not actually fit to govern global infrastructure?
As an op against democracy, the fossil fuel industry's AI funding has outdone itself.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/05/13/trump-tech-execs-riyadh/
https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366649170/Microsoft-sets-November-launch-for-Saudi-cloud-region
https://houseofsaud.com/humain-infra-sar-2-5-billion-ai-financing/
https://www.desmog.com/2025/12/11/the-koch-network-is-pushing-trump-to-accelerate-ai-documents-show/
https://datacentremagazine.com/news/when-will-microsoft-saudi-data-centre-region-go-live
@johannab they wont. they get bonuses and kickbacks. they dont care about the consequences
Oh, and then this, too?
https://mstdn-social.com/@fishcharlie/117611427802807067
Kinda wondering if my event tonight will have drink tickets or if I should stop at a bar on the way there. It's very hard to orient myself to an agenda at a technology-related conference when you know it's going to get wiped clean for a whole new topic before the next coffee break concludes.
@johannab either these guys are incompetent or are getting really close to living out their apocalypse fantasies, or both i guess