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Josh Visser @joshvisser.bsky.social · 3d

I’m big mad

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Josh Visser @joshvisser.bsky.social · 3d

Friends are reporting they are having similar issues. Not good timing for Rogers

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Josh Visser @joshvisser.bsky.social · 3d

Really cool night for Sportnet+ app to keep dying. Not like it’s 400 bucks a year and the World Series

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Josh Visser @joshvisser.bsky.social · 4d

You absolutely send that guy in the 10th. Chill.

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Josh Visser @joshvisser.bsky.social · 6d

Hmmm, the colonel is in the house?

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Mark Medley @markmedley.bsky.social · 12d

My book Live to See the Day is off to the printer and available for preorder. I’d love it if you bought a copy or spread the word. It took me around the world — and took seven years to write! Which is fitting for a book about things that might never happen. www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/645965...

Live to See the Day by Mark Medley | Penguin Random House Canada

An imaginative study of human nature, Live to See the Day is a globe-trotting exploration of what drives certain people to pursue a dream beyond all logic, reason, or reward.

www.penguinrandomhouse.ca

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Josh Visser @joshvisser.bsky.social · 14d

Being a Toronto Blue Jays/New York Rangers fan has been pretty painful since 1995.

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 16d

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.:
*********** * * * * * *
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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Institute for Strategic Dialogue @isdglobal.org · Oct 2

What happens when a fandom obsessed w/ mass killers starts generating its own? Since 2024, the True Crime Community (TCC) has been linked to 16 school shootings/disrupted plots. Attackers seek notoriety, borrowing from past killers w/ a “memetic” twist. ISD analysis & what prevention requires below.

Memetic violence: How the True Crime Community generates its own killers

What happens when a fandom obsessed with high-profile murderers consequently becomes one of the biggest producers of them?

www.isdglobal.org

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Josh Visser @joshvisser.bsky.social · Sep 28

This was a $120M opening in my circle.

Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · Sep 28

'One Battle After Another' lands solidly at the box office with a $22 million debut

Paul Thomas Anderson's 'One Battle After Another' landed at the top of the box office this weekend, marking another win for Warner Bros.

www.latimes.com

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Josh Visser @joshvisser.bsky.social · Sep 6

John Mulaney, pretty funny.

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Josh Visser @joshvisser.bsky.social · Sep 1

Forgot to cancel Britbox so, what’s good there?

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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · Aug 27

AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.

Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action

Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.

arstechnica.com

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Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · Aug 28

A warning I often repeat for those working with attacker manifestos, like the one in Minnesota: resist the temptation to seize on one element that aligns with your own political or policy concern and elevate it as the only motive.

Don't strip-mine manifestos to suit your current political project.

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John @johngoodman.bsky.social · Aug 26

realistic Star Trek

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Josh Visser @joshvisser.bsky.social · Aug 27

Not sure we need AI-enabled smokers.

The Verge @theverge.com · Aug 27

Brisk It’s beginner-friendly smart smoker is more than $100 off for Labor Day

A smoking good deal.

buff.ly

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Josh Visser @joshvisser.bsky.social · Aug 26

It’s funny, if it was a festival I’d cut it some slack and say it was A-OK, but call something a ‘stadium’ and I expect to be able to go to the bathroom/buy beer without leaving the place for a walk. Sound and sightlines were pretty good tho!

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Graham Isador @grahamisador.bsky.social · Aug 26

This is great from @joshokane.bsky.social.

The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · Aug 26

Oasis, impending parenthood and the death of cynicism: How I learned to wear a band’s shirt to their own concert

My millennial mind has been conditioned, since I first started going to concerts, to never wear an artist’s shirt to their own concert, Josh O’Kane writes

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Josh Visser @joshvisser.bsky.social · Aug 26

Can’t be worse!

Josh Visser @joshvisser.bsky.social · Aug 26

Oasis was fun but it’ll take the 1971 Rolling Stones to get me to go back to Rogers Stadium. Just the worst!

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Josh Visser @joshvisser.bsky.social · Aug 25

The last time I saw Oasis, Noel got jumped on stage and Liam was forced to defend his brother in public. Hope it goes better for them tonight.

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Josh Visser @joshvisser.bsky.social · Aug 21

The first Trump admin was supposed to be great for the punk songs but they didn’t really materialize then either.

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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · Aug 21

things were better when the computer lived in its own specific room and you only went in there sometimes

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Josh Visser @joshvisser.bsky.social · Aug 21

Is there anything dumber than parking somewhat illegally because you want to be on time for the doctor?

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Manisha Krishnan @manishakrishnan.bsky.social · Aug 19

Fascinating story by @tessowen.bsky.social on people trying to reconnect to their MAGA parents via book clubs. One woman promised to attend church if her ailing father reads 3 books. “It would be good to know that when I go one day, I’ll see my daughter again,” he says. www.wired.com/story/people...

People Are Trying to ‘Deprogram’ Their MAGA Parents Through Book Clubs

Divisive politics have led people to go “no contact” with their MAGA parents. Some hope reading together could help bridge the gap.

www.wired.com

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