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Nick Canham

@NCanham

Dad, husband, brother, son, friend, talent agent.

Cork home, London work Katılım Şubat 2009
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Alexander Fox@AlexanderFoxEtc·
Who among us can forget when Frank Spencer unilaterally rejected the Good Friday Agreement and masterminded a series of paramilitary attacks alongside both the Continuity and Real IRA?
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Maryam
Maryam@hell_line0·
Since we’re listing statistics, let’s finish the set properly. Prison population: Men – 96% Sex offenders in prison: Men – 98.5% Prosecutions for sexual offences: Men – 98% Domestic homicide perpetrators (UK): Men – ~90% Overall violent crime: Men – 85%+ So if we’re going to argue that society “runs because of men,” we should also acknowledge the parts of society that fall apart because of them.
🦢@its_meeruy4

Women: “We don’t need men.” Military -95% men Firefighters - 97% men Coal Miners - 95% men Ship Captain -96% men Welders-94% men Truck drivers -90% men Construction -92% men Oil rig workers -96% men Fishermen - 97% men Surgeons -82% men Engineers -89% men The world goes around because of men.

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Jeff Neville (TLH)
Jeff Neville (TLH)@TheLooseH·
Are you interested in playing rugby in Ireland? If so, please get in touch. A great opportunity to travel, play some good rugby, and meet some new people. Feel free to DM if interested. RTs welcome.
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Aakash Gupta
Aakash Gupta@aakashgupta·
The math on this project should mass-humble every AI lab on the planet. 1 cubic millimeter. One-millionth of a human brain. Harvard and Google spent 10 years mapping it. The imaging alone took 326 days. They sliced the tissue into 5,000 wafers each 30 nanometers thick, ran them through a $6 million electron microscope, then needed Google’s ML models to stitch the 3D reconstruction because no human team could process the output. The result: 57,000 cells, 150 million synapses, 230 millimeters of blood vessels, compressed into 1.4 petabytes of raw data. For context, 1.4 petabytes is roughly 1.4 million gigabytes. From a speck smaller than a grain of rice. Now scale that. The full human brain is one million times larger. Mapping the whole thing at this resolution would produce approximately 1.4 zettabytes of data. That’s roughly equal to all the data generated on Earth in a single year. The storage alone would cost an estimated $50 billion and require a 140-acre data center, which would make it the largest on the planet. And they found things textbooks don’t contain. One neuron had over 5,000 connection points. Some axons had coiled themselves into tight whorls for completely unknown reasons. Pairs of cell clusters grew in mirror images of each other. Jeff Lichtman, the Harvard lead, said there’s “a chasm between what we already know and what we need to know.” This is why the next step isn’t a human brain. It’s a mouse hippocampus, 10 cubic millimeters, over the next five years. Because even a mouse brain is 1,000x larger than what they just mapped, and the full mouse connectome is the proof of concept before anyone attempts the human one. We’re building AI systems that loosely mimic neural networks while still unable to fully read the wiring diagram of a single cubic millimeter of the thing we’re trying to imitate. The original is 1.4 petabytes per millionth of its volume. Every AI model on Earth fits in a fraction of that. The brain runs on 20 watts and fits in your skull. The data center required to merely describe one-millionth of it would span 140 acres.
All day Astronomy@forallcurious

🚨: Scientists mapped 1 mm³ of a human brain ─ less than a grain of rice ─ and a microscopic cosmos appeared.

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cinesthetic.@TheCinesthetic·
what's a good male acting performance where he isn't yelling
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Stretford Post
Stretford Post@StretfordPost·
Well, well, well. Where do I start?, hypocrisy?, Irony?, bigotry?, How about our football club, For a club that desperately needs clarity on the pitch, Manchester United instead finds itself dragged into a PR storm entirely of its own making. And at the centre of it is Sir Jim Ratcliffe a man who promised footballing focus but has delivered political distraction. Let’s be clear: Manchester United is not a political platform. It is a football club built on community, diversity, and global support. From Kuala Lumpur to Mumbai, from Lagos to Tokyo, the badge represents something bigger than borders. It represents belonging. That’s why Ratcliffe’s comments on immigration feel so profoundly misplaced. At a time when supporters want leadership, strategy, and accountability, the conversation has been hijacked by rhetoric that has nothing to do with winning football matches.We didn’t ask for culture wars we asked for competence. And the irony is impossible to ignore. This is the same ownership structure that has enabled the AMERICAN Glazers who have extracted BILLIONS while leaving the club burdened with debt and decay an ownership that have not put one penny in the club or the country and are looking for government funding to acquire a regeneration project whilst spending 1.8 Billion on a cricket team in India. There’s a sharp irony in lecturing the countryand the vulnerable about immigration while choosing to live in Monaco a tax haven known for attracting the ultra-wealthy seeking financial advantage. It raises an obvious question: how can someone who has exercised the freedom to relocate for personal benefit turn around and criticise the movement of others? When you’ve built your life across borders for opportunity, condemning mobility starts to look less like principle and more like convenience. You cannot claim to rebuild Manchester United while ignoring what makes Manchester United Manchester United. This club was built by workers, sustained by communities, and elevated by players and fans from every corner of the world. The global fanbase isn’t a marketing slogan it’s the lifeblood of the institution. Alienating that identity is not leadership; it’s misjudgment. And that’s the core issue here. It’s the bitter, ignorant and quite simply the lack of awareness behind what he said. When you lead a club followed by hundreds of millions across continents, words matter. The role demands unity, not division. Focus, not distraction. Manchester United doesn’t need political grandstanding. It needs humility, accountability, and a relentless focus on football. Because Manchester United was global long before any owner arrived and it will remain global long after they’re gone. Apologise and resign. #UnitedIsBroken #jimratcliffeout #ineosout
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Simon Nixon
Simon Nixon@Simon_Nixon·
Doesn’t this mean that any international conference/convention/sporting tournament will now have to relocate in case their participants fall foul of the US government’s anti-free speech rules?
Alex Taylor@AlexTaylorNews

It's now official 👇 To get an ESTA into "The Land of the Free" you have to give them access to ALL your social media over the last 5 yrs JUST DON'T GO ! BOYCOTT THE WORLD CUP ! and btw, why doesn't Europe do the same back 🤡Anything pro-MAGA in their socials ? Ciao

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Omne Europa
Omne Europa@neolatyno·
Greenland, i think you can sleep tight 👍
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Nick Canham@NCanham·
@radioriley Not going to lie, I shed a little tear reading this over breakfast.
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Phil Riley
Phil Riley@radioriley·
Incredible story about radio, music and the power of human connection - proud to call this business the one I devoted my working life to
Mr PitBull@MrPitbull07

"Someone kept calling the radio station requesting the same song. For 114 days straight. I'm a DJ at K-Rock 98.3. Overnight shift. Midnight to 6 a.m. Mostly lonely truckers and insomniacs listening. Around 1:15 a.m. every single night, same number calls. Same request, "November Rain" by Guns N' Roses. Eight-minute guitar solo version. First week, I played it. Thought maybe someone really loved that song. Second week, I started screening the calls. "We just played that yesterday, how about something else?" "November Rain, please." "We have a no-repeat policy" Click. They'd hang up. But they'd call back the next night. 1:15 a.m. exactly. "November Rain." This went on for months. My coworkers thought it was hilarious. Started a betting pool on when the caller would give up. They never did. Day 47, "Look, buddy, what's the deal with this song?" Long silence. Then, "Just play it. Please." The voice sounded older. Male. Tired. I played it. Day 82, My manager told me to block the number. "It's harassment." I didn't block it. Day 91, I answered. Before they could speak, I said, "It's queued up. Playing at 1:30." "Thank you," they whispered. Day 114, The call came. But different voice. Younger. Female. "This is about the November Rain requests," she said. "My grandfather passed away this morning. He won't be calling anymore." My stomach dropped. "He had dementia," she continued. "Couldn't remember much. But he remembered that song. Said it was playing when he proposed to my grandmother in 1992. At some restaurant. She died five years ago. The song was the only piece of her he could still hold onto." She was crying. "He'd get confused at night. Agitated. The only thing that calmed him was that song. So I'd call you. Every night. He'd sit next to me, listening on the radio, and for eight minutes he'd remember her. He'd smile. Then forget again. But for those eight minutes....." I couldn't speak. "Thank you for playing it," she said. "Even when you were annoyed. Even when your manager wanted you to stop. Those eight minutes were everything to him." She hung up. I sat in that booth. Played "November Rain" at 1:15 a.m. Nobody requested it. I just played it. Did it again the next night. And every night since. Some listeners complained. "Why do you keep playing the same song?" I never explained. Just said, "Station policy." But truckers started calling in. Said they pulled over during that 1:15 a.m. slot. Listened to the whole eight minutes. Some knew why. Most didn't. One guy said, "I don't even like that song. But something about hearing it at 1:15 every night..... feels like church. Like we're all stopping together. For something." They were right. It's been six months. I still play it. Every single night. 1:15 a.m. Some things aren't about what you like. They're about what someone needed. Once. When nothing else worked. That song's not mine anymore. It belongs to an old man who forgot everything except how to love his wife. And now it belongs to everyone driving lonely highways at 1:15 a.m., looking for a reason to keep going. Eight minutes. Every night. That's my church now." Let this story reach more hearts.... . Ai image is for demonstration purpose only. . By Mary Nelson

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Dan Neidle
Dan Neidle@DanNeidle·
Contractors: Been paid via an umbrella company? Later had HMRC say the scheme didn’t work? When you didn't know there *was* a scheme? We’d love to hear from people ths has happened to. DM me or email MYNAME @ taxpolicy .org.uk - and please share with others.
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Nick Canham@NCanham·
@DavidMcredmond @edithmayhall I agree with David, saying that as an agent, who also spent time in a publishing role. The middle stands out much more than the other two.
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David McRedmond
David McRedmond@DavidMcredmond·
@edithmayhall I’d go middle, but definitely not green. Green covers (unless gardening books) sell less well…from my years as a bookseller! Ok, the exception was the old Penguin Green backed crime series… Go warm!
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@edithmayhall@edithmayhall·
It's choose the cover time again. My 'biography' of Medea, for which I looked at every single ancient source, researched forensic psychology and visited every site to try to come up with a coherent narrative, comes out this year. My editor likes the green one. Please help choose!
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Republicans against Trump
Republicans against Trump@RpsAgainstTrump·
For followers outside the U.S.: with ICE violence in cities across the country and Trump’s insane invasive new visa requirements, has your view of visiting the U.S. changed? Have you canceled a trip?
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Nick Canham@NCanham·
Sorry @DavidMcredmond @postvox but I've been waiting for a delivery in Cork that was posted from Wexford on the 15/12. I've also been waiting for a DHL Connect parcel that was received by AnPost before the 27th. It then got sent to 2 sorting offices but still not to me.
David McRedmond@DavidMcredmond

@ValWebster @Postvox @podonovan @Postvox will follow up, but I am not aware of any large scale delays. I am sorry that your parcel/s have not yet been delivered.

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