FAA issues nationwide ground stop
(www.cnbc.com)
silentjohn [he/him]
newsThe Federal Aviation Administration issued a nationwide ground stop on Friday afternoon, “due to extraordinary circumstances and for reasons of safety.”
A ground stop halts flights at their departure point.
Inbound international flights will be managed on a case by case basis, the FAA said.
The FAA didn’t immediately comment further.
Nationwide ground stops are extremely rare. In January 2023, the FAA halted flights because of issues with a pilot alert system. Before that, traffic was halted nationwide after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.
safety is woke, i say turn the planes back on
People die all the time, we don’t shut the planes down for it. If it’s your time, it’s your time!
God's plan.
We just need to get in enough plane crashes to reach herd immunity. Natural immunity, too, none of those plane crash vaccines!
Planes will never gain resistance to crashes if we keep them in crash debt
The main thing I've learned today is that the US Transportation Secretary is a former Fox News host
I thought that was the War Secretary. Transportation, too?
Might as well be the entire cabinet at this point
https://www.newsweek.com/full-list-fox-news-personalities-serving-donald-trump-administration-2070560 https://thehill.com/media/5292841-former-fox-news-hosts-in-trumps-cabinet/
Sean Duffy, the current secretary of transportation, had co-hosted FOX Business program The Bottom Line before Trump tapped him to join the administration, and his wife, Rachel Campos-Duffy, also a former co-host of Hegseth's, continues to host Fox & Friends Weekend.
Miss me yet?
I love being stuck at the airport looking at the miserable carpeting :)
If you don't already, now is a great time to take up day drinking at the airport as a hobby.
When I was in a long distance relationship I would do it semi-frequently lol.
Well uh, I guess I should have said that I'm usually at the airport to fly the plane...
Have they tried turning it off and on again?
Well it's updating and it says don't turn off the computer...
Uh, whiskey tango foxtrot, over?
Jensen Huang, in a bigger leather jacket, activating a backdoor in the ATC AI to escape to China with the secrets of his GPUs (sucking slightly less than AMD). By the time the government figures it out and grounds all flights, he's long gone, hidden where no one would look for him (the AI took him to new mexico).
Rumors initially look like it's AI related fuck up.
From yesterday
The FAA Is Rolling Out Its AI Air Traffic Tool Nationwide
The FAA has reassured the public and airlines that SMART only suggests routes and doesn't affect air safety.
NOVEMBER 12, 2026
Amazing this didn't happen immediately after turned on
Just shove the slop machine into every sensitive thing I'm sure nothing can go wrong!
They forgot to add "and make no mistakes" to the end of the prompt
Classic rookie mistake, they forgot to add "bad quality" in the negative prompt.
This baby can shit out 20 years of technical debt in months!
This is what happens when you’ve got an entire industry not only run by robutts but also by unlicensed people who make these robutts.
Oh no but we want more money, why would we ever unionize, computer dorkery is lucrative. Have fun not having a job fucko
1960s bad sci-fi: "If the robutts stop listening to us - they could kill somebody!"
Real life 2026 America: "We're putting AI in charge of everything. There's a steep learning curve so expect constant mass death. Progress comes at a price."
Bluesky
CNN just interviewed someone at Newark Airport saying they were looking for hotels because their flight was canceled and that "prices are spiking." Well at least someone is benefiting amid this.
A reply
There once was a concept called "distressed traveller" in the hotel industry where air/rail passengers who were stranded due to weather or cancellations or whatever were granted a discounted rate for a night. Yeah, that's as dead as civility in politics.
Had something similar happen to me this summer, except all hotels were booked and had to get an airbnb
Well, that ain't good!
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Woah, I wonder what's happening.
I hope the reason is AI software in the traffic control systems. I want that bubble bursting from successive crisises.
Surely not the AI!
It's certainly entertaining me
Damn, AI’s even doing Jon Stewart’s I’m just a comedian bit.
Mr. President, a third airplane is doing cartwheels on the tarmac
And it's Friday the 13th too.
Seriously though - any guesses as to what the fuck is going on?
From yesterday:
https://gizmodo.com/the-faa-is-rolling-out-its-ai-air-traffic-tool-nationwide-2000839347
Lol. Lmao, even
They're claiming there's a nationwide ATC radar system outage
"I may have inadvertently disabled ATC radar system nationwide. That's on me," apologies Claude.
That a radar system can even be nation wide sounds like a design flaw. Like, you'd expect at least each airport should be able to access the local radar set.
I keep waiting for some big event that causes them to throw up their hands and let OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and X write their own regulation bill. The bill just outlaws any open source or non-US AI while allowing them to harvest your dreams. I figured it would happen before mid-terms but now maybe it has to happen before January. Could this be it? Maybe.
I wonder what dreams taste like?
Hi, plane expert here! This is not funny. Planes only do this when they’re in extreme distress.
