tl;dr:
OceanGate Expeditions listed a job posting for a submersible pilot on its web site while a frantic search and rescue mission was underway for five missing tourists in the doomed Titan bound for the Titanic wreckage site. Social media was abuzz on Friday after screenshots of the ad, which was posted before the Coast Guard announced on Thursday that all five people aboard the Titan had perished, were widely circulated. OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush was among the five people who died in the Titan submersible. The passengers included 61-year-old OceanGate boss, Rush, as well as Titanic specialist Paul-Henri Nargeolet, UK billionaire explorer Hamish Harding and Pakistani billionaire and mogul Shanzada Dawood and his 19-year-old son, Sulaiman. Filed under missing titanic sub , social media , TikTok , twitter , 6/23/23.
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There was one earlier this year or at the end of last year which provided invidious links for YouTube post, but then I stopped seeing it around. Apparently now there’s many bot’s being utilized or will soon be from the sound of it.
I’m all for bots that are used as tools for the community, the invidious one seems pretty great too. A bit concerned about what the potential “bot army” on some of these instances will be used for going forward though.
a new / decent python wrapper for the API now exists (plemmy) - this is the gateway to porting many existing bots to here.
We’re starting an id bot at !plantid@mander.xyz. It’s been easier than doing it on reddit.
How was it good? You didn’t, or at least it’s purpose was that you would not, read the article, which would mean they get no ad money to encourage them to keep giving you free news, and the synopsis was about as long as the original.
Also, I’m sick of bots.
OMG so that’s why the CEO was piloting it? They couldn’t find a sucker, er, pilot?
How very optimistic of them thinking they’ll still have a functioning company after all this
Do we have NotTheOnion yet? This is perfect lol
C’mon, this is the NYPost. Their own link to the wayback machine shows the ad’s been up since 2020.
