Paul O'Rorke

@PaulORorke
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Apple’s Prehistoric Planet 2 is full of feathery and ferocious new faces https://www.theverge.com/23728352/prehistoric-planet-2-review-apple-tv-plus
Prehistoric Planet 2 review: full of feathery and ferocious new faces

The Apple TV Plus series Prehistoric Planet 2 features even more kinds of dinosaurs and ancient creatures, but the same formula that made the first Sir David Attenborough-hosted season a hit.

The Verge
@brewsterkahle Brewster: would using speech to text to make audiobooks with an IA owned voice (especially of books that currently don't have audiobook versions) violate copyright law? I notice that audiobooks (even new versions of existing audiobooks) seem to get new (later) copyrights. Even if it is necessary to get permission from copyright holders, it still might make sense for IA to strike a deal with publishers to do it for books that they feel don't have a sufficiently profitable market?

@Hypx @icanbob

Yes I know the shuttle no longer exists. Criticizing Starship per se doesn't make sense.

The investigation after the Challenger disaster led to improvements not only in fixing the issues that led to the disaster but also in the risk management effort at NASA (and presumably Morton Thiokol). I am just wondering what the risk management process is at SpaceX (if any) and whether it improves on the past or whether they are starting from scratch or following Tesla's example.

One has to wonder what SpaceX's risk management is like given the recent "rapid unscheduled disassembly" (explosion) and the "failure is success" mindset. Is it better than Morton Thiokol and NASA's after the Challenger O-Ring disaster? Is SpaceX building on best practices learned over decades of aerospace experience? Or is SpaceX's risk management more like Tesla's for their self driving software?

#SPACEX #STARSHIP #MUSK

Calling it a gotcha that I "critique Biden policies after voting for him" is what's wrong with US politics today.

Voting for him doesn't mean I can't critique him—it's literally the best reason to be critical. It's called holding electeds accountable. It's how democracy works. And it’s how political parties work when they aren’t cults.

Biden has approved yet another massive fossil fuel project in Alaska: an 800-mile long Liquid Natural Gas pipeline whose operation would produce ten times as much carbon as the Willow project he approved, and by itself would increase Alaska's greenhouse gas emissions by 30%. 😡☠️
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RT @SenMarkey
We can’t keep doing this. This dirty project will be online by 2030—just in time to blow up our climate targets and undercut any argument that …
https://twitter.com/SenMarkey/status/1646984857715654656
Ed Markey on Twitter

“We can’t keep doing this. This dirty project will be online by 2030—just in time to blow up our climate targets and undercut any argument that this will move the needle for our allies or lower fuel prices. Short-sighted approval with long-lasting damage. https://t.co/sHIWcXxDIp”

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@icanbob @Hypx The corporate influence of Morton Thiokol, the manufacturer of the solid rocket booster may have had more to do with the disaster than political influences with one possible exception: the Reagan and NASA administrations may have pushed for a launch the day of his evening State of the Union address. After the disaster, the White House claimed Reagan was only going to mention a science experiment on the shuttle in his speech.

@icanbob

It isn't just Elon, it's also the corporate media."Fail, recover, try again" is good in general, especially when you learn from the fail part, not just in aeronautics. Still, calling the fail part "success" is Orwellian.

spacex rocket explosion (rapid unscheduled dissassembly) is a success
---corporate media

WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
---Orwell's Ministry of Truth

Imagine the headlines and news articles if this had been a government (NASA) launch rather than a privatized corporate one

#SPACEX #STARSHIP #MUSK #ORWELL #1984 #SINCLAIRLEWIS #CORPOS

Enough is enough: My colleagues and I are introducing legislation to expel George Santos from the United States Congress.

If Kevin #McCarthy refuses to hold #GeorgeSantos accountable, then we will.