Jayson Massey @jaysonmassey@qoto.org

@alyssam_infosec This article inspired that toot! Southwest runs a brittle, fairweather, just-in-time system. It's superbad.

https://www.seat31b.com/2022/12/the-great-southwest-meltdown-of-2022/

@alyssam_infosec To put it another way, Southwest Airlines is the Texas electrical grid of travel.

@alyssam_infosec Everything has to go right at Southwest to get everyone everywhere, or...

"the situation got so bad that on December 22 that a Tampa to Denver flight returned to Tampa because there wouldn’t be sufficient ground staff to assist with the flight. The airline ended up operating a nearly four hour flight to nowhere. Ouch."

https://onemileatatime.com/news/southwest-airlines-meltdown-denver/

@rbreich Maybe there wouldn't be so many asylum seekers if we stopped sending assault weapons out of our country and to the hands of drug cartels.

“Trafficking illegal guns to and from Mexico is currently not a federal crime. It really doesn’t get much crazier than that" --Eliot Engel

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/the-flow-of-guns-from-the-u-s-to-mexico-is-getting-lost-in-the-border-debate

TL;DR: Southwest Airlines is the Texas electrical grid of travel.

"Southwest is highly unusual. Their IT is almost entirely homegrown, with software they built themselves. It’s creaky and antiquated – you’ll observe this if you watch their schedules. They’re irregularly and manually loaded into the system."

"Southwest is essentially a short and medium haul airline. They mostly don’t do long haul services except for Hawaii. Southwest turns aircraft quickly, in less than 30 minutes. They have higher aircraft utilization than any other major US airline. They often run their crews on tight loops where they’re out from home and back the same day so they can save money on accommodating crews who overnight away from their home base. This is all really clever and it works really well until it doesn’t."

via seat31b

#travel #airlines #southwest

https://www.seat31b.com/2022/12/the-great-southwest-meltdown-of-2022/

Watching this for my Cultural Anthropology class.

"Program two in the series The Story of English traces the history of the language in terms of successive invasions of the British Isles, from the Anglo-Saxons through the Norman French in 1066."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3q95Mg2i7c

@evangreer No, just don't have a good mobile app for Mastodon, that's all.

Anyone on here use Quizlet? Did it help you crush your exams?

@QasimRashid - You did the impossible! You got someone on the internet to disagree with you, then agree with you! So they're really not a troll. Like a semi-troll? Maybe a gnome? I dunno.

Anyone working on their 2023 goals or resolutions yet?

@GiantTourtiere This would make a good cartoon.

"Christmas, at least as we know it today, resembles nothing of its past. A lot of what happened would shock us today: heavy drinking with rules abandoned in an unrestrained carnival. “A kind of December Mardi Gras,”"

Christmas Past: A Look At the History of Christmas

https://fs.blog/history-of-christmas/

@msfreepress The sooner the better!

Jobs span from risk management, to security awareness, to penetration testing (red teaming – this is the hacking most people think of, but it's actually a pretty small percentage of jobs), to security operations center (SOC) analysts (blue teaming), to security architecture (and a lot more)."

https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-get-your-first-job-in-infosec/

"Bell wrote, produced, and arranged hundreds of songs, most notably with The Delfonics, and The Stylistics, both groups from Philadelphia, and The Spinners. For The Delfonics, he co-wrote hits including “La La Means I Love You,” “Ready or Not Here I Come (Can’t Hide From Love),” and “Didn’t I (Blow Your Mind This Time).”"

https://xpn.org/2022/12/22/rip-thom-bell/

"That wasn't the only surprise. Though Hentschel has done freelance work for ABC, she was not there for the network.

At the time, a political consulting firm called Matrix LLC had paid Hentschel at least $7,000, the firm's internal ledgers show."

https://www.npr.org/2022/12/21/1142575872/abc-news-producer-corporate-operative-investigation