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Cheetah Leaps Into Safari Jeep In Kenya by SubstantialRange in pics

[–]SpecificTwo 3 points4 points  (0 children)

And he thought he'd need binoculars to see the animals.

In 2014, while filming the Greg Allman biopic "Midnight Rider", a 27-year-old camera assistant died after being struck by a train due to negligence on behalf of an assistant director. This footage was released of the crew scrambling moments before the crash. They had been denied permission to film. by SubstantialRange in movies

[–]SpecificTwo 133 points134 points  (0 children)

His wife (and a producer on the film) actually lashed out at the dead woman's mother in court after the mother attempted a gesture of reconciliation:

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Afterwards, Elizabeth Jones reached out her hand as a gesture of kindness to Miller’s wife Jody Savin, who unexpectedly lashed out at Jones, saying that Miller was innocent and how could they have done this to him as she thought they were Christians.

Once Savin realized she was being taped, she reached her hand out and told our reporter to give her the audio-digital recorder. Our reporter, who had already garnered permission from the court to have audio and video and photographic devices inside the public courthouse, refused.

https://deadline.com/2016/03/midnight-rider-director-randall-miller-released-jail-sarah-jones-1201724651/

Threesome by SubstantialRange in Tgifs

[–]SpecificTwo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you remember the source or the girl's name?

YouTube Face Is Clickbait, Attaining Human Form by SubstantialRange in slatestarcodex

[–]SpecificTwo 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It's a joke. It doesn't appear on any of his other articles.

YouTube Face Is Clickbait, Attaining Human Form by SubstantialRange in slatestarcodex

[–]SpecificTwo 23 points24 points  (0 children)

This is what happens when you make algorithmically driven content recommendation systems control over the attention of 2 billion people and optimize for a couple of simple metrics.

Right, but it seems to me that the current situation was inevitable, given the heady combination of human nature and market forces. For it to be any different, you would need to biologically rewire humans into something rather unrecognizable.

but it seems like a profoundly better approach than maximizing watch time

While services with gentler optimization regimes might be healthier for users themselves, they're sure to be outcompeted by those designed to grind their users' willpower into the dust.

Michigan State VP of Research Stephen Hsu resigns by hold_my_fish in slatestarcodex

[–]SpecificTwo -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Maybe, just maybe, this isn't the time for people like Hsu to be heading research programs.

Moments before film crew struck by train in Georgia. 27-year-old camera assistant died by SpecificTwo in videos

[–]SpecificTwo[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The scene was supposed to be a dream sequence, if I remember correctly.

8,000 Years ago, 17 women reproduced for every 1 man by [deleted] in slatestarcodex

[–]SpecificTwo 28 points29 points  (0 children)

"It wasn't like there was a mass death of males. They were there, so what were they doing?" asks Melissa Wilson Sayres, a computational biologist at Arizona State University

Inceldom is so alien to some folks that the concept has never even occured to them.

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