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THE MIDNIGHT TRAIN IS COMING!

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A magical, time-travelling love story, from the world of The Midnight Library is out on 26th May 2026. When your life flashes before your eyes, where would you stop?⁣⁣No one can change the past, but the Midnight Train can take you there.⁣The chance to re-live the moments that meant most.⁣To […]

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Great book. Weird, wonderful. A vacuum cleaner becomes sentient after hearing To Kill A Mockingbird and decides to save the human household from sinister, rising technological forces. I loved this. And also fits neatly with my belief we are - in the face of bland pattern-following AI - going to be entering a new era of eccentricity in the arts. Think about it. The mainstream is taking acid. Weird indie horrors outperforming Hollywood franchises. Rosalia’s techno opera. Olivia Rodrigo and Robert Smith collaborating. Even Yesteryear is pretty bonkers for a blockbuster. I think this trend will grow as AI pushes creatives to head where AI can’t quite reach - to unpredictably, to ideas beyond clear patterns save for their own oddness. Anyway. It’s a good book.
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Great book. Weird, wonderful. A vacuum cleaner becomes sentient after hearing To Kill A Mockingbird and decides to save the human household from sinister, rising technological forces. I loved this. And also fits neatly with my belief we are - in the face of bland pattern-following AI - going to be entering a new era of eccentricity in the arts. Think about it. The mainstream is taking acid. Weird indie horrors outperforming Hollywood franchises. Rosalia’s techno opera. Olivia Rodrigo and Robert Smith collaborating. Even Yesteryear is pretty bonkers for a blockbuster. I think this trend will grow as AI pushes creatives to head where AI can’t quite reach - to unpredictably, to ideas beyond clear patterns save for their own oddness. Anyway. It’s a good book.
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The three food groups.
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Many people have asked me to share this rather boring story as they think it makes a valid point so here it is. And in fairness there are signs this is happening - eg millions are being pledged on youth clubs in every London borough. But it needs to happen in a radical and totally transformative way and not in a way where we are also encouraging social media companies to dodge tax and exploit AI at the same time
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Many people have asked me to share this rather boring story as they think it makes a valid point so here it is. And in fairness there are signs this is happening - eg millions are being pledged on youth clubs in every London borough. But it needs to happen in a radical and totally transformative way and not in a way where we are also encouraging social media companies to dodge tax and exploit AI at the same time
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