AOL outages and service status in Belchertown, Massachusetts

Problems in the last 24 hours in Belchertown, Massachusetts

The chart below shows the number of AOL reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Belchertown, Massachusetts and surrounding areas. An outage is declared when the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line.

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  Gretchen (@mkeGingerGal) reported 5 minutes ago

  @AshleyInMKE 19. Never had an aol account.

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  ramzy (@0xRamzy) reported 8 minutes ago

  AOL paid $165 billion to win Time Warner in 2000 and wrote off $99 billion of it two years later. A quiet Yale lecture from 2007 proves the same mechanic that killed that deal is silently draining money from every homebuyer, every hiring manager, and every person who has ever won an eBay auction. The lecture is part of the free game theory course Yale posted online. The professor teaches with a hundred undergraduates and a piece of chalk. No slides, no textbook required. His name is Ben Polak. He ran Yale's economics department, was later made Provost of the university, and spent fifteen years teaching this same course to a lecture hall of students paying $60,000 a year for seats a stranger with an internet connection could sit in for free. The idea has a name. The winner's curse. It was first identified in a 1971 paper by three oil engineers at Atlantic Richfield who had noticed something odd about their industry. Every major oil company in America was bidding on offshore drilling rights in the Gulf of Mexico. They all had geologists and the same maps. The winner of each lease, on average, was losing money on the field. The engineers proved that when everyone estimates the same object with roughly equal error, the person who wins is almost always the one who over-estimated the most. Winning was proof of being wrong. The check they wrote was the receipt. The full lecture fits into three sentences. If you and a room full of reasonable people are all bidding for the same thing, your best estimate of it is almost certainly too high. If it were low, you would not be the one winning. The number of losers you beat is information about how wrong you are. Polak's summary is one line: shade your bid. Not because you are stupid. Because winning is the strongest signal in the market that you paid too much. Concrete case: a young couple bids on a three-bedroom house against fourteen other offers in a hot April market. They win at $80,000 over asking. They feel triumphant for one week. Two years later three of the losing bidders have bought the same style house on the same street for $60,000 less. The couple never sees a "for sale" sign. They just have a mortgage that eats every raise for the next decade. Every buyer who has ever won a house at $30,000 over the second-highest offer paid $29,999 more than the market thought it was worth. Every hiring manager who beat two other companies to a candidate is paying the number that was too high for two other adults. Every free-agent contract in sports that "shocks the league" was set by the one general manager who was most optimistic in the room. The lecture is on YouTube. Yale posted it in 2007. Almost none of the millions who have watched it ever shaded a bid on the next thing they wanted. The math is free. Bidding a little less than you feel like on the next thing you want to win is the entire edge. ↓

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  Corbent (@corbentfrost) reported 9 minutes ago

  @LionheartGodric Never used fax, an aol address, a check book or a waterbed.

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  TyWebb'sLumberyard (@JohnnyRingo1625) reported 13 minutes ago

  @AngelaBelcamino Never used a dating app but did find my wife indirectly through an aol chat room.

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  Arafly (@arafly_kristin) reported 14 minutes ago

  18, but only because we never had AOL service and were too poor for a Walkman (I did eventually get a Diskman).

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  Ailuridae 👻✨ 🏆 🥀 🐁🪤 (@HereForOneGhost) reported 14 minutes ago

  @Chimurusan I used AOL free floppies once or twice, but all their call endpoints were long distance, so no, never had an AOL address. "Dictionary" should presumably be "paper dictionary", since I use a dictionary at least several times a month currently, it is just online.

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  Andreux👨🏿‍💻 (@and_reux) reported 18 minutes ago

  a researcher just showed CSS alone can escape the boundaries of an email and mess with the webmail interface itself across Outlook, Gmail, Fastmail, Proton, Yahoo, AOL: fake login screens, stolen tokens, hijacked UI actions, even manipulated AI assistants that read your inbox. no JS required

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  Rosemary🇨🇦 (@rmmh1898) reported 18 minutes ago

  @Matt_Pinner Never had AOL or a waterbed but I still have a cheque book and a typewriter.

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  GKPlayzz (@GKLiveX) reported 19 minutes ago

  @Puppyboyish @HalfnHalf_Madam All social platforms are like this if you look hard enough. MSN, AOL, Skype, Discord, X, they all have bad actors. If PS Home was still up then I bet we would have documentaries on that game too.

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  Kristinn Sævar Magnússon (@kristinnsms) reported 20 minutes ago

  The model: buy unloved internet assets, rebuild the technology, centralise the infrastructure, cut the cost base, keep the cash. More than 50 acquisitions since 2013, and they have never sold a business. Evernote. WeTransfer. Vimeo. Meetup. Brightcove. Eventbrite. AOL.