Ian Smith

@EE How do I talk to you? Your new digital IVR just gives me a blank page!

🎵 Coming up this Friday and Saturday (12 & 13 July), it's Ilkley Live Garden Music Festival 2024! 👉 ilkleylive.com 🎵 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)

★ Just published a new episode of What A Lot Of Things: Episode Seventeen – Large Action Models and Creativity. Listen: share.transistor.fm/s/3ffefb15

★ Just published a new episode of What A Lot Of Things: Episode Thirteen – TikTok and X. Listen: share.transistor.fm/s/7a7c3e19

@gfrancie Needing to eat less cake. When I was a teenager i wanted to be a goth. It feels the same.

@gfrancie But I’ll never be cool enough to pull it off.

@gfrancie I aspire to haunted scarecrow.

★ Just published a new episode of What A Lot Of Things: Episode Twelve – AI Haters and The Game That Was Too Good. Listen: share.transistor.fm/s/b6026d77

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. bbc.co.uk/news/technolog… /Cc @BBCNews @BBCTech @bbcw

@_RobbieMoore I am genuinely surprised at all this campaigning against clean air and lower speeds in built up areas. Drivers breathe too, and they are also pedestrians. Surely everyone benefits from breathing in less carbon monoxide and fewer brake pad particles?

Labour-run Bradford Council’s Clean Air Zone tax has been nothing short of a disaster for hardworking people & businesses in Keighley & across Bradford. Not even year in & Labour have collected over £6.7m in tax & fines. They need to scrap their CAZ Tax. dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…

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....

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?

@rorysutherland A lot has been done, but not nearly enough. What creative but non-disruptive activities could we come up with to actually move the world needle on this?

@rorysutherland A lot of this comes back to the issue of climate change, which many believe, reasonably, to be an existential threat. I feel a lot more sympathy for disruptive protests on that issue, because non-disruptive protests just don’t seem to have the same impact.

This is just me, but when did we conflate free speech with the right to disrupt things? I don't like football. This means I am free to tweet this. It doesn't give me the right to run onto the pitch with a placard saying "Not my sport."

@kevupnorth @KIGreenParty I feel very sad and frustrated with this result, as we now have a Conservative councillor who most voters didn’t vote for. People shouldn’t have to think about tactical voting in order for a fair result to be delivered.

Very sad for Ros Brown in Ilkley, a person of great integrity who's worked tirelessly for the whole area, defeated by an unpleasant campaign. A hollow victory for Conservatives there. @KIGreenParty will continue to fight clean, both in terms of politics and river sewage!

@SlowreaderJFT97 @bradfordmdc Most of us voted for someone else.

@bradfordmdc shame on you Ilkley

Ilkley Conservative – Hold #BradfordVotes #LocalElections2023 Latest results can be found here: orlo.uk/FC04P

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

UK people - nominate your favourite local indy shop!

@dpeilow It's a real mystery!

I'm not entirely convinced that - suprise to no-one - Britishvolt going into administration warrants top story on the 10 O'clock News, but you have to wonder what it might be that means the rest of Europe gets this many gigafactories and the UK is stuck with the ex-Nissan plant🤔

"Why didn't we save the planet when we had the chance?" "Bad marketing" 🤯