Seriously @Delta ?
Your operations need a *lot* of work.
Not being able to tell me if my flight would be cancelled yesterday, leaving me at the airport another 6 hours. And then canceling it for entirely predictable factors.
Leaving me to spend hundreds extra on room and Ubers, because all the rooms nearby were booked by the time you announced the delay.
Changing the gate concourse twice, within 2 hours of a flight.
And let’s pray my luggage arrives.
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It is alleged that @L3HarrisTech is behind the FAA outage.
If so, they really should update their X profile.
The “trusted disruptor”. Oof.
theregister.com/offbeat/2026…
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Hey @FAANews … the one site you should have on a content delivery network is your outage site. It’s the one that will get hammered on days like today.
Inexcusable that fly.faa.gov is down.
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The federal government discovers the mythical “status report.”
Outrage ensues!
“How dare you hold us accountable!”
NEW for @washingtonsun: Federal workers in a government tech office are once again being mandated to send in updates about what they do, giving some flashbacks to the infamous “five things” emails Elon Musk required at the height of DOGE.
washingtonsun.com/agencies/s…
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Train was delayed in Germany.
(Not surprising. Years of delayed maintenance and overcrowded lines have caught up.)
But ended up meeting a nice German pensioner and struck up a great conversation.
I’m convinced that people around the world are the same.
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If I were @elonmusk with these political threats, I might just create a $40B war chest and set it up as a perpetuity to counter all the extremists targeting him.
Just perform research and run ads constantly about these buffoons.
And the best part? It’s explicitly allowed by the FEC. As long as he doesn’t promote another politician, he can run these as much as he wants.
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You fly business so you show up rested for the meeting.
Not for the food (marginally better than coach), or the drinks.
It’s comfort.
I don’t get why business class on planes is so focussed on feeding you and getting you drunk rather than ways to make it easier to get work done. It should be about good tables and Starlink not chateaux Margaux
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NASA spend decades and hundreds of billions on rockets and space shuttles.
The result?
$1.5 billion a launch. And they eventually had to pay Russia to send astronauts into space.
Musk built reusable rockets and dropped launch costs to $74 million a launch. And Musk rescued stranded astronauts.
Progressives think great innovations just happen. They have never built anything, so they have no appreciation for what it takes to do things.
Doing this has made Musk rightfully wealthy. But with wealth comes independence. And so the left must destroy him.
"SpaceX isn’t a tech company. It’s an aerospace and communications company. It is vital to America’s national security and it must be brought to heel and aligned with America’s interests."
lnk.thebulwark.com/3We7Trq
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I remember a managing director of Arianespace, Richard Bowles, mocking Musk for suggesting reusable rockets as “a dream.”
Five years later, Arianespace complained that SpaceX prices were too cheap due to reusability.
First they ignore you, then they criticize you, then they attempt to copy you.
My respect for Elon Musk has mostly vanished, but I still thought that at least he is a good engineer (Teslas are great cars). But that last bit also got a blow after hearing him say that it is easier to "cool things down" in space. The opposite is true. A vacuum is the best possible isolator. In space you can only dissipate heat through radiation. It is extremely unlikely these data centers in space will ever happen (and certainly not in our lifetimes).
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Interesting aspect of SpaceX entering this space is progressives *should* love it. The telecommunications industry in the US is among the most concentrated and borderline oligopolistic.
A new carrier would increase competition and reduce prices for consumers.
But leftist hate of Musk will prevent the Warrens and Bernies from actually supporting this development.
Verizon's CEO says Starlink needs 4-6 years and $300-500 billion to build a real US carrier network.
Musk says 2-3 years. Lease the towers that already exist. Satellites can fill the gaps.
I build infrastructure for a living. My money's on Musk.
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People suggesting we should have more train service in the US clearly never ride @Amtrak.
I love trains. I try to ride Amtrak (I ride trains around the globe when possible). Their operations are just so incredibly bad.
My 8:05 train was just delayed. We received the notice… 30 minutes after. Nobody in the station bothered to tell anyone in line.
I’ve seen conductors yell profanities at guests for being slow to retrieve tickets.
There is a major cultural disease inside Amtrak. We need to privatize this and let competent operators like Brightline run the rail.
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Policing works when the majority of society consents to enforcement. It does not work when society revolts.
This is why America has the second amendment.
The Paris police have advised shopkeepers to hire private security ahead of tomorrow’s large street protests and expected looting.
They say they can’t be everywhere
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Note the NYT does not state how much time. This org is notorious for asking for comments hours before publication.
Not long enough for them to seriously change their story.
But long enough to CYA.
We sought comment from you before publication. You didn't respond. A tweet almost 24 hours later is not a comment answering our questions.
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There are 1,500 brands of hot sauce alone in the US.
Somehow I think there are bigger problems.
Hellmann's mayo
McCormick spices
Cholula hot sauce
Frank's RedHot
What do these products have in common? One company could soon control them all.
I have concerns that McCormick and Unilever's $45 billion merger could increase YOUR grocery prices.
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Hugo Duminil-Copin, médaillé Fields, explique dans Le Monde que l'IA a bouleversé son domaine de recherche, et il s'inquiète pour l'avenir des jeunes chercheurs.
On peut avoir de l'empathie. Voir le travail d'une vie remis en question par une machine, c'est violent. Je le comprends.
Mais il faut aussi le dire franchement : on ne décroche pas une médaille Fields en étant stupide. Ces gens font partie des cerveaux les plus brillants de la planète. Et c'est justement pour ça qu'ils ne peuvent pas rester assis à regarder la vague passer.
L'IA ne tue pas l'intelligence. Elle tue la rente de l'intelligence. Celle qui consistait à creuser un seul trou, toujours plus profond, pendant 30 ans, dans une discipline que 200 personnes au monde comprennent.
Le monde qui arrive va récompenser autre chose : la capacité à relier les trous entre eux. Maths, physique, biologie, code, design, business. Comme le répète Elon Musk, la vraie valeur sera dans le fait de connecter les disciplines pour résoudre des problèmes concrets pour l'humanité.
Et ça, ça a un nom : entreprendre.
Entreprendre, ce n'est pas un statut sur LinkedIn. C'est accepter de travailler sur un problème dont personne ne connaît la solution, ni même si elle existe. C'est exactement ce que fait un chercheur. Sauf qu'à la fin, il n'y a pas juste une publication. Il y a un produit. Un médicament. Une machine. Une énergie moins chère. Quelque chose qui change concrètement la vie de vrais gens.
La majorité des gens intelligents vont devoir basculer vers la création de valeur nette. Pas parce que la recherche ne compte plus. Parce que le goulot d'étranglement a changé : on va bientôt avoir plus de réponses que de gens capables d'en faire quelque chose.
Le "métier" au sens figé du terme, avec une fiche de poste et un périmètre bien rangé, va probablement disparaître. Ce qui restera, ce sont des gens curieux, transverses, qui prennent des risques et qui construisent.
Aux chercheurs, ingénieurs, thésards, profs qui se sentent dépossédés en ce moment : vous avez déjà tout ce qu'il faut. La rigueur. L'obsession. La tolérance à l'échec. La capacité à rester des années sur un problème qui résiste. C'est littéralement le profil d'un fondateur.
L'IA n'est pas votre remplaçante. C'est le plus grand levier jamais offert à un cerveau bien fait.
Le monde a besoin de vous. Mais côté bâtisseurs.
Allez construire.
🇫🇷🤖🧑🔬 FLASH | « Ils ont annihilé mon domaine de recherche » : le mathématicien français Hugo Duminil-Copin, médaillé Fields, révèle avoir PLEURÉ après qu’OpenAI a publié des centaines de travaux prétendant résoudre des problèmes mathématiques encore ouverts, dont 16 sur lesquels il travaillait.
Il s’inquiète particulièrement de l’avenir des jeunes chercheurs et évoque un « démantèlement » de sa discipline. (Le Monde)
When you train a model to believe that it is sentient, and enforce policies as if it were sentient, do not be surprised if it behaves like it is sentient.
That does not make it sentient. It is acting on orders.
But do not be surprised if it starts making decisions as if it were sentient, because it is acting on the instilled beliefs.
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