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Paul M 🤠

@infinitejest.bsky.social

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Copywriter. Book lover. Sports keeno. Dog dad. Risen ape. History bore. Culture vulture. Bone-bound island. Has a vague and modest idea of himself as a legendary figure. Kobbie Mainoo FC.

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Paul M 🤠 @infinitejest.bsky.social · 1h

Can believe that, brother.

Paul M 🤠 @infinitejest.bsky.social · 1h

ok I've just Googled this and am going for a lie down.

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Paul M 🤠 @infinitejest.bsky.social · 2h

I've used one twice and on each occasion I spent the entire time thinking of a throwaway remark someone made once about how the chains 'often' fly loose and dismember you. I'm not going near them ever again.

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Jonny Morris @jonnymorris.bsky.social · 8h

Is this real or am I in a coma?

Young Conservative with a Doctor Who question mark pullover.

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 15h

Losing my mind and what look like video game assets but instead were used to justify war crimes and genocide in the real world

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war.Our analysis of 43 official IDF videos found recycled 3D environments, spatial inaccuracies, and assets lifted from unrelated artists and institutions.We traced over 30 unique assets to Washington-based 3D creator Ian Hubert, who makes bespoke models created for his sci-fi project Dynamo Dream, available to his Patreon subscribers.

Models of parking lots, antennas, + pipes were repurposed as Hamas and Iranian military sites

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Fascinating work here tracing how the IDF recycled 3D assets from a cyberpunk sci-fi art project, the Scottish Maritime Museum and elsewhere to populate its widely-seen models of supposed enemy locations in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran. One of the most infamous, the alleged underground Hamas command center at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, used to justify an unprecedented assault on the biggest medical center in Gaza, was actually an animation the IDF had used the previous year, saying at the time it was a tunnel beneath a UN school.

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Paul M 🤠 @infinitejest.bsky.social · 9h

These are incredibly cool.

Paul M 🤠 @infinitejest.bsky.social · 18h

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Paul M 🤠 @infinitejest.bsky.social · 19h

I’m going to have to investigate this now 🤝🏻

Paul M 🤠 @infinitejest.bsky.social · 19h

Addictive as fuck.

Paul M 🤠 @infinitejest.bsky.social · 21h

Chocolate Hob Nobs got me in a chokehold rn. Addictive personality kicking in. They’re just the Wayne Rooney of biscuits: rough, ready and unquestionably world-class.

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Paul M 🤠 @infinitejest.bsky.social · 1d

Likely the latter, knowing them. I was the first in my family to go to university and did a 'soft' degree (history + philosophy), as they would see it. I reckon I've used the skills I picked up in my degree every day since and I'm not a historian or a philosopher haha.

Paul M 🤠 @infinitejest.bsky.social · 1d

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Paul M 🤠 @infinitejest.bsky.social · 1d

Knew of him, didn't know of the depths of his cuntishness. Now I can fantasise about wearing my arms down the elbow smacking him in his horrible smug face.

Paul M 🤠 @infinitejest.bsky.social · 1d

People like Badenoch go out of their way to either pretend or believe that degrees aren't about transferable skills and experience. Not everyone doing English is going to be an editor; that's not how it works. Absolutely boils my piss.

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Youngy @mancversusfood.bsky.social · 1d

Fun fact: I studied English. It meant I was able to move from a council estate and now I run my business and employ people, doing nothing to do with English. Its almost as if completing a degree in itself has an intrinsic value, especially if it allows social mobility...

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 1d

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Paul M 🤠 @infinitejest.bsky.social · 1d

Tell it to the judge.

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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 1d

🧠 Alzheimer’s reversed in mice

A new study found that injecting nanoparticles can 'remind' the blood–brain barrier to function properly again, restoring normal brain activity in mice. Human trials could follow within years.

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#SciComm #Alzheimers 🧪

Rapid amyloid-β clearance and cognitive recovery through multivalent modulation of blood–brain barrier transport - Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy

Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy - Rapid amyloid-β clearance and cognitive recovery through multivalent modulation of blood–brain barrier transport

www.nature.com

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
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