@michaelsteen

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Former journalist, ex-central bank communications, now corporate comms person. Live in Germany, roots in UK. Interested in all of the above and more. Writing in personal capacity on here. (Oh and same username on Twitter, but opened this as a hedge in May ‘22.)
michaelsteenOct 9, 2023
NfoonfOct 8, 2023
Wasserstoff-Motor: Ist das die Rettung für den Verbrenner? - DER SPIEGEL https://www.spiegel.de/auto/wasserstoff-motor-ist-das-die-rettung-fuer-den-verbrenner-a-5884d43f-59db-41d2-be4f-1b6c5d83abcc
Chance für alte Triebwerke: Rettet der Wasserstoffmotor die Verbrenner-Autos?

Verbrenner stehen für technologische Vergangenheit. Ein ehemaliger BMW-Manager will die Motoren künftig mit Wasserstoff betreiben statt mit Diesel und Benzin. Gibt es Hoffnung für alle, die an ihren alten Autos hängen?

DER SPIEGEL
michaelsteenAug 1, 2023

Excellent column and full of zingers line “seigniorage is a stealth tax”. 🔥

The real scandal of central bank digital currency https://on.ft.com/3Dy62RM

The real scandal of central bank digital currency

News, analysis and comment from the Financial Times, the worldʼs leading global business publication

Financial Times
michaelsteenAug 1, 2023
I may have found the peak hipster product
michaelsteenAug 1, 2023
Simon Wren-LewisAug 1, 2023
New post: The Farage-Coutts affair exemplifies the bankruptcy of UK media and politics https://mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2023/08/the-farage-coutts-affair-exemplifies.html
Farage does not have some unique ability to capture headlines. Instead those choosing what will be headline news find it useful to amplify what he has to say.
The Farage-Coutts affair exemplifies the bankruptcy of UK media and politics

  Failed politician [1] loses account at exclusive bank. It’s a story with very minor human interest, and of no importance whatsoever. Yet i...

michaelsteenAug 1, 2023
BBC Radio 4Jul 31, 2023
Hello everyone! 👋 We've joined the fediverse as part of an experiment with our friends from BBC Research & Development. Read more about it here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2023-07-mastodon-distributed-decentralised-fediverse-activitypub
The BBC on Mastodon: experimenting with distributed and decentralised social media

Trialling ActivityPub and the federated model for social media and it's possibilities for the BBC.

BBC R&D
michaelsteenMay 29, 2023

I ran along part of my old cycle commute in London this morning, from
Greenwich to London Bridge. A decade ago this road was a nightmare and you either had to mix with cars or take backstreets. Now there is a segregated two-way bike lane all the way.

So I’m calling it: London has become more cycle friendly than Frankfurt. (Why they can’t do this along the Eschersheimer Landstraße, for instance, where cars and bikes share two lanes, is a mystery.)

michaelsteenMay 26, 2023
This is what we call Schardenfreude
michaelsteenMay 3, 2023
This is absolutely as good as everyone says it is https://ig.ft.com/quantum-computing/
Quantum computing could break the internet. This is how

The next generation of quantum computers will open a new world of possibilities, but also pose enormous risks to our online security

Financial Times
michaelsteenApr 24, 2023
Journalism is not a crime. As one of more than 300 former Moscow correspondents from 22 countries, I signed this letter to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov calling for the immediate release of Evan Gershkovich of the WSJ. I worked in Moscow many years ago (and subsequently reported from there often on assignment) and never met Evan as it was well before his time. But his arrest marks a shocking development in the treatment of independent journalists.
#IStandWithEvan
michaelsteenApr 20, 2023
Tim PrattApr 20, 2023
It’s a shame Iain M. Banks isn’t around to name a Culture Ship “Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly”