Greg Michaelson
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An idle singer of an empty day
https://www.stairwellbooks.co.uk/product/solstice/
Meta to track workers' clicks and key strokes to squeeze every last second out of them. BBC News - Meta to track workers' clicks and keystrokes to train AI - BBC News
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Meta to track workers' clicks and keystrokes to train AI
The firm will take data from the way employees work for its artificial intelligence models.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvglyklz49jo
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BBC News - The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency
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The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency
The BBC has found a pattern of spikes in trades ahead of public announcements by the US president.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cge0grppe3po
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@theduncanmackay.bsky.social
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@stoneclub.bsky.social
@urbanprehistorian.bsky.social
Earl of Marchmont, Edinburgh
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Experts have warned that the model potentially has an unprecedented ability to identify and exploit cybersecurity weaknesses. BBC News - Finance ministers and top bankers raise serious concerns about Mythos AI model
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Finance ministers and top bankers raise serious concerns about Mythos AI model
Experts say Mythos potentially has an unprecedented ability to identify and exploit cybersecurity weaknesses.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2ev24yx4rmo
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China is the new Japan? BBC News - Chinese carmaker patents voice-controlled 'in-vehicle toilet'
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Chinese carmaker Seres patents voice-controlled
Seres' plans show how stiff competition in the EV space is putting pressure on carmakers to innovate.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1l92yv4mydo
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There's a surprise. BBC News - Help to Buy mostly helped high earners, IFS says - BBC News
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Help to Buy mostly helped high earners, IFS says
People with lower incomes benefitted less from the house-buying scheme than those with high incomes, the influential think tank says.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy511kd5lkwo
8 days ago
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Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop
9 days ago
Tonight!
@ruthaylett.bsky.social
will read from her new protest poetry collection 'Shouting in the Tunnel', joined by friends
@zainrishi.bsky.social
from Readers and Writers Against Genocide and a representative from Woman Life Freedom Edinburgh. Join us from 7pm!
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BBC News - Birmingham pastor charged after man drowned during baptism - BBC News
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Birmingham pastor charged after man drowned during baptism
Robert Smith, 61, died from drowning at an address in Erdington in October 2023.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg3kx8r139o
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@chrismanias.bsky.social
Hatton Place, Edinburgh
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BBC News - Researchers spent years interviewing 160 Bigfoot hunters - this is what they learnt
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Cardiff lecturer interviews 160 Bigfoot hunters over three years
There have been thousands of reported Bigfoot sightings since it rose to prominence in the 1960s.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg58ydn4jpo
20 days ago
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@prehistoricsociety.bsky.social
@stoneclub.bsky.social
stonetoolsmuseum.com/region/europe/
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Stone Tools of Europe - Museum of Stone Tools
Explore 3D models of stone tools and artefacts. Learn about different types of stone tools, flint-knapping, stone tool attributes, lithic industries, and human evolution.
https://stonetoolsmuseum.com/region/europe/
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BBC News - Mass robotaxi malfunction halts traffic in Chinese city
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Baidu's Apollo Go self-driving cars stop mid-traffic in China
Baidu has not responded to a request for comment about the outage, which affected at least 100 cars.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvge91r9j80o
22 days ago
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Although the expense of, for example, 30,000 corporate Amazon employees is dwarfed by that company's AI spending plans, firms of this size will now take any opportunity to cut costs, Rohan says. BBC News - Tech CEOs suddenly love blaming AI for mass job cuts. Why?
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Why tech CEOs suddenly love blaming AI for mass layoffs
More tech leaders are pointing to job cuts caused by AI tools - and a need for more investment cash.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cde5y2x51y8o
22 days ago
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Kate Sang
23 days ago
What a privilege it has BEEn to spend the last 8 days striking with
@hwucu.bsky.social
comrades... the costumes have spawned, hatching new plans to fight exctinction... see you tomorrow
@ucuedinburgh.bsky.social
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BBC News - Tech CEOs suddenly love blaming AI for mass job cuts. Why?
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Why tech CEOs suddenly love blaming AI for mass layoffs
More tech leaders are pointing to job cuts caused by AI tools - and a need for more investment cash.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cde5y2x51y8o
24 days ago
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Ruth Aylett
28 days ago
@lighthousebks.bsky.social
@edinburghminute.com
@edinreporter.bsky.social
@theskinnymag.bsky.social
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One of the many benefits of giving
@ruthaylett.bsky.social
and my novel an astronomical title is that there's an excuse to promote it twice a year! Do check out the excellent
@stairwellbooks.bsky.social
for Equinox and its sequel, Solstice.
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Equinox
Helen and Malcolm independently stumble upon interlocking pieces of a multi-faceted conspiracy, concerning the Fundamental Forces (F2) plant on the Moor. It’s soon clear that deeper, perhaps …
https://www.stairwellbooks.co.uk/product/equinox/
about 1 month ago
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@mattpope.bsky.social
The origin of the cartoon caveman? Reed's first Prehistoric Peeps, 1893, v Paul Jamin's The flight before the mammoth, 1885.
about 1 month ago
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@ninabake2.bsky.social
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#TrigPointTuesday
about 1 month ago
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The Irish Pages Press
about 2 months ago
“When all this is over I mean / to travel north...” ~ ‘Lochan’, a beautiful
#poem
by Kathleen Jamie 🍃 Our
#Scotland
issue, co-edited by Kathleen, is available here:
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Nina Baker
about 2 months ago
A VERY impressive film made made by Nancy Falchikov and friends. Jawbone Walk and Ravaged Hearts are on the soundtrack. My friend
@gjmichaelson.bsky.social
also involved, hence I got to hear about it. Pirates, music, mermaids!
vimeo.com/1167355710
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Time Pirates
2025
https://vimeo.com/1167355710
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@ruthaylett.bsky.social
@amendlocke.bsky.social
1897 automaton film!
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Found: The 19th century silent film that first captured a robot attack
A newly rediscovered 1897 short by famed French filmmaker Georges Méliès is being hailed as the first-ever depiction of a robot in cinema.
https://www.npr.org/2026/02/28/nx-s1-5730373/georges-melies-robot-film-1897-library-of-congress-gugusse-automate
about 2 months ago
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Ruth Aylett
about 2 months ago
Glasgow launch of my collection of political poems, Shouting in the Tunnel, March 12th, 6.30, Mount Florida Books. Happy to read almost anywhere! @ByLeavesWeLive @scottishbooks @Glasgow_Live @Glasgow_Times @UofGlasgow
#writing
#poetry
#books
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https://dailybusinessgroup.co.uk/2026/02/ai-blamed-as-scottish-animation-studio-collapses/
about 2 months ago
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AI panopticon. BBC News - Burger King AI bot will check up on staffs' please and thank yous - BBC News
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Burger King AI bot will check up on staffs' please and thank yous
The fast-food chain is testing OpenAI-powered headsets that monitor staff interactions with customers.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgk2zygg0k3o
about 2 months ago
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Dr Russell Jones
about 2 months ago
Sounds amazing
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@pittsmike.bsky.social
@prehistoricsociety.bsky.social
Does anyone remember a BBC 1, 10 part series from 1964, called: Advance. Prehistoric man's first steps in technology?
about 2 months ago
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@pictcon.bsky.social
BBC News - Orbital space race heats up in Arctic north
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Orbital space race heats up in Arctic north
Europe lags far behind the US and China in orbital space launches, but new facilities are opening up.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g0201rj8go
about 2 months ago
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Lucky Rose Tatoo, Edinburgh
@chrisbstringer.bsky.social
@urbanprehistorian.bsky.social
about 2 months ago
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@ninabake2.bsky.social
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2 months ago
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Association for Scottish Literature
2 months ago
At times, in those last few months, he would think of a word and he had to remember the tree, or the species of frog, the sound denoted… —John Burnside, “The Last Man to Speak Ubykh“ published in the
@lrb.co.uk
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#poem
#poetry
#MotherLanguageDay
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BBC News - Ancient bone may prove legendary war elephant crossing of Alps
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Ancient bone found in Spain could be from Hannibal's war elephants
It would be the first hard evidence that elephants were used in battle by General Hannibal.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdr2xl1e41eo
2 months ago
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Greg Michaelson
Association for Scottish Literature
2 months ago
The
@newscientist.com
Book Club read the
#scifi
masterpiece THE PLAYER OF GAMES by Iain M. Banks. In this video, Iain’s friend & fellow author
@amendlocke.bsky.social
discusses Iain’s schooldays, his literary influences, & his idea for a final Culture novel 11/13 💙📚
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Ken MacLeod on the life and work of the late sc-fi legend Iain M. Banks
YouTube video by New Scientist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7OW6A8XCgg
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New-Cleckit Dominie
2 months ago
Hi, good people. You know what to do. Thank you.
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Count Melancholia
2 months ago
@amendlocke.bsky.social
Very on point.
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@urbanprehistorian.bsky.social
@chrismanias.bsky.social
@archaeologyuk.bsky.social
In 1986, the ILN editor wrote of the 70s: life style magazines were going from strength to strength. These magazines tended to concentrate on discriminating travel, food, fashion, nature subjects, archaeology etc
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BBC News - AI coding platform's flaws allow BBC reporter to be hacked
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Major 'vibe-coding' platform Orchids is easily hacked, researcher finds
Vibe-coding tools - which let people without coding skills create apps using AI - are exploding in popularity.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy4wnw04e8wo
2 months ago
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BBC News - AI safety leader says 'world is in peril' and quits to study poetry
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Anthropic AI safety researcher quits with 'world in peril' warning
It comes in the same week an OpenAI researcher resigned amid concerns about its decision to start testing ChatGPT ads.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62dlvdq3e3o
2 months ago
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@amendlocke.bsky.social
BBC News - Scottish rocket firm Orbex set to appoint administrators
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Scottish rocket firm Orbex set to appoint administrators
Orbex, which employs about 160 people, said it has been unsuccessful in finding funds, a merger or a buyer.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyz224q9v5o
2 months ago
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BBC News - Ancient Roman altars found in Scotland to go on display
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Ancient Roman altars to go on display in Edinburgh
Two Mithraic Roman altars are to be displayed as a part of an upcoming exhibition after being acquired for the nation.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg5n6e7vv82o
2 months ago
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@josstified.bsky.social
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...
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Petition: Grant visas & scholarships for Palestinian students, collaborate with Gazan Unis
We demand that the Government extend the Gazan student evacuation policy that ended on the 31st December 2025 indefinitely, grant further scholarships for studies and facilitate twinning partnerships ...
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/754830
3 months ago
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3 months ago
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Raspberry Pi selling AI accelerator add on powered by Israeli chips from Hailo.
3 months ago
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@prehistoricsociety.bsky.social
Is there a Bluesky group for discussing prehistoric art?
3 months ago
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