Boy, gradual information week, huh? Hahahhaha. Strap in.
Home windows replace from hell: When you have been sleeping, a world know-how outage grounded flights, knocked banks and hospitals offline, and quieted media retailers. The Milan inventory change could not compile shares for an hour. Australia’s information anchors could not broadcast as a result of “blue screens of loss of life.” Surgical procedures are stalled in Germany. Olympic uniforms cannot make it to Paris. Within the US, United, American, Delta, and Allegiant airways grounded all flights. All over the world the story is identical. So, what the fuck is happening? Some type of cyberattack? No, in line with cybersecurity agency CrowdStrike, “the issue occurred when it deployed a defective replace to computer systems operating Microsoft Home windows.” Oopsie! Good factor The Stranger runs on some antiquated bullshit (this can be a joke, IT workforce!) and is thus not effected.
12-hour timelapse of American Airways, Delta, and United aircraft visitors after what was possible the largest IT outage in historical past compelled a nationwide floor cease of the three airways. pic.twitter.com/wwcQeiEtVe
— Colin McCarthy (@US_Stormwatch) July 19, 2024
A fragile world upended: I do not know if I’ve actually captured the gravity of this know-how fuck up. Whereas this Home windows outage—compliments of CrowdStrike—wasn’t a cyber assault, it exhibits simply how weak our methods are in a technologically dependent world. One unintended press of the oft-ignored “set up replace now” button (that is what I assume occurred however isn’t based mostly on truth) can ship the complete world right into a tailspin. It is like a little bit style of Y2K.
This man on Twitter appears to know the gravity of the scenario higher than I ever might:
I do not assume you guys absolutely grasp how massive that is.
Round a billion computer systems are bricked worldwide, principally company ones.
This is not simply an internet service happening for just a few hours. Each affected laptop must be rebooted in fail mode and have a driver manually… pic.twitter.com/khHe4edchB
— Ray (@raymo_g) July 19, 2024
CrowdStrike says sorry: This man is having the worst day of his complete complete life and we’re bearing witness.
EXCLUSIVE: CrowdStrike founder and CEO @George_Kurtz speaks on TODAY concerning the main laptop outages worldwide that began earlier in the present day: “We’re deeply sorry for the influence that we’ve brought on to clients, to vacationers, to anybody affected by this.” pic.twitter.com/fWz6KhgrcZ
— TODAY (@TODAYshow) July 19, 2024
What I assumed was going to be the largest information of the day was all this Joe Biden drama. All day Thursday, rumors swirled. Amid the Joevid-19 of all of it, one thing was coming associated to Biden’s candidacy within the 2024 presidential election. In information alerts that felt like whispers, we discovered of closed-door conferences the place folks like Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi questioned the viability of Biden’s candidacy. Kamala Harris stopped utilizing “we” and beginning utilizing “I” in her marketing campaign stump speeches. Polling about Harris’s viability because the lead candidate has come out. It is finish occasions for ol’ Joe. The phrase on the road is Biden will make an announcement as quickly as this weekend concerning the presidential race.
And but: Biden insisted once more on Friday that he is staying within the race. The message got here by way of his marketing campaign chair, who in a single breath acknowledged “slippage” in help for the president and within the subsequent mentioned he wasn’t backing down.
A Hail Mary go of kinds: The Biden administration introduced it should forgive $1.2 billion in pupil debt for 35,000 public servants.
The way it feels to be alive proper now:
What breaking information notifications have appeared like this week pic.twitter.com/XRo3Kc4MnL
— Keith (@nagy_minaj) July 17, 2024
Tiny home village hearth: Early Thursday morning, a hearth raged at a King County-owned tiny shelter village in Queen Anne. The fireplace destroyed 17 of the village’s 25 houses, a loss that may displace practically 30 folks. A 36-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of reckless burning and one other excellent warrant, in line with the Seattle Occasions. Officers consider the fireplace was unintended.
Bruce’s basement fitness center: Bruce Harrell has a secret basement fitness center in Metropolis Corridor that solely he and the Seattle Police Division officers on his safety element can use, in line with a brand new report from Publicola. He had a vacant house within the constructing transformed to a fitness center crammed with tools sourced from his safety workforce members’ private fitness center tools. In accordance with a spokesperson, he is solely used that fitness center 5 – 6 occasions. He prefers to frequent a special fitness center close by Metropolis Corridor. I can not inform—is it good to have a swole mayor?
Talking of Harrell: Personal textual content messages between Mayor Bruce Harrell and millionaire philanthropist Stuart Sloan present each males expressing “disgust” on the nudity in Denny Blaine Park, a longtime queer nude seashore. As Vivian reviews, Sloan donated $1 million {dollars} to the Metropolis as a part of a proposal to assemble a play space close to the park, a transfer that the LGBTQ group noticed as an try to brush homosexual and trans sunbathers from one of many solely secure locations to hang around with out paying cowl. Harrell’s workforce has maintained that the mayor by no means knew the id of the donor and that “a protected proper of expression equivalent to nudity” didn’t drive his actions, however the texts solid much more doubt on the previous declare and fully refute the latter.
Take the prepare this weekend: Three lanes of northbound I-5 can be closed beginning Friday at 10 pm till Monday at 5 am. Freeway 520 is open, however bear in mind that ramps to and from Montlake Boulevard can be closed. Good luck to all of you touring to Capitol Hill Block Occasion, Sounders video games, and Mariners video games. Trip the hyperlink! Hop on a motorcycle! Stroll!
The gradual and regular creep towards darkness begins: Excellent news for all you anti-social hygge-loving freaks: fall is coming. No extra 9 pm sunsets in 2024. The inevitable encroachment of night time begins.
The solar will not set within the 9 o’clock hour till subsequent yr.
Hey darkness, my previous buddy! 🧛
— Seattle Climate Weblog (@KSeattleWeather) July 19, 2024
Israel’s occupation of Palestine violates worldwide legislation: The Worldwide Court docket of Justice, the United Nation’s prime court docket, dominated Friday that Israel’s “occupation of the West Financial institution and East Jerusalem violates worldwide legislation.” It is a landmark opinion on Israel’s 57-year occupation of those lands. Whereas the ruling carries authorized weight and should affect worldwide opinion, it isn’t legally binding.
Russia convicts US journalist of espionage: The Wall Road Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was sentenced to 16 years in Russian jail on unfounded costs of espionage. Gershkovich was detained again in March 2023 whereas he was on a reporting journey. His arrest and detainment is believed to be politically motivated. The fast trial might clear the best way for a prisoner swap between Russia and the US.
What’s going on over on the RNC? The Republican Nationwide Conference concluded with Hulk Hogan ripping off his shirts, Child Rock making an attempt to remain related, and Donald Trump accepting the social gathering’s nomination for president after which telling the story of the assassination try on his life with out utilizing a phrase above a third-grade studying stage after which descending right into a rambling stump speech that variously frightened and bored everybody to tears.
these folks actually simply desire a drag present pic.twitter.com/fHnCDsu4mo
— matt (@mattxiv) July 19, 2024
High tier protection from @CNN for this response from Melania Trump to Child Rock #RNCConvention pic.twitter.com/uY6GbAj6Yf
— it’s best to know your start time by now (@suspiciousminds) July 19, 2024
Additionally: VP Candidate JD Vance’s venmo buddies record was dissected by WIRED. It paints a portrait of an “anti-elite” candidate who’s chummy with fairly just a few elites, GOP heavy hitters, tech execs, fucking Bari Weiss of all folks, and extra. And, this man left his Spotify public. Slate took a take a look at that.
Talking of the GOP and music tastes: What is the RNC’s tune of the summer season?
I requested Republicans on the 2024 GOP conference their tune of the summer season for the @washingtonpost — spoiler alert: no brat summer season right here. pic.twitter.com/gm3iJ40IhU
— Dylan Wells (@dylanewells) July 18, 2024
RIP: Comic heavyweight Bob Newhart died at 94.
Good riddance: Controversial conservative tv host Lou Dobbs, 78, died.
Ironic: Zoom issued a return to workplace mandate for all its employees.
Alright, whew, that is sufficient for now: Are you drained? I am drained. I anticipate the information won’t cease. Take pleasure in that hell this weekend. And, how about you get pleasure from this tune from Capitol Hill Block Occasion headliner Remi Wolf.
