Greg Michaelson
@gjmichaelson.bsky.social
An idle singer of an empty day
https://www.stairwellbooks.co.uk/product/solstice/
https://www.stairwellbooks.co.uk/product/solstice/
January 25, 2026 at 9:24 AM
@amendlocke.bsky.social Detailed comparative analysis of US & EU finances and wealth.
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Talking With Gabriel Zucman
On Europe, oligarchy and more
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January 24, 2026 at 5:15 PM
@amendlocke.bsky.social Detailed comparative analysis of US & EU finances and wealth.
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paulkrugman.substack.com/p/talking-wi...
BBC News - Is China quietly winning the AI race?
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Is China quietly winning the AI race?
The BBC's Lily Jamali looks into why big US firms and start-ups alike are turning to Chinese tech.
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January 24, 2026 at 11:35 AM
BBC News - Is China quietly winning the AI race?
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January 16, 2026 at 11:08 AM
@theduncanmackay.bsky.social BBC News - Margam park Roman villa find could be 'Port Talbot's Pompeii' - BBC News
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Margam park Roman villa find could be 'Port Talbot's Pompeii'
The largest Roman villa ever found in Wales lies less than a metre under Margam Country Park.
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January 12, 2026 at 5:35 PM
@theduncanmackay.bsky.social BBC News - Margam park Roman villa find could be 'Port Talbot's Pompeii' - BBC News
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But NEO and Eggie have a secret weapon - they are being controlled by human operators.
This is the thing the promotional videos don't show - and something that the Silicon Valley companies we visited are keen to downplay.
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This is the thing the promotional videos don't show - and something that the Silicon Valley companies we visited are keen to downplay.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Is this the year domestic robots come in our homes?
Joe Tidy meets robots being trained to tidy up all your mess.
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January 12, 2026 at 5:33 PM
But NEO and Eggie have a secret weapon - they are being controlled by human operators.
This is the thing the promotional videos don't show - and something that the Silicon Valley companies we visited are keen to downplay.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
This is the thing the promotional videos don't show - and something that the Silicon Valley companies we visited are keen to downplay.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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FOI requests show that in 2024/2025, payments to individual finders & landowners for 'Treasure' rewards cost us £7,280,321.26
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#Archaeology #Treasure #Detecting 🏺
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#Archaeology #Treasure #Detecting 🏺
‘That belongs in a museum’: The true ‘cost’ of detecting in England and Wales.
By Tess Machling [A download/print PDF version can be found at the end of the paper] ‘My members don’t want to be quasi-archaeologists, they want to go out on a Sunday, dig around, get dirty, find …
bigbookoftorcs.com
January 11, 2026 at 10:17 AM
FOI requests show that in 2024/2025, payments to individual finders & landowners for 'Treasure' rewards cost us £7,280,321.26
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bigbookoftorcs.com/2026/01/11/t...
#Archaeology #Treasure #Detecting 🏺
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#Archaeology #Treasure #Detecting 🏺
F*ck!
Now I want to use that controller to play this:
Now I want to use that controller to play this:
January 10, 2026 at 7:15 PM
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Someone just reminded me that as we are now in 2026, we are in the future the iconic, 1920s classic Metropolis was set in.
Meanwhile the far-future world of the original Blade Runner is now seven years in our past...
#film #cinema #History #Histoire #ScienceFiction #Metropolis
Meanwhile the far-future world of the original Blade Runner is now seven years in our past...
#film #cinema #History #Histoire #ScienceFiction #Metropolis
January 1, 2026 at 8:10 PM
Someone just reminded me that as we are now in 2026, we are in the future the iconic, 1920s classic Metropolis was set in.
Meanwhile the far-future world of the original Blade Runner is now seven years in our past...
#film #cinema #History #Histoire #ScienceFiction #Metropolis
Meanwhile the far-future world of the original Blade Runner is now seven years in our past...
#film #cinema #History #Histoire #ScienceFiction #Metropolis
@tessmachling.bsky.social Pointless...
December 31, 2025 at 5:51 PM
@tessmachling.bsky.social Pointless...
@amendlocke.bsky.social In the future, we will all travel in hover cars.
December 31, 2025 at 4:57 PM
@amendlocke.bsky.social In the future, we will all travel in hover cars.
'The Earth Was Made a Common Treasury for All'. Memorial to Gerrard Winstanley, founder of The Diggers, in #Wigan. A radical reformer who believed in direct action, he founded short-lived 'colonies' in 1649-50. He is celebrated locally w. an annual festival. #MosaicMonday #Lancashire
📷 by me.
📷 by me.
December 22, 2025 at 9:41 PM
A good read for the shortest day, with @ruthaylett.bsky.social from @stairwellbooks.bsky.social
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Solstice
Helen and her cousin Malcolm are reluctantly thrown together again to combat a multi-dimensional conspiracy, involving love and drugs and quantum futures. As the solstice approaches, they must coop…
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December 21, 2025 at 10:41 AM
A good read for the shortest day, with @ruthaylett.bsky.social from @stairwellbooks.bsky.social
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www.stairwellbooks.co.uk/product/sols...
@amendlocke.bsky.social @edinburghsff.com @gsfwc.bsky.social
It looks like the SF Site is no more. It's not on the Wayback Machine. Does anyone know if it's archived somewhere?
It looks like the SF Site is no more. It's not on the Wayback Machine. Does anyone know if it's archived somewhere?
December 19, 2025 at 12:17 PM
@amendlocke.bsky.social @edinburghsff.com @gsfwc.bsky.social
It looks like the SF Site is no more. It's not on the Wayback Machine. Does anyone know if it's archived somewhere?
It looks like the SF Site is no more. It's not on the Wayback Machine. Does anyone know if it's archived somewhere?
BBC News - Roomba vacuum cleaner firm files for bankruptcy
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Roomba vacuum cleaner firm iRobot files for bankruptcy
Under the so-called pre-packaged Chapter 11 process, the main maker of its devices will take ownership of the firm.
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December 15, 2025 at 5:23 PM
BBC News - Roomba vacuum cleaner firm files for bankruptcy
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@ianpaulwright.bsky.social
Weird Generalization and Inductive Backdoors: New Ways to Corrupt LLMs
arxiv.org/pdf/2512.09742
Weird Generalization and Inductive Backdoors: New Ways to Corrupt LLMs
arxiv.org/pdf/2512.09742
arxiv.org
December 15, 2025 at 11:16 AM
@ianpaulwright.bsky.social
Weird Generalization and Inductive Backdoors: New Ways to Corrupt LLMs
arxiv.org/pdf/2512.09742
Weird Generalization and Inductive Backdoors: New Ways to Corrupt LLMs
arxiv.org/pdf/2512.09742
How to erect "mysterious Stonehenge" from the Illustrated London News, August 1924. Pleasingly, from a book by E. H. Stone.
@stoneclub.bsky.social #StandingStoneSunday
@stoneclub.bsky.social #StandingStoneSunday
December 14, 2025 at 10:07 AM
How to erect "mysterious Stonehenge" from the Illustrated London News, August 1924. Pleasingly, from a book by E. H. Stone.
@stoneclub.bsky.social #StandingStoneSunday
@stoneclub.bsky.social #StandingStoneSunday
BBC News - Hundreds of items stolen in 'high-value' Bristol Museum raid - BBC News
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Hundreds of items stolen in 'high-value' Bristol Museum raid
More than 600 artefacts from the museum's British Empire and Commonwealth collection were taken.
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December 11, 2025 at 1:04 PM
BBC News - Hundreds of items stolen in 'high-value' Bristol Museum raid - BBC News
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Illustrated London News 1958. From the fencing behind the car, this might be during the renovations.
@stoneclub.bsky.social @suegreaney.bsky.social #StandingStoneSunday
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December 7, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Illustrated London News 1958. From the fencing behind the car, this might be during the renovations.
@stoneclub.bsky.social @suegreaney.bsky.social #StandingStoneSunday
@stoneclub.bsky.social @suegreaney.bsky.social #StandingStoneSunday
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14 women were shot to death at Université de Montréal’s École Polytechnique #Canada #OTD 6 Dec 1989. 12 were engineering students. Thirteen others were injured. The shooter - who died by suicide - claimed he was ‘fighting feminism’. #RIP en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89c...
December 6, 2025 at 11:16 PM
14 women were shot to death at Université de Montréal’s École Polytechnique #Canada #OTD 6 Dec 1989. 12 were engineering students. Thirteen others were injured. The shooter - who died by suicide - claimed he was ‘fighting feminism’. #RIP en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89c...
@theduncanmackay.bsky.social
BBC News - Golden Balls: Wigan's controversial 30ft nude gladiator returns - BBC News
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BBC News - Golden Balls: Wigan's controversial 30ft nude gladiator returns - BBC News
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Golden Balls: Wigan's controversial 30ft nude gladiator returns
Three years after he was banned by the council, the 30ft (9m) statue dubbed Golden Balls reappears.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 6, 2025 at 11:22 AM
@theduncanmackay.bsky.social
BBC News - Golden Balls: Wigan's controversial 30ft nude gladiator returns - BBC News
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BBC News - Golden Balls: Wigan's controversial 30ft nude gladiator returns - BBC News
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“While WAVERLEY and KIDNAPPED remain literary touchstones, MIDWINTER feels like a misstep”
@gjmichaelson.bsky.social compares three novels of the ’45 Jacobite rebellion, by Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, & John Buchan respectively
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@gjmichaelson.bsky.social compares three novels of the ’45 Jacobite rebellion, by Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, & John Buchan respectively
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Midwinter, Waverley and Kidnapped: Tangled Tales of the ’45 - The Bottle Imp
Three naked men I saw,One to hang and one to draw,One to feed the corbie’s maw.— Midwinter The nineteenth of August – exactly a week before John Buchan’s birthday – is remembered as the day the 1745 u...
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December 5, 2025 at 4:51 PM
“While WAVERLEY and KIDNAPPED remain literary touchstones, MIDWINTER feels like a misstep”
@gjmichaelson.bsky.social compares three novels of the ’45 Jacobite rebellion, by Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, & John Buchan respectively
4/8
www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2025/12/midw...
@gjmichaelson.bsky.social compares three novels of the ’45 Jacobite rebellion, by Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, & John Buchan respectively
4/8
www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2025/12/midw...
BBC News - Bank of England warns of AI bubble risk - BBC News
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Bank of England warns of AI bubble risk
The central bank says US stock price valuations are their most stretched since the dotcom bubble burst.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 2, 2025 at 2:14 PM
BBC News - Bank of England warns of AI bubble risk - BBC News
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