who is behind this push to spread the misinformation that vaccinations are harmful?
RFK Jr,, the Trump administration and conservative protestants.
Most of whom are (probably) fully vaccinated, and many of whom (probably) make money off of their fear mongering.
Forgot... and (probably) also score political points and power off their fear mongering.
who is behind this push to spread the misinformation that vaccinations are harmful?
RFK Jr,, the Trump administration and conservative protestants.
Most of whom are (probably) fully vaccinated, and many of whom (probably) make money off of their fear mongering.
Trump wasn't flying that day, so why should he care.
More so, why would he acknowledge a massive failure that happened on his watch.
Duffy complained that Democrats, former presidential administrations and previous sessions of Congress are to blame, ignoring the fact that Republicans have controlled Congress for 2+ years, the White House for 2 years and that only one Senator, Eric Schmitt (R-MO), has signed on to the Modern Skies Act. Seems a little self-serving and disingenuous. Plus the FAA already got $30M in the BBB last year for modernization - though he now wants $50B more. Where's it all going and is it to the most qualified companies or just friends of the Administration?
Duffy's son-in-law's company got the contract for the FAA's AI tool after they'd made a 3 million donation, so of course Duffy has no reason to pull excuses out of his ass whatsoever...
Adding... The PAC associated with the contractor, who was awarded the SMART system, donated to the congressional campaign of U.S. Rep.-elect Michael Alfonso (R-WI), who is Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy's son-in-law. The contract it won was worth up to $875.9 million.
Google: FAA AI SMART Duffy son
Startup eyed over flight chaos funnels cash to Transportation chief's son-in-law
Air Space Intelligence INC PAC, which is associated with the contractor Duffy announced in June would develop the Federal Aviation Administration's new AI-powered air traffic management system, contributed to the congressional campaign of U.S. Rep.-elect Michael Alfonso (R-WI)
Nothing to see here; move along...
The records we received revealed that WISeR has resulted in widespread delays and denials of care, operational chaos, and reports of patient harm.
Surely AI - I mean, Super Intelligence (SI) - can figure out, what insurance executives have long known, that it's more cost effective (profitable) to deny care and let people die. Of course, this won't immediately affect rich people, who can self-pay, until all the poorer people who were doing things things for them are gone.
Skynet will run the numbers and determine that a Judgement Decade (or so) is cheaper and easier than a Judgement Day.
I think the denizens of Silicon Valley very much care. They see this scandal as threatening to take away their cookie jar.
Sure, but they're probably not "everyday people" like those mentioned in the sock puppet campaign - a chef, a stock trader, a Hebrew teacher and several environmental activists.
On Saturday morning at their press conference (11am EST ish) the Transportation Secretary and FAA Administrators were blaming a routine remote site network upgrade (from copper to fiber) for the system instability.
I posted this elsewhere, but it's worth noting again.
Who does an IT infrastructure update/upgrade in the middle of a weekday, especially on an apparently critical piece?
L3Harris has a long history of various contracting and implementation anomalies. As a large government contractor, with lots of moving parts and lots of contracts, that is not, itself, too surprising. However Duffy seems to be throwing them under the bus before the full facts in this case are known. That always raises an eyebrow or two.
Also, who does an IT infrastructure update/upgrade in the middle of a weekday, especially on an apparently critical piece?
If the system is designed so that a couple of routers in one spot can make it necessary to ground everything, the design is bad. Saying they need $50B stat is wild when it clearly wasn't done right the first time with however much was spent so far.
Networks are designed to route around damage but can't route around this Administration.
Yes. The problem is that they called it AI, while it should have been called SI.
You joke, but in a press brief about the ground stop, DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin corrected a reporter who asked about AI:
Markwayne Mullin Chides Reporter Amid FAA Ground Stoppage Chaos: ‘We Call it SI’
“There are thoughts that, you know, this could be an AI related error or issue,” the reporter asked Mullin.
“We call it SI around here remember. SI,” he said, before adding, “You just can’t rule out anything at this point. We’re going through that process and we’re going to find out what happened.”
These renaming things are so pointless/stupid.
Joining the chorus online were voices of seemingly everyday people: a chef, a stock trader, a Hebrew teacher and several environmental activists. But at least 400 of them were fake,
Yup, 'cause scores of "everyday people" care about Nvidia or, more specifically, billionaire CEO Jensen Huang, (or, more generally, billionaires) so let's try to fake that. So stupid.
Like other documented influence campaigns, the posts appeared to have limited reach; the most-viewed tweet garnered about 8,000 views and 32 likes.
Whew, good. Guess people aren't that gullible.
Still, some of the posts targeted lawmakers,
Uh oh.
I saw a bit of the briefing and Duffy talked a bunch about Congress needing to appropriate them more money so "Trump can build" a more modern network, before he leaves office, 'cause the current system is old and this is a "National Security issue" (sound familiar), etc. He's not wrong about some of that, but
I am reading this. He must have been a good boss.
Or they all just want a chance to sleep with him, as their boss, too.
The straightforward solution is for the UPS manufacturers to jitter the test time and it becomes a total non-issue.
From TFA:
Fortunately, the solution may be relatively straightforward, at least for big batteries and backup systems. Rather than having thousands of devices perform the same task at the same moment, manufacturers could introduce small variations into their software schedules, preventing the minutely pile-up.
Indeed, they have already contacted the manufacturer of one of the systems they identified, and the company issued a software update that relaxed the strict periodicity of its system checks.
Okaloosa County in Florida eventually stepped in to purchase the ship and bring it to the Gulf of Mexico
Good for you, now let's re-check your federal funding and access to the White House Press Pool
RAM wasn't built in a day.
