Trains and travails.

Sword of Honour trilogy obviously

Clinton and Yeltsin

Apropos of not a lot.

'Opportunity' of course for the companies involved. And for the people? We're hurtling towards who knows where and need to at least look out of the window.

What are Amazon CEO Andy Jassy's Six 'Key Truths' of AI? In a letter to shareholders, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy sheds light on the future of AI adoption, investments and integration across the company

"AI is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity where the current growth is unprecedented and the future growth even bigger" says Amazon's A Jassy reported here: aimagazine.com/news/amazon-...

Unemployed Britons turning up to job interviews to find the interviewer is an AI robot Data shared with the Money blog team shows more than four in five hiring managers are deploying some form of AI in the application process.

AI doing filtering out interviews: news.sky.com/story/britis...

To accompany his new book, Rowan also writes today for the RHS blog on the impact of the Navy and Air Leagues in maintaining militarism in Britain after 1918: bit.ly/3OJ53as

The NHP series is supported by @ihr.bsky.social and @echistsoc.bsky.social. All 26 books are available OA bit.ly/4sBmIyC

‘All the world’s a stage’.

'One a penny, two a penny'. Remembering elements of a 60s childhood (possibly the 1860s due to being rural) where Hot Cross Buns were made and sold on Good Friday only. No packets, no Cimmamon Choco-Clementine ones. Just the ones on the trays at the bakers, open in the morning to sell them.

RIP Glen Baxter ( 1944 -2026 ) ' At The First Sign Of Summer We Set Off For A Family Picnic On The Moors' 2017 ♥️

RIP Glen Baxter ( 1944 -2026 ) ' At The First Sign Of Summer We Set Off For A Family Picnic On The Moors' 2017 ♥️

Number of AI chatbots ignoring human instructions increasing, study says Exclusive: Research finds sharp rise in models evading safeguards and destroying emails without permission

“AI can now be thought of as a new form of insider risk” - scheming and misbehaving ChatBots in this Guardian piece on CLTR report. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

And Yeats gets a mention.

I know it's the packaging but my deeper mind thinks otherwise.

And here's Brittin telling journalists to use AI or "risk missing out".

The BBC board has made a terrible error. Like the UK press, it's trapped in a 90s bubble where Google's a whizzy start-up & tech will save us...the most dangerous myth of our time
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Love the four '3 grand soups'. Tangentially puts me in mind of the dry cleaners I use who, until late last year, were 'open 6 days a week, closed Thursday and Sunday'.

What a headline: 'negotiating with yourself'. From #SkyNews

Having finished some starry and moony studies, it is time to look towards some dips back into the classical world before long.

Today's NAM lecture is Ring of Fire (by one of the authors of the 2025 book with that title) on the opening year of WW1.

When you don't play by the assumed rule: Trump reported in the Deccan Herald.

A rare outing for the Ceylon Tea Centre pot.

Brewster Kahle stands in the Great Room of the Internet Archive holding a microphone and gesturing while speaking. Mounted on the wall behind him the digits “3 1 4 / 1 5 9 / 2 6 5” (the first nine digits of pi).

We love π around here.

In the Great Room at the Internet Archive, the first nine digits of π are mounted on the wall.

A small #PiDay tribute to a very big number. 🥧📚

Here’s Brewster Kahle with 3.14159265… proof that π is part of our architecture.

#InternetArchive #PieAndPi

...and I'll be looking forward to this exhibition.

I do minimal politics here, it's best. However, we have yet another odd 'un. Truly.

BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, The Code of Hammurabi The impact of the wide-ranging laws of Hammurabi, King of Babylon from 4,000 years ago.

Hammurabi. This In Our Time goes on the list for when I am back in the ancient world. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Grammarly’s ‘expert review’ is just missing the actual experts | TechCrunch A recently added feature in Grammarly purports to improve users’ writing with help from the world's great writers and thinkers — and some tech journalists, too.

Hey @officialgrammarly.bsky.social we're gonna need to know the full list of identities you have stolen here as well as clear info on how to opt-out

techcrunch.com/2026/03/07/g...

Also a Hallmark film: Painted House 2003.

Today's NAM lecture. These are almost always worth checking out online or in person.

Exhibition and The Hill itself. Last sort of went in the COVID era.

Ranfurly / O'Neill visit in Dungannon.

Portrait of Sir Thomas Butler, 10th earl of Ormonde. He wears gold and black armour and holds a gun in his right hand. https://onlinecollection.nationalgallery.ie/objects/8867/portrait-of-thomas-butler-10th-earl-of-ormonde-15321614

Chapter 8 explores the visual culture of firearms: guns are only rarely visible in European art, but emerge in contexts of religious conflict and imperial conquest.