There may be companies with poorer customer service than Comcast Xfinity, but right now I can't think of any.

This is an utterly insane (and worrisome) story. https://flipboard.com/@npr/politics-v8m4p3ukz/-/a-ZuNbzm5DTL-gmf8RK8N8Jw%3Aa%3A3195441-%2F0

There's an interesting Guardian article on the Signal chat fiasco:

the Guardian

Exclusive: how the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg got added to the White House Signal group chat

Internal investigation cleared the national security adviser Mike Waltz, but the mistake was months in the making

(h/t @npub1gsas...q4wj). I won't try to summarize the article; read it yourself. But we have a combination of an AI failure (the phone decided that it was Hughes' phone number), a UI failure (the phone did not make it crystal clear whose contact information was being updated, a user error (Waltz didn't read the phone screen carefully enough because of the second error), a technology problem (there's no official secure text message system, a policy issue (picking Signal even though it lacks important features to secure such exchanges), etc. To quote myself, "complex systems fail in complex ways."

During the Vietnam War years, there was a chant at protests: “Hey, hey, LBJ / How many kids did you kill today?” Now, we can substitute "RFK" for “LBJ”.

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