A surprise to see a relatively factual, sober article about covid on the front page of the BBC Good to see it addresses rapid reinfections A brief 🧵 1/3 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Wie verteilen sich Infektionen in Deutschland? Wo treten Hotspots auf? Schlägt die #Wiesn Wellen? Antworten gibt die neue Landkreis-Karte! covidisnotover.info/aktuelle-cor... #CovidIsNotOver #SarsCoV2 #Covid #Corona #LongCovid

The PCR positivity map is out, and little has changed from last week. UKHSA's positivity stat has remained around 10.3%. 12.3% is our estimate of positivity, adjusted for the areas that are not reporting this week. jamestindall.info/skeuomorphol... 1/9

The PCR positivity map is out, and little has changed from last week. UKHSA's positivity stat has remained around 10.3%. 12.3% is our estimate of positivity, adjusted for the areas that are not reporting this week. jamestindall.info/skeuomorphol... 1/9

The PCR positivity map is out, and you'll see we've added a new feature this week. A National Average (adjusted) is displayed at the top of the map, below the banner. What is it? jamestindall.info/skeuomorphol... 1/14

The PCR positivity map is out, and you'll see we've added a new feature this week. A National Average (adjusted) is displayed at the top of the map, below the banner. What is it? jamestindall.info/skeuomorphol... 1/14

Today people went around my neighborhood in north east London spray painting St George’s crosses onto people’s homes. Many of these houses have non British people living in them. This is getting very dark, very quick.

The PCR positivity map is out, and many areas are seeing an ever so slight decrease. But Devon, London, and many areas north of Birmingham are seeing stubbornly high levels or rebounds. jamestindall.info/skeuomorphol... 1/8

The PCR positivity map is out, and many areas are seeing an ever so slight decrease. But Devon, London, and many areas north of Birmingham are seeing stubbornly high levels or rebounds. jamestindall.info/skeuomorphol... 1/8

I know I don't often post except for Thursday's map updates, but there's something I need to discuss with you about the national PCR positivity rate. That's the rate shown here.

The PCR positivity map is out, and while things may have calmed a little in Cumbria, and in Devon, everywhere else looks to be rising. jamestindall.info/skeuomorphol... 1/7

The PCR positivity map is out, and while things may have calmed a little in Cumbria, and in Devon, everywhere else looks to be rising. jamestindall.info/skeuomorphol... 1/7

This is fantastic, @lucyosler.bsky.social. Superb paper. I've been thinking about why LLMs seem to offer a broader 'attack surface' for co-construction of delusion (in people who aren't traditionally regarded as a safeguarding risk). Sections 3.3 & 4 are really on point. arxiv.org/pdf/2508.19588

@davidallengreen.bsky.social I object to "in breach in Good Friday Agreement", a phrasing that sounds like your grammar corrected by a Russian version of ChatGPT.

The PCR positivity map is out, with national positivity holding at 9%. I'm a bit dubious about that 9%, because most of the areas dropping out of reporting this week are ones that were heading for very high rates. jamestindall.info/skeuomorphol... 1/6

The PCR positivity map is out, with national positivity holding at 9%. I'm a bit dubious about that 9%, because most of the areas dropping out of reporting this week are ones that were heading for very high rates. jamestindall.info/skeuomorphol... 1/6

Echoes of JG Ballard's Kingdom Come www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The winner of the 2025 Orwell "1984 was a warning, not an instruction manual" Prize is JG Ballard. Again.

The winner of the 2025 Orwell "1984 was a warning, not an instruction manual" Prize is JG Ballard. Again.

The PCR positivity map is out. National positivity has risen to 8.83% - but remember the data only goes up to the 15th, 7 days ago. Everywhere in orange or darker on the map is above that figure. jamestindall.info/skeuomorphol... 1/7

The PCR positivity map is out. National positivity has risen to 8.83% - but remember the data only goes up to the 15th, 7 days ago. Everywhere in orange or darker on the map is above that figure. jamestindall.info/skeuomorphol... 1/7

With apologies to @tante.cc, this analogy of AI use with role-playing could bear pressing a little harder If the AI user is roleplaying, is the AI the dungeon master? [long thread]

Outstanding work from @nicktsergas.ca Immunity debt isn’t a thing It’s made up. It’s a get out of jail free card for the folks who encouraged you to get infected with Covid www.bmj.com/content/390/...

Unusually, NOIDs is out on time this week. The data is up to yesterday, so as up to date as it gets. I'd expect quite a jump in positivity when the map comes out this Thursday.

Been thinking about how to teach ordinary users of #LLM systems like #ChatGPT how they actually work A disillusionment technique, as it were The theatre improv game 'One Word' has a similarly stochastic process improvdr.com/2022/01/28/g...

You've GOT to be kidding me! The Conservatives - who oversaw every single thing on this list - are trying to claim that only the Conservatives would "stop the madness" - that they created...? So incredulity aside, what about the list itself? Let's go Debunking! 1/34

The PCR positivity map is out, national positivity has remained at 7.25%, and what we see this week is an intensification in the same problem hotspots as last week. jamestindall.info/skeuomorphol... 1/8

The PCR positivity map is out, national positivity has remained at 7.25%, and what we see this week is an intensification in the same problem hotspots as last week. jamestindall.info/skeuomorphol... 1/8

For quite a while it's looked to me as though there are serious safeguarding issues with AI. I mean this in a quite specific way, in relation to the UK Care Act (2014). This article demonstrates that concern should go beyond solely adults and children at risk of abuse.

Here is a superb account of the racist lynch mob that hunted migrants through the streets of Erfurt in 1975, seen through the eyes of the hunted. So many details reminiscent of the ways in which we're seeing hatred spun into a fever in the UK this summer. taz.de/Rassistische...

The PCR positivity map is out. National positivity has rebounded very suddenly to the highest level it's been all year. It looks like most areas are seeing the yoyo effect this week. jamestindall.info/skeuomorphol... 1/7

The PCR positivity map is out. National positivity has rebounded very suddenly to the highest level it's been all year. It looks like most areas are seeing the yoyo effect this week. jamestindall.info/skeuomorphol... 1/7

I wrote about Big GenAI and the scaresome poetics of generators, in what is also a "show of human disparity and ugliness straining against smooth synthesis". www.rockpapershotgun.com/we-need-to-r...

The PCR positivity map is out, national positivity has nudged down again from 6.5 to 6.1%, and surprisingly that's seen pretty uniformly across the country. The exceptions are interesting. jamestindall.info/skeuomorphol... 1/7

The PCR positivity map is out, national positivity has nudged down again from 6.5 to 6.1%, and surprisingly that's seen pretty uniformly across the country. The exceptions are interesting. jamestindall.info/skeuomorphol... 1/7

Honduras, with a population about the size of London but considerably less dense, has reinstated a mask mandate (yes, my ambiguous use of the word 'dense' is intentional) www.reuters.com/business/hea...

Well, hell is arrived in the US. Little armies of ICE-badged Jon Ronsons with made-up psych test clipboards, deciding who's mentally ill and needs rounding up. Oldschool fascism. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Well, hell is arrived in the US. Little armies of ICE-badged Jon Ronsons with made-up psych test clipboards, deciding who's mentally ill and needs rounding up. Oldschool fascism. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

The PCR positivity map is out. National positivity is up another 0.3 to 6.3%, and in my view that figure is certainly lower than the actual level. I'll explain why in what follows. jamestindall.info/skeuomorphol... 1/8

In which I get both furious and very worried about google's AI putting incendiary falsehoods about evicting council tenants to house asylum seekers at the top of the search results. This is dangerous stuff (albeit unintended, though that might be worse). nearlylegal.co.uk/2025/07/arti...

The PCR positivity map is out. National positivity is up another 0.3 to 6.3%, and in my view that figure is certainly lower than the actual level. I'll explain why in what follows. jamestindall.info/skeuomorphol... 1/8

The PCR positivity map is out and national positivity has unfortunately bounced back up to 6%. A lot of areas are seeing the yo-yo effect now, and I'm glad to see some areas have increased testing. jamestindall.info/skeuomorphol... 1/9

The PCR positivity map is out and national positivity has unfortunately bounced back up to 6%. A lot of areas are seeing the yo-yo effect now, and I'm glad to see some areas have increased testing. jamestindall.info/skeuomorphol... 1/9

www.dailydot.com/culture/long... #LongCovid

This year's NHS GPPS data is out. That's the GP-Patient Survey, the largest-scale health survey we have, covering over 700,000 people in England. I'll give you some headline points now, and post more in-depth analysis over the coming days. 1/9

This year's NHS GPPS data is out. That's the GP-Patient Survey, the largest-scale health survey we have, covering over 700,000 people in England. I'll give you some headline points now, and post more in-depth analysis over the coming days. 1/9

The PCR positivity map is out and at first glance it looks almost unchanged from last week. National positivity is down 0.5%, but with 10% of areas not reporting and RD not consistent with last week's drop, I'm not too confident in it. jamestindall.info/skeuomorphol... 1/6

Dr Phil Hammond reveals in Private Eye that CATA (the Covid Airborne Transmission Alliance) is threatening to take the UK Government to Court for a judicial review. Pre-action protocols require the parties to attempt to resolve their issues out of Court.

The PCR positivity map is out and at first glance it looks almost unchanged from last week. National positivity is down 0.5%, but with 10% of areas not reporting and RD not consistent with last week's drop, I'm not too confident in it. jamestindall.info/skeuomorphol... 1/6

My local BCS branch, of which I am a committee member, is organising a seminar on AI in palliative care. If there's any area where human dignity dictates the absence of dehumanising hype ... already written to express my disgust, will probably end up resigning. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-role-o...