Notices by Final Round Player 😷🇪🇺🍸 (jbond@mastodon.social)

Another great piece of work from @coldwarsteve

#Climate You know the Mauna Lao NOAA research centre that is the gold standard for Atmospheric CO2 Concentration, known as the Keeling Curve?

https://www.straitstimes.com/world/trump-cuts-target-world-leading-greenhouse-gas-observatory-in-hawaii

#climate
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/06/global-sea-ice-hit-all-time-minimum-in-february-scientists-say

Global sea ice extent looks to have set a new record low minimum. Arctic Sea Ice Extent and Area did look like they set a new record low maximum, but in the last couple of days they've been growing dramatically again. Still #1lowest but may break through to #2. Even though we're right at the average days for the max to occur.
https://forum.arctic-sea-ice.net/index.php?topic=4329.150#msg421829

No matter how many scientists you fire, and science agencies and science data collection systems you closedown, the Earth keeps getting warmer.

Looks like we'll end February 2025 above 2024 and 2023 for Global daily average 2m air temperature.

https://pulse.climate.copernicus.eu/

#climatechange

Mastodon, Bluski don't have algorithmic feeds. You have to follow people and view either your main follower list or curated lists and the posts & reposts from the accounts in those lists.

If you're still on x-fka-twitter, facebook, instgram, meta You can and should do the same thing. Curate lists of interesting accounts. Only ever use the list and following feeds. Never look at the main algorithmic feed.

@mos_8502 Did it scale, though?

@dansup AI is a monster we've birthed that will eat us all. It won't stop till the entire Solar System is turned into a Dyson Matrioshka shell of computronium.

It said in a favourite SciFi book I once read.

Exponential growth with short doubling periods in datacentre water and electricity consumption will hit the brick wall of resource constraints sooner rather than later. Countries and regions that use preferential treatment to attract it, will see that limit early.

@glynmoody What about AR?

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/world-news/why-garbage-time-lying-flat-are-trending-in-dragon-land-china-where-the-youth-are-just-giving-up-on-their-future/articleshow/113653839.cms?from=mdr

In "The Garbage Time of History", one reaction from the young is "Lying Flat". Just opt out.

Beware the fnords in this one. Criticising China for running out of success can look awfully like projection.

How did it end up like this?
UK: Red Left Wing, Blue Right Wing
USA: Blue Left Wing, Red Right Wing

Obvs. All 4 examples are actually right wing. ;)

Now we're well into 3rd Qtr, what are Labour, NHS, UKHSA and JVCI plans for the autumn covid vaccination programme?

It's all very well telling people to keep up to date with boosters. But the kids never got the first vax and most of the UK hasn't had a booster for years.

UK Covid

How long would it take Labour to resurrect the mitigations, test and trace we had in 2022?
- Free (limited number) of LFT
- NHS Reporting for all tests
- The Covid app
- ONS data analysis
- Free Vax for everyone > 6 months, twice a year
- Mask-vax mandates in health care
- Scrap UKHSA, resurrect PHE
- Rebuild JVCI and SAGE
- Wastewater testing
- Variant reporting

Then work on Indoor Air Quality and hygiene. Standards and public information.

@br00t4c Very sad. I miss them. And the greenfinches and chaffinches. Feels like less song birds every year.

Another pandemic is ‘absolutely inevitable’, says Patrick Vallance
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/25/another-pandemic-is-absolutely-inevitable-says-patrick-vallance-covid

So many diseases are spread via the respiratory system. Air hygiene should be a big thing now. It works against all of them. Even before there's a vax.

If only we'd done these, we'd be totally ready.
Clean air in schools ✅
Respirators being worn widely ✅
Good infection control in hospitals ✅

#CovidIsNotOver and yet we're talking about the "next" pandemic.

We finally found the Brexit Benefit. It's destroying the Tory Party.

#ToryZero

Huge & important thread on the effect of Long Covid on children in the UK.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1783789111582638210.html

ONS release Long Covid Report

> 2 million people living in private households in England and Scotland were experiencing self-reported long COVID [most of whom, longer than 2 years]

> Long COVID symptoms adversely affected the day-to-day activities of 1.5 million people (74.7% of those with self-reported long COVID).

> 381,000 (19.2%) reported that their ability to undertake their day-to-day activities had been “limited a lot”.

https://twitter.com/ONS/status/1783418864954417185

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases/articles/selfreportedcoronaviruscovid19infectionsandassociatedsymptomsenglandandscotland/november2023tomarch2024

@aral It worked the first time, so just repeat it, right?

The "Modest Proposal" is satire. Was that not obvious?

A modest proposal.

Find a country of around the right size. Displace and clear out the people who already live there. Allow any person of Palestinian heritage free passage to move to this new country. Provide whatever aid is necessary to help them make a new start.

Like say, Northern Cyprus.

@CloudyMrs @KimSJ @HighlandLawyer @Yoshi @ChrisMayLA6

Pretty much the only fundamental change that might work is PR. That way a coalition of minority Labour+LibDem+SNP might be able to steer a course back to sanity. The way to get that is 1) utterly destroy the Conservative Party and 2) don't vote for the Labour candidate if another party is more likely to stop the Tory candidate.