Michael Miener

“The EU Public Prosecutor’s Office will be killed for doing its job” says outgoing Chief the formidable Kövesi. EPPO must get more powers and means. But @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu choses to protect corrupted government leaders and refuses to strengthen EPPO's statute. www.politico.eu/article/eppo...

Hate it #booksky

16th of Owltober! A GHOW was caught in the net of a high school batting cage. Upon rescue and examination by Sarvey Wildlife Care Center she was thankfully found uninjured and soon fit for release. Want to donate to SWCC? sarveywildlife.org/donate.aspx Source: fb.com/631429619021... #owlsintowels 💛🦉

Michael Jordan (the machine learning one): "Superintelligence is Science Fiction" 🔥🔥🔥 www.di.ens.fr/~fbach/MJord...

Anyhow, don't listen to me. Turn off your phone, step away from screens, go out into the complicated world and touch grass. It's pretty nice out here.

It's important to remember that the AI doom scenario assumes not only that intelligence is a single well-defined thing, but also that intelligence solves literally every single problem, and that in every conflict overwhelming intelligence always wins. This is just not how anything works.

Introverts unite #booksky

What share of plastic waste ends up in the ocean? Many of us will have seen the stark images of plastic in the ocean: bottles and wrappers clumped together, or rubbish trapped along the coastline. But how much of the world’s plastic waste ends up in the ocean?

The most audacious territorial acquisition plan you've never heard of... denmarkification.com?utm=.share.b...

Bürokratieabbau: Regierung will Tankrabatt künftig direkt an Ölkonzerne überweisen www.der-postillon.com/2026/05/tank...

Agricultural land per person has more than halved since 1960, and global agricultural land has declined slightly since 2000. Plant-based diets and alternative meat products could help, but the biggest barriers will be scale and affordability.

All three statements are true at the same time—

‘Literary criticism, above all, is about particularities. It's about looking at a poem and saying something about this poem and not another poem. And that means it should be defended as a particularity.’ Colin Burrow on the point of criticism, on the podcast: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

I just wanted to write about physics! But noooo, a fucking sex cult had to take over Silicon Valley and the entire public discourse about technology and the future while aiding the rise of fascism, and I felt duty-bound to write about that instead LOOK WHAT THEY MADE ME DO

I thought we were better than this

Me: so we can have a couple of trees in the garden then?

Rich countries have ten times as many doctors per person as poor ones— A person’s access to doctors depends heavily on the income level of the country they live in. High-income countries have around ten times as many doctors per person as low-income ones.

Now look what a beauty just arrived on my desk: Theodore Andersson's "The Legend of Brynhild". "The legend sings principally of the woman, not the man," writes the author, and he examines the medieval accounts of Brynhild with a view toward reaching a fuller appreciation of her character.

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Kolumne: Neue #Batteriegroßspeicher aus Salz (sicher) und Rost (mit guten Chancen) stellen bisherige Kosten- und Zeitkalkulationen auf den Kopf. Kobalt und Nickel werden teils überflüssig, die Preise sind im freien Fall. Und was tut die Bundesregierung? Aussitzen, auf Gas setzen.

✨ If you feel rooted by history, you might like my Genius Loci Digest - a weekly journey exploring the spirit of place across historic Britain. Free to subscribe 👉 www.digest.andymarsh...

Nach Merz-Anruf bei FIFA: Deutschland wieder bei WM dabei!

Asteroid Threat xkcd.com/3265/

+++ Vad nu?: Undav läuft plötzlich rückwärts +++ www.der-postillon.com/2026/07/news...

Oh sh**. Die Wokerati haben Meßmer übernommen.

Sideloading sollte ohne 24 Stunden Wartezeit und neunstufigen Hürdenlauf möglich sein. Googles 'erweiterter Ablauf' ist von vornherein zum Scheitern konzipiert. Haltet Android Offen! @keepandroidopen.bsky.social keepandroidopen.org/de/

Die AfD tobt über diese Broschüre der CDU und Nius ist außer sich. Hier geht‘s zum Download 👉 www.cdu.de/app/uploads/...

Worries about AI doom rarely take Darwinian evolution seriously. A new paper argues we should—but we are still further from that scenario than its authors suggest.

In a fascinating new book, historian Anthony Bale vividly reconstructs the brutal, fantastical, and sometimes deeply religious experiences of medieval travellers across Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.

Timeline cleanse: These two guys (jackdaws) having a great time.

Now look what a beauty just arrived on my desk: First edition of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's "Phénoménologie de la perception".

You can still support our message and sign the Open Letter "Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia” Sign here: openletter.earth/open-letter-...

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Coming tomorrow: your complete beginner's guide to “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.” www.deadlanguagesociety.com

It's a month until the 2026 Midland Viking Symposium on 15 May. Sign up here! This year it's free, it's online and it's on a Friday. Please share. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sagas-the-...

Ich verstehe einfach nicht, wie Leute, die ständig von „Wirtschaft“ und „Wachstum“ reden, so standhaft ignorieren können, was GLOBAL wirklich wächst. Warum wollen Sie unbedingt auf fallende Kurven setzen? Ich verstehe es wirklich nicht. Es muss Ideologie sein.

4 Jahre - gleiche Debatten zu #Spritpreisen ⛽ – wann kapieren wir endlich: Nur #Elektromobilität 🚗🔋 mit Strom aus heimischen #Erneuerbaren macht uns unabhängig von #Ölimporten? Zeit zu handeln!

If walls could speak. Ghost gable with brick tumbled verge (triangular sections), captured, like a fly in amber, in a later building, in Sandwich, Kent.

Not all #eggs are the same: birds‘ eggs have an incredible range of different sizes, colors, patterns and shapes. 🪺 🤩 Happy #Easter, everyone!

Of course the more important tech fail is that EU Ministers are still using MAGA messenger Whatsapp. Digital security and sovereignty, anyone? #DefendDemocracy #HandsOffOurEU🇪🇺 www.politico.eu/newsletter/b...

Meant to share this insane chart.

Read more in our article, “How has world population growth changed over time?” → ourworldindata.org/population-g...

How has the world's population changed over the last 12,000 years? What do projections tell us about the rest of this century? We've refreshed four of our most popular static charts that show you answers to these questions, updating them with the latest data from the UN. 🧵

Well done Rachel Burns, for winning this year's Beatrice White prize for A History of Old English Verse Layout (2024, now in paperback). The prize is to the best scholarly work noticed in The Year’s Work in English Studies in English Literature before 1590. www.arc-humanities.org/978180270444...