Ian Smith

Happiest when making stuff or making people laugh. Tech, and Design Thinking. Since 2019, freelancer and FRSA.

[Ian Smith @ids]

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

[Ilkley & District u3a @Ilkleyu3a]

🎵 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)

[WhatALotOfThings @WhatALotOfThing]

★ Just published a new episode of What A Lot Of Things: Episode Seventeen – Large Action Models and Creativity. Listen: https://t.co/0Kr6yqUdnk

[WhatALotOfThings @WhatALotOfThing]

★ Just published a new episode of What A Lot Of Things: Episode Thirteen – TikTok and X. Listen: https://t.co/GZs1CaKj21

[Ian Smith @ids]

@gfrancie Needing to eat less cake.

When I was a teenager i wanted to be a goth. It feels the same.

[Ian Smith @ids]

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

[Ian Smith @ids]

@gfrancie I aspire to haunted scarecrow.

[WhatALotOfThings @WhatALotOfThing]

★ Just published a new episode of What A Lot Of Things: Episode Twelve – AI Haters and The Game That Was Too Good. Listen: https://t.co/dBc2wpfZ1V

[Alec Muffett @AlecMuffett]

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

[Ian Smith @ids]

@_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?

[Richard Murphy @RichardJMurphy]

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....

[Ian Smith @ids]

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?

[Ian Smith @ids]

@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?

[Ian Smith @ids]

@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.

[Ian Smith @ids]

@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.

[Ian Smith @ids]

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

[Quirky Something @Imfullofideas]

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

[Ian Smith @ids]

UK people - nominate your favourite local indy shop!

[Ian Smith @ids]

@dpeilow It's a real mystery!

[Extinction Rebellion Global @ExtinctionR]

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

"Bad marketing"

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