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A graphic designer locked out of the job market decided to rewrite the rules entirely. Unable to land an interview, he posed as a prospective client, walked into agencies, and used those meetings to pitch himself as the talent. It's a reminder that sometimes the most creative portfolio piece is how you get in the door.
On a very different note, a project called NexusCortex has appeared on GitHub claiming to be the world's first Organic Cognitive Model, positioned as a replacement for large language models entirely. The claims are sweeping and the documentation is thin, which is itself a familiar pattern in this space. Worth watching, but healthy skepticism is the appropriate starting point here.
And in a story with real human weight, Ebola researchers who were working abroad have found themselves stranded in the United States after the Trump administration cut funding to the Centers for Research in Emerging Infectious Diseases. The program was launched during the Covid-nineteen pandemic, and its dismantling, driven in part by conspiracy theories, raises serious questions about America's preparedness for the next outbreak before it arrives.
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