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I've spent this past week a little baffled by the story of the bakery in Borough Market that says it's been asked to leave because it's too successful. Could that really be the case?
The answer, as ever, is complicated. My first story for @_TheLondoner
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London’s 8,900 buses are getting a brain transplant (FREE TO READ!)
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I'm sure you've seen the thousands of ads about gassing pigs or lice-infected salmon that now plaster the tube. They're costing £400,000 every few weeks.
So who's paying for it? And how does it relate to a strange Silicon Valley movement fixated on AI?
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EXCL: HMV is being forced out of its Oxford Street flagship store after its landlord doubled the rent.
For @_TheLondoner I found out it's owned by the family of a billionaire Chinese "king of mahjong" who will turn it into a viral immersive gift shop.
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One of the oddest details of this story was a tangential controversy about a romance novel featuring a character who is the "heir" of a KKK chapter. Written by a British author.
Backlash notwithstanding, it has a 4.25 rating on Goodreads!
This is all in preparation for our next Founder-Writer Collective event, a live debate about AI in central London later this month luma.com/rek0kyyz?tk=A3638D
A classic tale of online drama today. Worth adding to your weekend reading list.
RARE27, planned for next summer at London's Olympia, was meant to be the "Met Gala of the book community". Then over a few days, it fell apart.
We pieced together what happened.
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I had a blast on the new Prospect podcast Tell Me Why, discussing AI winning literary prizes, the 'dearth of the author' and cognitive debt.
🎧: Literary prizes are being awarded to apparently AI-generated stories. Does it matter? Londoner editor @alys_key joins our new podcast
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I've made my peace with slow walkers. With a bit of patience, I can easily overtake.
It's the people who almost exactly match my pace I can't handle. Too fast to overtake, too slow to keep a comfortable distance from, so I feel like I'm following them.
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At least the fictional bridges ended up with a Dutch town building all of them to claim them as their own. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurobr…
Honestly found the opening of this story kind of frightening. How long until one of these burst mains pipes causes more than just flood damage?
THE SOCIAL RECKONING: A far more conventional film that The Social Network. More in the mould of Spotlight/She Said. Jeremy Allen White makes a convincing dishevelled journalist. Not as Sorkintastic as feared despite one scene where an office breaks into applause. I enjoyed it!
