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pauljunhyuk.bsky.social
UK-trained GP in Canada; former epidemiologist, former health strategist, he/him
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Republican officials have now asked us to disregard material things, sacrifice for the nation, and contemplate that death is inevitable. We have been taken over by a secret cadre of militant Buddhists.

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Academia in 2025: For weeks I’ve been working through botched copy-edits of my monograph, outsourced by the publisher to a company I’d never heard of, until it finally dawned on me the terrible job might be AI. A quick search confirmed the company recently launched new AI software, which now means..

submitted 3 days ago • 81 comments

Jesus, Nick, you don’t work for Meta any more, is there any chance you could stop shilling for them for a minute? This comeback tour of yours is not going well. You make Tony Blair look as if he’s got integrity and relevance.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

If anti-vax and libertarianism are luxuries - allowing you to indulge your sense of exceptionalism as long as everyone else does the boring work that lets you do so - then are they also aspirational?

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submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

This entitled schmuck, who thinks he’s too good to wear a suit and do the boring parts of his job.

submitted 6 days ago • 178 comments

Reading How to Stand Up to a Dictator by @mariaressa.bsky.social and a fortuitous connection for me is the way she confirms and mirrors what Sarah Wynn-Williams wrote in Careless People (which I read last month) about Meta’s near-total lack of ethics and oversight, especially in the Philippines.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Just read Blood Over Bright Haven by M L Wang, which was wonderful. What really impressed me is how Wang wrote everyone’s reaction to the twist, from Sciona and Thomil to Sciona’s cousin (really quite harrowing and relevant) and mentor, to the whole city. Highly recommended. #booksky

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Last year my wife had breast cancer and a double mastectomy. This morning, for the first time ever, she was challenged in the changing rooms at the swimming pool. Her breasts were not what make her a woman - but, breasts or not, she is entitled to dignity and protection from vigilantes.

submitted 9 days ago • 1177 comments

Looking forward to this.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment