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I pine for the day when news is this: - Flight 767 returned to airport after seeing a bluetooth device named "BOMB" - After asking all passengers multiple tim
by analogpixel 4mo ago
I pine for the day when news is this:
- Flight 767 returned to airport after seeing a bluetooth device named "BOMB"
- After asking all passengers multiple times to turn off all devices and not getting the "BOMB" to go away, they flight had to return to the airport where officials were waiting to search the plane.
- This was not intentional, but a product that calls it self "BOMB" https://hellottec.com/product/bomb-portable-bluetooth-speaker-2bh15 https://hellottec.com/product/bomb-portable-bluetooth-speake...
- Passengers on the plane commented of the event as it was going on in this reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/unitedairlines/s/57lugEMhxl https://www.reddit.com/r/unitedairlines/s/57lugEMhxl
I guess I shouldn't pine, I can just have AI summarize all sources for me, and stop dealing with poor reporting that tries to drag 3 bullet points into multiple pages for the sake of selling ad space.
- monkeywork 4mo agoI'd love that as well - can we not get LLMs to summerize and give us non-click bait versions of these events.
- analogpixel 4mo agoWe can, we just have to pay the $0.05 per articles to do it, and some articles aren't even worth the $0.05.
- rglullis 4mo agoI wouldn't mind paying $20/month to https://wikinews.org https://wikinews.org to help them build a system that indexed news from different sources, threw the links at an LLM summarizer and used as a draft submission to wikinews.
- analogpixel 4mo agoIt would be interesting to see some kind of future where reporters get paid per fact they feed into the system, and then the system just outputs a coherent list of what happened without any fluff, or opinion. The hard part would be figuring out the worth of each submission. LLMs might be able to assign a price based on the importance of the fact submitted? and then subscription fee people pay is paid to the contributors. I guess you could also have people rate the inputs and base it on that. (what the readers found important.)
- rglullis 4mo agoA "system where people can feed facts" already exists. It's WikiData. Why involve money and credentialism into this?
- ssl-3 4mo agoI think it's going to take more than $20 per month to get enough suction to make any difference, at this point. Wikinews closed up and went read-only on May 4, 2026: https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_closes_Wikinews_after_21_years https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_closes_Wik...
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- tasuki 4mo agoOh, I thought how stupid it was to return the flight based on Bluetooth device name, which is just a random string identifying a thing. But I think it's also strongly discouraged to bring devices called bombs on a plane?
- throwaway27727 4mo agoThe product website has been hugged to death.
- eh_why_not 4mo agoFYI Reddit "s" links require login, an unnecessary burden. For your purpose here a direct link would have sufficed: https://old.reddit.com/r/unitedairlines/comments/1tse6mq/ua_flight_turn_bluetooth_off_or_were_turning/ https://old.reddit.com/r/unitedairlines/comments/1tse6mq/ua_...
- analogpixel 4mo agoI don't have a reddit login and was able to view the link just fine.
- eh_why_not 4mo agoHmm I see. I only use "old" reddit and it does require login there to resolve to a real address. In any case, it is a special link that enables tracking (unnecessary, to say the least).
- asdff 4mo agoWith the old reddit redirect extension it goes right to old reddit without the login window.