EWR Departure Nikon SP, Nikkor-P 8.5cm f/2 Svema FN64, 510-Pyro #filmphotography #35mm

little-flying-robots.ghost.io/rejecting-re... We live in an age where the Internet and LLMs are encouraging ever more people to reject reality entirely. Here's my thoughts on why this is happening, and why the Terminally Online turn amongst the powerful is so dangerous.

Has anyone posted this yet

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Spend 15 minutes fighting traffic to get to the gym then spend 15 minutes fighting traffic to get a sandwich then spend 15 minutes fighting traffic to shop for groceries then spend 45 minutes idling in the traffic jam outside your kids’ elementary school and then the neighbor mows his lawn at 9pm

This is by far the best article about the DCA mid-air and the systemic issues in that airspace that I have read to date: theaircurrent.com/aviation-saf...

Always wanted to fly airplanes when I was a kid, but the adults in my life told me you need perfect vision, which isn’t true. Then 9/11 happened. Then 2008 happened. Then Covid happened. Still managed to make it to the cockpit of a jet after all

it's insanely funny for people to be talking like this about New York of all places, the city with a big metal lady in the harbor holding a sign that says "we love immigrants"

This reads less like a plan and more like a velvet rope blocking off areas the donors paid them not to step into

Whoops, looks like a Swiss A330 is trapped on a closed runway in BOS

It’s like the trolley problem, except in this case on one track there’s your own life and four random billionaires, and on the other there are zero people but if you pull the lever your company ceases to exist and everyone’s mad at you

To hell with doritos and medieval peasants, this is a sentence that should vaporize anyone under the age of 40

An interesting range of interpretations here but what jumps out at me most is that sharp economic downturns seem to be associated, with some lag, with the far-right cannibalizing the center-right and thereby threatening democratic systems. Some implications, perhaps, for democratic system design.

Gutted at the news that Kaleb Horton is gone. Kaleb was a brilliant writer, of course, but he was also a gifted photographer. Years ago I encouraged him to sell his pieces. His work was so good, I told him, and people should see it. Here are some of his beautiful shots.

Death Shinkansen For Cutie

The Shipping Forecast issued by the Met Office at 1500 on Tuesday the 9th of September—

not quite yet

The song "Funiculì, Funiculà" was written in 1880 to advertise the new funicular railway at Vesuvius. Less than a decade later, Richard Strauss used the tune in a symphony assuming it was a traditional folk song, only to be sued by the very much living composer

I think this is why aviation is shockingly resistant to the Silicon Valley playbook of creating an illegal service, offloading the liability onto workers, and becoming entrenched before regulators catch on. Of course, someone tried in 2019 but the FAA stomped on them before anyone got Buddy Holly’d

Right, so all we need is to harvest ~50 million solar masses, transport it all to the solar system, somehow transmute 99.7% of it into carbon, and then invent faster-than-light communication to run it all. Only then will we know for certain how many R’s are in the word “strawberry”

“Should I fill my Emu with 20w50 full synthetic?” - the greatest thread in the history of car forums, locked by a moderator after 12239 pages of heated debate

Slightly diminish a band: Duchesses of the Chalcolithic

Shade saves lives. But America has devalued it and destroyed it, both to make space for parking lots and make blocks easier to surveil. Sam Bloch outlines the deadly consequences of such policy in “Shade: The Promise of a Forgotten Natural Resource.”

Same reason we don’t have thousands of flying cars crisscrossing San Francisco Bay despite the promises of Silicon Valley and the proliferation of drones. You’re trying to replace helicopter pilots with a machine whose operation also requires the knowledge and expertise of a helicopter pilot

I have eaten the database that was in production on which you were probably saving business data Forgive me it was delicious so frozen and so authentic

This is the perfect description of Spanky’s Clam Shack in Hyannis

amtrak’s marketing team gets it

this is a good time to remember that conservatives only ever want to be in more left leaning spaces to get reactions out of people, if enough people block them they’ll get bored and leave

Had the privilege of writing about one of my favorite bands, mewithoutYou, on the 10th anniversary of their album Pale Horses for @stereogum.bsky.social www.stereogum.com/2311888/mewi...

From founder and ED Mike: Today is the 3rd anniversary of our first official flight, and we have also hit 2500 passengers flown. When I was getting the organization launched, I never imagined how much it would accomplish in such a short time, supporting abortion and gender-affirming care

Add a letter, ruin a movie Paul Blart Small Cop

This would be nothing short of CATACLYSMIC. I do not put this lightly… Not just NOAA websites, but it will severely affect NWS warning systems, MRMS radar data accessibility, model data accessibility, and more, for services provided by AWS and Google Cloud Platform. Scientific growth will be hurt.

Beginning to realize that some people got their wires crossed on the trans people/collapse thing. we were accused of being a bad omen, but really what actually destroys civilizations is fucking with us. leave the dolls alone and we’d have luxury automated space communism by October ‘27

watch tom scott smoke a vape and instantly

Another way the dictatorship might kill you. This is from a friend who is a retired air traffic controller.

A navigator on large merchant ships told me this morning that the NOAA solar position calendar he regularly uses to compare against his compass is now down. Musk is putting shipping at risk. gml.noaa.gov/grad/solcalc...

Move fast and break things is not the motto you want to adopt at a regulatory system that, as challenged as it may seem at times, is extremely functional.

i wasn’t even being hyperbolic

Every day, this President tells us what kind of person he is. Today, it was in relation to aviation

➡️ January 20: FAA director fired ➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen ➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded ➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees ➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years Making America Great Again!

This is 100% the case in aviation. This career path runs in family lines, and there simply aren’t enough white male third generation pilots to staff the airlines unless you scrape the bottom of the barrel. Either we embrace DEI or we hire Brayden, son of an airline captain with four checkride busts

leaving the cruelty aside for just a minute it's absolutely humiliating to imagine being my age or older and getting excited because you think you've been given permission to say a bad word. what are you gonna do next, ride your tricycle past the end of the block

Protect your energy for the things that matter to you. It’s not going to be easy to do the work needed for the coming years, but it won’t be as hard if we stay in it together #abortion #transrights #reproductivejustice

alright you wanna know how to support trans people? hire them. It's REALLY hard already for visibly trans people to get jobs, even before this shit. Support places that have trans people working front of house, and make sure owners know that's part of why you're there.

Look, I know every single generation says the music was better when they were 18-22, but I miss when you could pay $15 and see a band you know at a ratty college bar. I think we lost something intangible but significant when it became too expensive for small bands to go on tour.

after days of grifters and con men at CES we stumbled upon the booth for VLC. they were all dressed as wizards and told us, "we have nothing to sell, we just decided to show up". i told them I'd been using their software to pirate media for 15 years and they said "keep doing that"

wrote about the demons (ie how being a writer is only going to get worse and how terrified I am) open.substack.com/pub/thelater...