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Fabrizio Scarpa

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Academic at Uni Bristol 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 FRAeS ERC work on #metamaterials and #biobased #materials. Love for history, geopolitics and climate. Banner shows a 2D metamaterial. Links: ibit.ly/b_Dsn and ibit.ly/MuO03 Personal opinions, etc ... 🧪⚙️🤖👾♻️🚤✈️🏋️‍♀️🏛🐈

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Fabrizio Scarpa @flago2009.bsky.social · Dec 1

Content Analysis: A delightful mix of academic rigor and witty banter, Fabrizio’s style reads like a conversation with a friend at a coffee shop, where every sip comes with a side of insight and a sprinkle of sarcasm. Expect footnotes—a lot of them!

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 1d

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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luigijorio.bsky.social @luigijorio.bsky.social · 22h

Farmers around the world are adapting to rising temperatures. In Switzerland they are experimenting with new crops that can withstand heat and drought. @sustainablefarming.bsky.social @fao.org

Sushi rice instead of potatoes? Swiss agriculture adapts to climate change

Farmers are adapting to rising temperatures. In Switzerland they are experimenting with new crops that can withstand heat and drought

www.swissinfo.ch

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Pete Marchetto @petemarchetto.bsky.social · 17h

I'm particularly annoyed with @eddavey.libdems.org.uk Ed Davey for joining in on this. Amsterdam has been chewed over enough now for those who defended the thugs to surely have realised the supporters were at fault. Why are they standing up and hollerin' the same mistake again?

It's ridiculous.

Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 17h

Such effort and instant response from Labour to try and find a way for Israeli football thugs into the country. Why?

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 18h

"There is no universe in which Sam Ashworth-Hayes – or any of Britain’s array of overpaid columnists, commentators and ideological wonks – is more valuable to this country than a care worker"

I wrote for @samfr.bsky.social's Substack on benefits and "contribution" samf.substack.com/p/the-someth...

The "something for nothing" myth

How should we value people's contribution to the country?

samf.substack.com

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 1d

America didn’t win WWII through “inferior tech," it won through organization, integration, and strategy, as well as the myth that Nazi Germany’s “exquisite” weapons outclassed the Allies, and critiques how the media keeps misusing history to sound profound. My latest⬇️

The Myth of Allied Technological Inferiority

World War II, The Free Press, and the Problematic Use of History in Contemporary Media

secretaryrofdefenserock.substack.com

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Leigh Jones @leighsus.bsky.social · 1d

I've been covering this story for the last three years and it's so frustrating how little people seem to care given the scale of what's happened at Teesworks.

This report is superb, and lays it all out. It covers eight pages, but could easily cover more.

I really recommend this.

Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 2d

It certainly could, as our eight-page SPECIAL REPORT sets out in full, financially unsound detail in the new Private Eye, out now.

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Dan Etchells @danetchells.bsky.social · 1d

"Australian tropical rainforest trees switch in world first from carbon sink to emissions source.

Researchers say carbon emissions change in Queensland tropical rainforests may have global climate implications."

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Australian tropical rainforest trees switch in world first from carbon sink to emissions source

Researchers say carbon emissions change in Queensland tropical rainforests may have global climate implications

www.theguardian.com

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 2d

Someone in the crowd: “Go Cubs!”

Pope Leo XIV: “Han perdido! They lost!”

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Fabrizio Scarpa @flago2009.bsky.social · 2d

Only comms?

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Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · 3d

Love that in a few short weeks OpenAI has gone from pretending to be about LLMs as a restrained social good to creating a pure slop TikTok and turning ChatGPT into an explicitly sychophantic fuck machine for gooners

Techmeme @techmeme.com · 3d

Sam Altman says OpenAI plans a ChatGPT version with a "personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o" and will add "erotica for verified adults" (Sam Altman/@sama)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Fabrizio Scarpa @flago2009.bsky.social · 3d

Very vain attempt.

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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 3d

The loss of students from Europe after Brexit is the “elephant in the room” when considering many of the problems UK higher education now faces, according to the authors of a new book. Patrick Jack reports #academicsky
https://ow.ly/hqzn50XazBe

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 3d

1 in 6 bacterial infections now resistant to treatment, says WHO - rising to 1 in 3 in SE Asia on.ft.com/46Zv7Dq

One in six bacterial infections now resistant to treatment, says WHO

Levels of antimicrobial resistance highest in south-east Asia and eastern Mediterranean

on.ft.com

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Prof Mike Yearworth @mikeyearworth.bsky.social · 3d

“Organisations need to "have a plan for how they would continue to operate without their IT, (and rebuild that IT at pace), were an attack to get through," said Richard Horne, chief executive of the NCSC.”

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Have plans on paper in case of cyber-attack, firms told

Prepare to switch to off-line systems in the event of a cyber-attack, firms are being advised.

www.bbc.com

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 4d

It's incredible, they could both be standalone album covers. Lose Your Illusion I and Lose Your Illusion II

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 5d

High resolution images from satellite and from eddy-resolving ocean circulation models point to an ongoing decline of the Atlantic overturning circulation, a key ocean current for our climate. Read more about it in my new blog article. 🌊
www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...

RealClimate: High-resolution ‘fingerprint’ images reveal a weakening Atlantic Ocean circulation (AMOC)

The #AMOC is the reason for Europe’s mild climate. Evidence that it is slowing has been piling up over the years – it now is likely at its weakest in at least a millennium, and it may even be approach...

www.realclimate.org

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Feelingantsy 🇬🇧🇩🇪. Maker of Puns @feelingantsy.bsky.social · 4d

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 4d

The newsletter from agricultural producer news site WATT Poultry is now a primary source of my anxiety. H5N1 is exploding in North American poultry. Every day, a headline like this.

But no human cases. Either there aren't any or there's no testing. Given CDC's dismantling, I can guess.

Headline: "Avian flu invades flock of nearly 2 million Washington hens"

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Fabrizio Scarpa @flago2009.bsky.social · 4d

I think rip-off is a bit understated with markups of that magnitude .

Fabrizio Scarpa @flago2009.bsky.social · 4d

The ETIAS also charges 20/3/30 =0.222 € per nation and per year, while ETA asks for 16/2/4 =2 £ (2.30€ at current forex).

One order of magnitude difference - that's a pretty impressive markup.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 5d

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.

My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:

Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?

t.co/BUTtpK9C4S

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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 4d

We'll know 'gold standard' apprenticeships really are 'gold standard' when politicians think their own kids should do them rather than getting a degree.

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 4d

We won't reduce temps to 1.2C as soon as possible, so this is the death knell for most of the world's stupendous reef communities

Other tipping points will follow - Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets next?

Or maybe AMOC?

All three eventually

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’

Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

www.theguardian.com

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 5d

Britain's youth clubs have been quietly decimated. What's most revealing is that few seem to care | John Harris www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Britain's youth clubs have been quietly decimated. What's most revealing is that few seem to care | John Harris

These vital spaces have been the first targets of cuts in a nation that favours age over youth – despite being the remedy for blights such as social division, polarisation and loneliness, says Guardia...

www.theguardian.com

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 5d

I’m concerned about the changes to the Skilled Worker visa route and the impact it may have on Londoners working for Transport for London, our other public services and beyond.

Sir Sadiq Khan calls for pause on new immigration rules

The mayor of London said the changes had

www.bbc.co.uk

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