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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."

I wrote to Tony Burke about the closure of Meanjin, and finally received a reply from the office of Jason Clare, who had been forwarded the message because it was an issue for higher education, rather than the arts (!).

This is a wholly embarrassing and inadequate buck pass and response.

A tumblr post that reads "WHo would have believed that the perfect wikipedia photo caption could have been improved upon?" Two identical images are then side by side. The first caption is "Piper Kerr, a member of the Scottis National Antarctix Expedition, plays the bagpipes for an indifferent penguin, March 1904". The Caption for the image on the left reads, "Piper Kerr (right), a member of the Scottis National Antarctix Expedition, plays the bagpipes for an indifferent penguin, March 1904"

i feel like i need to share this oldie but a goodie today

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

"even MTG is condemning the Gaza genocide!" false. absurd. the words of a maniac. she has simply determined that at present, her wholly unchanged Christofascist white supremacist goals are served more effectively by opposing Israel. in your heart you know she loses no sleep over dead Muslim children

Everyone once in a while I remember Poncher exists and I get so fucking mad lol.

I know we got infinitely more substantive stuff to achieve first but the final step on the road to feminist utopia will be disinterring that creep and hurling his remains into the sea.

It's so important to keep the "non-consensual" part of generative AI front and center.

This one leaves a particularly foul taste in my mouth because Monroe’s exploitation DIDN’T end w death.

Richard Poncher demanded to be buried face-down in the crypt above her. Hugh Hefner, who exploited her images in life, dropped
75K to “spend eternity” next to her.

Let this woman REST!

Did people all get hit in the head with the a hammer at the same time? What is going on?

Holy shit!!! That’s huge, mate, congrats.

“I don’t wish death on Jay, I wish for her and her team to grow a conscience. I disagree with the decision and how it was handled. My account was taken down without any explanation for almost a full day in what can only be viewed as a retroactive ban.” grow a conscience is why Link was banned

Reposting this for @ingridm.bsky.social thread of links (next time you need evidence of a bunch of times white colonial science finally figured out a way to show what Indigenous knowledge holders have known for millennia).

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

In the video Smith posted online, he said Neuralink engineers had started using language models including ChatGPT and Grok to serve up a selection of relevant replies to questions, as well as options for things he could say in conversations going on around him. One example that he outlined: “My friend asked me for ideas for his girlfriend who loves horses. I chose the option that told him in my voice to get her a bouquet of carrots. What a creative and funny idea.” These aren’t really his thoughts, but they will do—since brain-clicking once in a menu of choices is much faster than typing out a complete answer, which can take minutes.

I am straight-up going to have nightmares about this

Five minutes ago I was blissfully unaware of the fact that Elon has progressed to the human experimentation stage of Neuralink.

I was going to post a screenshot of David Archer from Mass Effect while he was plugged into the Geth but actually they were all too fucking horrifying so iykyk I guess

Ok, Final ep of my sprint to rewatch all of Buffy!

I really think Chosen knocks it out of the park in most ways. It answers the central big problem of the show, which is that it’s entirely unfair to demand one girl give up her life and fight until she’s dead.

running the government like you just did a leveraged buyout but the private equity holders are breathing down your neck and you're not very good at this

It's in the liminal state that you're most psychologically vulnerable to anything that promises a return to structure, an escape from the dark corridors back into the bustle of crowds and normality.

And interestingly, there *are* monsters in the liminal state, the dark places between other places.

It's in this liminal state that you're most vulnerable to a monster persuading you.

What happens then, is you somehow bump into another person also wandering the quiet corridors, and form a community

This is called "normative communitas," a camaraderie that exists among people who find themselves in the same liminal space they thought they were alone in.

An interesting concept in anthropology is liminality.

Liminality is just the temporal version of finding yourself in a liminal place. When you're right on the cusp of a life milestone, not quite before or after it.

How I write every piece

Just elbowing our way to the front of the crowd to shout WOW 😍 THE EMPEROR’S JACKET SURE IS SHINY!!! while he marches past, not sparing us a glance

I came of age during the early years of the war on terror, so I’ve become fairly resigned to Australian foreign policy being oriented entirely towards pleasing the US.

But I’m flabbergasted that there’s been no course correction this year. Like not even a little rhetorical distancing. Incredible.

The image shows Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Donald Trump shaking hands while facing each other. RFK Jr., on the left, has gray hair and is wearing a blue pinstripe suit with a white shirt and dark tie. Donald Trump, on the right, has blond hair and is dressed in a dark blue suit with a white shirt and red tie. They are standing against a backdrop of fireworks, which fill the background with bright, scattered bursts of light.

Sauron greeting the returning Nazgûl at Mount Doom, c2024, colorized

One of my dogs sheds so it would filthy within hours but oh, how I would luxuriate amidst all that dog hair.