Hypothesizing that today’s big tech outage may be related to the big tech outage that was less than 24 hours ago is natural and sensible.

Agreed. I would apply this further; stop letting 1970s and 1980s pop culture fads consume our attention; let go of Star Wars and Marvel etc etc; previous centuries headlines

Let go of software dev; as is a mechanical task from the 60s-70s

Cultural memory begets cultural conservatism

God forbid the news cycle slow down enough for society to process events rather than being continuously forcefed the next thing in the outrage cycle.

This is why there's such an issue with holding power to account nowadays.