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

INTERVIEW OF 10 BY LCDR 11 Q. So how did you get yourself started into submersible 12 operations? 13 A. Well, I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic. When I 14 set down the path to make that film, the first thing that I did 15 was arrange to be introduced to the head of the submersible 16 program at the P.P. Shirshov Institute in Moscow, a guy named 17| Professor I. I did that through a mutual friend 18 of ours, a guy named , who is one of the preeminent underwater cinematographers in the world. And had been on a 20 submersible expedition out to Titanic the previous year with the 21 Russians. And that was organized by a Canadian company that was 22 doing an IMAX film which was released under the title Titanica.

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."

Well now I’m tempted… 😂

let me note that one of the actual tests here is going to be 'what do people pushing these ideas want for their own children' and I will bet you a lot of money that the answer is 'the elite university model of Harvard et al' not 'learning through AI slop'

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat. People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

I wish I could do this, some days.

Sadly I split my time between an office I can walk to, and an office I get to by train. Neither of which are great karaoke-therapy environments 😅

There is no need for a moral panic about the UK's welfare system.

Far from perfect but recent discourse is nuts

Spending is controlled, not spiralling

Worklessness is near record lows

My column www.ft.com/content/ee67...

Friendly reminder that Tidal ($10.99) is now cheaper than Spotify ($11.99), delivers better audio quality, pays its artists 2x as much, and generally doesn't allow AI slop.

You can move your entire music library over in a matter of minutes.

Learned today about a town just inside Nevada’s border with California called Primm.

As it has a pretty interesting history, I’ve now worked up its fictional counterpart for the thing I’m writing, to be used if/when I can get from planning to writing.

It is, of course, called Propper.

One for the Gundam fans and the “Newtypes are kinda autistic-psychics” meme.

It’s not *wrong*…

“Hold up, Ewa’s got other things on her plate. Can we reschedule?”

“Can you do better than this absolute trash, kids? Hopefully…”

Morning! (just 😅)

HS2 is a perfect example. The public narrative quickly became “£100bn to get from London to Birmingham a bit quicker?!”

It should’ve been about all the things you’re suggesting, with speed as a happy byproduct of building brand-new infrastructure.

Japan did it in 1964; we can’t in 2025. It’s grim.

“People who can’t stand me can stop me interacting with them, and that’s A BAD THING because it turns out most people can’t stand me.”

- basically all finger-wagging reply people.

Scrolling through, scrolling through, wondering what the pro-…

…why would someone make an en-suite like that. Why.

Bad enough when hotel rooms give the bathroom a glass wall. ‘cause nothing says “romance” like “see your partner on the loo.”

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu." Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Bland, tastefully so at least.

Far too often the kind of people who can afford yachts go way overboard with tacky features, from what I’ve seen. Ones they think flaunt their wealth, and instead prove money can’t buy taste.

Certainly the case for Microsoft’s other big subscription service, Office 365. This year’s big price hike was “justified” by the inclusion of Copilot.

To avoid the price hike I started the cancellation process, at which point I was offered ‘Office 365 Classic.’ Same price as last year, no Copilot.

Genuinely surprised he survived in prison as long as he has, given the scale of his crimes.

While I’m not one to revel in a person’s death, I do hope he won’t be mourned too long or too deeply. Whatever joy his music brought, his crimes were horrific beyond measure.

I hope his victims find peace.

And so do the horses!

…plus other hilarious original jokes.

Debuted in Japanese cinemas around the same time. Both huge sci-fi IPs. Both pretty awesome movies.

Lots of reasons, in short!

Gundam Seed Merges With Dune: Part Two in Epic Sci-Fi Collaboration Two of the hottest current properties in sci-fi have merged in an official collab between Dune: Part Two and the new release of Gundam Seed Freedom.

Well, the poster already exists. So there’s that!

www.cbr.com/gundam-seed-...

Gundam fandom has been weird about SEED, and especially Destiny, pretty much since they came out. I remember it all too well.

A lot of the ‘SEED bad’ stuff seems to have come from memes, rather than the show itself. It’s almost cliche now for people to think SEED is bad, then watch it and enjoy it.

Ooh, GX is in the CCG now? I might have to give this a look…

Paging @sharkabytes.bsky.social - very relevant to your interests!

This isn’t just “Charlie Brown had hoes” levels of wrong it’s “Charlie Brown never had a dog” levels of wrong

however even they will only be allowed to use it in the Internet Room.

after careful study, I believe only people born between 1975 and 1995 should be allowed to use the internet

a man in a tuxedo and suspenders is holding a baton and says science Alt: Bill Nye the Science Guy on Dancing With the Stars, being shocked by the very concept of Science(!!!)

See it through, see if you can turn it around? And if not, new game where you go even more sciencey.

Been thinking about BioShock Infinite a lot recently. One of my all-time favourite games.

Never did finish Burial at Sea Episode Two, which is a shame as that DLC is pretty amazing. Seems like a good opportunity to dust off the Switch and play it again!

Constants and variables, indeed…