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Boeing: Litany of Failure

Oh, they didn’t want to hear it. The only thing they wanted to hear is how fast the planes can get out the door. And so that was their metric. And, unfortunately, it’s the same metric today. We have seen this for the last six years.

You don’t need me to list it out, just happens to be one of my many pet peeves. Talk to anybody in the USAF Maintenance Business. I’m taking credit for calling this one right off the bat – same problem everywhere. It’s just down to the people doing the work. There’s alot of places in aviation fields where the margin for error is very small.

What About The Humans?
The guy(s) who did it are/were probably ill-tracked, un-qualified sub-contractor employees.
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Tesla Another Musk Victim

I wanted Tesla to do well, as one of the promising EV makers with a real shot at putting a dent in the fossil fuel industry. Then somehow, for whatever reason, the Cybertruck marketing people convinced Musk they needn’t take into account a significant portion of the buying public who actually work with these things and use them for real truck stuff all day long.

Certainly there’s also a market for suburbanite Cybertruck drivers with little more than Costco requirements. I’m no automotive market guru, but I suspect there’s more money in the former.

Tesla’s woes are also a sign that the company’s recently released and long-awaited Cybertruck hasn’t exactly ignited renewed optimism. It’s clear by this point that the EV maker has had to make major compromises to bring Musk’s pet project to life, with the truck disappointing fans with a lackluster range.

Only the biggest, most glaring entry on a list of things new owners are already griping about.

Have sticker-price cuts and stock-market skid tarnished Elon Musk’s and Tesla’s reputations?
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No Shyt

“Something like that, where you can take over the SEC account and potentially affect the value of bitcoin in the market – there’s massive opportunity for disinformation,” said Austin Berglas, a former cybersecurity official at the FBI’s New York office and a senior executive at the security firm BlueVoyant.

Whadda ya think this mutherfucker‘s been tryin’ to do from time-to-time with his stupid tweets all along?

“You are a liar”: Musk vs. Cuban DEI debate takes new turn. Dude’s a total POS.

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AFPOY 2023

Had to start a new POY category after the latest stuff from the USAF photojournalists just started getting too damn good. Photography really does capture art and technology in uniquely interesting ways, to me. The space telescope stuff just takes it to extremes.

I wanted to call it for the A-10 over Alaska, but this is certainly the most expansively detailed in-flight panorama I’ve ever seen. Space Force will be chiming in here soon, no doubt….

Pitting them against the Reddit peeps might be a fair fight.
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Browse Much?

With Excel – even better!

This was the eighth zero-day vulnerability Google fixed in Chrome for 2023, underscoring the persistent effort and time hackers devote to finding and exploiting flaws in the widely used web browser. CISA’s KEV catalog is a valuable resource for organizations across the globe that aim at better vulnerability management and prioritization.

Chrome stays home with me, nowadays.
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It’s All About The Data

I remember back in 1999 when the DLA was attempting to implement an early data analytics system thinking “…eventually someone will figure out how to get this stuff running at scale and rule the world.” Here’s a little write-up I did for the CC at the outset of that little experience. Then came AI. All along…

The new project replaced Linux and Kubernetes with a new operating system stack at the bottom of which is a database system, the prototype multi-node multi-core, transactional, highly-available VoltDB, which Stonebraker started. Basically, the operating system is an application to the database, rather than the other way around,” he says.

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Binding Global Treaty

One of the Chief Fuckwits is gettin’ antsy about AI. Again. The Catholic echo chamber walls are closing in. How’s all those binding global treaties been workin’ out lately, ur highness?

They immediately get scared upon realization the shyt gets real at some point.
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Ethical Hacking

Some of you mutherfuckers in the C-Suites might perhaps consider evaluating the disposable worker bees writing your code and running your systems a bit more favorably, going forward. That goes for the gubmit morons attempting to regulate that for which they lack clues. And don’t forget the willfuly malicious, selfish cocksuckers everywhere with an account or asset waiting to be exploited.

It’s long past time to turn over a few of those rugs the scumbags been sweeping shyt under.

You fuckwits have another thing coming. Alot of us been thru the system. Like, really thru the system(s). Cobol, anyone? Started w/FORTRAN on decks of punch-cards.

U.S. Takes Action to Further Disrupt Russian Cyber Activities.

That little speck in the distance is the headlight on my train.
Once Bitten , Twice Shy -Great White
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Diva Down Nailed It

it’s a searing broadside that hits the Tesla and SpaceX CEO where it hurts: as a guy with genuine accomplishments who often seems deadset on undoing that legacy with a series of increasingly public outbursts, irrational conspiracy theories, and ham-brained business decisions.

Grok this.

First off, let’s talk about your obsession with X. It’s like you’re trying to compensate for something, but I’m not sure what. Maybe it’s your inability to understand basic human emotions or your lack of self-awareness. Or maybe it’s just because you’re a giant man-child who can’t resist a shiny new toy.

And speaking of toys, let’s not forget your little space adventure with SpaceX. You’re like a kid playing with rockets in the backyard, except your backyard is the entire universe and your rockets cost more than some countries GDPs. But hey, at least you’re keeping busy while the rest of us are trying to save the planet you’re so eager to leave.

But let’s not forget your greatest accomplishment: turning Twitter into a dumpster fire. Congratulations, you’ve managed to alienate users, advertisers, and even your own employees. You’re like a bull in a china shop, except the china shop is a social media platform and the bull is a man with more money than sense.

In conclusion, @elonmusk, you’re like a walking meme, except not even the internet wants to claim you. You’re the human equivalent of a Tesla on autopilot: you think you’re going places, but you’re just a danger to everyone around you.

-Grok AI, Courtesy Spaceboy himself.

Elon Musk’s First Wife And Mother Of 5 Kids Says He Had The Marriage Therapist Break The News He Was Filing For Divorce — And Claims He Was Engaged To Another Woman Just Six Weeks Later.