Ed Hyde

Happy International Women’s Day!

COVID-19 vaccines Pharmac is responsible for the management of COVID-19 vaccines. This includes funding, procurement, and supply.

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In a blaze of no publicity, the AoNZ COVID vaccine is being updated

Spotted this in a skip outside the Iranian Embassy in Wellington last Friday evening. In hindsight, probably should have paid more attention to it.

Apparently we end wars the same way we end COVID.

By making it worse.

//without (joke wasn’t that funny to start with, and even less so with a typo 🙄)

Screenshot of a social media post by a verified account named David Seymour reading, “Our dinner for Persian freedom fighters was well timed. Let freedom reign this time.” Below the text is a photo of a dining table set with plates, glasses, and a vase of flowers beside large glass doors. Outside the doors hang several green-white-red flags with lion-and-sun emblems. A folded cloth sits on a countertop in the foreground.

Let's not forget that Seymour called New Zealand's first Iranian born member of parliament, a woman whose parents fled the regime as dissidents, a "menace to freedom" resulting in her needing extra security as threats increased

He directed contributed to her being hounded out of public life

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Niche post, I love it

This Fallout: Sykes-Picot trailer sucks.

It’s probably done with the backing of the Board of Peace, even 👀

That’s the one 🙄

And that’s before we get to the ethical, legal and ecological issues of AI

AI scribe tool being used in emergency departments AI is becoming a useful tool, but often cannot not be used to its full extent because of outdated IT systems, a doctors' union rep said.

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Nope. And NOPE. This may be “freeing up clinician time” (coz productivity is the only important metric for patient care, apparently), but writing patient notes is a hugely complex process that allows the formulation of a situation & management. Outsourcing the writing removes the thinking.

Protections for transgender, non-binary and intersex people won't be added to Human Rights Act, government says

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This government needs to be voted out yesterday

Wellington south coast, u may have heard already but there’s a health risk with the sewage spill and weather warning tomorrow, that the sewage is going to be aerosolised in the sea spray 🤢😷

Why covid-19 is “a vascular disease masquerading as a respiratory one” Covid-19 is not just a respiratory infection. Cardiovascular symptoms are seen in both acute and long covid. Katharine Lang reports on what we’ve learnt since the onset of the pandemic Cardiovascular...

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Welcome to year seven of COVID

I’m sure nothing can go wrong

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

Sounds like putting unfettered AI into healthcare might be a bad idea

if there's one positive thing you can say about Christopher Luxon it's that he lights up every room he leaves

AI’s role in paying women less It appears even AI chatbots are contributing towards the gender pay gap. A study last year found that the bots often advise women and other minorities to ask for significantly lower salaries than men....

AI systems are trained on data that is socially informed not just cold "facts" (ie all of attitudes & stereotypes that support ongoing inequalities based on gender, race, sexuality etc) unsurprising AI chatbots are advising women & minorities to ask for less pay #nzpol
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Wonder what it’s like being friends with someone complicit in enabling the murder, kidnapping and horrific treatment of thousands of people across the US and then blatantly lying about it, maybe NZ’s media should ask about that 🤔

This post calling Noem her friend is still up on Judith Collins facebook by the way, and there really aren't ANY good reasons at this point as to why NZ media aren't constantly pressuring her about it

This kind of rhetoric was once the domain of fringe groups like Voices for Freedom, but NZ First now represents those fringe groups in parliament

This is embarrassing and we are fucking doomed.

'Unelected globalist bureaucrats' - Peters praises United States' WHO withdrawal The United States has officially exited the WHO, a year since President Donald Trump gave notice via executive order.

The parable of the scorpion and the frog has been superseded by the parable of Winston Peters poisoning Aotearoa NZ until it dies, simply because he cannot help but support whomever seems most beneficial to him, rather than the people of New Zealand.

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