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From 2020: Warner Bros. Signs Deal for AI-Driven Film Management System -- (link) - Remlik Jun 23, 07:23 2
- the chicken who plays tic tac toe at the carnival would make better decisions than Zaslav -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 23, 07:26 1
  - Upper Middle, the best starting position ever! -- nm - Zaslav Jun 23, 07:28
railroad workers (finally) got their paid sick leave -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jun 23, 07:22 1
- And in further labor news, L.A. may be hit by a hotel workers strike right at the beginning of the summer tourist season. -- (link) - Meg Jun 23, 07:45
guess he's just gonna appear In Pro Per then. -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jun 23, 07:18
SCOTUS denies state challenge to the Biden deportation policy. No link yet, but CNN is covering it. -- nm - TWuG Jun 23, 07:15 5
- eat shit Fifth Circuit, if true -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 23, 07:16 4
  - It was a lopsided win, too -- nm - TWuG Jun 23, 07:17 3
    - 8-1, Alito dissent. -- nm - TWuG Jun 23, 07:24 1
      - should of taken him fishing. -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jun 23, 07:25
    - crush them! -- nm - oblique 🌈 Jun 23, 07:21
“Drive-Away Dolls” September 22 -- (link) - mud Jun 23, 07:13 [youtube]
aside from the usual mob mentality of cable news, the sub story also shows how much basic running down of facts journalism just isn't done anymore -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jun 23, 07:10
This guy gets it -- (link) - TWuG Jun 23, 07:05
For anyone following same-sex marriage equality in Japan, my sister and SIL (and niece) spoke before legislators about this issue this week, along with a number of other plaintiffs in the ongoing court cases. -- (link*) - znufrii 🦄 Jun 23, 06:59 1
- Good for them and I hope they start to see the changes they're fighting for. -- nm - Krusty Jun 23, 07:14
Hmmmm Callisto Protocol is on sale for $30. -- nm - sycor Jun 23, 06:51
"I just learned that girls poop." -- nm - Classroom Transcripts Jun 23, 06:50 4
- and sweat—I know, growing up, I naively also put gals on a mysterious pedestal (even though I had two sisters)— - Flavorize Jun 23, 07:11
- Is his worldview shattered? -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jun 23, 06:51
- last day today? -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jun 23, 06:51 1
  - If only. Had to send three people to the office already. We're doing no work... How! -- nm - Reagen Jun 23, 07:19
sweet. 5 things from $5 Fridays today. Favorite is the Star Wars Bounty Hunter collection 4-LOM. Probably only one I will keep - Beaker 🍺 Jun 23, 06:49
NYT let me down horribly with no article solely on the menu for last's state dinner with Modi. Here is what CBS says: - crash davis 😺 Jun 23, 06:31 2
- The menu was vegetarian to honor Modi, though a pescetarian side option was available. The Robb Report was a bit more descriptive - crash davis 😺 Jun 23, 06:34 1
  - if someone could c/p this WaPo article for me, I would award you 3 crash points and one kitty emoji -- (link) - crash davis 😺 Jun 23, 06:39
Another Cameron interview (well, one that I missed). Best one yet. He sums up what he learned from the deep sub community. -- (link) - loosilu Jun 23, 06:25 [youtube]
no Hard Feelings 67% (67/34), Nimona 100% (21/0), Clean 100% (15/0), Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy 100% (14/0) -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jun 23, 06:25 1
- Nimona is a Netflix cartoon but releasing in theatres this week, NF next (I'd heard about it as a friend of our youngest was looking forward to it) -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jun 23, 06:26
Local Politics - another NB Cabinet Minister has resigned and has torched Higgs on his way out. 4 former Presidents of the NB PC Party have also -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 Jun 23, 06:06 1
- boiled down this is normal conservatives vs the hard right wingers who hate gays, French, First Nations, Immigrants, science, etc - Beaker 🍺 Jun 23, 06:11
waffle 4/5 - decline Jun 23, 06:00
On my continuing search for a site to replace reddit I've come across Tildes. It resembles reddit in many ways but it's still in beta and invite only - Krusty Jun 23, 05:51 6
- I never (well, super rarely) used reddit, but I considered jumping into kbin since it's part of the fediverse (and I love Mastodon over twatter) - JaxSean Jun 23, 06:59
- I accidently clicked on a Reddit link the other day to get an answer to a google question. The sub was private and I couldn't read the answer. - sycor Jun 23, 06:03 1
  - :-( It was such a great resource for so many things. It really sucks to lose reddit. - Krusty Jun 23, 06:05
- The thing with all these alternatives is the network effect. They're marginally useless (no offense to ST) until they have an explosion of users. - oblique 🌈 Jun 23, 05:53 2
  - Of course but I'm seeing a lot of people looking to migrate away from reddit and I'm hoping one of these catches on. This seems more intense than - Krusty Jun 23, 06:04
  - true, but a counter: I see forums users say all the time "I posted off-topic here because there's nobody in the on-topic section" - Max Jun 23, 05:58
Ukraine’s Western-Trained Brigades Begin to Enter the Fight - crash davis 😺 Jun 23, 05:50 5
- Chinese Firm Sent Large Shipments of Gunpowder to Russian Munitions Factory - crash davis 😺 Jun 23, 05:55 4
  - Battlefield Update: Ukraine says it stopped Russian advances in the direction of two areas in the east. - crash davis 😺 Jun 23, 06:00 3
    - The U.K. moves to use frozen Russian assets to help Ukraine rebuild. -- (edited) - crash davis 😺 Jun 23, 06:03 2
      - Belarus Is Fast Becoming a ‘Vassal State’ of Russia - crash davis 😺 Jun 23, 06:12 [Backboard]
      - excellent. -- nm - mud Jun 23, 06:08
For anyone's work that uses Azure for any programs there is apparently an network issue this morning. -- nm - Walt_Disney Jun 23, 05:35
Jeopardy/Titan connection -- (link) - Ender Jun 23, 05:24 [tiktok]
TV PSA: Smackdown, Great American Joke Off, AEW Rampage, Carpool Karaoke, Deadloch, Crowded Room, I'm a Virgo, Silo, Swagger, Evil Dead Rise, - Beaker 🍺 Jun 23, 05:10
Correction to a post I made yesterday: Apparently *SeatGuru* hasn’t been updated in years. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jun 23, 05:08
if you have a multi monitor setup, do you tend to use one screen more than the others? like I use the left screen for what I am working on - tRuMaN Jun 23, 05:04 8
- Two monitors drive me nuts because I lose my cursor. I have one. -- nm - loosilu Jun 23, 06:49 1
  - same. -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jun 23, 06:50
- two set up. Left is slackertalk and docs I'm working in. Right side is main program and work email -- nm - Pippy Quintas Jun 23, 06:26
- Left is for main work window. Right is portrait to read the records I'm working with for a case. -- nm - sycor Jun 23, 05:38
- Right screen: email, left screen: everything else -- nm - znufrii 🦄 Jun 23, 05:35
- Theresa uses three with one dedicated to just email, one for doing most of her work and the third for supporting documents needed for the main job. - Krusty Jun 23, 05:08
- portrait screen for email, coding, reading docs, some excel, landscape for modelling, laptop for other stuff. -- nm - mafic Jun 23, 05:07
- I have 3 so the middle one is the most used. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jun 23, 05:05
The large increase in road deaths is not because people look at their phones and aren't paying attention. It's because of the roads and the drivers. - Krusty Jun 23, 05:03 8
- They still need to break out whether pedestrians were in/out of crosswalks or with/against signage to draw that conclusion. - Max Jun 23, 05:47 7
  - Decades ago San Fran study showed that cross walks only give the pedestrian a false sense of safety -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 23, 12:12
  - If people not crossing at a corner was a major factor I assume it would have been included in the report. Road design and driver behavior are by far -- (edited) - Krusty Jun 23, 05:59 5
    - Enforcement has certainly lessened but has the road design really changed for the worse? - Max Jun 23, 06:05 4
      - It hasn't changed for the worse as it was already poorly designed. Most cities designed their roads with the idea of moving cars as fast as possible - Krusty Jun 23, 06:09 3
        
        If road design hasn't changed while the numbers have gone up, how is road design a factor? - Max Jun 23, 06:13 1
        
        How people get around is changing and the types of vehicles people are using has changed as well. Behavior has changed but that's more on enforcement - Krusty Jun 23, 06:20
        
        Speed limits are too high in many places, especially around schools. -- nm - Krusty Jun 23, 06:10
Wordle 734 3/6 - prayformojo 🐵 Jun 23, 03:43 2
- 6 - decline Jun 23, 05:53
- 4 - Fuzzy Jun 23, 04:53
Well FU 2 A new mutant COVID strain called FU.1 (also known as XBB.1.16.1.1) — spreading in Asia and likely to hit Australia. -- (link) - zeitgeist Jun 23, 02:27 1
- BuT cOvId Is OvEr! -- nm - sycor Jun 23, 04:09
"Critics Say Submersible Should've Been Tested With Poor Passengers First" -- The Onion -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 23, 02:14
Spider-Gwen is a perfect 10 character thus far in Spider-Verse. - David Jun 22, 22:57
Josh Gates turned down doing an episode about a Titan trip for safety reasons. He also won't talk bad about Stockton. -- (link) - loosilu Jun 22, 21:42 [youtube] 11
- *PIERS MORGAN WARNING* -- nm - Ender Jun 22, 21:53 10
  - In other PM news - Privacy trial judge asks why Piers Morgan has not given evidence -- (link) - LMS Jun 23, 04:21
  - Yikes, so sorry, meant to warn. Cover the left side of the screen. -- nm - loosilu Jun 22, 21:56
  - Gross. -- nm - David Jun 22, 21:54 7
    - I wish it wasn't him, because I think it's worthwhile. -- nm - loosilu Jun 22, 21:57 6
      - I like some of his opinions -- nm - Peglegpete Jun 22, 22:44 3
        
        you also hate Madonna and Hugh Grant? -- nm - mafic Jun 22, 23:01 2
        
        Definitely the first one. - David Jun 22, 23:36 1
        
        yup -- nm - Peglegpete Jun 23, 10:47
      - maybe someone can come up with a deep fake engine that just replaces Piers Morgan with a simulated personality. - Beryllium Jun 22, 22:01 1
        
        Some say this is already what has happened. -- nm - Reagen Jun 23, 02:37
According to MAGAs, the sub implosion is a direct result of woke hiring. - loosilu Jun 22, 21:34 4
- Who cares what they think? Those people have lots of crazy thoughts. -- nm - Krusty Jun 23, 04:45
- we're probably gonna get a lot of stories by ex-employees and scientists the next few weeks about the abnormal directions the company was going in - Peglegpete Jun 22, 21:47 2
  - Boeing issued a statement saying they had nothing to do with the sub, they did do some work on a previous project that was nowhere as deep -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 23, 01:00
  - Pretty sure you're right. I also feel like he misrepresented it to the passengers. -- nm - loosilu Jun 22, 21:57
The plot of Creed III is a mess. Eeesh. -- nm - MDH Jun 22, 21:21
Hey, maybe we can all start reading our Terms and Conditions -- nm* - con_carne Jun 22, 20:58 2
- relax and just sign. we're safe. no reason for you to read anything, or let a lawyer read it. -- nm - OceanGate Jun 22, 21:20
- Void where prohibited. -- nm - Qale Jun 22, 21:04
that was a Brilliant Star Trek Strange New Worlds. Might be the best legal Trek episode ever. Even better than TNG's Measure of a Man. -- nm - Remlik Jun 22, 20:50 4
- Did they use a Star Fleet lawyer this time? -- nm - Mop Jun 22, 21:11 1
  - Even better. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 22, 22:03
- Has the Lower Decks crossover happened yet? -- nm - David Jun 22, 20:51 1
  - No. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 22, 22:25
writers are generally loath to call out other bad writers by name (who knows where paths might cross?) but pretty much everyone is dunking on Taylor -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jun 22, 20:46
The Explorers Club - who lost two members on the Titan - has a statement on their website. -- (link) - Mop🧹 Jun 22, 20:38 1
- That's a club where I would like to have lunch and just listen to their stories. -- nm - loosilu Jun 22, 21:38
tonight Dead & Co. did covers of songs by: the Beatles, Traffic, Dylan, Bonnie Dobson, Merle Haggard & Miles Davis. -- nm - Peglegpete Jun 22, 20:37
What I don't understand is why the French guy went on the Trip. He's legendary. He was part of the group that found Titanic. - loosilu Jun 22, 20:32 7
- French guys gotta eat. -- nm - mafic Jun 22, 21:09 1
  - but very little and with a lot of butter. -- nm - Reagen Jun 23, 03:35
- I thought he was one of the guides for the company ... -- nm - Beryllium Jun 22, 21:08 2
  - Well yeah, therefore he was there by choice. - loosilu Jun 22, 21:26 1
    - I'm not sure there's anything to follow? -- nm - Beryllium Jun 22, 22:27
- "...has traveled to the wreckage 35 times before." I guess he wanted to see what it was like to do the trip in an unsafe vessel. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jun 22, 20:37 1
  - The thrill was gone? -- nm - loosilu Jun 22, 20:42
Roger More, if you've seen Deadloch on Amazom Prime, are those authentic Tasmanian accents? -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jun 22, 20:27 1
- I haven't seen it, but looking at the wiki page it was filmed where I grew up -- (link) - Roger More Jun 23, 07:05
Rep Dan Crenshaw slams Coast Guard response to sub. - loosilu Jun 22, 20:24 5
- standard republican disinformation BS - mafic Jun 22, 21:12 1
  - Yes, it's basically AI at this point. -- nm - loosilu Jun 22, 21:26
- Fuck that guy. -- nm - Qale Jun 22, 21:07
- Man, that's a lot of weasel words from Crenshaw in one breath. "I've been hearing a lot of things... we've got to look into it..." - Mop🧹 Jun 22, 20:33 1
  - I guess he's implying that it's Biden's fault. ISTG these folks are deranged. -- nm - loosilu Jun 22, 20:44
Interview with Cameron AND Bob Ballard. -- (link) - loosilu Jun 22, 19:57 [youtube] 2
- thanks. I watch anything with Bob Ballard :)))) -- nm - Peglegpete Jun 22, 20:33 1
  - It's wild to listen to these guys who think of a site 2.5 miles down as a familiar place. -- nm - loosilu Jun 22, 20:54
This season of Black Mirror is DARK. -- nm - Andie Jun 22, 19:41 19
- You must have watched episode 3 -- nm - Jovian Jun 23, 05:54
- I've never watched any black mirror. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 22, 20:18 7
  - How about Inside Number 9? At least those episodes are 30 minutes each and probably more consistently great. -- nm - LMS Jun 23, 04:04
  - Watch when you’ve had an above average day, because it’ll bring you loooooowww. Or just kick yourself in the groin, 5 times—same aftermath of emotions -- nm - Flavorize Jun 22, 20:30
  - The "black mirror" refers to screens. -- nm - loosilu Jun 22, 20:24 1
    - Well then I have exclusively watched black mirror -- nm - Beryllium Jun 22, 20:30
  - it's more high end than Low Budget Tales of Cliched Horror but . . . basically a shinier, tech-based this -- (link*) - hollywood big shot Jun 22, 20:21 [youtube] 1
    - So, Sand Kings but better. Got it. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 22, 20:29
  - It's dark. -- nm - loosilu Jun 22, 20:18
- Billionaires with hubris dying this way? I'm sorry, care to elaborate in what way is this dark? -- nm - con_carne Jun 22, 20:11 2
  - Projecting? I was talking about Black Mirror. -- nm* - Andie Jun 22, 20:20
  - Haven't watched the show -- nm - con_carne Jun 22, 20:12
- Darker than others? Yikes -- nm - Pippy 🏳️‍🌈 Jun 22, 20:06 1
  - Exactly. I'm out. -- nm - loosilu Jun 22, 20:13
- Thanks for the warning, I'll pass. -- nm - loosilu Jun 22, 19:45
- yeah, not a lot of feel-good content in it -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Jun 22, 19:42 1
  - episode 1 of season 6 is about as feel good as you can get since San Junipero -- nm - Jovian Jun 23, 06:55
- i quit it after that turrible Choose Your Own Death gimmick ep -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 22, 19:42 1
  - I got stuck in it for like 2 hours. -- nm - loosilu Jun 22, 19:43
Here it is, your moment of wolf zen. -- (link) - Qale Jun 22, 19:40 1
- :-] -- nm - mud Jun 22, 20:12
one takeaway from all of the post-mortem analysis is Robert Ballard was probably a lot braver doing this with a 1986 Alvin than i gave him credit for -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 22, 19:33 6
- I think there's a video around of an unmanned test of the Bathysphere, when a pressure seal failed. -- (pic) - Beryllium Jun 22, 19:41 [Attachment] 3
  - It would have been gruesome, but quick. -- (pic) - Beryllium Jun 22, 19:42 [Attachment] 2
    - Here ... -- (link) - Beryllium Jun 22, 20:14 [youtube] 1
      - WHOA. -- nm - loosilu Jun 22, 20:18
- Alvin was a golden god. I worked on mid-ocean ridge samples Alvin collected in university. -- nm - mafic Jun 22, 19:36 1
  - okay but now imagine an Empire State Building made entirely of lead . . . -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 22, 19:41

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