Elon Musk is having a very bad week.
The man who bought Twitter for $44 billion to secure unaccountable power over public discourse 
is discovering what unaccountable power actually looks like when wielded by someone who understands dominance even better than he does.
Trump just stripped SpaceX of a government contract and handed it to Jeff Bezos.
Musk’s response? 
Rage-tweeting at Trump officials, including the immortal question
 “why are you gay”
—the rhetorical sophistication we’ve come to expect from the richest man-child on the planet having a public meltdown
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/22/elon-musk-discovers-what-hierarchy-actually-means/
"Always remember that the crowd that applauds your coronation is the same crowd that will applaud your beheading. People like a show."
Terry Pratchett
A funny case study of the 21st “software engineering” at its best.
As result of #AWS failure, a number of commercial products stopped working that relied on AWS hosted services. Such as the Eight Sleep Pod beds.
Yes, physical beds for sleeping relied on AWS to work. And it was not some kind of extremely sophisticated “AI” processing, but simple schedule “make warmer”, “make colder”, “raise/lower” etc. All that was controlled through AWS.
When AWS stopped working users started complaining that their beds got stuck in weird positions and users were unable to control them. So yes, a bed say in Netherlands stopped working because it could not retrieve instructions from US server which were sent there by the person physically present on said bed.
And the bonus: each bed sent 20 GB of telemetry data to AWS each month.
Source: https://x.com/zimm3rmann/status/1980491408948572167 (on Twitter, sorry)
breaking: city of hague offers to host the meeting of putin and trump
Not only did a permanent member of the UN security council attack a clearly marked UN humanitarian convoy with FPV Drones, they also proceed to proudly share the footage of their appalling crime on the internet.