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Little to update you on today, except that I went to Steamworks last night and had a
great time. That's all you need or probably want to know about that.
I was home shortly after 7:00. Shobhit left for his leather conference in Bellevue in the afternoon, and learned on the way that due to planned maintenance, the Crosslake Connection will be suspended over the weekend, and rather than take the shuttle bus from South Bellevue Station to International District Station, he's asked me to come and pick him up. The movie I had hoped to go see that day isn't playing yet anyway, so, that's fine. I just hope I don't get knocked out by the pneumonia vaccine I'm getting midmorning on Sunday. I don't think I will be.
Once Shobhit was checked in at his hotel, he sent me several photos of the room, which was nice, and the view out the window, which was a pretty standard, drab view of South Bellevue. It looks pretty suburban, as all of Bellevue outside of its downtown does. I looked up the hotel though and it looks like it has a kind of nice, large central atrium area.
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I suppose I could comment a little about the
massive, global Microsoft outage that lasted the whole day yesterday. Things appear back to normal today, but no fewer than four people arrived in the office this morning joking about how they lamented the end of their "break from email." Michael quipped, "It was a great day. We'll be talking about it for years!"
I found it frustratingly limiting, myself. And even though Microsoft says it was caused by a technical issue and not a cybersecurity breach, between this and the many websites that
were taken down a few weeks ago due to a cybersecurity threat, the length of this outage is something I can only hope is not a harbinger of things to come. AI malware is a potentially existential threat, and I found myself thinking yesterday about what companies would do if an outage like this lasted more than a day. Even one day probably cost businesses a ton of money. Hell, it set me back in terms of certain tasks, which technically has a monetary value to it, given how much I get paid.
I'm also getting a little too "dystopia pilled" by the novels I've been reading. So the timing wasn't great, in terms of where my mind has already been at. Climate change and AI could join forces and fuck us all up. Climate change is already poised to do so, likely in my lifetime. On that cheery note!
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[posted 12:34pm]
