Lockdowns, Shortages, AI Terminator, Robo Cops, Solid Green, Asteroids.

Officer dead after burst of violence outside PentagonAn officer died after being stabbed Tuesday during a burst of violence at a transit station outside the Pentagon, law enforcement officials said.

The Pentagon, the headquarters of the U.S. military, was temporarily placed on lockdown after gunshots were fired Tuesday morning near the entrance of the building, A Pentagon police officer who was stabbed later died, according to officials who were not authorized to discuss the matter and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.

Grocery Stores Are Running Out Again….

America is suffering from a myriad of shortages — and it might get worse

Empty store aisles, barren car dealerships and depleted online inventories. Everywhere you look, there’s a shortage, and the bad news is that experts think it’s only going to get worse.

America’s many shortages have many different causes, such as trade policy, outdated infrastructure, and skyrocketing consumer spending in the wake of the pandemic.

All of these variables are overwhelming a supply chain still rebooting from covid shutdowns last year

Soylent Green, 2022. It’s the year 2022. World population exceeds ten billion. It would be more, save for the massive famines and plagues striking malnutrition-weakened populations. Overall, however, population continues to grow, if more slowly than before. Global warming is advanced.

Pentagon believes its precognitive AI can predict events ‘days in advance’

The US military’s AI experiments are growing particularly ambitious. The Drive reports that US Northern Command recently completed a string of tests for Global Information Dominance Experiments (GIDE), a combination of AI, cloud computing and sensors that could give the Pentagon the ability to predict events “days in advance,” according to Command leader General Glen VanHerck. It’s not as mystical as it sounds, but it could lead to a major change in military and government operations.

The machine learning-based system observes changes in raw, real-time data that hint at possible trouble. If satellite imagery shows signs that a rival nation’s submarine is preparing to leave port, for instance, the AI could flag that mobilization knowing the vessel will likely leave soon. Military analysts can take hours or even days to comb through this information — GIDE technology could send an alert within “seconds,” VanHerck said.

More than 700 Spirit and American flights have been canceled and even more are delayed due to bad weather and a reported lack of flight crews

• Spirit Airlines and American Airlines have canceled hundreds of flights for Monday.

• Bad weather and a reported lack of flight crews are to blame for yet another summer travel hiccup.

• Airlines have an impaired ability to recover due to staffing cuts from the pandemic.

The summer of vaccinated travel strikes again.

Spirit Airlines and American Airlines have canceled 729 flights and counting as of Monday afternoon as bad weather and “operational challenges” plague cities across the American South.

According to the flight-tracking website FlightAware, a total of 275 Spirit flights have been canceled at the time of writing. It’s around 35% of the airline’s scheduled flights for Monday.

“We are experiencing operational challenges in some areas of our network,” Spirit wrote in a tweet. “Before going to the airport, check your email and current flight status”

An additional 159 – or 20% of Spirit’s Monday flying – have been marked as delayed, according to FlightAware.

Spirit’s main bases in Texas and Florida are the leading cause of the airline’s issues. Bad weather, including thunderstorms, has been pounding Florida and parts of Texas.

Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport is leading the world in flight cancellations and delays, according to FlightAware, with 138 cancellations and 240 delayed flights affecting a total of 35% of the airport’s Monday flights.

Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport is further down on the list but still reporting 39 cancellations and 85 delays for departures. Orlando International Airport, another Spirit base, is reporting 37 cancellations and 129 delays for departures.