OceanGate selling Titanic tours to rich customers, as performed by Mitchell and Webb.

#Titanic #OceanGate

https://youtu.be/DTcBWo4Aj0g

Wherever I look I can see news about a few very rich individuals being stranded on a submarine that was supposed to take them on a tour of the Titanic. The effort put in place to rescue them appears huge in scope.

Last week over six hundred people died in a #shripweck off the coasts of #Greece and nobody cared. Nobody even bothered to start a rescue operation until it was too late.

Stop pretending people are equal, I hate this hypocrisy.

"The reasonably strong psychological, pharmacological, neurobiological and hormonal indicators of sentience that we now have for many animals, including some #insects, mean that acquiring evidence in the opposite direction is in order. We should demand reasonably strong evidence of the absence of #sentience before subjecting them to interventions that have the potential to cause intense distress."

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-insects-feel-joy-and-pain/

Reminds me of this old post

https://longtermrisk.org/the-importance-of-wild-animal-suffering/

"I asked a group of Helsinki officials what role information technology has played in their success reducing crashes in recent years. 'Zero,' replied Palomaki. 'We simply slowed down the cars.'"

Finland also investigates fatal car crashes similarly to how we investigate plane crashes.

From October 2022: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-07/helsinki-finland-s-amazing-traffic-safety-record-explained

h/t @kdorse @robsonfletcher
#cycling #Finland #traffic

Elon Musk is diving deeper into delusion each day, and in a cringe-inducing interview on CNBC, he tried to use 'The Princess Bride' to justify his recent antisemitic tweets.

It's clear he is immune to shame or even, it would seem, the threat of reputational or financial harm he is causing himself and his companies.

https://secondnexus.com/musk-princess-bride-antisemitic-rants?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=toot&utm_campaign=2N

I’m deeply reluctant to wade into the TikTok ban madness, but: There are some weird edges to the Project Texas stuff that I worry will make TikTok more susceptible, not less, to malign foreign interference.

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I tried to tell #ChatGPT what #ElonMusk has been up to and it straight up does not believe me.

#ai #twitter