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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 5h

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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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 12h

"women don't like the vehicle" is going to be lodged in my brain's neocortex for the rest of my natural life www.wired.com/story/owning...

Q: And are you married?
A: I was married, but I’m not married anymore. Women don't like the vehicle.

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 9h

You're writing this down right? Good. As I was saying my car sucked so bad my wife left me. Yes I can spell my name for you.

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Dave Convery @zomda.bsky.social · 16h

Cultural appropriation

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 18h

But what about accuracy -

*touches ear radio*

Oh.

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 20h

In today's least surprising news

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Dave Convery @zomda.bsky.social · 19h

kinda

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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 1d

"Dance, dance, dance, dance, dance to the radio..."

Joy Division, live on BBC2, 15 September 1979.

Tussauds' waxwork of Lee Harvey Oswald killing

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 1d

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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eli yudin @eliyudin.com · 1d

finally AI comes for my job, a guy who writes erotica containing heavy use of the phrase “as a result”

The Verge @theverge.com · 2d

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

buff.ly

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 1d

kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 1d

Book Cover of the Day:

Ed Gorey cover:
Nineteenth Century German Tales
Edited by Angel Flores
A Doubleday Anchor Original
Illustration of spider in flames with scrubby landscape and cliffside in background.

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Dave Convery @zomda.bsky.social · 1d

Apparently I need to verify my age to get full use of the Xbox account I have had since 2002.

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Dave Convery @zomda.bsky.social · 2d

It’s vital that we boil the seas so people can have a genuinely tragic wank.

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 2d

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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cpuk (trampoline park connoisseur and occasional comic printer) @comicprintinguk.bsky.social · 2d

It is very important to me that all migrants are able to compose a 1000 word essay on the themes of Sassoon’s war poetry.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 2d

Migrants will need A-level standard English to work in UK

www.independent.co.uk

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James Kelleher @jameskelleher.pilcrow.ie · 2d

Next time somebody asks me what Bluesky is like, I'll send them this

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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 2d

We should never have written stories down, stories are meant to be told to us by a very old man over a flagon of mead by a roaring fire

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 3d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Joel @storywonker.bsky.social · 3d

Meme:

OP: why do you need a specific word for being thrown out of a window

The burgomaster of Prague: i be in situations

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www.hottopic.com @chuunitoons.bsky.social · 3d

official space ghost coast to coast website circa 2000

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 3d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Dave Convery @zomda.bsky.social · 4d

Ended up taking a slightly different approach with this. Appoech.

A small bust of Edgar Allan Poe, painted to look as though it is illuminated by candlelight from the front and slightly below.

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Karthik Sankaran @rajakorman.bsky.social · 5d

The Uncanny Valet

Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 5d

our economy is currently being propped up by the promise of billions of fully autonomous robot butlers coming in a year or so

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 5d

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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Alex Kain @tdcpresents.bsky.social · 5d

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 6d

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

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Dave Convery @zomda.bsky.social · 5d

That is nice, but I fear I would bankrupt myself on Cuban shirts to go with