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@aakashgupta TL;DR

The air traffic controller cleared the fire truck onto the runway. Seconds later, the same controller screamed “stop, stop, stop.” The plane was doing 93 to 105 mph. Both pilots are dead. Everyone will frame this as controller error. One controller was simultaneously managing a United flight that aborted takeoff after an anti-ice warning, dispatching a fire truck across an active runway, and sequencing an inbound Air Canada landing at highway speed. At 11:40 PM. On a mandatory overtime shift at a facility that has been understaffed for years. A system that assigns one person that workload will produce exactly this outcome. The only variable is when. The FAA is short approximately 3,000 controllers. The headcount dropped 13% from 2010 to 2024 while flight volume rose 10%. Over 40% of the FAA’s 290 terminal facilities are understaffed. The New York TRACON, which manages the most congested airspace in America across LaGuardia, JFK, and Newark, has been chronically below target. Newark was operating at 59% of its staffing goal. LaGuardia handles 900 flights a day. The hiring pipeline is broken at every stage. Only 2% of applicants complete the full process. Training takes up to 6 years. The FAA Academy in Oklahoma City is a bottleneck, with roughly 35% of trainees washing out. Congress blocked legislation to build a second academy. In one recent hiring cycle, the FAA brought on 1,512 candidates and lost 1,300 in the same window. Net gain: around 160 controllers for an entire country. Three things need to happen and everyone who can make them happen has known for years. Congress needs to fund and authorize a second FAA training academy. One facility in Oklahoma City cannot produce enough controllers for 900 million annual passengers. Members of Congress from Oklahoma have actively blocked this. That needs to end yesterday. The FAA needs to cut certification time. Six years from application to fully certified controller is absurd. The agency’s own data shows tower simulators reduce certification time by 27%. They’ve installed them at 95 facilities. That should be every facility, and the simulated hours should count toward more of the certification requirement. The FAA needs to stop plugging staffing gaps with mandatory overtime. Controllers at understaffed facilities are working six-day weeks rotating between morning, mid, and night shifts. The NTSB has flagged fatigue repeatedly. The controller last night was managing overlapping emergencies during a nighttime operation. Overtime is not a staffing plan. It’s a countdown to the next runway collision. The controller said “I messed up” to a Frontier pilot who watched the whole thing. The pilot responded “No man, you did the best you could.” One of them is right. The answer determines whether this happens again.

@Esoteric_Though @TMT_arabic This is X. The home of disingenuous.

@TMT_arabic It's a bit disingenuous to say this is "technology we have never seen before." In a literal sense, yes we have not seen Iranians use missiles that perform terminal maneuvers. In common parlance, terminal maneuvers are widespread technology.

A missile dogfight: An Iranian ballistic missile approached its target, seemingly adjusting its trajectory to come from behind the Israeli interceptor, overtaking it, and ascending toward the expected impact point. ​The ballistic missile then deceived the interceptor, diving sharply and passing right in front of it toward its target. ​Technology we have never seen before.

@DesireeAmerica4 I’m 67, in great health. So it’s pretty likely I’ll live well past the average. Holding until 70 not only for me, but for when my younger wife turns 67.

The biggest gamble of your life? Social Security. ​The system tells you to wait. Take it at 62: $1,800/mo. Wait till 70: $3,000/mo. ​Sounds like a no-brainer, right? Run the math. To actually profit from waiting, you have to live past 82. The average US life expectancy? 79. ​With the garbage in our food and the stress we carry today, making it to 82 is a massive bet. ​Are you taking the money at 62 and running, or holding out for the bigger check?

@CuriosityonX Stale news. This has been known since Voyager 2's data analysis around 2019.

🚨: Voyager spacecraft discovers a 30,000-50,000 kelvin "Wall of Fire" at the edge of our Solar System

@cryptofergani Reminder: Gold isn’t backed by anything.

Let me get this straight… Gold is down -25% from its record high. Silver is down -50% from its record high. $15-18T was just wiped from Gold and Silver. That kind of money doesn't just vanish. It HAS to go somewhere… So… where did it go? I think we all know the answer… but no one is allowed to say it out loud…

@Beefeater_Fella Just for kicks, readers might be interested in the Progress M-34 flight. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progress_…

NASA reports malfunctions on the Russian "Progress" spacecraft. The spacecraft has entered orbit and is heading towards the ISS. The "Soyuz-2.1a" launch vehicle with the "Progress MS-33" cargo ship took off from the launch pad at Baikonur, where the service cabin was damaged during a launch in November last year. Today's launch was the first after the repair. The spacecraft delivers about three tons of food, fuel, and supplies to the orbital laboratory. According to NASA, after the launch, one of the two antennas of the "Kurs" automatic approach and docking system on the "Progress" spacecraft is not working. If the antenna cannot be deployed, astronaut Sergey Kud-Svirchkov will manually control the spacecraft for approach and docking. t.me/Crimeanwind/96…

@DrNeilStone Haber-Bosch process reportedly saved 2-4 billion.

Name a human invention that has saved more lives than vaccines

@shanaka86 "...where 300,000 autonomous collision-avoidance maneuvers were executed last year alone" Add to this all the orbit-keeping maneuvers.

Yesterday SpaceX launched 29 more Starlink satellites from Florida. Nobody cared. Routine. Another Tuesday. Here is what actually happened. Satellite number 10,074 entered an orbit where 300,000 autonomous collision-avoidance maneuvers were executed last year alone. Not by humans. By onboard machine learning that screens conjunction data from 30 million object-transit observations per day, computes probability in real time, and fires ion thrusters if risk exceeds one in a million. The industry standard is one in ten thousand. SpaceX set its threshold 1,000 times stricter and then automated the entire thing. Three hundred thousand maneuvers. That is 820 per day. Forty per satellite per year. Every single one decided and executed by AI faster than a ground controller could open the alert email. This is Tesla Full Self-Driving logic running in vacuum at 7.8 kilometers per second. SpaceX did not stop there. In January they launched Stargaze, a space situational awareness network built on the star trackers already aboard every Starlink satellite. Thirty million observations daily, conjunction screening delivered in minutes instead of hours, and they gave the data away for free to every operator on Earth. They just made themselves the air traffic control system for low-Earth orbit and charged nothing because the real product is not the data. The real product is the standard. Now connect this to last week. Terafab breaks ground in Austin. One terawatt per year of AI compute. Eighty percent allocated to space. D3 chips designed to run hotter in vacuum where radiative cooling is free. Satellites with 100-kilowatt solar arrays scaling to megawatt. Optimus robots replicating from raw materials. The Dyson Swarm bootstrap. Every analyst covering Terafab is modeling chip yields, capital costs, and process nodes. Not one of them is asking the question that determines whether any of it works: how do you manage ten thousand satellites without a single collision, and then scale that to ten million, and then to five billion? The answer already exists. It launched its 300,000th maneuver months ago. It processes 30 million observations every 24 hours. It operates at a collision-probability threshold three orders of magnitude beyond what any government or competitor has achieved. And it improves with every satellite added because more nodes means more eyes means better models means safer density. This is the orbital operating system for a Kardashev II civilization and it is already running. The Hormuz crisis proved that terrestrial supply chains are molecule-dependent and fragile. The Terafab announcement proved that Musk intends to move compute off-planet. But neither of those matter if the orbital environment becomes a debris field. The collision-avoidance AI is the gate. Without it, every satellite launched is a lottery ticket for Kessler syndrome. With it, density becomes self-reinforcing instead of self-destroying. Nobody is covering this because it is not a product announcement. It is not a keynote. It is infrastructure so foundational that it has become invisible, the way TCP/IP became invisible the moment the internet worked. SpaceX did not just build a satellite constellation. They built the nervous system of orbital civilization and trained it on 300,000 real-world decisions before anyone realized what they were looking at. The rockets are visible. The chips are headline news. The AI keeping ten thousand objects from destroying each other in silence at eight kilometers per second is the actual breakthrough. And yesterday they added 29 more nodes to the network. Routine.

@DebtCliff @KelsWingert Bag screenings - although less thorough - started in the 1970s.

@KelsWingert The entire airport TSA process is unnecessary and unconstitutional Eliminate the TSA entirely We can fly they way we did before 9/11 Come on Americans reclaim your freedoms!

Hartsfield Jackson ATL Airport: 9:03am- got to airport for 12:45pm flight 9:04- in line at digital ID bag drop 9:06- bag checked 9:11- in security line 9:47- made it to precheck line split 10:30- ID checked 10:32- bags into machine 10:37- ofiicially thru security 10:41- on tram

@VPsnack @Dr_TheHistories “Using his credentials” FWIW, she met Pierre Curie in 1894 while she was a student/researcher at the Sorbonne (University of Paris), where she had independently earned top degrees: first in her physics licence in 1893 and second in mathematics in 1894.

@Dr_TheHistories She was Polish. Her husband was a famous scientist. She married him, using his credentials. After his death, she continued their work, and new stuff on her own. She was a great scientist, but contrary to a feminist narrative, it was definitely not bootstrapped by herself.

When Curie died in 1934 from aplastic anemia, almost certainly caused by years of unprotected exposure to radium and polonium, scientists already understood that her notebooks, lab equipment, and even her cookbooks were dangerously contaminated. What’s astonishing is that her body, too, remains measurably radioactive nearly a century later. When she and Pierre Curie were reinterred in the Panthéon in 1995, France’s highest honor for national heroes, engineers had to line her sarcophagus with thick lead to shield visitors from lingering radiation. Anyone who wants to study her original papers today must sign a waiver and wear protective gear. Her tomb isn’t just a memorial, it’s a physical reminder of the invisible forces she helped uncover and the personal cost of pioneering a new scientific frontier. Marie Curie was the first woman to be entombed in the Panthéon on her own merits, not as someone’s spouse. Her presence there signals France’s recognition that intellectual achievement can be as nation‑defining as political or military power. The stark, almost monastic stone chamber where she rests contrasts sharply with the grandeur above, underscoring how her life was shaped by discipline, sacrifice, and relentless curiosity rather than public spectacle. The lead-lined tomb, the subdued lighting, and the quiet austerity all reinforce a paradox: Curie unlocked some of the most dangerous forces in nature, yet she lived with extraordinary humility. Standing before her tomb, visitors confront both the brilliance and the fragility of a life spent pushing the boundaries of the unknown. #drthehistories

@RealBenLuigi Do Virginians not spell “SECURITY” with a “Y”?

This is a mall in Virginia. Every day I am more radicalized, I’m a foreigner in my own country.

@BowesChay "Music unites? Not this time" x.com/ZarinaZabrisky…

Another example of European hate towards Russian culture The Vilnius concert of Croatian cellist was canceled due to a video from his "Music Unites the World" project where he performs songs from different countries. Latest one was a Russian folk song Music unites? Not this time

@farad_0 @adahstwt Imma try that and let y

@adahstwt Open terminal and then sudo rm -rf /WINDOWS

you won’t believe this 😭 so I bought a new laptop today did the whole setup uninstalled Microsoft Edge now I have… no browser how do you install a browser without a browser....am I cooked? 😭

@LogKa11 "Russia is conducting the safest war in modern warfare." youtube.com/watch?v=jJtHd3…

Objectively, Russia is conducting the safest war in modern warfare. The UN has confirmed less than 16,000 civilians have died in over 4 years of war in Ukraine. Meanwhile Israel has killed 1000+ civilians in just the last two weeks in Lebanon.

@KeruboSk The story continues, I assume, with your reaction. So why stop the story there?

I got a random message from a girl saying, “Stop texting my boyfriend.” I told her she had the wrong person. I’m single. She sent screenshots. The number saved under “babe”… was my number. Same profile picture. Same chats. But I’ve never sent those messages in my life. At first I thought, fake. Edited. Some weird mistake. Then she sent a voice note. “Call me. Now.” So I did. She picked up and put him on the phone. And I froze. Because the guy on the other end… was someone I actually knew. Not a stranger. Not random. Someone who had my number saved for years. Someone who could copy my profile picture. My name. My everything. He laughed. Actually laughed. Said, “Relax, it’s just easier this way.” That’s when it clicked He wasn’t cheating with me He was cheating as me

@Nostre_damus War will do that to GDP.

Russian GDP 2020: $1.49T 2021: $1.84T 2022: $2.30T 2023: $2.06T 2024: $2.41T 2025: $2.54T Russia's GDP is up +70% in the last 5 years thanks for playing

@EthanLevins2 "Russia is conducting a safe war for Ukrainian civilians."

This proves that Russia is conducting a safe war for Ukrainian civilians. Can you imagine what Israel would do to Kharkiv?

@Maks_NAFO_FELLA Huge numbers!! But at the same time, not enough. 💪

☠️ Over the past three days, the Russian Armed Forces have seen a significant increase in casualties. Every day — more than 1,500 killed and wounded. March 17–18 — minus 1,710; March 18–19 — minus 1,520; March 19–20 — minus 1,610. The reason is the beginning of the Russian spring-summer offensive, which seems to have every chance of setting a “record” not in terms of the area captured, but in terms of its own losses. If this continues, the same long-awaited output of 50,000 liquidated Russians per month may occur in the near future.

@Mappy6984 Whose face?

Bet that felt good tbh

@durai_ashwin08 @AIDRIVR v13 Good to know, thanks.

@AIDRIVR I remember this clip : U were testing v13 when it was first released late 2024. U were pretty impressed that it somehow anticipated this braking event ahead of time and lane-changed smoothly instead of having to hard brake.

"time to change lanes, I better slam on the brakes in the middle of the freeway!" more FSD users = less traffic