Darryl Carey
darrylcarey.bsky.social
Darryl Carey
@darrylcarey.bsky.social
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Kia Ora B’sky. I’m an architect & health designer in Tamaki Makaurau, Aotearoa. Politics, art, literature, design, music, cricket, whisky & craft beer will all do it for me. He/him
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This is a careful, cogent and chilling analysis of the impact of AI in health care. It’s long and directly applies to the USA’s for profit model, but has huge lessons for NZ and elsewhere.

“True care is not a transaction to be optimized; it is a practice and a relationship to be protected.”
“The problem is that when it is installed in a health sector that prizes efficiency, surveillance and profit extraction, AI becomes not a tool for care and community but simply another instrument for commodifying human life.”
#nzpol
What we lose when we surrender care to algorithms | Eric Reinhart
A dangerous faith in AI is sweeping American healthcare – with consequences for the basis of society itself
www.theguardian.com
Ummm read the story. It’s an excerpt from Adam Duddings memoir. Perhaps not the wisest choice, but certainly NOT written by a pedophile!
Agree. Very hard to see the positive right now
I really hope it’s not most. The ignorance and misinformation around benefits is off the charts. We are such a judgmental and punitive bunch sometimes.
And this government cynically plays on that
This such a cruel and uncaring attitude from our current government.
I don’t know how anyone can support this heartless and ignorant policy in the face of so much evidence to the contrary.
When did we stop investing in and supporting our young people, our future?
On the face of it, this approach to solar panels seems to make a lot of sense. Any NZ trials?
Vertical rows are the agrivoltaic winner!

“The vertical panels produce slightly less electricity—but with higher value, as generation peaks coincide with morning and late afternoon demand…The crops don't seem to mind the presence of solar panels and they like the wind protection they provide.”
Double harvest: Vertical solar panels and crops thrive side by side
Imagine a field where solar panels and crops coexist—with no trade-off. It sounds like science fiction, but that's precisely what researchers from Aarhus University have now documented in a full-scale...
techxplore.com
And I’ve still yet to read any analysis of the implications of relaxing the seismic compliance standards, like increased risk, life safety or how many owners would carry out a seismic upgrade without taking the opportunity for fire and accessibility upgrades. There is a trade off here
Also not sure about the dodgy contractor lurking behind her…
This deserves to be shared, discussed and amplified.
And the government needs to rethink.
Thank you Newsroom and Dame Anne Salmon.
On a range of environmental and legal measures involving forestry, the coalition Government seems to be doing the opposite of what people and communities need, writes Dame Anne Salmond
Anne Salmond: Who is this Government working for?
newsroom.co.nz
As said husband, I’d like it on record that I did tsk and shake my head…
in the time honoured polite boomer fashion.
No. It’s a puff piece by Infrastructure NZ. Industry lobby press release basically. So not paywalled.
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I made this post the other day because I can’t believe how little attention the Pae Ora Amendment Bill is getting. SUBMIT NOW. HEALTH PRIVATISATION is about to become LAW.
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www.reddit.com/r/nzpolitics...
From the nzpolitics community on Reddit: The Amendment Bill seeing to PRIVATISE your health system
Posted by hadr0nc0llider - 53 votes and 11 comments
www.reddit.com
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I've made this simple to use page for people to work out how much the change from fuel excise tax to road user charges will affect them. Please share it far and wide.
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what-will-rucs-cost-me.netlify.app
NZ RUC vs Fuel Excise Tax Calculator
Compare how the new RUC system impacts popular vs. high-consumption petrol cars.
what-will-rucs-cost-me.netlify.app
Another excellent thread with a more balanced perspective on NZs COVID response.
Thank you!
Here's the gotcha chart that Treasury have placed at the heart of their ideological rant about the need for Govt know it's place and generally stand back and let, RBNZ handle things during the next crisis (a housing boom will save jobs!)
Let's look at what the IMF were reporting on here.. [1/n]
Russell I’m involved in the architecture industry. It’s pretty grim right now.
Let me know if you need any additional info or perspective.
Happy to help
On iOS, if you swipe down from the top on the Home Screen, recent notifications appear in all their glory (!?)
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Discovering Ngāi Tahu's kahurumanu.co.nz/atlas for the correct place names has been huge for me, & I learn a thing or two about NZ history.

For instance 'Pudding Island' in Otago Harbour is Te Pā-o-Titere-Moana & while the Govt assumed ownership, Ngāi Tahu never agreed to sell it to the Crown.
Almost all of these projects have previously been announced or waiting funding approval for over 12 months or more. And one of them, the Hutt Mental Health facility, is mostly funded by a private benefactor.
And why announce them on a Sunday morning? Journalists not paying attention perhaps?
Shouldn’t the question be “is the economic stall recovering?”