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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 8h

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD
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Investigation of:
LOSS OF THE SUBMARINE TITAN
IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN
ON JUNE 18, 2023
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Accident No.:
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Interview of:
Co-designer/Pilot
Deepsea Challenger
DCA23FM036
via Microsoft Teams
Friday,
July 26, 2024

INTERVIEW OF
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BY LCDR
11 Q. So how did you get yourself started into submersible
12 operations?
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A.
Well, I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic.
When I
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set down the path to make that film, the first thing that I did
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was arrange to be introduced to the head of the submersible
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program at the P.P. Shirshov Institute in Moscow, a guy named
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Professor
I. I did that through a mutual friend
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of ours, a guy named
, who is one of the preeminent
underwater cinematographers in the world. And had been on a
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submersible expedition out to Titanic the previous year with the
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Russians. And that was organized by a Canadian company that was
22 doing an IMAX film which was released under the title Titanica.

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Rune Skovbo Johansen @runevision.bsky.social · 14h

I had an impulse to see if I could make a basic hair shader that doesn't require any specially made meshes or textures. Came up with this modification of the Unity Standard shader.

The shapes below are just standard Unity spheres and capsules and only a simple normal map is used; no other textures.

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Alan Wolfe @demofox.bsky.social · 14h

A challenge is this is just like movies and programming.
It can regurgitate, but if there isnt any source material, there's nothing to regurgitate.
People are wowed when a diffusion model recreates a still shot of a movie, not realizing it couldn't do that if it wasnt trained on the movie.

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Alan Wolfe @demofox.bsky.social · 15h

So much better than 6 7
youtu.be/maAFcEU6atk?...

Tim and Eric - Celery Man

YouTube video by Twinfold11

youtu.be

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 18h

I've recently been reminded that at least some of the immigrants that Abbot sent the Texas national guard to kidnap, are the same immigrants Abbott flew to Chicago in the dead of winter in flip flops and a t shirt to overwhelm the city. Instead Chicago residents clothed, fed and resettled them

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Lydia Choy @choy.bsky.social · 1d

Just voted YES on prop 50.

Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: President Obama comes out in favor of Prop 50 in California.

California, help protect democracy and return your ballots today!

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Jendrik Illner @jendrikillner.bsky.social · 1d

Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 412 - October 12th, 2025 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...

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Alan Wolfe @demofox.bsky.social · 2d

A short story about time travel (2.5 minute video)
youtube.com/shorts/g_XgP...

When Your Future Self Calls You a Jerk 😬

YouTube video by TROPFEST

youtube.com

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Alan Wolfe @demofox.bsky.social · 2d

I just found out that y=x^2 intersects the unit circle at (+/- sqrt(1/phi), 1/phi).
Im not really sure what to think about this or how to feel about it, but I am shook.

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Seven Years in Quebec @dfeldman.org · 3d

Can you actually tell the difference between lossless and lossy compressed audio? (With your current headphones/speakers and ears)
abx.digitalfeed.net/list.html

ABX High Fidelity Test list

A set of browser-based ABX tests comparing lossless and lossy music samples

abx.digitalfeed.net

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3d

The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.

Maria Greeley, 44, had just finished working a double shift at the Beach Bar on Ohio Street
earlier this month when she said she was surrounded by three federal agents who grabbed her, forced her hands behind her back and zip tied her.
Headphones in, Greeley had been focused on getting home to her two dogs for a walk.
Instead, she said she was detained by masked agents who did not answer when she asked for names. They questioned her for an hour, she said.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3d

When Mike Johnson or another national leader repeatedly claims they haven’t seen relevant things in the news, an appropriate reporter reaction would be “Holy cow, how do you not know?!? How can you do your job without knowing what’s happening? What are you doing to fix your ‘not knowing’ problem?”

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 3d

I don't understand why U.S. reporters so regularly seem to let politicians get away with 'I haven't seen that' about stuff a) they obviously know and b) is directly relevant to their job. Did they sign some kind of agreement never to ask a follow-up question?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

REPORTER: We know the president moved forward with mass layoffs. We're also learning there were significant cuts to staff at special education services. Are you comfortable with those cuts?

MIKE JOHNSON: I haven't seen the specifics of that and I don't know

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Tom Happ @axiomverge.bsky.social · 3d

Everything to do with consoles is like this, TBH. If there was one time I wished for someone to blatantly copy another's hard work, it would be for console makers to clone the steam developer interface.

Clifton B is working on [TBA] @cliftonb.bsky.social · 3d

Me: I'd like to adjust the price of my game

Steam: Cool, enter the new price and we'll provide conversions for every country and be done with it

Nintendo: Cool, do all that work yourself, select a date & time for each country, and all 5 regions will send you individual rejection emails next week

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Nick Kristof @nickkristof.bsky.social · 3d

In Portland, an ambulance was summoned to the ICE office to treat an injured protester (not clear how he was injured). But when the patient was loaded inside, ICE officers refused to let the ambulance leave and threatened to shoot the ambulance driver: www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver

Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

www.wweek.com

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Cara Giovanetti @idontevencara.bsky.social · 4d

Imagine you are an ant. You are close to the ground, have pretty poor eyesight, and can’t see all that far ahead of you. How are you going to find your way back home?

Turns out ants and other insects navigate by a property of light humans can’t even see.

1/7 ⚛️🧪

A close-up image of an ant, eyes prominent, mandibles open and ready for action.

Image credit Egor Kamelev via Pexels, public domain

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Alan Hazelden / Draknek & Friends @draknek.bsky.social · 3d

Calling all ghouls, ghosts and things that go bump in the night - spooky season is upon us and we've just released a new demo for Spooky Express for Steam Next Fest!

Play now for a limited time before launch, if you dare.

store.steampowered.com/app/3352310/...

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 4d

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a cancer vaccine that has shown STUNNING results, PREVENTING up to 88% of MULTIPLE aggressive cancers by harnessing dual-pathway nanoparticles that train the immune system to recognize and destroy tumor cells. In some cases, it COMPLETELY prevented metastasis.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4d

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Seth Rosen @sirrosen.bsky.social · 4d

Pacific Drive is the game I’m most proud of, but there’s absolutely parts of Mafia 3 that rank up there

Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 4d

I’m alternating brethren getting curb stomped in Expedition 33 and curb stomping racists in Mafia 3.

Mafia 3 is SO SATISFYING my god. I’ve replayed the first act like 4 times. I’ve never really made it too far into Cuba

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Alan Wolfe @demofox.bsky.social · 4d

"We're taking dinner orders"
(Game developer)

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 7d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 5d

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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Alan Wolfe @demofox.bsky.social · 5d

Adriano celentano is the original Italian brainrot!

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