Dan O'Hara

Dewsbury charity's work 'on hold' after arson attack Bramwell's Hope in Dewsbury says it has paused its services after a fire at its premises on Sunday.

A *food bank* attacked by an arsonist.

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Now struggling to imagine the Carioca pronunciation of 'Nuneaton'.

Noonee Atorng, maybe

The PCR positivity map is out, and positivity is up slightly in England, down slightly in Scotland.

Hotspots haven't changed, but the levels in those hotspots have.

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1/6

If you're having difficulty understanding what the hell is going on with the American military's mad talk of of preparing for the return of Jesus...

Ah, one bit of explanation! That graph is covid beds at Worcs Acute from November to now. Levels decline from the October wave, like everywhere else, but then just continue rather than being got under control

I think it's an IC issue.

Apart from London, where we see just endless circulation from borough to borough at the moment, you'd be surprised.

The 'stuck' areas are quite recent, since late January.

The only one that sticks out is Worcestershire, & I've got to say looks to me like an infection control thing.

In Scotland, Dundee has leapt up to 12%, with Perth and Kinross at a very similar level.

Levels have come down ever so slightly in the Shetlands and in Ayrshire and the west generally.

6/6

I'm still concerned about this broad corridor of non-reporting areas between Chester (10.92%) and York (11.11%).

5/6

London's definitely seeing a substantial surge.

Several boroughs are reporting above 12%.

Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Trust has seen covid beds go from 3 to 52 over the last 2 weeks.

4/6

The outlier in England this week is Swindon on 40%; Worcestershire is close behind on 39.13%.

Most areas in the Midlands are now reporting a rising trend; NHS stats confirm those increases in the Midlands.

3/6

The number of hospital beds occupied by people with flu (549) has this week dropped below the number occupied by covid patients (562).

That's a minimal level of covid patients, and pretty much the year-round baseline, whereas flu can drop to negligible levels.

2/6

The PCR positivity map is out, and positivity is up slightly in England, down slightly in Scotland.

Hotspots haven't changed, but the levels in those hotspots have.

jamestindall.info/skeuomorphol...

1/6

I've started adding this very basic logo to all my lecture slides seeing as the senior managers who don't understand what AI is are trying to force it on everyone. Feel free to re-use it.

...you may find my recent essay on The American Weird useful.

It explains the deep intertwined development of American historical identity and religious militarism with apocalyptic beliefs

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If you're having difficulty understanding what the hell is going on with the American military's mad talk of of preparing for the return of Jesus...

Introducing Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work YouTube video by Anthropic

It is hugely amusing to me that Anthropic's advertising for Claude non-coding #AI targets a very specific kind of employee:

the manager who isn't on top of their remit and hasn't prepped to bullshit their way through a team meeting that starts in five minutes' time

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAmK...

[BlueSky seems to have recovered now - here's this week's thread]

The PCR positivity map is out, and positivity is up a bit in England to 4.08%, but down a bit in Scotland to 3.39%.

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1/8

Thanks Lizzie.

And once again we see high levels on Tyneside and, to a lesser extent, Teesside.

Sunderland's reporting 23.08%; Gateshead zooming up alongside it.

8/8

Really critical and widespread lack of reporting across Yorkshire and Lancashire this week.

Doncaster's 6.67% might be replicated all along the M62 - those few areas that are reporting are reporting rises.

7/8

Still high levels in Worcestershire and Herefordshire, and both still rising.

There's an unhelpful lack of data from Warwickshire and Northamptonshire this week, making it hard to know if this has spread or not.

6/8

A mixed picture in the South-East: West Sussex's levels have increased further to 15.38%, but it doesn't seem (yet) to be more widespread.

5/8

England's hotspots haven't changed from last week, though some have died down.

Camden's the outlier in London on 31.58%, but there are rises in boroughs across the capital and to the north, through Hertfordshire to Bedfordshire.

4/8

Otherwise North Ayrshire is the highest on 7.8%, and that patch of higher positivity remains throughout Ayrshire, Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire and Glasgow.

3/8

Scotland first this week, as Shetland Islanders will have noticed their 16.2% positivity straight away.

It consists of 6 cases from 37 tests. Not huge, but enough to indicate local transmission.

2/8

[BlueSky seems to have recovered now - here's this week's thread]

The PCR positivity map is out, and positivity is up a bit in England to 4.08%, but down a bit in Scotland to 3.39%.

jamestindall.info/skeuomorphol...

1/8

BlueSky seems to be having problems and I'm unable to post the PCR map thread today. It's also not showing me my own posts, so I'm unsure if you'll see this.

But the map is out with this week's data up to 3 days ago.

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Scotland first this week, as Shetland Islanders will have noticed their 16.2% positivity straight away.

It consists of 6 cases from 37 tests. Not huge, but enough to indicate local transmission.

2/8

At every lecture I gave on AI in the last couple of decades, I asked one key question

At every festival and conference and evidence session, at Hay-on-Wye and NESTA and TED and the BBC and the Science Museum and the Global Art Forum and even IBM fucking Watson, I told people: