Ian Smith
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Happiest when making stuff or making people laugh. Tech, and Design Thinking. Since 2019, freelancer and FRSA.
Ilkley, UK
Joined May 2007
🎵 Coming up this Friday and Saturday (12 & 13 July), it's Ilkley Live Garden Music Festival 2024! 👉 https://t.co/5JsFKAGOtq 🎵 It's a free event with more than 80 acts 🎵 Visit as many locations as you wish - full programme on the Ilkley Live website (link above)
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★ Just published a new episode of What A Lot Of Things: Episode Seventeen – Large Action Models and Creativity. Listen:
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★ Just published a new episode of What A Lot Of Things: Episode Thirteen – TikTok and X. Listen:
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★ Just published a new episode of What A Lot Of Things: Episode Twelve – AI Haters and The Game That Was Too Good. Listen:
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REMINDER: The BBC run one of the most valuable and beneficial "dark web" websites in the entire world, for the benefit of all the peoples of the world. https://t.co/b2x8Y5USz3 /Cc @BBCNews @BBCTech @bbcw
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Will Hutton has an article in The Observer this morning saying that Britain is bust. It isn’t. The UK has total wealth of more than £15 trillion. A short thread....
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Is it just me, or does anyone else wonder why the current AI fuss isn’t driving UBI to the forefront of political policy discussions?
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I'm now onto the last of the Lake District Mysteries "The Ullswater Undertaking" & I've 3 of the Cotswold Mysteries next to start by @RebeccaTope published by@AllisonandBusby I still think #lakedistrictmysteries would make a brilliant TV drama ...it really would!! #tvdrama
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"Why didn't we save the planet when we had the chance?" "Bad marketing" 🤯
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I’m a big fan of Readwise, and this great new app. I will be pushing as much of my reading into it as possible.
Huge news: after 1.5 years of private beta, thousands of testers, and a looot of incredible work by the team... @ReadwiseReader is finally in public beta! Save everything to one place, highlight like a pro, and replace several apps with one. https://t.co/xsbJnS0U5t
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Great letter about why we should support the proposed 20mph zone for Ilkley. It’ll be safer and nicer.
ilkleygazette.co.uk
IN response to the debate in the Gazette over the proposed 20mph zone for Ilkley, I hope a majority of people would support the principle for a…
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ChatGPT has been out less than two weeks and it has more apparent use cases than the entirety of blockchain.
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I had a long discussion with a radio producer yesterday on what I thought was wrong with the Autumn Statement. We discussed the numbers but what I said is most important is not what was said, but what was not. That’s where the frightening bits are. A thread…..
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Curiously, participants in the “reinstate Trump” poll have voted to reinstate him by the same margin as our referendum had in favour of Brexit. At least the Trump decision will easily be reversible if it turns out to be a catastrophe.
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Coming your way, @gilesdring, to Hebden Bridge in August 2024 -
ordnancesurvey.co.uk
November 2022 saw geospatial history being made when true north, magnetic north and grid north combine at a single point in Great Britain for the first time ever.
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