Emma Hart

One thing right-wing governments have in common around the world is the inability to think through the consequences of snap decisions involving straits.

And the reason I'm not going to ever be near the team is I'd hold it in the auditorium they used for the COVID briefings, and I'd have Hipkins go "Jessica, then Tova..." at the start of the Q&A.

Don't run from it, lean the fuck in to. Ignore the screaming minority, speak to the 99% who cared.

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Being so on point the "she" in this load of bollocks, I can tell you right now that if government shrinks, health bureaucracy does not.

Yours,
Working for a private health contractor contracted to multiple NZ public health organisations.

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1/ Who the fuck says "knees-up" any more?

2/ The thing that really depresses me about "Get angry about this number!" articles is that it never fucking matters what the number is. If it had been $170,000 at the start, would that still be described as 'extravagant'? Of course it bloody would.

I choose to believe this is an insult of Malcolm Tucker-level genius.

Not that it’s not obvious, but “right now” he’s the only prime minister we have.

Had a doctor’s appointment today. My GP is clearly typing up my notes now, because I won’t let them use AI, and he’s texted twice to ask me questions he forgot for the referral.

Just in case you needed another reason to tell AI to fuck off out of healthcare.

Oh, exactly this.

I have hypoglycaemia and this could easily happen to me. When I was kept waiting in Chch Ophthalmology Outpatients for eight hours, the staff brought me food.

“Accidentally” bumped the little whiteboard on the counter in the cafe, and as I put it back up, happened to remove the apostrophe they’d put in “quiches”.

You’re welcome.

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I will be endlessly barracking people about this closer to Writ Day.

Oh, I would take mice over cockroaches any day.

He is remarkably chill about it. I'd still be freaking out.

I thought I'd had a rough night last night with Min chasing a mouse all round my bedroom, but apparently, earlier in the night, Younger Son had been woken by Min chasing a mouse ACROSS HIS HEAD

Oh no. The garden centre on the corner has a sale on. Oh no.

I just went outside, and fuck me but it's a lovely day.

Hey, I was also there, and it was also a "hey, we really need to get down there for this".

You can, absolutely, ask for a copy. For WDHB, we send copies to patients as a matter of course, but GPs generally don't.

I have not had a good day, but. There is an elderly couple in the neighbourhood I see going for progressively longer, slow walks as part of her rehab. Today, they crossed the road, stopped, and had a long conversation about how lovely my garden is. So that was great.

Here's the thing. Nobody told it to convert to a percentage there. There was no reason to do that. So the problem isn't just that it can't do maths, or that it can't distinguish between a right answer and a wrong one. It's that something that can't think has the freedom to make "decisions".

IME, non-AI voice recognition systems are less prone to making catastrophic mistakes.

That was hospital.

AI VR just transcribed "4 out of 10" as "4%". That's probably fine, right?

Because men are too emotional to make sensible, evidence-based decisions.

Goodness. I didn't really expect us to win that game, let alone decisively.

And THIS patient has "atrial fibrillation on bigotry", and also a "valid frock, despite tamsulosin".

Emma, it almost sounds like someone told you these mistakes don't happen very often and that made you a Bit Tetchy.

After this post broke containment, things got a bit nuts and I was happy to spend the next couple of work sessions just doing straight typing.

This afternoon, I crack and open an AI VR file. First thing I see is the patient is on "Debugatron." Remind myself punching stuff will just hurt my hand.

I have adapted
the poem
that you wrote
like a hundred years ago

and which
you were probably
thinking
was exclusively about plums

Forgive me
it was low-effort
so reusable
and arguably funny