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    *** Official Western Australia Margaret River Pro Contest Thread ***

    Event: Western Australia Margaret River Pro (CT #5) Location: Margaret River, Western Australia, Australia Window: April 11-21, 2024 Web: https://www.worldsurfleague.com/events/2024/ct/200/western-australia-margaret-river-pro/main Past winners: Carissa Moore and Gabriel Medina Note: Last chance...
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    Case for an erBB IPO

    With the recent successful IPO of Reddit in the books, whomever owns the erBB should consider doing the same. Can you imagine all the data that could be mined from this forum of intellects? Ingesting all the posts into an LLM could create an app to rival OpenAI's ChatGPT, Microsoft's Copilot...
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    *** Official Rip Curl Bells Beach Pro Contest Thread ***

    Event: Rip Curl Bells Beach Pro (CT) Location: Bells Beach, Victoria, Australia Window: March 26 - April 5, 2024 Link: https://www.worldsurfleague.com/events/2024/ct/199/rip-curl-pro-bells-beach/main 2023 champs: Tyler Wright and Ethan Ewing
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    Facebook/Instagram/Threads down hard

    I feel lost. https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/03/05/tech/facebook-instagram-outages/index.html
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    *** Official MEO Rip Curl Pro Portugal Contest Thread ***

    Event: MEO Rip Curl Pro Portugal (CT #3) Location: Supertubos, Peniche, Portugal Window: March 6-16, 2024 Web: https://www.worldsurfleague.com/events/2024/ct/198/meo-rip-curl-pro-portugal/main YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/live/WkzXJcdPvXQ?si=1I67bZuOyr-TnKoG (Day 1, when it happens) 2023...
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    Aloha alt.surfing

    Before the erBB, there was alt.surfing, the original online surf community. Unfortunately, Google Groups has this banner on our beloved group's page: https://groups.google.com/g/alt.surfing "Effective February 22, 2024, Google Groups will no longer support new Usenet content. Posting and...
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    *** The Official Thriller at Killers Contest Thread ***

    Event: Thriller at Killers surf contest Location: Killers, Todos Santos, Mexico Window: Nov 1, 2023 — Feb 29, 2024 Status: GREEN LIGHT for Sun Feb 18 Web: https://www.thrilleratkillers.com/ IG: https://www.instagram.com/thrilleratkillers?igsh=Y3U0cjl4eXVoaGxx Live broadcast: None From the 2023...
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    The “Death” of Surf Photography: A Lesson in Three Images (video)

    Short video by www.inherentbummer.com
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    please delete this thread

    bbb
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    *** Official Lexus Pipe Pro Contest Thread ***

    Event: Lexus Pipe Pro Presented by Yeti (Championship Tour (CT) Event #1) Location: Pipeline, Oahu, Hawaii Window: Jan 29 - Feb 10, 2024 2022 Champs: Carissa Moore and Jack Robinson Web: https://www.worldsurfleague.com/events/2024/ct/196/lexus-pipe-pro/main YouTube: tba Storylines; Non-surfing...
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    erBB Beach Off (as accurately depicted in Barbie)

    Mostly from 0:36 -- 1: 58.
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    Graphene wetsuits?

    My coworkers are using graphene to build photo detectors and circuits among other things. Now Griffin Colapinto / Billabong has it in wetsuits! Btw, he does a pretty good explanation of the stuff.
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    NSR: Sam Altman out of OpenAI!

    Wtf happened at OpenAI this weekend? Let me try and recap: --Fri: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman fired by the Board of Directors. --Possible reasons: "not consistently candid with communications with the board;" achieved AGI or ASI (concerns over AI safety); wasn't practicing enough "effective...
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    *** Official Rip Curl WSL Finals Contest Thread ***

    Event: Rip Curl WSL Finals Window: Sep 8-16, 2023 (one day event) Location: Lower Trestles, San Clemente, California, US Web: https://www.worldsurfleague.com/events/2023/ct/76/rip-curl-wsl-finals/main 2022 Winners/World Champions: Stephanie Gilmore and Filipe Toledo (Let the hype begin)
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    Will you now buy a Mayhem? (Vissla CT Shaper Rankings)

    Now that Matt Biolos and Mayhem have won WSL's inaugural Vissla CT Shaper Rankings, will this encourage you to buy a Mayhem board? I propose that next year they should change it from best shaper to best wetsuit. After all, Rip Curl, Billabong, Hurley and other wetsuit companies have been...
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    Unidentified Bowls Riders (help teeroi and others!)

    Need your help Troy. Got plenty shots and I don't know who they are. Some I know by face; some I forgot; some I just don't know. Help me get the pics to them. For everyone else, hope you enjoy too. 8/20/23 #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6
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    TSJ Soundings Podcast--Ashley Bickerton (aka BaliIdiot)

    Ashley's interview with Jamie Brisick was just published on The Surfer's Journal Soundings podcast. Like his online personality, he was articulate and acerbic. Admittedly it felt a bit like a voice from the grave. Though he never mentioned erBB, I'd like to think that he had our little corner of...
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    *** Official Shiseido Tahiti Pro (presented by Outerknown) Contest Thread ***

    Event: Shiseido Tahiti Pro (WSL Championship Tour (CT) event #10 of 10 for Men and Women) Window: August 11-20, 2023 Other window: Aug 6-7, 2003 (Outerknown Tahiti Pro Trials) Venue: Teahupoʻo, Tahiti, French Polynesia Past winners: Miguel Pupo and Courtney Conlogue (2022) Website...
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    Facing Monsters Documentary

    Excellent. Scary. About Kerby Brown. Available on Amazon Prime through Freeverse. Also can be seen in its entirety here on YouTube:
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    *** Official Corona Open J-Bay Contest Thread ***

    Event: Corona Open J-Bay (WSL Championship Tour for Men and Women; event 9 of 10) Location: Jeffreys Bay, Eastern Cape, South Africa Window: July 13-22, 2023 Web: https://www.worldsurfleague.com/events/2023/ct/74/corona-open-j-bay/main Past winners (2022): Tatiana Weston-Webb & Ethan Ewing