Jayson Massey @jaysonmassey@qoto.org

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

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

Anyone working on their 2023 goals or resolutions yet?

"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/

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

Every Philadelphian should take Thursday off, you'll be too sad to work.

The countdown to Wednesday, the saddest day in Philadelphia history.

https://6abc.com/jim-gardner-6abc-retirement-action-news-anchor-passion-for-sports/12587851/?ex_cid=TA_WPVI_TW&taid=639fb096d5dd2400012f86e8&utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter

I am taking a 4-week online Cultural Anthropology class for WInter 2022 at Community College of Philadelphia. But what is Cultural Anthropology?

The course offering says "Cultural Anthropology examines the nature of culture from the perspective of anthropology. The course is a survey of language, kinship, social structure, political organization, technology, economic systems, culture change, art and religion. It uses a cross-cultural approach, with examples from literate and non-literate societies of the world. Both economic and cultural globalization processes are examined."

If you want more, check out the link below.

https://www.nps.gov/orgs/1209/what-is-cultural-anthropology.htm

#discrimination #doctor #patients

"Discrimination, albeit in subtler and sometimes unintentional forms, persists today and Black patients and their families encounter it again and again."

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/12/18/black-mistrust-healthcare-00060324

"“The Sixers did not answer the question,” said Yuming Wang, honorary chairman of the Pennsylvania United Chinese Coalition. “It seemed to me they did not do any study before they wanted to start the project. So they were not able to give us good answers.”"

Again, only one person wants this stadium.

"Loud cascades of boos, shouts and catcalls rained upon a 76ers representative from more than 200 people who packed a Chinatown restaurant Wednesday night to question and criticize the team’s plan for a new, $1.3 billion arena on Market Street, the Inquirer reports."

https://www.inquirer.com/news/chinatown-sixers-arena-basketball-gentrification-20221215.html?oref=cspa_firstread_nl