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@grumpybozo@toad.social
2025-08-17 16:22:53

In line with my longtime pet issue of cascading #SystemicFailure in complex systems which we've created and come to depend upon, yet have seemingly forgotten how to maintain.
We saw a hint of what's possible in the early years of Covid when shortages rolled across the economy in unpredictable ways. I fear what might happen as the Fash keep dismantling all forms of systemic in…

fanf42 (@fanf42@treehouse.systems)
@RuthMalan@mastodon.social this happens even far from silicon valley, even in old industrial domains which used to care and not break important things. I just experienced it first hand with a ~36h electricity outage in the small village in French Alps where I was born. It never happened when I was young or actually in the last 60 years. In winter, yes, because of avalanche, and even then it was not so long. But the cause is mind blowing: two trees fall in lines in two days (with only tiny Aug…