Ways the govt could quickly help New Zealanders reduce fuel usage, but probably won’t 🤷, for reasons:
⚠️ Lower speed limits
🚌 Encourage PT (eg bring back half-priced fares)
🚲 Encourage active modes (eg pop-up bike paths)
🛤️ Move freight from road to rail (eg ramp up KiwiRail)
🏡 Support work-from-home
Could we just perhaps have a little enquiry about the rapid rise of antivax rhetoric and the impacts of vaccine hesitancy? As a treat?
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Brilliant. An expat im Dubai has a startling revelation, by @stephencollins.bsky.social
Not sure what "entirely generated" means, exactly, but I feel we need new norms around this. Here's a blog I like about "etiquette", "consent", and what should be considered "rude" when sharing AI-generated content. Disclosures after the fact do not cut it, IMO. distantprovince.by/posts/its-ru...
New Zealand has more sunshine than Germany.
But only 1 in 35 homes here has rooftop solar.
Australia? 1 in 3.
Why? I tried to find out - despite some strange secrecy
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Literally, at work this morning:
Clinician: Patient should stop medication A, but must keep taking medication B.
AI VR transcription of this: Patient should stop taking medication B.
Seriously NEVER LET A DOCTOR USE AI FOR YOUR APPOINTMENTS. NEVER. UNDER ANY FUCKING CIRCUMSTANCES.
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Roses are red
Let's be realistic
The key to nutrition
Is biostatistic.
Some governments raise taxes to fund public health and education. Not Luxon. He is literally raising taxes to subsidise fossil fuels. He is putting a levy on our electricity bills to pay for his LNG import terminal.
I'm not saying this is the end of the world or anything, but we really don't need to abbreviate so many things.
Reminder: regime voter suppression means you need to enrol early. vote.nz/enrolling/en...
Screen use before sleep might be more relaxing for teens than no screen use. In particular, gaming and social media. Surprising? Maybe. Our new paper out today: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
An important point: "Too many career decisions are based on CV length rather than quality, which maintains the pressure on researchers to publish as many papers as possible."
A big chunk of my time is spent harmonizing data sources so that they can be combined and compared. This is preventable.
If you don't want to have to do this, make sure to spend time planning up front, so that you consistently name, code, and label variables across collections of the same items. 🙌
Of course this approach will out-compete careful, slow, rigorous, ethical clinical science.
At least as far as medicine goes, novice researchers unleashing machine learning algorithms on data they just happen to have lying around, hyping it all as ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE and bewildering reviewer and editors has indeed led to more "impact", and this is a disaster that gen-AI will amplify.
Yippee ki yay! Headlines shout “growth is back!”. And pop the champagne corks!
But, if growth is the answer (as many seem to believe it is), then remind me again what was the question?
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Got this song stuck in my head for no reason
#3 - The focus on meat & butter is not consistent with evidence, which overwhelmingly points to sat fat raising LDL, and LDL being causal for heart disease.
But they end up recommending 10% of calories from sat fat – new guideline, same as the old guideline.
#2 - Recommendations to reduce processed food, sugar, and refined carbs is totally fine, and also totally standard.
It's too bad they miss the point on processing. Food isn't bad because it's processed. It's bad because manufacturers use processing to produce crap food.
In sum (!) I have 3 basic takeaways:
#1 The focus on trials vs. observational evidence would be great if they actually followed it (see: artificial sweeteners).
Observational evidence has been WAY over-interpreted, and is responsible for much conflicting advice (see: eggs).
The sole of my boot came off and I swallowed a bug.
It stole from beloved literature written by real humans to generate the list in the first place, it stole water and electricity and money in an age where those are often in short supply, and it's stealing our ability to have trust and confidence in the media at a time we need that more than ever
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I don't use AI. I am old school and use my brain.
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