More evidence as to why the human species is on the cusp of self-extinction:

“I use Alexa-enabled smart plugs to control the lamps in my room,” Christina, who uses crutches to get around, told CNN. “During the outage my smart plugs became unresponsive. Before I realised why the plug wasn’t working, I tried unsuccessfully to reset one of them. Now I can’t get it to work at all.”

Some Alexa users, however, were quick to make light of the outage.

“Due to the Amazon outage, Alexa wasn’t working this morning, so I had to stumble out of bed in the dark, find my way to the kitchen, and turn the coffee-maker on MANUALLY. I can’t live like this. You guys go on without me,” one X user posted.

“I had to turn on my light by hand without Alexa’s help. Rough start to the day,” another posted to Reddit.

Some avid users of Duolingo, which records how many days in a row a customer has practised, known as “streaks”, were beside themselves with anxiety about their progress.

Some threatened to “riot” if their streak was lost, others complained their 900+ day streak had reset to zero, while one poster on X took aim at Amazon’s founder and chief executive, Jeff Bezos. “If I lose my 1,300-day Duolingo streak because of the pissing AWS [Amazon Web Services] outage, I will personally throw an egg at Bezos’ bald head.”

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/21/aws-outage-amazon-web-services-tech-free-life

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