Lloyd Davis

Come join us tomorrow Friday 31st 1-2pm for the launch of GOOD NEIGHBOURS LIVE!, it's EuroTrash meets a zoom call for the arts and culture movement, with guests from the grassroots, Britain's Got Tarot, and much more!

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I think a group of us may have averted the Second World War by convincing Hitler to pursue independence for Bavaria, rather than the Anschluß #lastnightsdream

Greg Newby

We are deeply saddened by the loss of Greg Newby, who led Project Gutenberg ( @gutenberg.org ) with passion and purpose. Greg’s belief in free and open access to knowledge continues to inspire us and so many others working to preserve our shared culture online. gutenberg.org/about/newby....

Everybody’s gotta be somewhere.

It’s a lovely place to be, I’ll be down there in a couple of weeks.

That’s the Isle of Portland on the horizon.

I got this one. With an email notification at 15:44 if that helps :)

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I spent a couple of summers in the early eighties selling ice cream while looking out at this view: youtu.be/XNFdgt5yc4M

Oh! Jonathon Powell. No wonder!

15 years ago when I was on BBC Radio 5 live a couple of times.

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It's the beer bottles at the window that push me over the edge. It's a prodigal son moment and a couple of bottles of beer and some sandwiches is the nearest thing to a fatted calf that we had at that time.

Flu jab jabbed.

Non-fun run I've slightly been in denial about this. Various things have prevented training. But, I'm going to do the Royal Parks Half Marathon in a few weeks. And that now means that I'm supposed to ask you to ...

I am once again running a pointlessly long distance.

So now I have to ask you for money.

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Taking fate into our own hands Our Convention on the Fate of Britain was a party for the people who keep the country running.

In the light of all that's happening across our nations and neighbourhoods, we @absurdintelligence.bsky.social hope we achieved our ambition for our Fate of Britain Convention last week: that how it felt in the room is how we can make it feel in the country www.absurdintelligence.com/taking-fate-...

Hurt cats hurt people.

Dramatic rise in searches for “how to strip someone of their peerage”

Heh! We haven’t met yet, we were in a (big) room together yesterday and he was being big and important on stage while I was doing my quiet and unassuming thing around the place :)

Doh! This message was originally for @tim-evans.bsky.social but I’m a bit shit at social media… and it probably deserves a wider audience anyway :)

A white hand is holding a badge which reads “I’m a bit shit sometimes” from camerados.org

I’ve just been given this badge. I hope that sharing the sentiment doesn’t make you feel even worse!

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On a train. A man in a suit farted, deliberately and very loudly just to make the little boy sitting next to him laugh. The boy didn’t laugh and everyone in the carriage thought that I was the culprit and gave me hard stares. #lastnightsdream

The World at One: “we wouldn't normally lead our news with the policy of a party with only 4 MPs, but they have been topping the polls”
Could that have anything to do with the BBC making Farage a major TV and Radio star for the last 10 years perhaps?

Screenshot of a news headline clipped to only include the words “Nigel Farage says”

Dear BBC news, let me stop you there. Just to say, “Don’t Feed The Troll”

“It works—it really does”

Keep on trudging!

A headshot of a white man in his late thirties together with a mini bio. From an Audit Commission Joint Review Report in 2000. Reads “Lloyd Davis joined the Team from the Local Government Studies Directorate of the Audit Commission. Lloyd's role as Information Manager included designing and managing information systems for Joint Reviews. Lloyd is now working as Information Manager for the Audit Commission's Best Value Inspection Service.”

Eric Pickles had no part in my downfall, I managed that all by myself :)

Den stora kyrkflytten – Första dagen I direktsändning följer vi den världsunika flytten av Kiruna kyrka, från gamla stadskärnan till dess nya plats, fem kilometer bort. Den stora kyrkflytten tar två dagar och är en del av den omfattande ...

Hurtling at 500 metres per hour

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I'm all for checking, I just think that (sadly/not sadly) it will continue to need messy human interaction, so I'm drawn to more participatory and deliberative processes for people to get stuck into.

So I think the issue is in what you're saying about them being analysable. The relationship betwen inputs and outputs seems to be just as complex (and unpredictable/unreliable) as it is in (groups of) humans.

Thank you. This artist is quite sure that you're right about the unfeasibility :) I was trying to point to exactly this problem of personal judgements - because it's hard (especially with these chatbot LLMs) to treat the outputs as anything other than yet another biased assessment.

And.

Replace “AI” here with “Artists”.

Why don’t we trust artists to “deduce and impute” motives? And why then might we think that AI is any more trustworthy?

2007 has a lot to answer for.