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Brandon Haber

@malderi.bsky.social

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Space, software, occasional politics, and bird photos! Software engineer, working on rockets, spacecraft, and things that make fire and loud noises. Currently: Flight software at Stoke Space. Formerly: APL/Dragonfly, Blue Origin/New Shepard+BE-3, Shuttle

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 1d

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD
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Investigation of:
LOSS OF THE SUBMARINE TITAN
IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN
ON JUNE 18, 2023
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Accident No.:
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Interview of:
Co-designer/Pilot
Deepsea Challenger
DCA23FM036
via Microsoft Teams
Friday,
July 26, 2024

INTERVIEW OF
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BY LCDR
11 Q. So how did you get yourself started into submersible
12 operations?
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A.
Well, I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic.
When I
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set down the path to make that film, the first thing that I did
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was arrange to be introduced to the head of the submersible
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program at the P.P. Shirshov Institute in Moscow, a guy named
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Professor
I. I did that through a mutual friend
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of ours, a guy named
, who is one of the preeminent
underwater cinematographers in the world. And had been on a
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submersible expedition out to Titanic the previous year with the
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Russians. And that was organized by a Canadian company that was
22 doing an IMAX film which was released under the title Titanica.

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Brandon Haber @malderi.bsky.social · 2d

So unthinkable that it has happened for half of Orion's launches so far

Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 2d

Once unthinkable, NASA and Lockheed now consider launching Orion on other rockets

“We’re trying to crawl, then walk, then run into our reuse strategy.”…

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C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 4d

What The Hell Is Going On, a thread:

I’ve seen some thinkpieces and posts about Portland protests that fail to understand the long-term hyperspecificity of Portland culture/humor, and frame it as a sort of shitposting meme-pilled ironic thing. Which is wrong.

So I’m gonna give you my breakdown.

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Brandon Haber @malderi.bsky.social · 5d

They can get off my lawn lol

Brandon Haber @malderi.bsky.social · 6d

That is a hell of an upgrade.

Brandon Haber @malderi.bsky.social · 6d

Will be fun to visit, take a few pictures, fly around a bit.

Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.bsky.social · 6d

Saturn's giant moon Titan.

By Cassini.

Brandon Haber @malderi.bsky.social · 7d

Seattle fans getting their money's worth.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 7d

Remember that there are righteous people among us, always.

Left: Netherlands, 1942

Right: Illinois, 2025

One day in the summer of 1942, after the onset of the deportations of the Jews from Holland to “the East”, a student, who was a courier for the ASG student underground group in Amsterdam, approached the de Vries family, asking them to hide a Jewish child. The de Vrieses, who had two children of their own, decided to accept the offer despite the risk that was involved in hiding Jews, and soon four year-old Louise Pinto was brought to their home.

Amid the smoke bombs and screams that ricocheted throughout a South Shore building last month during a massive military-style immigration raid, one man heard a knock on his door.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.

“I wasn’t planning on letting her stay, but I didn’t know what the hell was going on,” the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.

“I didn’t want them to take her,” said the man, who didn’t want to be named because he fears he’ll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.

“I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her, ‘Just stay there. Don’t open, don’t, shh, just stay quiet,’” he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 9d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Brandon Haber @malderi.bsky.social · 9d

So @bencollins.bsky.social woke up today and chose violence on my people.

The Onion @theonion.com · 9d

Passenger Glued To Airplane Window Like It Fucking 1956 https://theonion.com/passenger-glued-to-airplane-window-like-it-fucking-1956-1832728158/

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Alan Boyle @b0yle.bsky.social · 9d

Stoke Space, one of the Seattle area's brightest space startups, says $510 million in fresh funding brings total capital raised to nearly a billion dollars - and should clear the way for the first launches of its fully reusable Nova rocket next year. www.geekwire.com/2025/stoke-s...

Stoke Space raises a whopping $510M to accelerate work on its fully reusable Nova launch system

Stoke Space reveals that it has raised $510 million in fresh funding to accelerate development of its fully reusable Nova rocket.

www.geekwire.com

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William Harwood @rocketksc.bsky.social · 9d

Leaving the Kennedy Space Center today, got a nice view of a New Glenn first stage heading to the pad…

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Brandon Haber @malderi.bsky.social · 12d

One noticeable difference that seems much more LLM-like is the replicator and holodeck controls. One sentence commands get immensely extrapolated, and often the characters say "no no no what I meant was..."

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Brandon Haber @malderi.bsky.social · 12d

Watched a UHD Bluray for the first time on my new OLED TV, instead of the last 3 months of streaming. Yeah... Might have to pick a few more up. Noticeable difference on a good screen, particularly for movies with such good visuals.

Brandon Haber @malderi.bsky.social · 13d

Hah. We went too. Tons of fun and we didn't eat the fish!

Brandon Haber @malderi.bsky.social · 13d

I think we're going to find out.

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Eladio Bobadilla @eladiobobadilla.com · 14d

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Brandon Haber @malderi.bsky.social · 16d

From each according to their ability, to each according to their need

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16d

Trump: "We’ve made so much money on Tariffs, that we are going to take a small portion of that money, and help our Farmers."

The Soybean Farmers of our Country are being hurt because China is, for “negotiating” reasons only, not buying. We’ve made so much money on Tariffs, that we are going to take a small portion of that money, and help our Farmers. I WILL NEVER LET OUR FARMERS DOWN! Sleepy Joe Biden didn’t enforce our Agreement with China, where they were going to purchase Billions of Dollars of our Farm Product, but Soybeans, in particular. It’s all going to work out very well. I LOVE OUR PATRIOTS, AND EVERY FARMER IS EXACTLY THAT! I’ll be meeting with President Xi, of China, in four weeks, and Soybeans will be a major topic of discussion. MAKE SOYBEANS, AND OTHER ROW CROPS, GREAT AGAIN!

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 16d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Brandon Haber @malderi.bsky.social · 18d

Okay, so the very funniest of part of this article is that I bought Eisenhower's biography at Powell's.

The Needling @theneedling.com · 18d

National Guard Already Lost at Powell’s Books: tinyurl.com/4mw4n9h2

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Brandon Haber @malderi.bsky.social · 18d

Upgraded to iOS 26 last night. So far... I actually kind of like it. Good software UX used to have personality. The flat design trend of the last few years killed that everywhere. Apple Aero is at least kinda bringing back some personality and I like it.

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Mike Okuda @mikeokuda.bsky.social · 19d

"Let's see what's out there..." It was 38 years ago today (Sept 28, 1987) that "Encounter at Farpoint" had its premiere broadcast, introducing Capt Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Enterprise-D. I'm proud to have been a member of the team who made the show at Paramount.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 20d

Blue cities should tear up the roads in front of ICE facilities and then start decades of community engagement and input sessions to rebuild them. Let's harness our core competencies.

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Brandon Haber @malderi.bsky.social · 22d

Guessing the atlas didn't go up from pad 40, heh.

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Derek Newsome @derekdotspace.bsky.social · 23d

NASA's IMAP mission lifts off on its million mile journey to study our sun's heliosphere.

A Falcon 9 rocket crossing paths with the sun. The sound from the rocket engines is visible around the sun as the rocket passes by.

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