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Things overheard or imagined in the world of biotech, or techbio if you're feeling like giving up on the idea of ever producing something.

Altered time cover article which used to feature a bunch of AI tech ceos as "person of the year" except they have all been removed as a metaphor for the lack of delivery or value
Screenshot of linkedin notice hiring a "head of product (Fraud)" position.
Epstein email full of stupid ideas like "are beards meant to catch and hold smells?"
Screenshot of article highlighting the following sentence "Furthermore, selected de novo molecules were synthesized and shown to inhibit AKT1 at low micromolar concentrations in the context of in vitro enzymatic assays."
Image of the Erdtree from elden ring burning
Image of a tree of heaven with the dark souls text overlay format on top saying "tree slain"
Cover art for the Milli Vanilli album "girl you know it's true"
Donnie darko meme template. he is talking to his therapist. First panel: Donnie says "I made a state of the art effective AI model" Second panel: therapist says "effective or MCC +0.001?" Third panel: Donnie says, begrudgingly "MCC + 0.001"
A rube Goldberg machine with needless complexity mysteriously concluded by jangling keys in front of people with name tags that say "VC," "BOARD MEMBER," and "GULLIBLE PRESS" who all applaud wildly.
Cartoon of a character in a well maintained room saying "I want drug discovery to be different," then smashing everything with a bat. The third panel is the character standing amid the destroyed room saying "oh no"
Meme of the white ninja comic where he's prodding something saying "c'mon, do something..." The image is altered to show him prodding endpoints author Derek Lowe.
Screenshot of text from an interview with deep mind CEO. "Demis Hassabis: So on average, it takes, you know, ten years and billions of dollars to design just one drug. We can maybe reduce that down from years to maybe months or maybe even weeks. Which sounds incredible today but that's also what people used to think about protein structures. And it would revolutionize human health, and I think one day maybe we can cure all disease with the help of AI."
A drawing of a king looking proudly at a wall of arrows he has fired into it. A servant is painting targets around them to give the impression the arrows have landed dead center rather than randomly.