AI

People ask me how I visualize success and there's all sorts of cogent ways to explain it, but inside my head I've already got it visualized and unfortunately it's this

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."

Mercury Prize judges clearly figured that choosing anyone else would have made leaving Newcastle alive tricky

(Though it's a damn good album)

At a local No Kings rally near Innsmouth, Massachusetts, *every* protester showed up in an inflatable frog costume.

They must be from a different supplier than the Portland frog's costume, though. Bystanders describe the costumes as more like fish-frogs, "batrachian," with an odd, loping gait.

Easily the best sci-fi comic out there.

Gang, it’s the most ridiculous marketing I’ve ever seen. Behold! The Hallmark Channel’s COUNTDOWN to the COUNTDOWN to Christmas.

It is very much affectionate.

There's one at the desk behind me it jumpscares me

the thing that's killing me is if you just aired these comments as is the majority of people would rightly demand to know wtf these people are getting paid for.
they're not even gambling with our pensions at the casino, they've gone outside and set it on fire to keep warm.

I'm fairly sure I sound crazy but this is literally what these people are saying and it's so much of The Economy

I was trying to explain to a colleague the maddening idea that the tech CEOs are openly going "sure this is a bubble and everything is overinflated in value but it'll be ok if we create god" and the fuckers keep saying it

Photo of the unfortunate vessel, suspiciously close to the shore and even more suspiciously not moving...

Interesting events on the Norwegian/Swedish border, where the Hagland Captain is still stuck next to the Svinesund Bridge having failed to successfully identify the wet bit that runs underneath it.

Ah yes that'll be it

A screenshot of Trainline’s AI Assistant beta, with a warning that ‘its content may be surprising or inaccurate’.

‘Surprising’

One of my colleagues is on long term sick leave and now our boss has started making cardboard cutouts of him

guys I'm not sure my gym is "closed for a temporary refurbishment" after all

Would explain the anger

So he does no poos?

Oh this is extremely male-coded.

No idea what the PPM thing is about

Surprising no-one, that car registration plate isn't legal. 100% guarantee this guy is a Freeman Upon The Land

Daniel

wonderful, here's someone who's never going to be able to reverse into a parking space again

Happy Outwith Day to all who celebrate, both inwith and outwith Scotland

A black cat crouches goblin-like in an empty bath, one paw raised. "You wash in here? Okay then I wash in here."

Slightly blurry close-up of a sleeping black cat, legs stretched out in a bundle of paws. She might be smiling in her sleep. She is probably contemplating crimes.

I am truly happy to have this idiot back, but she did wake me up by jumping off the bed in the middle of the night, and then again at 5 something by jumping on my pillow to get to the windowsill, where she proceeded to wash herself noisily for like an hour.

hey leave scotland out of this

happens to everyone eventually I think

Discworld QOTD, from Reaper Man

how do you know if someone's vegan?

they'll tell you 🤣

cos knowing someone's dietary requirements is important and also very respectful, well done for asking

London is proud to host Japan's Grand Sumo Tournament this week - it's fantastic to see the the teams using our cycling infrastructure to get around.

Lord, I'm Discouraged, by The Hold Steady from the album Live in London 3-7-20

( live version using the double neck , from an extremely weird weekend on the precipice of the end of the world)
theholdsteady.bandcamp.com/track/lord-i...