In the past week, I have learned that 3 people I know aged in their 30s have come down with bowel cancer, shingles and pneumonia respectively. Nothing to do with immune dysfunction from repeated COVID infections I’m sure
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Prof Deborah Lupton, MPH PhD
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This Monday, online, all welcome. Afternoon in UK/Europe, morning in USA, evening in Australia. Please share. Register in link www.admscentre.org.au/event/resist...
Resisting GenAI: How and Why - ADM+S CentreIn this one hour online panel discussion, Deborah Lupton is joined by Jed Brown, Dagmar Monett and Zachary Kaiser to discuss why it is important to resist generative AI technologies and how to do it. ...www.admscentre.org.au
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... “urgently needed - the world’s Declaration of Independence from Trump”
Trump, not Iran, is the world’s greatest danger. He’s a one-man weapon of mass destruction | Simon TisdallAs the bombing starts again, it’s clear the president has dragged the US into a limitless fiasco – and the world into an economic quagmire, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdallwww.theguardian.com
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This includes Australia: 24% favourable view of the US (down from 52% in 2023!) to 31% favourable view of China.
People in Many Countries Now View China More Positively Than the U.S.Views of China have improved recently while views of the U.S. have worsened, to the point where China is now seen more positively than the U.S. in most countries surveyed.www.pewresearch.orgWhat a lot of misleading statements here. No mention of the risk of Long COVID with every new infection, lots of unsubstantiated comments about the levels of ‘hybrid immunity’ in the population- where is the proof of this? theconversation.com/who-needs-an...
Who needs another COVID vaccine – and who might be able to skip it?It depends how old you are and if you have an underlying health condition.theconversation.com
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Jesus. 35 UK universities quietly- without debate - joined the Ministry of Defence’s “Battlefield Alliance” which seeks to “reorientate academia towards Defence and National Security” They’re destroying the social sciences and humanities while militarising the institutions
Want to know why and how some people are resisting GenAI? Join us for this online discussion www.admscentre.org.au/event/resist...
Resisting GenAI: How and Why - ADM+S CentreIn this one hour online panel discussion, Deborah Lupton is joined by Jed Brown, Dagmar Monett and Zachary Kaiser to discuss why it is important to resist generative AI technologies and how to do it. ...www.admscentre.org.au
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The moment you privatise human services you guarantee abuses. Congrats John Howard www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Dorothy’s aged care home charged $52 a day for Foxtel, wine and newspapers that were no use to her. She wasn’t aloneExclusive: Many aged care residents in Australia are charged for services they can’t use or understand, prompting an investigation from the regulatorwww.theguardian.com