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Dave Johnson
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Craft brewer of cask-strength single origin cold-brew liquid knowledge.

Climate Justice, Open Education, Data Science & Public Sector Innovation. Looking for my mind at work

LEVERS at TCD School of Education | Co-Founder ONS Data Science Campus | Xoogler
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“GovGPT, please book me a return train from Leeds to London, with tube travel to Canary Wharf for next Wednesday. Make sure the booking adheres to civil service travel cost policy.”

<New Mexico data centre bursts into flames>
July 22, 2025 at 4:48 PM
newtodave.bsky.social
That's pretty much exactly what I would expect a card-carrying member of the Campaign for Real Liquid Knowledge to say.
July 22, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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On hatred.
I hate all of this in almost every way a thing can be hated. I hate the factless waffle that surrounds Big AI’s every improbable goal. I hate how insipidly stupid, or just plain evil, those goals so often are, and the yawning chasm between them and any form of achievable reality. I hate that Big AI’s successes are inflated and its failures ignored — or are even categorised as hilarious mis-steps, like when AI chatbots tell people to eat poisonous mushrooms, put glue on pizza, or make air diffusers from chlorine gas. I hate that Big AI consumes so much energy that every time you generate a six-fingered portrait of Anne Frank or a scene from the Vietnam war in the style of Studio Ghibli, you might as well just kill a polar bear with a crossbow. I hate that it can run roughshod over every copyright law and environmental protection on the planet in pursuit of the data it needs to continue failing, with no consequences save for the enrichment of the worst people on Earth, who have managed to make all of this magical bullshit seem sensible to an intellectual class comprised of people I wouldn’t trust to print an email.
April 5, 2025 at 12:11 PM
newtodave.bsky.social
Back in 2020 we were using your paper on algorithmic injustices in our cross-government data ethics courses at the Data Science Campus at the ONS in the UK (basically training up UK government data scientists). I'll see if I can find some refs.
March 15, 2025 at 2:49 PM
newtodave.bsky.social
They even have Californian redwoods! I have many fond memories of playing in sequoia forests as a child. Even now, so many years later, when I close my eyes and think of trees, this is what I picture.
A giant redwood tree viewed from the base of the trunk looking straight upwards.
March 14, 2025 at 11:46 AM