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The Trump administration first signaled its support for the new aviation tech in June, when the president signed an executive order meant to cut “burdensome red tape” around the operation of drones, “flying cars,” and supersonic aircraft in the US. A plan released by the Biden administration in 2023 aimed to deploy air taxis by 2028, in time for the Los Angeles Olympics. Because eVTOLs are new, it has taken years for the companies that build them to receive full certifications from the federal government. The novel aircraft need new rules and safety standards, and have to go through several rounds of certifications before they can begin to carry paying passengers. None of the companies involved in the pilot projects have completed the full certification process. The pilot program “is focused on informing standards and future policy development and is not a mechanism to bypass certification requirements,” FAA spokesperson Donnell Evans wrote in a statement to WIRED. “Aircraft included in the partnership must already be going through the FAA’s formal type certification process.” The US aviation industry is trying to pull even with China, where the government has given homegrown firm EHang certifications to operate autonomous eVTOLs. The company says it will start by operating sightseeing flights in a few Chinese cities. Dubai plans to start providing air taxis in eVTOLs with Joby Aviation as early as this year.

That’s who we’ve always been. The boomers and silent generation had a glimmer but we’re given treats that required toeing the line, treats they guaranteed their children and grandchildren would never see, perhaps in ignorance/myopia, many of sheer selfishness and malicious intent.

A lot of things take decades to make it into the DSM even after identified and labeled by professionals, and a lot of things take decades to be removed after professionals say it’s not a pathology.

Analytical data they sell to a very authoritarian government that verges on totalitarian.

This is going to end up affecting mostly house-bound poor people.

No

It was somewhere in the middle of DMing with someone who had forgotten more about Greenland than I would ever know and someone who lived close to an RAF base in the UK that it clicked. This was what they had been talking about. Actual human beings were able to find each other and ask direct questions without this giant mountain of bullshit engagement piled on top of it. Meta or Oracle or whoever owns TikTok this week couldn’t stop me. I never expected to find my news from strangers on a federated social network that half the internet has never heard of. I never expected a lot of things. But there’s something quietly beautiful about a place where people just… share what they know. No brand deals, no engagement metrics, no algorithm nudging you toward rage. Just someone who spent twenty years studying Arctic policy posting a thread at 2 AM because they think you should understand what’s happening. It’s the internet I was promised in 1996. It only took thirty years and the complete collapse of American journalism to get here.

Lol

1/5 is still a lot.

I never bought it, I was raising immortal hell then. But as a collective, yes we did, and as a collective, we’re sitting around moaning instead of doing something, anything, effective.

All these “unintentional” tracking devices begin to look intentional.

I hope tf not.

https://blog.trustedtechteam.com/static/bcf7bed1b41ce28cd8b490493f90bc1f/4fb49/copilot-is-here-hero-image.jpg

Or ever made it into planning?

Democracy died in daylight, the darkness hides the rotten body.

Tbf, that’s most business asset security SOP.

It was delivered to the other coast

Trump isn’t in charge any more than King Charles.

I will imagine every nation-state’s politicians as well.

Wait till you see what Democrats and Israel are paying influencers to do.