Sunday, December 10
Daily News Stuff 10 December 2023
Migraines R Us Edition
Migraines R Us Edition
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- EU member states - led by Bookburner General Thierry Breton - have agreed to landmark AI regulations that fine foreign companies 7% of annual revenues. (Ars Technica)
So nothing has changed in the EU.
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- The story of how Qantas flight 32 from London to Sydney did not end in a fiery crash and the deaths of all 469 passengers and crew. (Medium)
Though it came uncomfortable close to that. What started with an oil leak escalated in the course of a single minute to an engine exploding with such violence that a piece of the turbine demolished a brick wall on the ground 7000 feet below.
I deal with failure cascades like this at my day job, but the worst I have to worry about is angry customers, not dead ones.
- A Harvard "disinformation researcher", and one of the lead "journalists" covering the "Facebook Papers" "leaked" by "whistleblower" Frances Haugen has accused the university of buckling to Facebook's half a billion dollar donation and canning her ugly, worthless, XXXXL arse. (Columbia Journalism Review)
To unpack that a little:
Disinformation researchers are book burners.
Journalists are increasingly also book burners.
The Facebook Papers were a political hit job.
Frances Haugen was a paid assassin who wasn't very good at her work.
So all in all it's a feel good story except for the bit where Harvard got to keep the money.
- The number of "significant" air traffic control incidents in the US fiscal 2023 increased by 65% over the same period on 2022. (New York Times) (archive site)
That's probably not good.
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