:: CNN reports on internet failure ::
On top of the USG shutdown ("she's not rebooting kiptin!"), Americans woke up to a dead internet, not in such a theoretical way. Something east coast and AWS-related was being implicated, but on Garble News (aka legacy media) everything stays murky, only sometimes by design.
I'm assuming the massive outage is what's behind Flickr being down as well.
Facebook (Meta) is up and running and I'm continuing to monitor the Food Not Bombs channels for feedback on No Kings. FNB is often obstructed by DNC types who don't like the messaging around free food, no means testing.
From my Portlandia perspective, I'm not as certain as FNB seems to be that Dems really are in control of Frogtifa. It's a pretty disobedient bunch. GenZ is restless (flash on Nepal).
Dems tend to be too old and stuffy for their tastes (that's just a consequence of demographics; I'm not suggesting any deep theory).
Speaking of old and stuffy, take that so-called "pacifist" in Escapade, an insufferable jerk in a movie I'd never heard of until the other day, and made before my time (1955).
These kids are like the polar opposite of those in Lord of the Flies. Left to their own devices, rather then turn into uncivilized morons, these GenZers instead employ subterfuge to circumvent their elders, and engage in their own brand of coordinated heroics.
