The airline's IT Dev team definitely knows. However, they rarely tell the front line staff anything. Their grandboss might get a memo which will likely not get read, but that's about it.

Technically, this interaction is governed by the airline and the passenger via the airline's "contract of carriage" which usually requires "positive identification".

Unfortunately, airlines can be pressured by the government into these interactions through various regulatory processes.

The meaning of "free speech" depends on life circumstances.

When the structure of society questions your right to exist, free speech means being able to express yourself without fear of violent reprisal.

When society is optimized for you, free speech is just a license to be an asshat.

Kendrick: "The whole system is a game rigged against you, but it's about to get much worse now that the serial pedos are in charge. Do what you can to survive."

MAGA Whites: "The sound quality so bad, I couldn't understand what he was saying. Also, it was about some Drake guy apparently?"

The more distressing thing to me is how AI keeps coming up with these ridiculous scenarios as if to probe the depths of what's appropriate and arrive at a comprehensive probabilistic limit of exactly how much shit people in this culture will put up with.

Like Platform 9 3/4 at King's Cross, but for that stairway off the Shinto Expressway in 1Q84.

Toxic masculinity has a creativity crisis.

My partner and I have a child born during the pandemic.

Early on, we decided not to post any pictures of them online. The idea was to give them the agency to decide how they want to social media.

Now I'm thinking...will they grow up feeling we were ashamed to share them with our networks?

Reps. Eshoo, Lesko Introduce Bill to Combat Tech-Enabled Domestic Violence | Congresswoman Anna Esho... U.S. Reps. Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) and Debbie Lesko (R-AZ), along with Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), introduced the Tech Safety for Victims of Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking Act, bipartisan,...

I spend a lot of time yelling about bad bills, but here is a good bill. Reps. Anna Eshoo, Debbie Lesko, and @wyden.senate.gov have teamed up on a bill that would fund more clinics supporting victims of tech-enabled abuse.