#contingency-planning

#contingency-planning

This month's four-day teacher strike, which mercifully concluded this morning, should not have caught anyone off guard. The San Francisco Unified School District and its teachers had been at loggerheads since March of last year. On Oct. 10, the two sides formally declared an impasse and ceased negotiating. In November, teachers held "practice pickets" at more than 100 schools. In early December they voted to authorize a strike by a 99 percent clip and then, in January, did so again by a nearly 98 percent

"The United States government appears to be partway through a multi-year process to declassify and disclose information on the existence of a technologically advanced non-human intelligence responsible for Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs),"

November 18 started like any other day. I was up early to finish some articles to meet a deadline. I was in the middle of doing so and needed some information to finish them. I figured that information would be easy and quick to get from ChatGPT so I had procrastinated doing the work. Just what I needed: when I opened ChatGPT on my laptop, I got some strange message about my credentials being invalid.