News and notes from around the interweb:
- He literally left behind his boarding pass with his name on it (though presumably would have been identified via facial recognition anyway). Oh, and the gun was stolen.
We're getting a look at the moment a gun accidentally went off at a TSA checkpoint at @ATLairport in 2021 just before Thanksgiving. The new video comes as the person who caused the chaos was sentenced to 10 years in prison today.@FOX5Atlanta
Details: https://t.co/aUeUtVJp64 pic.twitter.com/f7DKJdy99k
— Tyler Fingert (@TylerFingert) May 10, 2023
- Advice for travel bloggers: learn to use AI tools, but do not let them do all your writing. Part of the writing process is the thinking process, and you don’t want to lose your ability to think.
I warn you now, this is going to have unfortunate consequences, just as switching to living in suburbia and driving everywhere did. When you lose the ability to write, you also lose some of your ability to think.
— Paul Graham (@paulg) May 9, 2023
I'm not warning about the switch to AI in the hope of averting it, but to warn the few people who care enough to save themselves, or their kids. Learn to use AI. It's a powerful technology, and you should know how to use it. But also learn how to write.
— Paul Graham (@paulg) May 9, 2023
- American Airlines lost a man’s… prosthetic leg. And refused to compensate for it, natch. (Business Insider)
- United will put more business class seats into (some) new 787s
- These would be cool flights.
Nauru Airlines previously held authority to operate flights to the USA, but did not launch those flights within the required 5-year window. Now it is applying again, with plans to move both passengers and cargo via Guam and Honolulu. #AvGeek pic.twitter.com/Y50hndaGcm
— Seth Miller (@WandrMe) May 11, 2023
- This made me smile.
Absolutely delighted that our new Baggage Handling facilities are cutting waiting times. pic.twitter.com/KPHyKADPjh
— Stansaid Airport (@StansaidAirport) May 11, 2023
- This is only half true.
There’s no disputing that taste buds are dulled at altitude but that’s only one factor in why “airplane food tastes terrible.” Second is that you’re limited in ingredients and usually reheating in a small space rather than making fresh foods (soups generally work well). Third is that… airlines frequently do not spend very much on food. There are really great meals in the sky.. but there are generally better galleys to prepare them in and crew working with better ingredients.
- Passenger complaints about TSA screening have nearly doubled in the past year
- Man charged with making bomb threat at Pittsburgh International Airport He missed his flight.
As you note, soups work really well and yet they just don’t show up very often. 10/10 I’m happier with a soup appetizer than a random, cold “shrimp of questionable origin/quality” appetizer. This seems like low-hanging fruit since soups are cheap and easy to make/transport.
About the fellow with the gun going off at the TSA checkpoint in Atlanta’s airport:
It’s hard to believe one could be so stupid as to bring a loaded handgun to the airport and not know what he’s doing. But yet, here it is. And on top of that, he left his identifying boarding pass behind when he ran.
But that’s maybe why our prisons and jails are full of so many mentally challenged people.
My colleague ten years ago dropped out of school to work for an AI content writing company that served a number of enterprise clients. AI writing has been around for a long time. ChatGPT is just the newest form. If you need to reformat bullet points into prose, it gets the job done better than a guy who makes typos every third sentence and excuses himself by saying this blog is not his day job, even though this blog generates 7 to 8 figures of annual recurring revenue.
The airport is Stansted, not Stansaid. Methinks you got took on this one Gary.
@Christian – it was a joke, and I love that parody account