AOL outages and service status in Smithfield, North Carolina

Problems in the last 24 hours in Smithfield, North Carolina

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  Chris Farrell (@chrispfarrell) reported 5 minutes ago

  I think OpenAI and Anthropic might be the CompuServe and AOL of the AI era. Does anyone actually think Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Oracle, IBM, X/Twitter, and all of the other big tech companies will just allow these 2 badly run startups to capture the AI market? OpenAI and Anthropic don't have a moat or sustainable competitive advantage. To win they have to not only develop a moat but penetrate some of the most fortified moats. Model quality isn't a moat. Kimi, Grok, Deepseek proved that. Inference will become a commodity utility that requires massive CapEx that neither can finance. Interface is where the moat is the weakest. OpenAI and Anthropic do not own the apps or the OS. The OS and apps are owned by parties who view OpenAI or Anthropic as threats, and they can complicate things very easily. As if that is not grim enough, AI sovereignty will become an issue. Consumers will want their iCloud data to stay in iCloud, their OneDrive data to stay in OneDrive, etc. Enterprise customers will want AI from their cloud providers to reduce egress and for performance + IP reasons. It is honestly hard to imagine a world where OpenAI and Anthropic survive as they are. They will either morph into companies with entirely different value offerings or die like Compuserve and AOL.

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  Robyn O'Donnell (@RobynDODonnell) reported 8 minutes ago

  @FOXLA All I can say is Paramount+ sucks. I tried it twice. It is a technical glitch disaster on my TV. It just loads like it was AOL dial-up! Give me a break!

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  CathyNotToday2 🌿 (@Cathy2NotToday) reported 8 minutes ago

  Uh oh … this is even BEFORE his massive Data Center hauls 💰 CHARACTER should matter to voters , not what letter is next to their name The Trades Byron Donalds Didn't Want You to See Byron Donalds spent years on television lecturing Congress about insider trading. Then the record caught up with him. Between 2022 and 2023, Donalds and his spouse made over 100 stock trades valued up to $1.6 million without filing the periodic transaction reports required by the STOCK Act. Campaign Legal CenterCampaign Legal Center The number, precisely, was at least 108 trades in dozens of companies, ranging in total value from $108,108 to $1,620,000. Campaign Legal Center HE DIDN'T DISCLOSE THEM IN REAL TIME. The trades only surfaced in annual filings submitted in August 2023 and August 2024 — more than a year after most of the transactions occurred. That delay isn't a technicality. The STOCK Act exists so voters can watch for conflicts of interest as they happen, not a year later. And the timing here raises real questions. Donalds sits on the House Financial Services Committee, and some of his trades were in companies that committee oversees, including Elevance Health and JPMorgan Chase. In September 2024, the nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center filed a formal ethics complaint asking the Office of Congressional Ethics to investigate. CLC argued that because Donalds understood the STOCK Act's requirements better than most lawmakers, there's reason to believe the omissions weren't accidental. AOL The irony is hard to miss. This is a man who once appeared on television demanding sanctions against members of Congress who violate the STOCK Act. Florida Bulldog He said the House "has to get real." Now he's the case study. As of mid-2026, Donalds has said publicly that he doesn't personally trade securities but uses a broker with trading authority, and that he supports banning direct trading by members while allowing third-party financial professionals to trade on their behalf. (PolitiFact That's a defense worth weighing on its merits. It doesn't erase the 108 undisclosed trades or the year-long gap in reporting. Voters can decide what that pattern says about judgment — but they deserve to know it happened before they decide who leads the state next. 🎇We have a real chance to shift our leadership expectations. Stop settling for party and vote AGENDA and CHARACTER Vote @davidjollyfl @GwenGraham Note: this uses information and reporting from the Campaign Legal Center, Florida Bulldog, and PolitiFact —

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  John Roberson (@jroberson151) reported 10 minutes ago

  Gather round children, let me tell you of the Netscape Navigator In the Year of our Lord Early-1990s, one could access Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) -- essentially, a highly-selective Reddit -- BY PHONE, not the internet. You also played your friends in Warcraft 2 by phone. If you had email it likely came through a university (or, in time, your ISP) "Walled Gardens" were built out at AOL and Prodigy to facilitate user-friendly graphical interactions over the most of the 'net you were gonna get your hands on. But then... Netscape. FREE YOUR MIND was stamped all over the thing. You could do what you wanted, when you wanted it. Just a whiff of the icon could turn that frown upside down. You could guess the full URL for the admin login portal for major companies, then go to the human-legible cookie file on your machine and change the access granted value to true! When you opened someone's computer and they didn't have Netscape, your Promethean introduction of technological fire established your reputation as a true hacker We exchanged the latest search engines: WebCrawler, AltaVista, Dogpile. Jerry's Guide, even. Real wizard-tier esoterica. College students had access to unlimited bandwidth. A normal chump at home was sitting on 1-3% of 1 Mbps, or maybe 1/8 of 1 Mbps if he was a high roller with an ISDN line. But college students had T1s (1.5 Mbps) or even T3s (45 Mbps for a whole school, maybe even just a dorm). With all those sweet sweet kbps, you hit up IRC and your beautifully personal Geocities page. You used Winzip and Winamp (llama hater!). You had ASCII text art in your sig. Later in the 90s, you burned mix CDs for friends with Nero's Burning ROM and downloaded wallpapers from Digital Blasphemy. You had Juno mail, then Hotmail and Yahoo, to FREE YOUR MIND and take your email with you wherever you wanted to go. And at the heart of all this: Netscape Navigator, a.k.a Excalibur, a.k.a. Eternally-On-Evaluation, a.k.a. the 3rd-best piece of freedom I experienced after exploring our drainage ditches and getting my own bike It was truly special. Thank you @pmarca This site best viewed with Netscape Navigator v1.22N

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  Greg Manuel (He/Him: GIFT SHOP IN BIO!) (@WriterComicNYer) reported 10 minutes ago

  @KydJustice Guaranteed money didn't almost ruin wrestling. Lack of variety almost did. Guaranteed money in the form of Ted Turner ensured WCW stayed afloat. AOL/Time Warner's disinterest in keeping WCW led to the Bottleneck Era. Brooks is being full of ****. As per usual.

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  James Winebrenner (@JamesWinebren14) reported 15 minutes ago

  I worked from home no doubt. Started with fax machines. We actually use high resolution fac machines to transfer camera ready artwork. Long before AOL dial up. F.I.N.S. works with all software or no computers at all like morse code after a first strike during the Cold War my SOS.

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  Bill Sexson (@BillSexson) reported 16 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal I can't login into my account using my aol email. I get something went wrong please try again. Trying to stop a automatic payment.

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  Heisenburgir (@heisenburgirrs) reported 20 minutes ago

  People prefer to pay flat rates than metered. In today's age, you can give an agent monthly budget (flat rate) and not have to worry about how many micropayments it makes for products/services. Excerpt from "Case Against Micropayments": "What was the biggest complaint of AOL users? Not the widely mocked and irritating blue bar that appeared when members downloaded information. Not the frequent unsolicited junk e-mail. Not dropped connections. Their overwhelming gripe: the ticking clock. Users didn’t want to pay by the hour anymore. ... Case had heard from one AOL member who insisted that she was being cheated by AOL’s hourly rate pricing. When he checked her average monthly usage, he found that she would be paying AOL more under the flat-rate price of $19.95. When Case informed the user of that fact, her reaction was immediate. ‘I don’t care,’ she told an incredulous Case. ’I am being cheated by you.’"

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  Ben Monroe 🇺🇦 🇹🇼 (@BenMonroe1) reported 23 minutes ago

  @SarahSevans2000 Hit 19, I never had an AOL address, I could have but I didn't. A lot of those are the result of working in a law office though.

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  CalabroneShowDogs (@CalabroneDogs) reported 24 minutes ago

  @neglbaren @freedom_007__ If you know horses all you need to do is look at the horses. William has light hands and his horses are soft. Harry’s are a knot of tension as he rips their mouths and slams his spurs in them. First hand knowledge here. I will never forget him ripping on those horses. He is a horrible human. Too bad old AOL message boards are gone there were a bunch of us who volunteered and we all were appalled.