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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 17h

JiSe @jise.bsky.social · 18h

I would love someone to grill them for a ballpark figure for the cost for a TV episode to movie length smooth narrative piece.

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JiSe @jise.bsky.social · 18h

Haha! Sorry, for decks, which one is your most recent one, or the one you get to play the least? - sorry for goofy brained 4am responses

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JiSe @jise.bsky.social · 18h

The breast enlargement one that encouraged my research on good surgeons around Nordics, still in the figuring out the finances state though.

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JiSe @jise.bsky.social · 18h

So happy for you! Something lovely to watch with the morning coffee for me.

JiSe @jise.bsky.social · 19h

Smile, ask about her deck and thank her for the great articles she has written.

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JiSe @jise.bsky.social · 1d

Are the authentic hair ones even more expensive?

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JiSe @jise.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah + really needs to green up the shipping too, as the weight added is not insignificant.

JiSe @jise.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine how hard the C-suite fight against admitting that their billion dollar "code base" isn't worth the cost of untangling it..

JiSe @jise.bsky.social · 2d

He also feels like someone with enough backbone to not fall for the siren song from the rich and famous denizens insisting that they know what the city wants.

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JiSe @jise.bsky.social · 2d

Their reaction to critique (blocking you) feels like something more likely coming from a bad actor, idiots usually argue against something, but spreaders of misinfo don't want critique under their posts.

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JiSe @jise.bsky.social · 2d

These are really cute! I like them a lot.

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JiSe @jise.bsky.social · 3d

It was a great video! Refound your socials, as I was a big fan in Twitter. OT has a great friendship circle, found @dippedinpoison.bsky.social from his video too.

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Lola Sebastian @lola.nebula.tv · 4d

The Big QR Code for our fundraiser. We hope whether you donate or not you'll join us for some laughs! ❤️

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JiSe @jise.bsky.social · 3d

This is also one of those, if someone is suggesting you or your group do this, and might even have some lasers... He's probably a fed.

And if someone in a group starts doing this, probably a time to leave the area.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 6d

hmm this Art. it speaks to me

screenshot from tumblr. username @matthewsiji.com says "It's 2050 and a teen girl is torrenting a .tar.gz file of all the consciousness of all the tech bros who uploaded themselves into the cloud in a bid for immortality and modding them into The Sims 4"

username crazy-pages reblogs with the added note: "I can't decide if it's better if they're not really uploaded into the cloud, they just all tricked themselves into thinking a GPT model trained on their brain is them, so she's playing with their fake echoes in a macabre imitation of the immortality they deluded themselves into believing they had. Or if they're real and she's just about to torment them forever"

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JiSe @jise.bsky.social · 7d

Their email thing looked so promising, I am glad that I didn't end up paying for it before his first meltdowns happened.

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JiSe @jise.bsky.social · 7d

That is lovely good friend behavior! I am envious of your friends.

JiSe @jise.bsky.social · 7d

The highest praise a game can get. If you don't have "Morior Invictus" style of people yelling against a game, what are you even doing?

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Emily Young @eayoung.net · 8d

Rebecca Heineman is probably best known for coding 3DO Doom from zero in 10 weeks after being told it just needed "polish" - the licensee didn't understand what porting involved.

Since hearing that story, she's someone I've looked up to a lot. Now, she's got a different struggle...

Rebecca Heineman @burgerbecky.bsky.social · 12d

I’ve started a GoFundMe to help with my cancer battle gofund.me/6850175a3

Donate to Help Rebecca Ann Heineman Fight Aggressive Cancer, organized by Rebecca Heineman

I’m Rebecca Ann Heineman. The very first video game champion, creat… Rebecca Heineman needs your support for Help Rebecca Ann Heineman Fight Aggressive Cancer

gofund.me

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 9d

This is ace

VGDensetsu @vgdensetsu.bsky.social · 9d

I wrote a long article about Rieko Kodama, her career at Sega, the evolution of her company, the games she worked on (including some canceled games and/or games for which she is not credited), the status of women and working conditions in the video game industry, etc.
vgdensetsu.net/riekokodama/

Illustration: a portrait of Rieko Kodama with some of the games she has worked on. The dominant colors are yellow, purple and red. Counterclockwise from top left: Rieko Kodama, Alis and Lutz from Phantasy Star, Sonic in a maze, Alex Kidd and his motorbike next to Flicky on a waterfront pier, Joe Musashi and his dog near the Statue of Liberty facing a skyline, the three playable characters from Golden Axe seen from behind on the edge of a cliff, and one of the flying ships from Skies of Arcadia.

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JiSe @jise.bsky.social · 9d

So hyped for this! (as is most of the guild)

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 9d

this statement by the American Council of Learned Societies, one of the key orgs in higher ed, is exactly right.

reject the 'compact'. no ifs, no studies.

read and share and, for your opeds, steal.

I cannot post the entire alt text but it begins: On October 1, the White House proposed to nine leading American universities that they agree to a list of demands in exchange for receiving preferential access to research funding. The “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” undermines the long-standing independence of American academia. It works against the best interests of colleges and universities and of every one of us who has benefited from the knowledge they produce. We call for its immediate rejection by all institutions of higher education.

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JiSe @jise.bsky.social · 9d

Or one of the gulf states, the modular approach could allow each regime to offer an official social media site, while simplifying the control efforts by having direct access to the backend.

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Ken Burnside @kenburnside.bsky.social · 10d

This is also why Musk bought Twitter. Remember, Musk *originally backed out of the deal,* because it made no financial sense to take Twitter private.

Then the news stories about his babymommas started to drop.

Elsewhere, I've written about how Musk behaves like someone has kompromat on him.

Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 10d

this is a key point that i'm seeing a lot of casual observers miss as they call for boycotting paramount (sure, fine) & note that weiss lacks the skill to run cbs (correct.) the project is to dismantle the news media. traditional business metrics don't really apply when the goal is destruction.

Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 10d

Installing someone like Bari Weiss as the head of a major news organization isn’t even about profit or longevity. In effect it’s about continuing to shrink the traditional news industry smaller and smaller and weaker and weaker and less and less journalism based until it ceases to exist

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