David Durant

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@beasts I've just sent a follow-up email about the email issues I've been having since the end of last week. I'm not receiving incoming email on two accounts at the moment so would appreciate some help ASAP. Thanks. David Durant.

A practical guide to interacting with metamours from Ready for Polyamory.

https://www.readyforpolyamory.com/post/negotiating-interactions-with-metamours-a-practical-guide

Negotiating Interactions with Metamours - A Practical Guide

You may recall from several months ago, I had a list of questions to ask when you’re dating while polyamorous. The idea of this list was to give a guideline of things that might help people find directions they hadn’t considered questioning to look at internally, as well as conversations to have early in relationships. But, honestly, I’d also intended to come back to this list and address these topics as we went along. Some of them, I found when I recently went back over it, I’ve addressed in a

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Hey [email protected]. I've had this for 12 hours, can I please DM about you clearing the DNS cache manually. Thanks.

🚨 6PM, WED 29 October 🚨

At the MoJ or online

Ed Humpherson, Office for Statistics Regulation, on why 'transformation' has been so challenging for official statistics

​Dr Lauren Petrie, Government Internal Audit Agency, on the GIAA's work with data and AI

https://luma.com/3c92r9qr

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TransformGov Talks : October 2025 · Luma

Join us at 5.30pm for a 6pm start. Ed Humpherson, Office for Statistics Regulation, on why 'transformation' has been so challenging for official statistics. Dr…

Stop the (virtual) presses! We can now confirm that our second speaker for our first event on 24/10/24 will be @JeniT speaking about the new external advisory panel for the “digital centre” in DSIT.

Register to join us here : https://www.meetup.com/transformgov-talks/events/303808970/

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First TransforGov Talks meet-up!, Thu, Oct 24, 2024, 5:30 PM | Meetup

**Join us in person or online on 24th October for the first ever free TransformGov Talks meet-up!** Come and hear two brilliant speakers – Andreas Varotsis talking about t

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Two blog posts in one day? What is this madness! Coding with ChatGPT 2 : XKCD for government : https://medium.com/desiderium-sciendi/coding-with-chatgpt-2-xkcd-for-government-117c5f4b6e22. Plus a roundup of What I’ve written in July and August : https://cholten99-61869.medium.com/what-ive-written-in-july-and-august-f9bcc4458950.
Coding with ChatGPT 2 : XKCD for government - Desiderium Sciendi - Medium

So, off the back of the success of my trivial but fun one day Android app build, I decided to launch into a more complicated coding project, cherry-picked from my long list of “to do one day” hobby…

Desiderium Sciendi
New blog post. Losing weight with ChatGPT : His master’s voice - https://medium.com/desiderium-sciendi/losing-weight-with-chatgpt-his-masters-voice-4bf272129ef5.
Losing weight with ChatGPT : His master’s voice - Desiderium Sciendi - Medium

This is my weight since January 1st 2020. At the start, I hadn’t really done any proper exercise or maintained a decent diet for a long time. I’d previously had decently long periods where I’d either…

Desiderium Sciendi
Hey everyone. Myself, Gavin Freeguard and Derek Alton are looking for a free / relatively cheap space near-ish to the Cabinet Office where we could host a series of talks about government transformation. If you know of any unheard of gems please let us know!
Huge props to Code for America for putting so much of their 2024 summit up on YouTube.
My new article is published at Apolitical - Code to country: what governments can learn from open-source software : https://apolitical.co/solution-articles/en/code-to-country-what-governments-can-learn-from-open-source-software
Code to country: what governments can learn from open-source software

Digital transformation specialist outlines the how government can learn from open-source methods and practices by being agile, adaptable and collaborative.

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