AI models are trained on data, that I’m sure talks a lot about Friday the 13th…

I would imagine it has to do with DOGE.

Yup. The damage elon musk and his cronies did will, unfortunately, take a generation to fix.

there was a national ground stop in 2023, which was also Musk's fault?

[delayed]

how would an upcoming launch cause this?

I mean, maybe the simulation overlords put a buggy NOTAM out? They usually go out beforehand. You know, as a notice.

And why should this affect reasoning?

lol, yup, project 2025, gotta be that

I was actually expecting it to be from the Microsoft 365 outage. Non technical people have a bad habit of inserting email as a critical step in a process.

It's actually quite impressive, you have to really try to be so bad at your job of building redundant systems that some failure mode implausibly affects everything nation wide, yet allows Canadian domestic flights to proceed fine.