My apologies for the Twitter link. Appears to have happened around 1:30 EDT, judging from the timestamp in the video. Seems unsurprising that Amerikkkan infrastructure is in this dire of a state (at the cost of innocent people's lives, as usual), but I'd still love to know what the hell happened here. Hopefully the early hour meant that more people weren't harmed.

Photo of the aftermath:

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  • Tiocfaidhcaisarla [he/him, comrade/them]
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    8 months ago

    I saw a post about this less than an hour after it happened.

    Infrastructure decay in the US has been something to be concerned about for awhile, but when I first saw it my first reaction was from a new kind of horror that will only get worse:

    My first thought was that it was AI. The post I saw was written in a way that felt like AI bros excited about their new toy, what it could do, trying to bring the horrors it creates to relevancy by creating a fake news story.

    And after all that, it actually is a real tragedy where real people died.

    This plus drama about contrapoints and philosophy tube have filled my Twitter feed with the seemingly ever increasing presence of chuds, who seem to be of a new breed lately on social media, much more aggressive towards all leftists on there then I remember.

    Anyway, it's hell world

      • Tiocfaidhcaisarla [he/him, comrade/them]
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        8 months ago

        The context of social media feeds, this has been more of a problem on Instagram, there's a 50/50 an image that initially looks interesting is AI or real but on a page that thinks any buildings made before the 20th century were built by aliens.

        That and catastrophic engineering failures are commonly rendered enough that a leap to AI seems reasonable. And the poster basically accompanied the video with saying "poggers"