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Iain Moore

@iainmoore.bsky.social

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Interested in libraries, charities and the social sector and how together they can fix everything. Once & future ultra runner. Macclesfield. Gay adopter. 🏳️‍🌈 Commercial Director, Libraries Connected www.librariesconnected.org.uk He/him

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Iain Moore @iainmoore.bsky.social · Nov 14

Another big influx - so again here's a starter pack of people working in & with UK public libraries.

So if you're interested in:
• communities
• digital inclusion
• economic growth
• social infrastructure
• loneliness
• health & wellbeing
• culture
• environment
etc etc etc...

go.bsky.app/FBd1DrV

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Iain Moore @iainmoore.bsky.social · 3d

Obviously it’s not *about* AI and the author intended no such allegory, but it reads across so well (especially in the context of LLMs)
At the core of it though, it says much about how we can’t really know our own children, and interrogates what (if anything) makes us different from the other apes.

Iain Moore @iainmoore.bsky.social · 3d

This is great - only 2/3 thru but this lost 93 yr old novel has more to say about AI than recent fiction.

A tale of an ape raised as human shows we just can’t translate meaning and motive across such different beings - even (especially) when outward expectations appear to align
@neglectedbooks.com

Cover image of Appius and Virginia by G E Trevelyan. Shows the title text over an out of focus picture of an orang u tan swinging through the trees.

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Jack Shoulder @jackshoulder.bsky.social · 3d

Big run done for the week! I'm running the Athens Marathon this year to raise money to support LGBTQIA+ youth.

If you can help, every pound can make a world of difference: www.justgiving.com/page/jack-sh...

Jack's fundraiser for Freedom Youth at OTR Bristol

Help Jack Shoulder raise money to support OTR Bristol

www.justgiving.com

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Iain Moore @iainmoore.bsky.social · 9d

I also reckon the time thing lines up with short stories - I always feel a well crafted short story can be so much more impactful and complete than a 'whole book' and would love to see more people reading them.
Especially Angela Carter's which are just perfection.

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Iain Moore @iainmoore.bsky.social · 9d

Have you come across these guys? a great approach there, plus obviously libraries libraries libraries! www.thereader.org.uk

Home - The Reader

The Reader brings people together and books to life. Shared Reading is a unique experience that helps people connect, feel good and live well – find out more.

www.thereader.org.uk

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 10d

The Anakin and Padme meme with alternating pics of Anakin and Padme. Anakin says We pledge a library in every primary school. Padme replies, cheerfully, With a librarian, right? Anakin merely stares at her. Now, with a look of fear, she repeats, With a librarian, right?

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Iain Moore @iainmoore.bsky.social · 19d

And Barking and Dagenham Libraries with a pioneering service of GP access within libraries - on a drop in basis to reach those who are less likely to feel able to go to a GP surgery.

Has opened out to much broader pop up services including massage / barbers etc

800 young people at one event

Conference room - slide shows:

WHAT PROBLEM WERE WE TRYING TO SOLVE?
BRINGING HEALTHCARE TO THE COMMUNITY

WHO WAS INVITED? - DIFFERENT COHORTS OF PATIENTS
• Homeloss people
• Asylum Soakers and those with NRPF
•Hypertension
• Children's Health
Including asthma & obesity
• Older People
• From Afro Caribbean
and Romanian communities
• General modical neods
London

Iain Moore @iainmoore.bsky.social · 19d

Now hearing about Wandsworth library’s dementia well-being service.

Really interesting that it developed from a staff member’s family experience of lack of support.

And this is why libraries can so powerfully reflect communities needs - they are run by people who are part of the community.

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Iain Moore @iainmoore.bsky.social · 19d

At London libraries conference - hearing from @lewisham.gov.uk libraries about the impact of one of @librariesconnected.bsky.social and @artscouncilengland.bsky.social microgrants.
Great initiative to develop reading for pleasure through screen free audio readers - really child first approach.

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Iain Moore @iainmoore.bsky.social · 27d

this is just fab - the power of archives!

Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 27d

Here's our latest pyramid scheme.

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Iain Moore @iainmoore.bsky.social · Aug 19

This from @cwarzel.bsky.social is one of the best articles I’ve read on AI since the bullshit machine one link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · Aug 3

Please enjoy how hilariously this is not Lionel Shriver: bsky.app/profile/lion...

I usually just block these things but this one is so Not Lionel Shriver that it’s actively comedy.

bsky.app

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Iain Moore @iainmoore.bsky.social · Aug 3

Ha! “Surrounded by pages, powered by peace” is not quite how I think of Lionel Shriver these days!

Iain Moore @iainmoore.bsky.social · Jul 18

I’m very jealous - it was our local library for a few years and it’s the one I miss the most!

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Iain Moore @iainmoore.bsky.social · Jul 18

And don't forget the museum upstairs with dinosaurs and a replica Egyptian tomb (complete with mummies). The best set up library for a day out with kids.

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Iain Moore @iainmoore.bsky.social · Jul 18

This morning’s working music is Xenakis - music generated with the help of an 1960s IBM computer.

But the capacity to intrigue and surprise by generating new forms, patterns and sounds sets it miles apart from anything today’s AIs create.

Album sleeve saying:

FOUR COMPOSITIONS BY THE
CONTEMPORARY GREEK INNOVATOR
IANNIS XENAKIS
ATRÉES (HOMMAGE À PASCAL) - MORSIMA-AMORSIMA
(PARIS INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE FOR CONTEMPORARY MUSIC, KONSTANTIN SIMONOVITCH COND.)
ST/4
(BERNEDE STRING QUARTET)
NOMOS ALPHA
(PIERRE PENASSOU, CELLO)

The text is small and set on a white background above a large bold black circle within which is a grey and teal rectangular pattern.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · Jul 1

A Podyssey-themed politics discussion! Do join us. It's online, Thursday 17th July at 6:00 PM, and it's free. But you do need to register. So, do it. x

Mark Robinson @mr.place · Jul 1

@radixuk.bsky.social + @sturdyalex.bsky.social to discuss the tragedy of our politics @alexpodyssey.bsky.social stylie.

I literally cannot wait.

Do join us:

www.radixbigtent.org.uk/events/greek...

Greek Tragedy, Or Farce - What Next From Our Political Leaders? Meet the Leaders with with Alex Andreou and Vicky Pryce

www.radixbigtent.org.uk

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Iain Moore @iainmoore.bsky.social · Jul 1

👀
(very excited)

William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · Jul 1

I imagined the Chatsubo in 1984. 41 years later I opened its door. Neuromancer is in production.

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Libraries Connected @librariesconnected.bsky.social · Jul 1

We are seeking support in developing our skills around tendering and bid writing.

This is part of our mission to create sustainable funding for public #Library services so they can provide for communities long into the future.

Apply before 9 July.

www.librariesconnected.org.uk/opportunitie...

A woman smiles as she knits in a library.

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Iain Moore @iainmoore.bsky.social · Jul 1

This whole thread on misinformation from @eliothiggins.bsky.social is brilliant - we all need the skills, structures and situations in which we can evaluate claims together.

This has to start *offline* and to me public libraries are the prime places with the breadth of reach to do this effectively.

Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · Jun 27

We need systems that make debate constructive, that help people evaluate competing claims, and that prevent the most manipulative actors from hijacking public discourse. Not to impose a single truth, but to defend the process by which free societies function.

Iain Moore @iainmoore.bsky.social · Jun 27

But do have a look at @bradfordlitfest.bsky.social - there is so much going on - and it’s not mills and brontes but a massive array of local, national and international artists over 500 events.
I’m looking at going back on Sunday with the little one - some great family programming too.

Iain Moore @iainmoore.bsky.social · Jun 27

Brilliant night at the @bradfordlitfest.bsky.social launch last night.

While I haven’t been able to join any events today I did run over to Howarth

I like to think the Brontes would approve of me running up to Top Withins belting out Femininomenon into the wind.

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Iain Moore @iainmoore.bsky.social · Jun 26

But he’s hopeful too:

The world is turned inside out because the new future is calling.

The new future is calling and it will be the result of the things we have chosen.

It’s a time for those who have a vision and a voice.

Iain Moore @iainmoore.bsky.social · Jun 26

Keynote speaker for @bradfordlitfest.bsky.social is only Ben bloomin’ Okri

And he’s incredibly and beautifully inspiring - talking about the current nature of the world:

The wolves have only got worse because the cures have been curses and not acts of love or wisdom

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Iain Moore @iainmoore.bsky.social · Jun 26

Fantastic to be here at @bradfordlitfest.bsky.social opening - it’s in the stunning Bradford Live.

People dressed up to the nines with a lovely ceiling from an old cinema.