Matthew Loxton

Healthcare improvement and strategic foresight analyst, professional trainer in qualitative research methods. Organizational behavior researcher. Board member at Blue Faery Liver Cancer. #Writer of stuff - #AmWriting

Read my #fiction titles on Amazon "The Screw Turns" at https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B09P5LLNZ1
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Work: Strategic Foresight studies and qualitative research
Writing: Write medical fiction short stories and textbook chapters on qualitative research. Also write blogs on process improvement and liver cancer
Research: Patient journey research relating to suicide prevention, liver cancer, and organizational behavior

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2024-08-28 21:29:35

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Indeed
And I think it forever splits anti-Zionism from antisemitism. Bibi has broken the spell
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2024-08-28 21:01:01

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Right.
Against all logic, and to the utter astonishment to everyone outside the US, the margin is likely to be paper thin, and Harris needs to keep several demographics enthused, and there is a large voting bloc who are older and very invested in supporting Israel
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2024-08-28 15:35:40

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Yes, social security net has been steadily eroded, Boomers ate the seed corn, and imbibed the gospel of "Greed is Good", and yes, we need a drastic shift, and there is not much hope that things will get better - climate change, industry 4.0, demographic shift, etc.
We agree on the problem
"Voting 3rd party is working towards it"
No, it isn't. It is throwing your vote away and only benefits fascists
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2024-08-28 14:01:21

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"None of those things you are saying are good have an effect on me or anyone I know"
Of course they affect you. Forgiving student debt has an effect on everyone, not just that person. Trade agreements affect us all in the products we can get, the jobs that are available, the knowledge circulating.
You had better care what happens far away
"already living in a violent, miserable country"
It can get far worse
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2024-08-28 13:40:54

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"Niether party is going to fix jack shit"
Not what the facts show.
One party forgave student debt, initiated an infrastructure plan that has already had big effects, and has supported and strengthened friendly nations.
"Our problems are made by them to keep their power."
Sure, but that's mainly the oligarchs and billionaire class.
"I'm down for a revolution."
OK, so a hundred years or so of violence and misery
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2024-08-28 01:34:13

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Ok, and how will that improve anything?
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2024-08-19 18:29:10

Do you have thoughts about using memberships/crowdfunding to fund your #writing?
#writers #writingcommunity

2024-07-02 02:50:54

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Nope
It is the voter's job to pick the better candidate.
It is always and completely all on the voter.
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2024-06-18 16:54:55

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This happened to Dr. Anthony Fauci in particular, but was repeated many times with other people in the NIH. Not only did they receive daily barrages of texts, emails, phone calls, but also letters and packages that were at best insulting, and at worst, represented immediate threats of abduction, assault, rape, and murder.
But that's not all.
Armed and angry men kept arriving at their places of work, at their homes, and also at those of their families.
/4

2024-06-18 16:50:11

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White powder could be many things, for example
1. Talc. Requiring extra work to clean up, but also be dealt with in the next M&M meeting, and requiring copious paperwork
2. Anthrax. Involving strong antibiotics, and weeks of monitoring, and a massive cleanup, and a truckload of paperwork
3. Ricin. Involving probable death, massive cleanup, Even more paperwork
The individual, family, friends and colleagues would be traumatized and their lives and work disrupted
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2024-06-18 16:45:08

Just a note for those who are angry with NIH for not being forceful about masking, vax, distancing, air purification, etc. for COVID-19
Here is one of many events that underline why NIH is in self-preservation mode.
At 10:30, a healthcare worker at NIH opened a letter, and as they did so, fine white powder billowed out. The office had to be shut down, workers in full HAZMAT suits got the worker to place the envelope and letter into a HAZMAT bag, strip down completely, and be sprayed down
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2024-06-14 16:44:25

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Hey Queen, I am curious what your thinking was back then. Care to share, or is that private?
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2024-06-14 15:23:58

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The chief reason that electric cars have not seen as much adoption in the US, EU, and UK as was hoped, was the decision by carmakers to make them a luxury item and price them higher than gasoline or diesel models

2024-06-07 03:56:23

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I guess it's a function of time and numbers.
On birdchan I had ten times the followers and it meant far more help and collaboration. But that took years to develop.
Maybe in a few years, I'll have that again here, and maybe not
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2024-06-05 10:25:47

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Hello Stitch!
Max and Milo say "woof"
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2024-05-29 20:46:37

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Yah, indeed.
When you see Nikki Haley signing an artillery shell in Israel and writing "Finish Them", you get a taste of where it would go.
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2024-05-29 16:59:50

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No, for OTHERS
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2024-05-29 16:55:39

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Spicy!
"I sure don't hear enough straight old white man opinions!"
Nope, we have too many old white men deciding stuff, and could do with more women, BIPoC, and LGBTQ+ voices. Which is why I deliberately promote them ahead of myself on panels, leading research projects, getting plum tasks and roles, and getting promoted.
"Heaven forbid we should disrupt your cushy ..."
I favor incremental improvement because IT WORKS BETTER
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2024-05-29 13:38:20

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"All I got in return is rising fascism"
Sure, which has many causes - one of which is success. As diversity climbs, and previously underrepresented constituencies gain visibility, so does the rightward backlash. The panic by white men who feel their privilege slipping away is palpable and not a failure on our part.
"It’s radicals who change the country"
Yes. and most big-bang shifts are nasty. Most positive change is through incremental improvement
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2024-05-28 22:21:48

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"You have to already know stuff to know the AI is wrong. But no one is going to treat it that way."
... and there it is

2024-05-28 17:25:32

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Hang in there, sister.
With Democrats, you never get what they promise, but always get progress, but with Republicans you always get what you fear most, and never get what you need.
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2024-05-16 16:20:39

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I also love the approach that Verbi took to how they frame these tools. Like the new chat feature they frame as the researcher being able to chat with the document, and ask the document questions. So it is a dialogue between me and this document I am analyzing, and that's a very helpful way to look at this.
My biggest hurdle is getting my mind around what these interactions and methods mean epistemologically, ontologically, and methodologically
but generating an FAQ or minutes is 🔥

2024-05-16 16:02:01

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AI is now built into the qualitative data analysis tool bench that I use every day for work. The ability to summarize text is very helpful, and the new feature of "chatting with" a document is amazing, and more than a little bewildering. It is allowing me to greatly speed up trivial tasks, and greatly support my real analytical work

2024-05-11 18:18:29

Just used ChatGPT to create a transcript of sociologists interview of a physician. That material, can then be used as instructional text for training sessions on qualitative reseach techniques and methods