Pete Miles

Yes, I like to think I would have handled it better 🙂.

But the point that Ian and others are making is that our system, our press, and indeed many of our voters, don't make it easy to be honest.

I instinctively agree, but it's all so much easier with hindsight.

But silence would have been weaponised by the press, interpreted as certain tax rises.

Dave's key point on AI is that current LLMs are polluted with bad training data that's only getting worse as they start to feed off their own output. Much better to use higher quality, lower volume training data sourced from intelligently designed processes.

Well maybe, but do you think they would have won the election on that manifesto?

Dave Snowden is the Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of The Cynefin Company. The Cynefin Company is an action research and development hub that uses complexity science principles to provide organisations with better tools and frameworks to solve complex problems and improve management practices. In this episode, Dave reveals how the Cynefin Framework aids in people management and how leaders can use it to distinguish between ordered, complex, and chaotic systems. He also addresses the limitations of traditional systems thinking and the role of Al in modern decision-making.

Fascinating and informative interview with Dave Snowden on applying complexity science.

Very interesting perspective on AI.

(I've listened to this twice now, Dave speaks fast and has a lot to convey!)

@bradyheywood.bsky.social @snowded.bsky.social

#Complexity

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Building, mostly white concrete. 2 lower floors mostly glass, then 6 levels above, primarily offices

The UMIST Renold Building in Manchester has been listed.

Spent a lot of my formative student years in there (and in the Main Building just showing behind).

HT @manchestermill.bsky.social

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'Evil clown'?

The theoretical press response is confirmed here by @nixonsimon.bsky.social

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📌

Global self harm

Sometime in the last couple of years I came across a TV programme that showed KFC gravy being made. The memory has stuck in my brain, and not in a good way.

So whatever the taste, I'm afraid its got to be a big NO from me...

(And I don't want to see sausage rolls being made either)

Head says no, stomach says YES PLEASE

Oh yes water and electricity are a bad mix.

Absnailing.

But... no TEA?

'Evil clown'?

Black and white poster against a large field of black we have the planet Saturn with its rings floating in space and then smaller above them to the left of it we have London's underground logo which is basically the same shape underneath is a text keeps London going

Poster for London's Underground — Man Ray, 1938

Trump's tariffs are a bit of a postcode lottery after all.

Knobs

Shut Grok down!

Commit to a functioning reporting system! (It is a legal duty, but one currently observed only in the breach)

Somebody wake up the regulators so that we can start to uphold the rule of law in this country.

Make Twitter Lawful Again!

The audio can be heard as "flashes"

Elon Musk's Grok AI is amplifying the conspiracy theory.

The X site continues to present a clear and present danger to the national security of our country, in both its acts and omissions, being a site which amplifies conspiracies & defends unlawful hatred

Building, mostly white concrete. 2 lower floors mostly glass, then 6 levels above, primarily offices

The UMIST Renold Building in Manchester has been listed.

Spent a lot of my formative student years in there (and in the Main Building just showing behind).

HT @manchestermill.bsky.social

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Must have been a hardback?

Photo of small wooden crucifix given to Michael Howard of CND by the mayor of Hiroshima.

My Dad was a humanist, not a Christian. I always wondered why this sat on the mantelpiece.

It was given to him by the mayor of #Hiroshima and was made from the roots of a tree that stood in the city.

I’m an atheist and it now sits on mine.

#r4Today
#CND

@cnduk.bsky.social
#r4Today
#WATO

Text of email Two BBC slogans - "Inform, Educate, Entertain" and "The fight for truth is on" https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2024/bbc-news-trust-is-earned We've spent a couple of days now discussing the "problem" of "small boats", and claims that immigrants are responsible for a disproportionate number of serious crimes. The government has played along with this narrative - it's all a serious problem - and various BBC programmes have quoted figures from Robert Jenrick, which appear to be taken from a Daily Telegraph story, quoting Nigel Farage, who in turn quotes an organisation called the Centre for Migration Control, which appears to be a one man band - the trading name of Athelney Campaigns Ltd, run by one Robert Bates. I've heard Robert Cuffe of BBC Verify telling us the figures should be treated with caution, but the story doesn't change. Yesterday, Yougov released figures https://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/52704-is-there-public-support-for-large-scale-removals-of-migrants which would be no surprise to anyone who's read - or presented - the news over the last few years: - 45% of Britons would support a halt in immigration and deportation of recent arrivals (that's not quite what the Yougov report says, of course, but it's the kind of headline the papers produce from the figures, and the kind of headline you read out at nine minutes past six) - 47% of Britons think there are more migrants staying in the UK illegally than legally, when a comparison of those arriving in small boats (the headline number, arriving in an irregular/illegal way but immediately taking on the legal status of asylum seeker) with those arriving with government-issued visas (for work, to join family members, to escape Ukraine, Afghanistan, Hong Kong...) shows the "illegal" number is around 4% of the total It's not your job to argue for or against immigration or asylum. But you do, calling arrivals over the Channel a "problem" - not because of the exploitation or the deaths; you

Email just sent to today @ bbc . co . uk and feedback @ bbc . co . uk

#r4today

The Commons Registration Act allowed common land to be registered as such. But it only gave a 3-year window after which a failure to register it resulted in the land being deemed not to be common land.

The @openspacessociety.bsky.social is calling for the register to be reopened.

Thanks for that earworm 😟

But perhaps these ARE their best people