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The Demise of House Calls
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Friend, sick, has an interview with doctor over Skype. Who recommends she gets herself to a hospital ASAP as she's not doing well. Hospitals, at the moment - well, she was in for 7 hours for no diagnosis and a lot of tests.
Anyways, she had told me the doctor was paying a house call and it got me thinking, not as in Skype but as in the day when Doctors would actually go to see the patient in their own environment. Because in their environment might be a lot of clues as to not only what ails them - psychologically as well as physically, but socially as well.
Just as a teacher would get a lot of insight into a pupils life and behaviour by going to their home, so Doctors - and Patients - would benefit from house calls.
But, given the state of health care funding and hospitals in general, don't go expecting that any time soon.
Migration, Content & Other Headaches
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So, finally, after a lot of exporting and tracking down of missing articles (200 as of this morning, 0 at the moment) I've managed to migrate all my old articles over.
Headache after headache.
This, and a few other display issues, and it's almost to where it was when I began. Of course, it needs a pretty banner, a few tweaks here and there, but, by and large the tech side of it has been handled, and with a half hour a day in a week or so it should look OK.
If you were wondering, that's where I've been. Working on that bollocks, and in Williams Lake...
Idiots abroad...
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This makes me laugh...
Link: https://www.wonkette.com/p/canadian-idiots-who-fled-to-russia
There's hope yet...I mean, the Canadian government should under no circumstances allow them back. They can be the propaganda arm of the great Mother Russia and lure the over half of Alberta that voted for Danielle Smith and "think for themselves" crew...
Now, you can see where this is going...
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And - despite my laughing at all the ridiculous shit Facebook is throwing at me, there's the very real concern - AI is still in it's idiocy stage, garbage in, garbage out, but soon - maybe a year, maybe 2 or three, the results are going to start to be indistinguishable from reality. An AI hallucination of the worst sort. And all the possibilities of the internet - already hard enough to find good information - all these things are going to be destroyed.
There will be a very big market for a carefully curated internet that deals in facts and realities, whereas of late it's become a cesspool of clearly deranged AI hallucinations. And a market for an internet that delivers human generated results.
On the upside, (and you'll see this from all the "Follow Me" posts I get) - there's going to be a reckoning coming for every "Model", "Influencer", "Artist" and "Pornstar" that's going to require them to get clothes, a personality, a job and a life.
That won't be a bad thing...
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