"Stop using AI and start fact-checking," boils Ace Buchan.
British tabloid, the Daily Mail, a scrupulously honest journal famous for its well-trained journalists and balanced reporting, a small cog in the machinery of disseminating important information to the populace, is under fire tonight after mistakenly running a reel of Teahupoo that had been flipped thereby making it a righthander.
Headed, Surfer Tackles Towering Wave in Jaw-Dropping Footage, and viewed four million times or close enough to it, a who’s who of surfing quickly pounced on the error.
“This is why you can’t trust mainstream media,” Bali-based mogul and noted shredder Tai Buddha fumed.
“Stop using AI and start fact-checking,” boiled Ace Buchan, a man who beat Kelly Slater in a final there.
My dream right,” wrote Caio Ibelli.
“Teahupoo is now a right,” wrote sexy influencer Alex Hayes.
More,
“Wake up y’alls intern they flipped the footage and it’s sending the surf community (crazy emojis). Great engagement hack tho.”
Todd Richards, “Daily fail.”
Carve mag, “You had one job.”
The Daily Mail eventually got the message, flipped it back it to the wave’s usual orientation, but then faced a torrent of abuse from non-surfers unimpressed at the use of “Towering” in the headline.
Where is the towering wave at? I don’t see it. This small wave is towering?? Guess you haven’t been to Maverick’s
When you order a ‘towering wave’ from Temu
To me it looks like pretty standard surfing
Can’t win for losing, eh?
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Pottery Barn Kids had a pillow that featured a print of Slater at Cloudbreak except it was a right. Remember when Slater had a collab w Pottery Barn Kids? Fuck me, what a sellout.
Great point! Yes starting to see some of this creep in. It’s kind of frustrating at times.
You would do dirty things to me I’m sure. I’d wake up w/o a liver and suddenly SC would have some extra spring in his step
White privilege exists on our planet, no question. Definitely not everywhere all the time though. It can be conspicuously absent as well. Have you ever seen Eddie Murphy’s bus sketch from SNL? It mocks on the cartoonish misconception of white privilege.
Point being, the dipshit siloed rhetoric on the internet plays tennis between two polarized non-realities, mostly for sport because neither camp uses reality as a starting point
Anyone have any idea if the contest is on today?
That’s the goal. Blessed encouragement thank you.
Xox
Left, right, who cares?
Bottom line, the thing’s for sale. The whole show. But then, so is any and everything, in the wild west. The whole show is up for grabs… for a quid.
So who’s gonna fork out for a show where a 54 year old, with hip and knee and ankle surgeries, highly documented fucked shoulders and back issues, stomach ulcers, etc, etc, hobbles on to the tarmac and obliterates the, in their prime, hyped, marketed, ‘greatest ever elite… human… athletes’. And where 13 and 14 year old kids send, hyped, marketed, ‘greatest ever elite…human… athletes’… packing.
That shit’s never going to happen in the top rungs, the top ranks, that the wizzle are trying to emulate. NFL, NBA, etc, etc. Where elite athleticism is meticulously head hunted, tested, graded, and endlessly scrutinized under the microscope, because, combined with elite skill and mindset, its invincible, and worth a fortune.
This stuff, where the slats and the kids story ends in a nano second. Where the big wallets come out, and the thermonuclear, ballistic class rule.
https://youtu.be/Z-mwYTPsFyI
https://youtu.be/iYSSTSKTGzo
https://youtu.be/5_hPNQmzCSA
Where even the likes of a prime Jarryd Hayne, used to banging shoulders with this lot, got literally, publically smithereened.
https://youtu.be/djNTw0u8w6Y
https://youtu.be/a4MjLOaS4aw
But you have to hand it to slats, he picked his niche perfectly, and rules it brilliantly. Never to be matched. He just won’t get on the list.
And who can blame those clambering onto the gravy train sale to end all sales. Luuurvveee… orn sail… mmmmmaaaayyyteee… Nobody wants to be the girls and boys clocking on and off at all hours, the cogs literally caught behind the play. Loading the drums of chemies, resins, plastics, or fixin’ punctures, fitting the tyres, or packin’ and deliverin’ the glass, for all the screens. Or the boys an girls piloting the buses, pickin’ up the surfees on the runway…
‘Prime career opportunity, meet people from all over the globe, training provided, must be prepared to clean and wash buses as well… that aint livin’ surfee cap provided for free!!!
Or worse, the baggage handlers. Grovelling for for loose change and tips on the tarmac, waving to the pack of eyes glued on that glass (fanks mmmmaaayyyttte… luuuurvvveee ya but…), peering out the little portholes. ‘Oye!!! Carefool with that one! Yare… she’s a little bit eavy, its gort me custum flex tale… ‘n’ a lil bit a xtra shite pakked inn et aaayyeee… mmmmmaaayyyteee…’ No!!!! No one wants that shite, no one wants to be the slaves buried under the pyramid.
But the planny kneads ’em!!! Lllluuurrrvvveee kneads em!!!
So, yeh slats, you can’t deny it. Even secret agent free/longy/tom tom, immune system crushed, dosed to the eyeballs on God knows what, is a chanting, converted disciple. Coz there’s one category that slats has total domination in, one category where slats not only tops the list, slats is the list!!!
Slats, loaded beyond his wildest dreams, a life beyond compare… has topped any list in the cosmos… coz… SLATS HAS NEVER WORKED A DAY IN HIS EPIC LIFE!!!
Probably the best thing I’ve ever read here.
So the only competitive sports, and competitive sportsmen, that are valid are the few super competitive big money big viewership leagues? Seems like a kind of sour grapes rarefied ruler decreed from the sidelines by someone who is also not good enough to be dominant in a niche sport. Slater is a great surfer. Tade Pogachar is a phenomenal cyclist. Tony Hawk is a GOAT skateboarder. Sure, none of them rose from tens of millions of aspirants like Messi, but that’s an overly narrow first principle, adherence to which says more about your ego issues than Slater’s.
Now, now, last thing you want is a tummy ulcer!!! Cough up then mate!!! Off to the bank you go!!!
I bank on my phone. No need to leave my attractive new couch. But fun swipe at populist outrage that some people made a buck while you chose to focus elsewhere. What a fucking war crime, working and figuring shit out and getting ahead. The nerve.
Even though it is well said in longer form, “anyone who isn’t Messi, Brady et al is not legitimately great at sport” is a silly argument, regardless of how much time you wasted making it.
Look, ya barkin’ up the wrong tree! If you can’t afford to buy the wizzle, use your phone to crowdfund it!!!
And even better, glass half full it! Just by pointing out a few simple, AI free facts, I’ve got ya heart poundin’ blood, suddenly flushed with a little spurt of adrenaline and hormones, and you’re hopping around more alive than ever!!! For free!!! Look things mightn’t have quite gone to plan, but think of it like this!!!
You would think, but this is how I am running at neutral, cold clinical conviction that from a distance looks like vehemence
I don’t think the bank’s swallowing that one. Give it a go tho!
Dead Man Jogging
The more I use AI in my daily, the more convinced I am that it’s not going to take over shit. It’s basically just a web scraper.
Yep spot on
Hey retard surfers, our government using AI to track, control, and kill people is the problem.
A I isn’t real. It’s just another psy-op https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
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Didn’t watch Chopes today due to work but read the live chat so watched the highlights when I got home. Fuck me thats an embarrassment for the ladies involved and the tour as a whole. Completely unwatchable and makes a mockery of the whole idea of an equality tour. Equal stops and prize money for how many years now and thats the best they can do out there? They’re taking the piss and milking it for everything they’ve got and not even hiding it. Please do better
Highest heat score of 8.77 says it all. I couldn’t be bothered wasting my time either. Especially having to listen the the commentary team talking it up when we all know their performances are subpar.
I agree that equal pay and prize money in sports that make money as entertainment is de facto the moral choice. But the WSL is a rich couple’s curio cabinet that lose his money year in year out. They can pay the women whatever the fuck they feel like paying the women. More than the men if they want. None of my business
Felipe Toledo is the most gifted surfer in the world including the Kell
Flawless technique, finish
What he did at Jbay hasn’t been replicated and won’t be anytime soon.
And that was a long time ago
While Steph gets a pass, the lions heart gets the blame
you got to let that bad take go Hip- it’s hanging around your neck like a rotting carcass.
Toledo is a gifted small wave surfer- nowhere near as proficient in all conditions as many, many others.
He’s not even a top 10o surfer in the world.
Hahahaahha well said mate and Brutus has been coming out with this utter nonsense too but hasn’t responded to my questions. There is nothing scary about J Bay or 6ft Sunset but some of his fans remain convinced that he is only “nervous” at Chopes which is complete wank.
If we ever lucked into a proper dream tour it would consist of waves like Pipe, Cloudies, Chopes, Speedies, Greenbush, Deserts and so on and the little lion aint having a fucking bar of ANY of those joints if its pumping. Hes an amazing small to mid wave surfer if it’s not heavy who lucked into years with shit waves and conditions on tour. He is EASILY the biggest pussy to ever win a world title and anyone saying different is off their fucking chops or just hell biased for some reason
If you had to explain Filipe Toledo to an alien “Biggest pussy to ever win a world title” is probably the most accurate way to start
Twiggy !
Xox
You jacking off to two alley oops is lame
Haha yeah they were donkey ass landings to boot.
Xox
Stef at least owns it. Lion heart hides behind his dad and makes up bullshit excuses. That’s the difference.
He has done absolutely squat to work at tackling big tubes. That is completely unacceptable for a surfer of his caliber. Victor Ribas got a big fat 0 at Pipe, but he worked at it – that’s the difference.
“To me it looks like pretty standard surfing”
this guy should have a chat to our little lion heart friend.
Wayne Webster
Certainly hope so!
Xox
That last one sounded delicious and very fancy!!
It’s a sleeper in presentation though and it’s a real grower as they munch away, a bit like my wang actually !
Xox
there ya go
When you ask AI (all of them) about topics that you know well, you see how truly awful it still is, yet people still trust the sewerage it pumps out.
You’re using AI wrong. It’s only as good as it’s prompts. With good prompts it is an absolutely amazing tool.
A large portion of the world sure do like to have a fucken sook.
Xox
Would you share a room with sarge?
yep, more foiled out.
felt the one Webby had in the showroom.