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Rob Secundus @robertsecundus.bsky.social · 1d

I’m glad I wasn’t quoted or linked directly, at least

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Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social · 1d

It’s poetic justice that Andrew Cuomo, who has decided to base his entire political identity on being the Italian equivalent of a good ol’ boy, doesn’t even grasp the nuances of the Italian language.

This Fuckin’ Guy just saw an Italian word that looked like “disgrace” and ran with it.

Rob Secundus @robertsecundus.bsky.social · 2d

funniest thing about this is that Cuomo is wrong. "disgraziata" doesn't typically mean "disgrace" as in "shameful." It means something a lot more like "unfortunate" or "unlucky." "Disonore" is the word he should be using here.

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Rob Secundus @robertsecundus.bsky.social · 1d

I was just one of the replies! I think they changed their mind because a bunch of readers expressed concerns.

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Rob Secundus @robertsecundus.bsky.social · 1d

Oh no, I just was one of the replies

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Rob Secundus @robertsecundus.bsky.social · 1d

Oh no

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Rob Secundus @robertsecundus.bsky.social · 2d

funniest thing about this is that Cuomo is wrong. "disgraziata" doesn't typically mean "disgrace" as in "shameful." It means something a lot more like "unfortunate" or "unlucky." "Disonore" is the word he should be using here.

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Rob Secundus @robertsecundus.bsky.social · 1d

Also, ftr, I am not a native speaker, I just took Italian for a few years, thought it sounded off, and looked it up. Entirely possible in wrong but online dictionaries at least agreed with me here.

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Rob Secundus @robertsecundus.bsky.social · 2d

if you saw the previous two versions of this tweet with different typos each time. no you didn't

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Rob Secundus @robertsecundus.bsky.social · 2d

both "disgrace" and "disgraziata" mean "without grace," but in English the "grace" in question means something like "manners" or "respectability," whereas the "grace" in italian is referring to the older conception of divine grace, having good fortune, etc.

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Rob Secundus @robertsecundus.bsky.social · 2d

funniest thing about this is that Cuomo is wrong. "disgraziata" doesn't typically mean "disgrace" as in "shameful." It means something a lot more like "unfortunate" or "unlucky." "Disonore" is the word he should be using here.

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鋼のStephen Meyerink @sjmtaelus.bsky.social · 2d

this is an absolutely unhinged connection to make. literally the thing that every single teams user reports is that they HATE IT

THEY'RE IN TEAMS BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO BE FOR THEIR JOB

"All the data that we see is when people use voice, they love it," says Mehdi. Some of that data is the billions of minutes that people spend talking in Microsoft Teams meetings. "They're talking through their c omputers today, and I think this change to 'talk with and talk to' will come to reality and we'll see this thing really take off," says Mehdi.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 2d

Cuomo: Mamdani "gave the finger to the Columbus Day statue—that's what we call a DISGRAZIATO."

(turns to Sliwa) "Do you know what that means?"

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Danielle Lalonders @dlalonders.bsky.social · 2d

im lowkey 2/2

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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 2d

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors

“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”

www.404media.co

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Rob Secundus @robertsecundus.bsky.social · 2d

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Gareth Gore @garethgore.bsky.social · 2d

Opus Dei "on the cusp of ceasing to exist"

A recent report hints at the imminent suppression of this abusive group

open.substack.com/pub/garethgo...

Opus Dei "on the cusp of ceasing to exist"

A recent report hints at the imminent suppression of this abusive group

open.substack.com

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Rob Secundus @robertsecundus.bsky.social · 2d

i'll do it. i don't have anything else going on

jenny_tightpants🪑 @jtp.bsky.social · 2d

Rob Secundus @robertsecundus.bsky.social · 2d

The quote I gave was in reply to me (in a longer post addressing my thoughts, which was generous of them), but I don't think my post really did anything, individually.

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Rob Secundus @robertsecundus.bsky.social · 2d

oh no, I don't think *I* talked them out of it. I imagine what happened is that a lot of readers sent messages expressing their concerns, and the collective response talked them out of it.

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woke stifler @yelix.bsky.social · 2d

could be anyone!

Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 2d

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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Gore Vidal Sassoon @jimmyjazz1968.bsky.social · 2d

[Spongebob narrator voice] One Day Later....

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Rob Secundus @robertsecundus.bsky.social · 2d

? Where's the benefit of the doubt here? There's a pretty concrete assertion they're making about the future of their work that will be extremely easy to verify lol

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Rob Secundus @robertsecundus.bsky.social · 2d

Ultimately I'm not one either, but as I learn more about things like Hermeticism, I'm finding it useful conceptually (and sometimes, in practice, spiritually)

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Rob Secundus @robertsecundus.bsky.social · 2d

after. I tried to talk with them about that and how my own limited understanding of chaos magic and their philosophy made me think they were wrong about AI, on their own terms. They were very kind in their full reply, even as they pointed out some errors of mine.

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Rob Secundus @robertsecundus.bsky.social · 2d

this means that your computer will be always listening to you, btw, in the way that an alexa-type device is. In order for "hey, copilot!" to work, it *has* to be listening to you at all times. That doesn't mean you're being recorded, or data is being stored, but be aware.

Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 2d

This is the future of Windows. Microsoft wants to rewrite Windows to turn computers into AI PCs that you talk to. It's now bringing AI features to all Windows 11 PCs today, in a bid to convince you to talk to your PC and let AI control it. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/799768/...

Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it

Copilot Voice and Vision are now rolling out.

www.theverge.com

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Bruka Jones @brukajones.com · 2d

There’s a free application, shutup10++, that lets you disable all the shitty windows stuff with a series of checkboxes.
It even tracks if windows rolls anything back between updates and lets you reverse the changes with a click.
I can personally recommend shutup10++ if you need to stick with windows

Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 2d

This is the future of Windows. Microsoft wants to rewrite Windows to turn computers into AI PCs that you talk to. It's now bringing AI features to all Windows 11 PCs today, in a bid to convince you to talk to your PC and let AI control it. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/799768/...

Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it

Copilot Voice and Vision are now rolling out.

www.theverge.com

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