@WiredForFlight

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Sr. Director of Business Process Automation, former CTO and current Flight Instructor (CFI) 🛩️.
I’m into aviation, photography, hockey, travel, and fancy beers. Posts are my own, will be tech, aviation, prob some politics if I get too frustrated.
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WiredForFlight1d ago
The Verge1d ago
US demands cut of Nvidia sales in order to ship AI chips to China https://www.theverge.com/news/757428/donald-trump-nvidia-amd-ai-chip-sales-china
US demands cut of Nvidia sales in order to ship AI chips to China

President Donald Trump has demanded that Nvidia and AMD give the US government a 15 percent cut of their AI chip sales to China, according to a report from The New York Times.

The Verge
WiredForFlight1d ago
Ars Technica1d ago
Ford bets big on “Universal EV Production System” and $30k truck
It's a clean-sheet approach to designing and building an electric vehicle.
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/08/ford-bets-big-on-universal-ev-production-system-and-30k-truck/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
WiredForFlight1d ago
Slashdot 3d ago
AOL Finally Discontinues Its Dial-Up Internet Access - After 34 Years https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/08/10/0626249/aol-finally-discontinues-its-dial-up-internet-access---after-34-years?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
AOL Finally Discontinues Its Dial-Up Internet Access - After 34 Years - Slashdot

AOL (now a Yahoo subsidiary) just announced its dial-up internet service will be discontinued at the end of September. "The change also means the retirement of the AOL Dialer software and the AOL Shield browser, both designed for older operating systems and slow connections that relied on the fami...

WiredForFlight5d ago
Cult of Mac5d ago
ICYMI: Apple will make 100% of iPhone and Apple Watch screens in US https://www.cultofmac.com/news/apple-will-make-100-of-iphone-and-apple-watch-screens-in-us?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
Apple will make 100% of iPhone and Apple Watch screens in US

Apple pledges to make all cover glass for iPhones and Apple Watches sold worldwide in the United States at Corning's plant in Kentucky.

Cult of Mac
WiredForFlight5d ago
Steve Herman5d ago
Media reports say the US Air Force will deny retirement pay to transgender service members being separated from the service, giving them the option to quit or be forced out.
WiredForFlight5d ago
Airplanista 🇺🇦Aug 6

If you have loved #AvWeb over the years, their longtime Editor, Russ Niles, has left Firecrown (the title's owner these days) and has started his own #aviation news site called AVBrief. Reason he gives is a difference of opinion regarding using #AI to write articles.

I immediately subscribed to his newsletter as his crew has always been on top of the sector's news. His new crew is lean and presumably mean, you can sign up for the AVBrief newsletter here:

https://avbrief.org/so-long-avweb-hello-avbrief

#avgeeks

WiredForFlight5d ago
bioreconstructAug 6

If you've seen the nightly Epic Universe show it might be fun to look back at one of the original standalone segments.

Seen here is the Super Nintendo World segment from in April. Longer segment, compared to the current nightly show. Fountains only too.

https://youtu.be/qcjchP-1HZc

Super Nintendo fountain show in Epic Universe; Presidential Suite view

YouTube
WiredForFlight6d ago
Wonder of ScienceAug 5

When a helicopter's rotors synchronize with the camera frame rate.

Credit: Like tears in rain/CC-BY-SA-4.0

WiredForFlightAug 3
Dissent Doe  Aug 2

On Thursday, Roskomnadzor said there was no confirmation of a data leak from Aeroflot.

"Hold my beer," the hackers responded...

https://therecord.media/hackers-leak-purported-aeroflot-data

#databreach

Hackers leak purported Aeroflot data as Russia denies breach

Hackers have leaked flight records allegedly belonging to the CEO of the Russian airline Aeroflot following a major cyberattack that grounded flights.

WiredForFlightAug 3
Steve HermanAug 3
These VOA newscasters and reporters were given visas because there weren’t experienced broadcast journalists in the US with native level skills in such languages as Bambara, Lao or Georgian. But since Kari Lake wiped out nearly all VOA’s 48 language services there are indeed no jobs for them now.
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Steve HermanAug 3
These VOA newscasters and reporters were given visas because there weren’t experienced broadcast journalists in the US with native level skills in such languages as Bambara, Lao or Georgian. But since Kari Lake wiped out nearly all VOA’s 48 language services there are indeed no jobs for them now.
Show threadsaddest cabbageAug 3
@w7voa Every single member of Tangerine Palpatines regime is a VILE PETTY HATEFUL LYING human being.
Deport THEM instead of hard working undocumented people who ADD something of value to the USA!
Show threadDarkAthena 💙🏳️‍🌈🧑🏻‍💻💫Aug 3
@sadcabbage @_L1vY_ @w7voa I was like, “Tangerine Palpatines”? Is that a new rock band?
Show threadMother BonesAug 3

@DarkAthena @sadcabbage @w7voa

Now it will be 🤔

Show threadwendivibeAug 3
@w7voa Ignorance is so dangerous
Show threadPeggy Heinkel-WolfeAug 3

@wendinoakland @w7voa

Yes! Her willful ignorance is astonishing

Show threadHot Dog WaterAug 3

@w7voa

Gozer the Gozerian might even vacuum the carpets on the tarmac for them, like she did for Trump.

Show threadJames M.Aug 3
@w7voa this targets both immigrants *and* journalists, two of fascism's common targets.
Show threadKatiesaurusAug 3
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Show threadimproper ideologueAug 3
@w7voa “bringing in individuals from nations hostile to America” can someone explain to Kari that this is basically going to result in these people, who came here to undermine the “hostile nations” they left, that she’s personally taking to the airport, being tortured and killed.
Show threadsaddest cabbageAug 3
@thedansimonson @w7voa
Like that vile magat comspiracy trashpile woman would care
Show threadJim HubbellAug 3
@w7voa
The next time the US needs help, no foreign national will be willing to help because afterwards, they will not be protected.
Show threadT2RAug 3
@w7voa what an illiterate racist bitch.
Show thread@iveylineAug 3
@w7voa What an obnoxious person Lake is.
Show threadYxuppi!Aug 3
@w7voa Truly the work of fascist dictatorship enthusiasts to fear “objective reporting” with all of its baggage so much they have to kill a WWII and cold war era service.
Show threadPonygirlAug 3
@w7voa The kunting never ends with these people.
Show threadMother BonesAug 3
@w7voa Another absolutely disgusting public official of this regime.
Show threadStanleyHOOTZZAug 3
@w7voa
+++++Latinos are NATIVE AMERICANS-n-have more fuckin right ta be here on this Fuckin TURTLE ISLAND than these GENOCIDAL LYIN-ass WHITE FUCKING TERRORISTS!!!
My Creator, bless these folks that refuse ta grow-up-n-honor thy words-n-laws with the Highest Good in all their Endeavors these brothers-n-sisterz gone sidewayz comprising the GOP of America. A'HO!
P.S. the ethnic group per Capita that has the most medals
fer defending America, LATINO NDN'z!!! grateful fucking nation!
Show threadrolandAug 3
@w7voa Lake lies gotta lie or something :-)
Show threadAnhedonic HedonistAug 3

@w7voa What gets me, is these statements of bald-faced racism -

Yet the media still wishes to treat this as something more nuanced than a bunch of hateful, selfish idiots, elected by hateful, selfish idiots.

Can we just call the thing what it is already?