Sort of research: One of my earliest memories is my dad fitting a circular electric bar heater that fitted on the ceiling around the light fitting. Does this sound familiar to anyone, I can't find any reference to it anywhere. It would hail from the mid to late 1960s.

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Here is the image with #ALTtext for our blind and low-vision comrades

FALSE VALUE, the 8th novel in @benaaronovitch.bsky.social’s internationally-bestselling #RiversOfLondon series, is on sale today! The eBook, published by @dawbooks.bsky.social, is only $2.99 in the U.S. and Canada! www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...

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Research: Does anyone know whether the GRENVILLE ROOM shop at the BRITISH MUSEUM (not the main shop) was open in January 2020. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

I remember listening to this on a 7inch single on one of those all in one record players... oh to be 13 again. Next up - Tom Robinson Band. youtu.be/3mEsJo5Tg5k?...

BREAKING: Incomprehensible Shouting Named Official U.S. Language

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

Yesterday's Word Count = 550 Is brought to you by the wisdom of Commander Nathan Spring. 'My country right or wrong?' 'There are worse philosophies.' 'Yes and most of them start with that.' Chris Boucher, Star Cops

A research rabbit hole led me around to THEY LIVE which came out in 1988 and gets more prescient with every passing year. OBEY, CONSUME, BREED...

Have just booked my tickets for Sunday's trip to beautiful Beverley (Yorkshire)... www.eastridinglibraries.co.uk/whats-on/eve...

I’m out for a recce this morning 🌅

With the Charlie Kirk murder the American Right has finally found their Hort Wessel. (Trigger warning: Nazis) youtu.be/02e7lp6zI7Y?...

The eBook edition of @benaaronovitch.bsky.social’s LIES SLEEPING is on sale in North America today — only $2.99! www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/... Published by @dawbooks.bsky.social, it’s the 7th book in the #RiversOfLondon series.

Croatian edition of WHISPERS UNDERGROUND by @benaaronovitch.bsky.social available now! zenoagency.com/news/ben-aar...

Farewell Truro and the west 😢

The eBook edution of FOXGLOVE SUMMER by @benaaronovitch.bsky.social is on sale today — only $2.99 in North America! www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/... Published by @dawbooks.bsky.social #RiversOfLondon

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They Live reference for the win 😎

I’ve been working by the sea.

Sing after me - Oh I do like to be beside the seaside 🎶

My lovely audience in Truro 😛

New paperback edition of TALES FROM THE FOLLY by @benaaronovitch.bsky.social out tomorrow! zenoagency.com/news/new-tal... To be published by @awfulagent.bsky.social

STONE & SKY, the latest #RiversOfLondon novel by @benaaronovitch.bsky.social is on sale today in North America! The eBook is only $2.99… www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/... Published by @dawbooks.bsky.social.

I appear to be heading west…

Here's the final part of the Better Offline guide to arguing with AI boosters. I walk you through why gen AI is nothing like AWS, how the media misled the public about ChatGPT, and why its popularity doesn't mean it’s a mass-market product. www.iheart.com/podcast/1119... Linktr.ee/betteroffline

Hotel room picture - Stirling

Passing through Newcastle

Heading for BLOODY SCOTLAND in Stirling 😎

Yesterday's Word Count = 358 Let's have some Kate Wilhelm being prescient....

Okay, it's not a brilliant film but HEADS OF STATE managed to make me laugh out loud with the best HOW DID YOU FIND US montage I've seen in ages.

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Aha! Charlaine and Inouchka Kreuning my new Netherlands translators have appeared on my translator page. www.benaaronovitch.com/translators/

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For years I've been smelling South Sea Tulips around the whole AI bubble (not to mention the sickly sweet odour of grifters grifting) so I want to thank @edzitron.com for clarifying where that smell was coming from.

Looking for a great read this weekend...? A reminder that the UK paperback edition of @benaaronovitch.bsky.social's THE MASQUERADES OF SPRING was published by @gollancz.bsky.social this week!

Yesterday's (slightly abarrent) word count = 1,012 Hmnnn let's rummage in the ye olde SF cover barrel.

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My prevailing suspicion right now is that the majority of *all* AI compute demand, worldwide, is Microsoft, Amazon, and Google (at a stretch), with most of that going toward either OpenAI or Anthropic. I do not think robust demand exists outside these two companies. If I am right that is very bad.

RESEARCH: any locals wanto tell me whether Fitzgerald House (Stockwell Park Road) is part of the Stockwell Park Estate. This place has changed since I lived here 😨

The UK paperback edition of THE MASQUERADES OF SPRING by @benaaronovitch.bsky.social is out today! zenoagency.com/news/the-mas... Published by @gollancz.bsky.social @orionbooks.bsky.social. The latest #RiversOfLondon novel in the series, STONE & SKY, is also out now!

See this is what I have to put up with - I was going to do the visit to Stockwell Park Estate off screen, as it were, but no Alexander bloody Seawoll wanted to get his hands dirty. Now I've got to schedule another research trip. PS. used to live the 1980s but I suspect it's changed since then.

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Walkies today

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Tower Hill - I wonder why they call it that?