Now that the wheels have fallen off the woke regime in tech, we'd be smart to offer amnesty to those who got caught up in it. Be the counter force to the purity purges that plague that side. Accept earnest apologies, embrace the fallen, and forgive those who trespass against us.
The problem with highly intelligent subcultures here is that the incentives are set up to reward either highly esoteric frames or knee jerk contrarianism. So you end up with the reverse midwit meme: the middle opinion is boring but actually correct, and the v dumb/v smart extremes are wrong but do numbers.
When everyone's trying to demonstrate their intellectual sophistication, there's an arms race toward increasingly esoteric positions, since obvious truths don't signal intelligence effectively to that audience. In a way it was the reverse five years ago, when conformity to a narrow set of views was rewarded and dissent was punished.
We are seeing media reports of GPS interference affecting the plane carrying Ursula von der Leyen to Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Some reports claim that the aircraft was in a holding pattern for 1 hour.
This is what we can deduce from our data.
* The flight was scheduled to take 1 hour and 48 minutes. It took 1 hour and 57 minutes.
* The aircraft's transponder reported good GPS signal quality from take-off to landing.