Ian Kenway @iankenway@social.cleverlibre.org

Of course #ClearviewAI just patented a #surveillance tech to detect "drug users and homeless"

Fuck Clearview AI

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolinehaskins1/facial-recognition-clearview-patent-dating

Just a reminder to all the anti-immigrant people out there.. this is what the USA once stood for:

Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

Today's #Covid19Cymru headlines:
Today seems to have put us back on track with the downward trend in cases. Deaths significantly down, again. Positivity at a record low (since the last peak).

I think my guesses regarding the high number of cases yesterday were right; 2 things were likely at play.
1. We had a couple of days of lower than expected figures, and so yesterday was a bit of a catch-up;
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2. More figures from Monday samples (normally higher after the weekend) came through yesterday than usual - last week Saturday saw the higher number.

Friday 5th: 399
Saturday 6th: 675

Friday 12th: 608
Saturday 13th: 400

So, today's 400 cases brings us back to an average around where I would have expected if you'd asked me 4 or 5 days ago, when trends looked more stable.
7-day average: 452 - DOWN 39 on yesterday's unexpectedly high figure. DOWN 47 on 4 days ago,

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which in retrospect is the latest figure I trust for accuracy. And that rate of fall is about right.

R (estimate): 0.91 - UNCHANGED
I'm taking this to 4 decimal places today because 2 really does mask the movement due to rounding.

0.9050 - DOWN 0.0098 (yesterday was 0.9148).
So that's going back the right direction. A week or so ago I was saying that I thought the true R was probably 0.89, as it's been going up and down around that for a while. That's probably still about right.
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The best news of today for cases is the positivity, which is way down at its lowest since I started recording it - so well before the last peak, at 7.1%.

Deaths continue their rapid fall, with 22 recorded today. There's been a very sudden and very steep fall in cases these past few days, and I wouldn't be surprised if there's a backlog to come through at some point soon.
7-day average: 20.71 - DOWN 3.86
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#Ceredigion's low numbers continue, recording just 3 today, sharing top spot with Monmouthshire, and third to Monmouthshire and Penfro (4 cases) in Per Capita terms.
7-day average: 2.71 - DOWN 0.29

The location of Ceredigion's cases (with thanks to
Lowri Williams) are:
1: Aberystwyth South
1: Aberaeron & Llanrhystud
1: Aberteifi & Aberporth
https://portalcovidcymru.co.uk/map.html
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https://gov.wales/written-statement-written-statement-health-protection-regulations?utm_source=rss-topics-Coronavirus+%28COVID-19%29&utm_medium=rss-feed&utm_campaign=rss-Written+Statement%3A+Written+Statement+on+the+Health+Protection+Regulations

Drier European summers projected under #ClimateChange

...Furthermore, human induced #climate change is expected to increase the frequency of extremely dry conditions across all of #Europe.
“We are expecting to see significant changes in European summers as a result of human-induced climate change. Summers may become a lot drier and this shift is expected to become more prominent as we move through the century.”

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/press-office/news/weather-and-climate/2021/drier-european-summers-projected-under-human-induced-climate-change

#ClimateCrisis #Meteorology

The Net Zero Challenge is a global competition to answer the following question: How can you advance climate action using #opendata? - https://www.netzerochallenge.info/ great idea

That's the third time this week I read an article talking about how Apple invented the smartphone and mobile applications. Who's spreading this nonsense?

Yes, Apple made smartphones popular (I guess?). But let's not rewrite history here: we had smartphones and apps several years before the first iPhone got released.

Looking for THE CURE - WISH on vinyl. Anyone have one they are willing to part with that doesn't require a kidney donation hit me up. Or if you know of a place that will ship to the states with covid still in full swing.

XVII( I do not love you)

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,

or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.

I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,

in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;

thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,

risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.

I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;

so I love you because I know no other way
than this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,

so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

-- Pablo Neruda

this is one of my favorite poems 🙂

#poem #poetry #english #writing

Today's #Covid19Cymru headlines:
Cases: the trend continues to fall. R down slightly. Deaths down. Positivity down. Again another good news day.

My model's prediction (based on R) for today was 417 cases. We have 410, so I'm confident in the figures. It's another good fall in the average, and a very slight fall in R.
7-day average: 461 - DOWN 19

R (estimate): 0.85 - DOWN 0.01 (due to rounding - actually only 0.003, so more or less static).

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I am relieved to see R falling, after its rise to aronud 0.9 in the past week. Tomorrow's figure however may well show a slight rise due to odd data last Friday and Saturday.

Positivity is right down at 7.7%, which is the third lowest since the last peak, all three of those in the past week.
It's time I graphed this. It's a crude measure of infection rates, but it supports the other data.

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I am very pleased to see deaths falling still. I had expected today might see a rise, because yesterday was lower than I'd expected. Hopefully, at last, the faster fall in cases of the past month is coming through in death figures.
7-day average: 27.41 - DOWN 1.14

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