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The D*List’s Cripmas gift guide 2024

Dec 3, 2024 | thedlist.co.nz | Amy Clements |Chris Ford

9) The Savage Coloniser by Tusiata AviaTusiata Avia is a poet and author who won the Prime Minister's Award for Literary Arts in 2024. In Here we are, read us: Women, disability and writing, she says: “Epilepsy is not what I would choose if I was ordering what to have in my life, but it is what I have.” However, writing helps her express that “epilepsy is not shameful”. Her 2020 book The Savage Coloniser explores the histories of violence and she offers many voices that offer hope.
Watch our community’s highs and lows this International Day of Persons with Disabilities

Dec 2, 2024 | thedlist.co.nz | Amy Clements |Chris Ford |Eda Tang

This year has been particularly challenging for the disability community, marked by significant changes in funding. But amid these challenges, we’ve also seen moments of joy. Most importantly, we’ve seen the disability community present in lots of spaces - whether at hīkoi, protests or community events - coming together in solidarity and mutual support. Out of every day in the year, today is our day to share disabled joy, to honour our struggles and to stand - or sit - together.
Disabled on dating apps: To disclose or not to disclose

Nov 28, 2024 | thedlist.co.nz | Amy Clements |Chris Ford |Eda Tang |William J. Sangster

Read the transcript to this podcast below. Amy: Kia ora, I'm your host Amy and you're listening to ‘Disabled on Dating Apps: To Disclose or Not to Disclose’, a podcast episode brought to you by The D*List. Abdulla: Kia ora everyone, my name's Abdulla, I'm 29, I'm also a youth facilitator in the disability sector, I live in Auckland and I've had pretty interesting experiences with dating apps.
Ukraine must win — Chartist

Nov 4, 2024 | chartist.org.uk | Chris Ford

The Cost of WarAfter one-thousand days of Russia’s full-scale invasion the costs are mounting. Every day the population of Ukraine is under attack and more than 15 million Ukrainians need humanitarian assistance – over half of whom are women and children. According to the Pentagon the Armed Forces of Ukraine have lost over 57,500 killed and 250,000 wounded in their efforts to the resist the invasion.
Opinion: Republicans want to repeal laws that make medicine cheaper and cover Americans

Oct 12, 2024 | wausaudailyherald.com | Chris Ford

Here we go again, another year, another watershed moment for progress on healthcare costs. I wish we could stop doing this, but we can't; there's just too much at stake. Last month marked two years since the Biden-Harris administration's Inflation Reduction Act became the law of the land. Vice President Harris cast the deciding vote, and President Biden signed it into law.
Remembering the Warsaw Uprising — Chartist

Aug 24, 2024 | chartist.org.uk | Chris Ford

This summer marks the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising, when between 1st August – 2nd October 1944 the Polish capital saw the largest action of any European resistance movement in World War Two. The underground labour movement centred round the Polish Socialist Party (PPS) was a major part of the resistance, the Polish Home Army.
Georgia at the crossroads — Chartist

Jul 10, 2024 | chartist.org.uk | Chris Ford

The law serves a number of purposes for the government. Firstly, it allows them to label critical organisations as somehow ‘foreign’ and discredit their work. Secondly, it enables them to later amend the law to prevent such organisations from doing key political work. After all, they will say, why should ‘foreign agents’ be allowed to interfere in the domestic politics of the country?
Opinion: Budget a 'mixed bag' for disabled people

May 31, 2024 | odt.co.nz | Chris Ford

By Chris FordOpinion - Disabled people around the country are feeling a mixture of disappointment and relief in the new coalition government's first Budget. There is relief that there is a funding boost for Whaikaha to ensure continuity of disability support funding. There is also deep disappointment that much-needed flexibility for individualised funding and respite care was not restored.
City under siege — Chartist

May 15, 2024 | chartist.org.uk | Chris Ford

The city of Kharkiv is located 30 kilometres from the Russian-Ukrainian border. The city was one of the first to be attacked by the Russian army’s mechanized brigades on February 24, 2022. The city was able to resist the invader and remain Ukrainian, but the battle for Kharkiv region has not stopped to this day. Prior to the full-scale invasion, Kharkiv was a densely populated city with almost 1.5 million inhabitants and a developed agglomeration.
How F5 Is Unlocking the Power of AI

Feb 7, 2024 | f5.com | Chris Ford

A key component of this data fabric is the AI ecosystem, which is a collection of models, modules, and APIs designed to make machine learning and AI much more accessible to our product teams and users—ridiculously easy, as we say. It accelerates our ability to build AI into our products and go from idea to AI-enabled app super fast. Here’s an example. If you’ve ever had to train supervised learning models, you know that it requires lots of data, and that data has to be labeled.