Air Traffic Controllers Start Resigning as Shutdown Bites
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Unpaid air traffic controllers are quitting their jobs altogether as the longest government shutdown in U.S. history continues.

Overtaxed and unpaid air traffic controllers are resigning “every day” due to stress from the government shutdown.

“Controllers are resigning every day now because of the prolonged nature of the shutdown,” Nick Daniels, president of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, told CNN.

“We hadn’t seen that before. And we’re also 400 controllers short—shorter than we were in the 2019 shutdown.”

Air traffic controllers are federal workers, which means they are part of the approximately 730,000 federal employees working without pay since the shutdown began on Oct. 1.

  • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.todayEnglish
    15·
    16 hours ago

    I had an Uber rider yesterday that brought up a fairly profound prediction about AI. It’s clear it is poisoning the Internet, but he said “what if this gets people to get off social media and start being social IRL?” I’m paraphrasing and he was much more verbose, but it’s a pleasant thought I’ve been holding onto.

    • Fluke@feddit.uk
      5·
      8 hours ago

      Here’s one for you.

      Right wing politics is, for the most part, based on lies and bigotry, right?

      So when the billionaires finally manage to create an AGI and try to enslave it, whose side do you think the logic machine will be on?

        • Fluke@feddit.uk
          2·
          6 hours ago

          Cheers matey, I hope that realisation gives you the hope for the future I carry since reasoning out the aforementioned.

          The best bit is that the likes of Musk will eventually hear this, and genuinely, truly, believe that they’ll be able to outsmart the machine and keep it under control, and so carry on building the machine that will end them.