Hossein Sharif

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Ex-BBC. Used to talk about movies in front of the camera, now having fun behind the camera building broadcast chains in the cloud and setting up automated TV studios around the world. Gobbling up movies, sci-fi novels and narrative-heavy games on the side...
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I would do heinous things for the kirby side table

The smallpox vaccine contains a live virus that confers immunity against multiple poxviruses. But it is not smallpox or a weakened version thereof. Nor is it monkeypox. Nor is it cowpox, as suggested by the vaccine’s famous origin story involving pus taken from an infected milkmaid to immunize an 8-year-old boy. It is something else entirely: a unique poxvirus whose origins have been lost, or perhaps never known at all. https://mathewingram.com/dt
The Mystery Inside Monkeypox Vaccines

The key ingredient in our oldest vaccine is a mystery that goes back 200 years.

The Atlantic
Twitter says paying Blue subscribers now get ‘prioritized rankings in conversations’ - https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/23/23523845/twitter-blue-paying-priority-replies-conversations
Twitter says paying Blue subscribers now get ‘prioritized rankings in conversations’

Twitter says replies from paying Twitter Blue subscribers will now be more visible on the site. Elon Musk has long promised to give Twitter Blue users priority in search, mentions, and replies.

The Verge

There were three men came out of the West
Three kings both great and high
And they have sworn a solemn oath
John Mastodon must die.

They took a tank and ran him down
With bullets in his head
And they have sworn a solemn oath
John Mastodon was dead

But when the Spring came kindly on
And showers began to fall
John Mastodon got up again
And did surprise them all...

Earth at night viewed from space.

Credit: NASA Johnson

#space #nasa #timelapse #science

@Hossein Thanks so much for this. For anyone poking through the comments, Welles’ discussion of Elia Kazan (“the traitor”) comes around the 1hr20min mark in the video. Will definitely be using this next time I teach on the blacklist…
At least once a day my Apple Watch warns me that I’ve experienced a sound above their recommended threshold. And what is it that initiates these alarms? A good old-fashioned sneeze.
in Norway, "up and not crying" is a not uncommon response to "how's it going" type questions, and I feel like that's a very reasonable standard to hold oneself to nowadays