[Heathrow, the] biggest airport in the country & a major global hub… taken out via a single substation. Who designed a single point of failure into the infrastructure? People absolutely lose their shit if you do that in cloud tech.

I am currently listening to an audiobook of The Digital Republic by Jamie Susskind, and it’s charmingly terrible, filled with “Regulation And Certificated Proper People And Tech Tribunals Will Fix All This Technology Chaos, Just Look At How *Real* Industries Operate”

…and, no. There is no fix.

There is only better, greater understanding of risk.