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A suggestion has been floated for open AI's new CEO... -- (link*) - Beryllium Nov 18, 10:18 [mastodon]
"rapid unscheduled disassembly" -- nm - David Nov 18, 09:38 10
- It’s when they start saying it’s an RSD that we got issues. -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 18, 09:39 9
  - I'm trying to decide on the best way to describe the Titanic. - David Nov 18, 09:40 8
    - Spontaneous Inventory Reduction -- nm - zeitgeist Nov 18, 13:04 1
      - Wait, make Dispersement since it obviously dispersed itself in the atmosphere -- nm - zeitgeist Nov 18, 13:06
    - Underdeveloped Soapoperatic Mat.. Oh, you mean the ship. Unplanned Density Shift, then. (NM) - Marlowe Nov 18, 10:19
    - Delayed Subsurface Destruction -- nm - ReluctantCynic Nov 18, 09:48
    - Rapid Resultant Refrigeration -- nm* - crash davis 😺 Nov 18, 09:47
    - Coronal mass ejection (CME) -- nm - budice Nov 18, 09:46
    - Unwanted hydration infiltration. -- nm - Reagen Nov 18, 09:43
    - Unplanned invasively waterlogged -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 18, 09:42
I have a student with the last name "Elderkin" and everytime I see it I think "am I teaching an elf?" -- nm - Reagen Nov 18, 09:17 2
- Eh, probably. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Nov 18, 09:47 1
  - or a mind flayer -- nm - crash davis 😺 Nov 18, 10:22
A successful local card show. - Will Hunting Nov 18, 08:55 [Attachment] 4
- 😺 -- nm - crash davis 😺 Nov 18, 10:21
- Who's the prospect? I can't get it to zoom in properly. -- nm - Mop🧹 Nov 18, 10:09 2
  - Jackson Holliday -- 19yrs old and had a legitimate case to be in the majors this year. - Will Hunting Nov 18, 10:16 1
    - How much? And how much was the Hank Aaron? -- nm - David Nov 18, 10:28
SpaceX claims Starship was intentionally destroyed - by onboard systems. Why am I sceptical? -- (link) - Meg Nov 18, 08:35 21
- although i think sending humans to Mars, exploratorily, is a noble idea, Elon's dream of a human colony there is stupid even for him -- nm - hollywood big shot Nov 18, 10:13 1
  - I think an offsite backup of humanity is a great idea. But building a self-sustaining space colony is an utterly insane amount of complexity. - Beryllium Nov 18, 10:24
- Have they ever considered designing a rocket that won't blow up? Cos it might be to give that a try -- nm - prayformojo Nov 18, 08:57 2
  - Well…actshooly…not really -- (edited) - JD Nov 18, 10:05 [youtube]
  - Look at Mister College Professor over here. -- nm - David Nov 18, 09:40
- Are the onboard systems intentionally destroying Twitter as well? (NM) - Marlowe Nov 18, 08:49 2
  - I'm stealing this. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Nov 18, 09:52
  - I laughed hard at this. -- nm - David Nov 18, 09:39
- It doesn't make them look better -- it just means they knew something was going to go wrong later so they blew it up safely. - Reagen Nov 18, 08:42 9
  - AI was about to go rogue. -- nm - Spawn Nov 18, 10:02
  - From what I've seen, ground control lost contact with the Starship for long enough that they hit the auto-destruct button. - ReluctantCynic Nov 18, 09:50
  - Yeah, blow up now and we don’t have debris in a populated area but in a few minutes, we’re raining shit on Europe. -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 18, 08:47 6
    - That still means it failed. -- nm - Jovian Nov 18, 09:13 3
      - I don't think anyone is disputing that, just that it failed without additional damage. -- nm - Reagen Nov 18, 09:16 2
        
        Fail vs Epic Fail. -- nm - Spawn Nov 18, 10:06 1
        
        This is an improvement over last time so yay! - Will Hunting Nov 18, 10:09
    - Africa, in this case, which makes you wonder why he cared - Reagen Nov 18, 09:03
    - Guess I'm having trouble trusting anything that comes from that company. Better to say it was intentional rather than accidental. -- nm - Meg Nov 18, 08:56
- and i think we all know who secretly runs the onboard systems of the world -- nm - hollywood big shot Nov 18, 08:42 2
  - HAL? Sky net? -- nm - VMan Nov 18, 09:16 1
    - HAL is a rather semitic name for a computer -- nm - hollywood big shot Nov 18, 10:14
Bruins Milan Lucic arrested Friday evening for an alleged domestic violence incident. On Leave from team. -- nm - budice Nov 18, 08:34
Race start is at 11, have to pick up my number by 10, train gets in at 9:30 - znufrii, vice president Nov 18, 05:53 5
- Train is on time though, so that’s good. -- nm - znufrii, vice president Nov 18, 05:56 4
  - Here goes nothing. -- nm - znufrii, vice president Nov 18, 07:38 3
    - Run fast!!! -- nm - Krusty Nov 18, 07:52 2
      - 58:18 -- (edited) - znufrii, vice president Nov 18, 09:04 1
        
        😺👍 -- nm - crash davis 😺 Nov 18, 09:48
Did the spacex launch feed just get hacked? -- nm - tRuMaN Nov 18, 05:10 5
- Jewish space lasers ftw -- nm - hollywood big shot Nov 18, 06:45
- Loss of booster just after stage separation. Looking like loss of ship just after engine cutoff. - TWuG Nov 18, 05:19 3
  - Well yeah, but the spaced feed on YouTube suddenly went to a musk giving away crypto feed - tRuMaN Nov 18, 05:27 2
    - Ah. SpaceX only ran their stream on the SpaceX site and TwiXer, so that was a rebroadcast you were watching. - TWuG Nov 18, 05:35
    - No no, that's just free speach or something. (NM) - Marlowe Nov 18, 05:30
Cry moar. -- (link) - znufrii, vice president Nov 18, 04:35 4
- "Is this Twitter?" "Are these Nazi posts?" "Are those ads next to the Nazi posts?" "No further questions, your honor." - Mop🧹 Nov 18, 10:08
- Good luck dumbass. Throw a few more millions at a loser lawsuit. That will help. -- nm - pmb Nov 18, 09:00
- "Free speech! But not if it affects muh monies!" - TWuG Nov 18, 05:22 1
  - who wants to buy ads on a service that will sue you if you stop buying ads on that service. and saying the users post nazi shit is free speech too. -- nm - zeitgeist Nov 18, 11:22
Wordle 882 5/6 - crash davis 😺 Nov 18, 03:54 3
- 5 - all green - rollo Nov 18, 07:37
- 5/6 Space Invaders - prayformojo Nov 18, 06:10
- 3 - decline Nov 18, 04:46
TV PSA: Kennedy, College Football, NHL, NBA, UFC, The Railway Men (Bhopal 1984), Planet Earth III, All Rise, SNL (Jason Momoa; Tate McRae), - Beaker 🍻 Nov 18, 03:32
Connections 160 - Perfect - TWuG Nov 18, 01:59 5
- No problems. - VMan Nov 18, 07:55
- the purple FU - rollo Nov 18, 07:40
- 1 mistake - decline Nov 18, 04:48
- Perfect reverse - znufrii, vice president Nov 18, 04:03
- Connections Puzzle #160 - crash davis 😺 Nov 18, 03:50
Cool timelapse photo of surveillance jets above San Fran during Biden/Xi meeting... -- (pic) - zeitgeist Nov 18, 01:06 [Attachment] 1
- neat! -- nm - Beryllium Nov 18, 01:25
I was looking through book series for ones to add to my wishlist, and my memory half-twigged on something ... and now I can't remember what. - Beryllium Nov 17, 22:54 1
- hmm, I think I remembered it. - Beryllium Nov 17, 23:06
My D&D character died - JD Nov 17, 22:53 1
- 👍👍 -- nm - crash davis 😺 Nov 18, 03:50
The Insurrectionist in Chief will remain on Colorado ballot after judge dismisses suit to block him. (sigh) -- (link) - zeitgeist Nov 17, 22:20 1
- to be clear, the judge found that he committed the acts of an insurrectionist but (somehow) was not acting as an agent of the United States - hollywood big shot Nov 17, 23:45
"So close. The puzzle is filled, but at least one square’s amiss. Grrrr..." -- nm - crash davis 😺 Nov 17, 22:19 4
- "Congratulations! You solved a Saturday Crossword in 1:33:36. YOU HAVE A 14-DAY STREAK" 45 minutes longer than yesterday but I will take it -- nm - crash davis 😺 Nov 18, 04:00 3
  - Excellent! (streak is up to 151 days) -- nm* - prayformojo Nov 18, 06:57 1
    - I salute that streak -- nm - crash davis 😺 Nov 18, 09:53
  - Very nice! A lot of wordplay and misdirection in this one so not easy -- nm - Baron-Yogg Nov 18, 06:26
Fascinating documentary on Peacock - The Secret Life of the Cruise. -- nm - Meg Nov 17, 21:34
Outgoing Houston Mayor literally tells reporter he will talk to her manager when asked about $80m in emergency contracts. -- (link) - Qale Nov 17, 20:59
watching Crossword Mysteries: Terminal Descent, at the start it says its a "All Canadian Entertainment Production"...yet our plucky heroine - crash davis 😺 Nov 17, 20:36
Uh, Ronda Rousey just debuted. -- nm - David Nov 17, 20:19 8
- available to watch on Ring of Honor website...next week -- nm - Remlik Nov 17, 20:36 7
  - but video from the show -- (link) - Remlik Nov 17, 20:38 6
    - Was this late in the show because that looks like a real thin crowd on the other side of the ring. -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 17, 21:10 5
      - They film ROH now the way they did AEW Dark/Elevation. It's either before the live Collision/Rampage or after. - David Nov 17, 21:15 4
        
        Okay, that makes sense. -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 17, 21:19 3
        
        Yeah, they sold 5,000 tickets. We were at Dynamite like this, and I was definitely ready to go. Kim wanted to stay for it all. - David Nov 17, 21:29 2
        
        Dynamite is putting on good shows, but something, and I don't know what, is just not connecting in order to get live attendance like they were -- nm - Remlik Nov 18, 08:37 1
        
        In my probably unpopular opinion, I think the same thing that makes AEW great is its biggest weakness. When every match is trying to be a five star - pmb Nov 18, 09:31
Ring of Honor spoiler - Remlik Nov 17, 20:14
White Collar may be getting a new series.... -- (link) - Remlik Nov 17, 19:50 3
- I'd watch the shit out of that. -- nm - Mop🧹 Nov 17, 22:20
- I'd watch that. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 17, 20:00 1
  - this -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Nov 18, 03:27
Friend of mine pulled a Corbin Carroll Auto card tonight -- nm - budice Nov 17, 19:16 1
- Depending on what product that could be real nice. -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 17, 19:34
AEW Collison spoiler - Remlik Nov 17, 19:00
heh nice to know Disney has always treated their VFX artists like shit -- (link) - hollywood big shot Nov 17, 18:43
Here I am, not 100 feet away from the electronics store that has all that camera gear in stock ... I could totally walk over and buy it. - Beryllium Nov 17, 18:32 2
- Why not? -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 17, 18:44 1
  - Dropping $4K on something like that is rather intimidating. And I was mostly there to run other errands. (e.g., pick kiddo up from FNAF) -- nm - Beryllium Nov 17, 18:58
when a formula 1 car runs over a manhole cover -- (link) - hollywood big shot Nov 17, 18:25 4
- Thought they welded them shut? Guess they missed one? -- nm - VMan Nov 17, 20:22
- The most f**ked up thing -- it destroyed the power plant of the car -- F1 docked the driver 10 spots on the grid because he exceeded the annual - Will Hunting Nov 17, 18:31 2
  - That would require them to recognize that the idea of yet another street track, in the US no less, is terrible. - Marlowe Nov 18, 05:28
  - I love the fucked-up rule even if it's the track that wrecks your car, you pay and it comes from your limited budget for the season. -- nm - Peglegpete Nov 17, 20:27
so things are going well at OpenAI tonight sounds like -- (link) - hollywood big shot Nov 17, 18:22
Shady covid testing sites popping up around San Francisco, some offering pedestrians $5 to take a test while staff doesn't mask. P -- (link*) - zeitgeist Nov 17, 18:18 1
- Like that security guard who just waved his arms near people -- nm - Beryllium Nov 17, 18:27
Marty’s birthday party in 1975, as filmed by Steven Spielberg a few months after Jaws became the biggest movie ever -- (link) - hollywood big shot Nov 17, 17:54
Pursuit suspect hides in golf course porta-potty. Golfer sees him and tips it over on its door :) -- (link) - Meg Nov 17, 17:50 3
- Vice City had a less humorous, more lethal mission like that. -- nm - VMan Nov 17, 20:08
- Wonder how long it had been since it was emptied? :) -- nm - Meg Nov 17, 18:05 1
  - 🤮 -- nm - Krusty Nov 17, 18:27
Atlanta just traded Kyle Wright. I wonder if that becomes a thing in baseball. - David Nov 17, 17:50 1
- Brewers just non-tendered Brandon Woodruff given he's in a similar injury situation and will be a free agent next year. -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 17, 17:55
speaking of cover albums, i think Juliana Hatfield was better suited to ONJ but maybe she's just a big Xanadu fan -- (link) - hollywood big shot Nov 17, 17:44 [youtube] 2
- I feel more and more vindicated as history comes around to my entertainment preferences. -- nm - Max Nov 17, 21:33 1
  - she didn't cover All Over The World though, did she? - hollywood big shot Nov 17, 23:46
This is the most targeting targeting that has ever been targeted. -- (link) - Beaker 🍻 Nov 17, 17:11
Nikki Haley: GOP has to figure out how to talk about abortion to the rest of the country: Also Nikki: six-week ban is a-ok -- (link) - hollywood big shot Nov 17, 17:10
a restaurant I have to try. thanks FB food group. -- (pic) - Peglegpete Nov 17, 16:56 [Attachment] 2
- San Francisco had Ah Phuket -- nm - zeitgeist Nov 17, 17:32 1
  - I think we lost Dang Crab but we still have Jumpa Thai. -- nm - Meg Nov 17, 17:40
With the crowdfunding effort still on track to fail, Joel announced that Plan 9 From Outer Space will be riffed if there's a season 14 of MST3K. -- nm - Tim Nov 17, 16:43
Apparently there is a hunger games movie coming out today? Odd. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 17, 16:39 6
- the book was quite good. -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Nov 17, 16:40 5
  - I got halfway through the book and never bothered to finish. She's a one-hit wonder for me. -- nm - David Nov 17, 17:07 1
    - I was with her until about 50 pages left in book 3. - Will Hunting Nov 17, 17:18
  - Except spoil - Spawn Nov 17, 16:44 2
    - Darth Maul gets cut in two? -- nm - Reagen Nov 17, 16:50 1
      - Thelma and Louise commit suicide by launching their car into the grand canyon? -- nm - rollo Nov 17, 16:54
Doctor Who Children in Need special with the 14th Doctor. Enjoy. -- (link) - LMS Nov 17, 16:37 [youtube]
The Prince cover was in fact Darling Nikki. -- nm - VMan Nov 17, 16:35 1
- Used to be aging stars loosing relevance would put out a jazz standards album -- nm - zeitgeist Nov 17, 17:37
"Huh, this Scott Pilgrim series is being very faithful to the book ... Oh, no, no it's not." -- nm - Reagen Nov 17, 16:30 1
- "Boy, it sure seems like nobody delivered crushing news to you today." -- nm - David Nov 17, 16:59
Related to a B2 poll, one of my past housemates was a girl who kept to herself. She was in her late 20s and was curt, to the point, not shy, but I - Loyola Nov 17, 16:12 1
- Nathan Fielder says pass, too awkward -- nm - rollo Nov 17, 16:25
I have a Survivor question - not spoilery at all - Beaker 🍻 Nov 17, 16:06
Everton’s deduction is a tremor – City and Chelsea may face the earthquake - JD Nov 17, 16:05
"The problem Musk will never be able to fix is that he cannot help himself" -- (link) - hollywood big shot Nov 17, 16:03
what's Swedish for Leafs Win? -- nm - hollywood big shot Nov 17, 15:50 3
- here's a translator site -- (link) - Peglegpete Nov 17, 16:13
- Lutefisk -- nm - VMan Nov 17, 16:06 1
  - No one wins with lutefisk -- nm - . Nov 17, 21:02
Nay. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Nov 17, 15:36

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