Tom Roper

@tom-roper.bsky.social

Retired layabout. A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game.

A welcome return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for Martin Speake on alto sax ~ with Will Butterworth on piano, 'Martin Speake Jazz Duo'. They will include the premiere of my Rhapsody for Dave in memory of a comrade we had in common, commissioned by CPBML:

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New CILIP website is a mess of AI slop images. Check out the images of senior professionals and try and imagine the prompt that generated them. All backed by walls of fake books that look like the ones sold by the yard to furnish pubs www.cilip.org.uk/learn-develo...

Chartered Fellowship - FCLIP

A mark of highest distinction and visionary leadership. You’ve shaped the profession. Now, join its most prestigious ranks. Fellowship (FCLIP) is the highest level of professional registration awarde...

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Social media is going to be very confusing this week. The real #icml26 starts tomorrow in Glasgow (the quinquennial International Congress on Medical Librarianship). At the same time the usurper International Conference on Machine Learning is finishing in South Korea