Tanker into a cruise ship on Mississippi river. Fucked up day.
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Don't forget the National Weather Service (website?) now too...
Edit: seems that NWS denies there was an issue, but says that there was incorrect information stating that on their website? Confusing. https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-national-weather-service-reports-nationwide-internet-communications-issues-2026-11-13/
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Rule 1. of The World is Fucked Club: Never blame AI, technology or the priestly class of technocrats and capitalist shareholders. Worship Mammon and the Machine. Blame the people, devs, or the intern, or whatever.
A cultural shift of not properly reviewing and QAing software that has coincided with the AI boom is the real cause. People are just trusting these automated systems to get it right and they are failing time and time again.
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I think we had big outrages before too, I myself caused a outrage of golf.se in 2007 because I ran a cross product SQL query on the production database as a test.
The difference to me seems to be that before AI people understood the systems and were able to fix it within minutes, today people don't understand them because they didn't make them so it takes at least hours or even days to make the AI to fix it.
That does seem quite possible. Between those and the NVIDA cloak-and-dagger executive shake-up, the AI bubble seems to be collapsing from all sides.
What is this about old "analog" multiplexers they were saying? Are they still runing on T1 in 2026?
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They'll never admit it. They'll probably just blame India (that's what I would do).
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