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Oct 2, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
The Northumbria University outbreak gives a fresh perspective to the SAGE minutes from 1 September, which were released today

SAGE identified numerous risks with opening colleges and universities, warning that it "has the potential to drive outbreaks"

You don't say
The SAGE minutes pose the question every student must be asking: now they're at uni, how will they ever leave?

SAGE says the risks of national transmission from universities will peak when students go home for Christmas - and that managing it will need “national oversight”
Link here assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl…
My apologies - released last month

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Mar 27
I’ll admit - i was sceptical about the idea of AI psychosis. Not the specific cases, which were all too believable, but about the scale. How much was this happening? And anyway wouldn’t better models make it go away?

Then I read a paper by Anthropic and the University of Toronto which has strangely received very little attentionImage
Maybe that's because the paper seems a bit dry - it doesn’t use the term AI psychosis. But the core idea - AI pulling people away from reality - is exactly the same

Anthropic went through 1.5m real conversations with Claude from one week in December 2025 and what they found was reality distortion at scaleImage
For instance – people who went to Claude saying they were being watched and got this response Image
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Mar 1
I wanted to understand how automation hits white collar jobs so I went on a huge research trip into the last time it happened: the 1980s

We rarely talk about the mass automation brought about by the PC. But it was massive! Take a look at this map of the most popular job in every US state in 1978. With the exception of truck drivers – for now – every job on that map has been reshaped by automationImage
The job that was hit the hardest is one that’s hardly ever mentioned in accounts of automation: the secretary
In 1984, there were 18m clerical and secretarial workers in the US, 18% of the entire workforce. Same in the UK.
One in five workers was some kind of secretary. Yet today, that precise job is on its way to extinctionImage
To find out what this felt like, I asked someone who worked as a secretary during that era: my mum. This is her in London in 1976. (Piles of rubbish on the street. Checks out.) Three years out of secretarial college for typing and shorthand Image
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Nov 17, 2022
Long covid has wrecked my life

It’s bad, very bad. But you knew that already

I want to tell you a hopeful story. A story about the things that can be done here and now to mitigate this terrible illness
Eighteen months ago, I caught a cough. It was a little annoying, so I took a day off work, thinking that would be the end of it

The next morning, I woke up and everything was different
Long covid is a condition with an almost endless list of symptoms. For me, it meant a complete loss of energy, most noticeably in my brain. I made my living writing and talking. Now I was barely able to take on a complex thought or hold a lengthy conversation
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Dec 16, 2021
Don’t like putting personal things on Twitter, but I’ve just logged on after a while and found a load of DMs asking why I’ve disappeared, which is… a good question

If you haven’t seen me recently it’s because I’ve got a nasty case of long covid. Eight months and counting :(
My main symptoms are fatigue and brain fog. Medically I’m in perfect health – none of the tests show anything – but I have *much* less energy. If I push myself too hard then I just collapse. It’s like someone has reached inside and turned me off. It's scary
My health has improved since this all began in March. I don’t have to go to bed for days after checking my emails. But I still get tired very easily, even after relatively moderate activity – and I have a two-year-old, so keeping things moderate isn't straightforward
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Mar 4, 2021
EXCLUSIVE

A leaked Test and Trace document admits that data from check-ins at pubs, restaurants and hairdressers was barely used for contact tracing

Nor was data from hundreds of millions of check-ins with the contact tracing app
news.sky.com/story/test-and…
It gets worse

On the rare occasions their data was used for contact tracing, businesses were encouraged to call customers themselves, a breach of data protection law

Test and Trace admits businesses could face legal action as a result
news.sky.com/story/test-and…
I spoke to @justinmadders who said the revelations showed "a staggering level of dysfunctionality at the heart of the Test and Trace system"

I also talked to @UKHospKate, who reminded me how hard businesses worked to put these check-in systems in place
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Mar 3, 2021
EXCLUSIVE

The global coalition for transparency and anti-corruption has put the UK "under review"

This is a body the UK helped set up and which it funds with £2m+ a year

@KevKeith told me it was "shameful"
news.sky.com/story/uk-gover…
The Open Government Partnership is an international club which supports open government around the world

Its intervention means the UK will become the ninth of its 78 members to go under review, joining a list that includes Bulgaria, Malawi and Malta
news.sky.com/story/uk-gover…
When the Open Government Partnership was set up in 2011, the UK really was the world leader in open government

Now... not so much
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