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Reportedly "an avid reader, a high-up muckity-muck... and an all-round fascinating character.” Also to be found on Mastodon.

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[BREAKING] SA becomes the first African country to register the twice-a-year anti-HIV jab — at record speed - Bhekisisa South Africa has become the first African country — and our medicines regulator the third worldwide — to register the revolutionary twice-a-year anti-HIV jab, lenacapavir (LEN). The shot could bring a...

BREAKING: South Africa has become the first African country — and our medicines regulator the third worldwide — to register the revolutionary twice-a-year anti-HIV jab, lenacapavir (LEN). The shot could bring an end to Aids if enough people take it.

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bhekisisa.org/health-news-...

27.10.2025 06:29 — 👍 9    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0
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South Africa: the world’s cheat sheet for what comes next “In a crisis, a country betrays how it feels about itself,” Jonny Steinberg wrote in his News24 column last week, suggesting that if this country’s current anxious entanglement with the Trump regime i...

Citizens of the US and Europe are about to sit a very long, very difficult test. South Africa has the cheat sheet for a few of the answers. My latest. anotherdayinparadisewithtomeaton.substack.com/p/south-afri...

04.09.2025 07:27 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

I regret to say I prefer the tracker compiled by a human being without the use of AI...

04.07.2025 20:23 — 👍 19    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
AI Hallucination Cases Database – Damien Charlotin Database tracking legal cases where generative AI produced hallucinated citations submitted in court filings.

This is extraordinary. A database tracking legal decisions in cases where generative #AI produced hallucinated content; both fabricated citations and ficticious court rulings. 112 cases so far; 19 this month: www.damiencharlotin.com/hallucinatio...

Source: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

24.05.2025 18:38 — 👍 164    🔁 79    💬 11    📌 10

Not a bad desert camouflage…

25.05.2025 08:21 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

New stock?

12.04.2025 14:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at McMaster University have discovered a NEW peptide antibiotic that targets a broad range of disease-causing bacteria INCLUDING those RESISTANT to existing antibiotics. This discovery marks the first potential new class of antibiotics in NEARLY 30 YEARS. 🧪🧵⬇️

31.03.2025 16:00 — 👍 9329    🔁 2771    💬 227    📌 283
Cover art from Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds cover art by Mark Trim, showing the ironclad Thunderchild at the point of being struck by the heat ray from a Martian fighting machine.

Cover art from Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds cover art by Mark Trim, showing the ironclad Thunderchild at the point of being struck by the heat ray from a Martian fighting machine.

Come on, Thunderchild! #WorkshopSoundtracks

15.02.2025 14:55 — 👍 115    🔁 8    💬 8    📌 3

Some idiot ordered the whole business into the office. The car park is like Mad Max with lawyers. Gangs of feral fee earners stalk the corridors in search of empty desks. The diminishing milk supplies are guarded fiercely. Only decaf coffee remains. I give it three hours until the riots begin.

06.02.2025 09:47 — 👍 1089    🔁 67    💬 35    📌 4

The same OpenAI that said it was impossible to train AI without stealing other people's work?

29.01.2025 08:14 — 👍 7    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0

Depends on your background. I'm not a lawyer but work in a legal field. Have successfully represented myself in small claims court (set up for laypersons) and in a property valuations appeal board (valuations were part of my professional studies),

11.01.2025 18:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Seems so. https://mastodon.social/@JulianOliver/113774631980111414

05.01.2025 08:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Becky Lynn Paige ‘Parents Divorce Due to Medical Debt’ Tweet – Truth or Fiction? In May 2022, an old purported Twitter screenshot was shared to Imgur about a woman's parents divorcing after 52 years to avoid medical debt.

Real situation but fake tweet? https://www.truthorfiction.com/becky-lynn-paige-parents-divorce-due-to-medical-debt-tweet/

02.01.2025 21:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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