Google has acquired the data of failed US airline Spirit

Post by c22 » Tue, Aug 18, 2026, 5:50 PM UTC

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There are exceptional cases, detrimental to both you and the company. Company already swallowed a pretty serious loss, in that case arguably common sense is to let it go, sometimes sh*t happens.

If they truly were exceptional that would be fine. But long delays happen a lot , and I am sure there are things airlines could do to improve that like maintain the planes better so they aren't grounded as often and having backup planes so that if one has problems they can put customers on a different one.

Post by Alive-in-2025 » Tue, Aug 18, 2026, 5:54 PM UTC

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Truth is even weirder. plenty of growth is possible but modern liberal democracy requires that all progress must be contingent on the production of enormous amounts of text that nobody would ever read. 3 years ago, the Wall Street journal covered a company trying to use AI to generate documents required for the approval of new nuclear reactor reactor designs, which sounds dangerous, until you get to the point where t…

It seems reality is trying really hard to outcompete even the weirdest sci-fi dystopias.

Post by wat10000 » Tue, Aug 18, 2026, 6:01 PM UTC

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Modern corporations have learned that the best way to do shady things is to make it very clear that such things are against policy and absolutely forbidden, and then to also make it very clear that breaking policy is the only way to actually get your job done. That way they still get all the benefits of doing shady stuff, and if it ever comes to light then they can fire some scapegoats and explain that this was again…

this isn't even a "modern corporations" thing, at least in my experience. i remember ~25 years ago being on-call with a work truck. we were absolutely not allowed to speed, at all, ever. we also absolutely had to be at the customer's site within 45 minutes of being called. guess how many of my sites were >45 minutes away when traveling the legal speed limit.

Post by atleastoptimal » Tue, Aug 18, 2026, 6:16 PM UTC

Post by frollogaston » Tue, Aug 18, 2026, 6:20 PM UTC

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How the fuck is that even remotely legal? ... "deidentified" my ass.

Ah, but Google promised to remove PII they found in this deidentified dataset, so worry not. > If you’ve flown Spirit and worry that Google will soon know about a testy conversation you had with the airline’s call center, you’re being told not to worry. The court filing says the data was deidentified before being put on sale and Google has promised to scrub any PII it finds in the trove.