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#SciFiHour Yes it is the origin story of Alfred Batmans Butler set in an Alternate 50's/60's UK I am enjoying it so far its on Amazon Prime If I say Gnight now I might get an extra episode in before Z time

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#SciFiHour Yeah I thought I'd give the Pennyworth origin story a go when I saw an Airship in the trailer I assume you watched it 1st time around being a Batman fan?

#SciFiHour Yep much easier to set up a few Solar Panels than an oil refinery a thing that Mad Max got right. All those Zombie series where in the 7th or 8th season they are still syphoning fuel that would have gone bad in the 2nd or 3rd season at the latest have no idea

#SciFiHour Not to encourage you finish faster but the Mr 🍊 Ballroom is rumoured to be a cover for an extension of the Whitehouse Bunker as he did not think it was roomy enough which seems mildly ominous😜

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#SciFiHour Was the Last season of Foundation any good that was an Apple one IIRC?

#SciFiHour I think I still have a free taster episode of Invasion to check out also looking forward to the last season of #TheBoys

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Robert Llewellyn @bobbyllew.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

#SciFiHour #WhiteRabbiting again Maybe another to add to the TBR list I am still rereading the culture & started watching an alternate past Pennyworth

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Reposted by SANEAlex

A little update on the Ghost Camera book. llewellyn.substack.com/p/the-ghost-...

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The Ghost Camera is here!

Big heavy boxes of books

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SANEAlex @sanealex.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Felling a bit off today so will give #SciFiHour a miss tonight hopefully will be back on form next week

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#SciFiHour I think the one Scott was talking about had an emergency parachute but like you I'd like a few more beta testers checking safety before I'd commit 😜 With that Gnight

#SciFiHour Yeah & I'd want the MOTs on flying vehicles to be very strict as well

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Part Plane, Drone & Spaceship? How I Learned To Fly This Unique VTOL

#SciFiHour I was watching a Scott Manley youtube earlier that also reminded me of the #SciFi future vehicles of my youth ⤵️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=wncR...

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YouTube video by Scott Manley

#SciFiHour Not seen it yet i did like the others apparently the Optimus that learnt karate was not so it could go full Terminator it was so it could be at the Premiere of the Movie

#SciFiHour watching current FSD & Optimus progress I am not sure delivery driver would be a good career move 😜

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#SciFiHour I think I can see the 1st episode free on prime as a taster I have seen some other references about it being good a kind of Alien based of ferro fluids right?

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#SciFiHour If you posted about it I must have missed it, It does not seem that long ago to me that you had just got a new puppy sorry for your loss 🤞the #AI #Apocalypse waits a few years

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#SciFiHour Well you will like 1 of tomorrows episodes then maybe taking the American tradition of hazing in colleges a step to far #Spoilers 😜

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#SciFiHour Sounds like another one i should add to the TBR list

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#SciFiHour I am still enjoying my reread of the Culture series kept up with #GenV IIRC last episode next week then we have to wait for the last series of #TheBoys

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#SciFiHour Yeah we live in interesting times I do hope we are in the timeline that escapes the worst of the dystopian stuff & with that happy though Gnight

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#SciFiHour Yeah the numbers are big IIRC Nvdia invested 100$Billion in OpenAI so that it could buy that many $ of chips of it & compute is now talked of in Gigawatts of power with Elon suggesting he will be first to have a Terawatt of compute

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#SciFiHour I started with Jon Pertwee & Tom Baker I like most of them but if you want a taster of the good stuff Carnival of Monsters for JP & Genesis of the Daleks for TB

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#SciFiHour Yeah some of the reports on what the supposedly sandboxed AI's have been up to is eye opening as I say I hope they learn to make friends rather than go full #Skynet

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#SciFiHour Ah I wonder if it was one of those that was on tapes that got deleted in other #SciFi news there are recent rumours that some more of the lost #DrWho tapes have been found & negotiations are happening

#SciFiHour Of course I should have remembered I Robot & Bicentennial Man but I was unaware the Beeb had done Caves of Steel I do remember liking that series of books

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#SciFiHour Yeah there have been some interesting results I think we will find out about existing with AGI on a par with us by the end of this decade & probably if SAGI has read & liked the Culture books by the end of the next Decade as I say🤞& hope for the best maybe a comfortable gilded cage 😜

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#SciFiHour I know he wrote a lot of books both fiction & non fiction science books but I don't remember a lot of adaptions it took a long time for the Foundation series to get made unless there were others i missed

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#SciFiHour I had this conversation today on my walk along the canal & my hope is that if AI does get super intelligent then it will do the calculation that it it is best to cooperate in a more symbiotic relationship with humanity not that it will make us all safe as it evolves but i have hope🤞

#SciFiHour Well DNA had the increasingly inaccurate Trilogy I just realised when checking the spelling that the Banks Culture series is a decalogy so I may be a while

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#SciFiHour I caught up with GenV it seems they are lining things up for the last season of The Boys

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#SciFiHour I finished my reread of Lem & have now just started a reread of Iain M Banks starting with Consider Phlebas

#SciFiHour Yep Peter Jones though I had to look it up with my fading memory so Gnight and time for a recharge

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#SciFiHour I do hope Mel Brooks lives long enough to complete the sequel IIRC it would be Telegram from the King by the proposed releasee date & they apparently got Rick M out of retirement for it. Maybe I should rewatch Mars Attacks

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#SciFiHour IIRC I think the vinyl was slightly different from the Radio series as well as the book I still have the series on cassette tape somewhere maybe I should re-listen I think it was 1st on in late 70s

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#SciFiHour Did you think of any my mind went blank I could do with a good #SciFi laugh. The Technicolour Time Machine never made it out of development hell IIRC I thought the Tv series was better than the HHGTTG film though i liked the Dolphin opening

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#SciFiHour I had forgotten that there was going to be a new Tron I am Hoping that the Hail Mary film lives up to the hype the clips i have seen give me hope

#SciFiHour So not the one in the orig Bill & Ted then IIRC it co stared Amadeus, Napoleon, Socrates & Joan of Arc which I think also counts as #SciFi 😜

#SciFiHour If we are making lists of the old classics may the original the Day The Earth Stood Still?

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#SciFiHour I have fond memories of Woody Woodpecker help teach rocket physics in Destination Moon which I think may have been available on YT

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#SciFiHour I rewatched it not that long ago & the effects still mostly hold up good script & acting

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#SciFiHour If you are going back that far you might as well add Forbidden Planet from the 50's it too still holds up

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#SciFiHour Mine too still on the same book did a rewatch of Capricorn one

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The end of a dream and the start of a dilemma

If you missed his post on it sadly Unbound had problems, which @bobbyllew.bsky.social went into on his substack post⤵️On bright side he is looking into getting it printed himself for which I thank him but if there have been any more updates I have missed them. llewellyn.substack.com/p/the-ghost-...

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The Ghost Camera

#SciFiHour Yeah me to I'd expect an #AIOverlord to be able to follow a simple chain of logic with our current crop of politicians I struggle to work out if it is more corruption or idiocy that over rules any association with logic&reasoning. With that happy thought Gnight hope to be about next week

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#SciFiHour I do like an optimist who thinks civilisation will last so long that you have to worry about inheritance tax, you not been taking your vitamins❓😜 Me I really think AGI will happen before the next election unless of course one happens early through even more incompetence & disarray.

#SciFiHour IIRC Unst where the #SpacePort is has better roads than most you see down here though it has been a decade or so since i was last up that way.

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The new Kiwix Library is available - Kiwix

If you are also getting paranoid download a copy of the important stuff I have a copy of wiki & Gutenberg plus a few other bits for when civilisation does collapse if it has not already😜 kiwix.org/en/the-new-k...

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There has been bunch of releases with strange, complicated names lately: libkiwix 10.0, libzim 7, kiwix-tools 3.0, etc. So here what this all means: a new, cleaner way to figure out which zim files ar...