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Annemcx
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Digital business design, data strategy, quantified organisation and ceramics. Likes firing synapses. More at annemccrossan.com
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Annemcx @annemcx.bsky.social · Dec 18
To close out the year, here's a new edition of the History of Human Connectivity timeline, first published 2015. After nearly ten years, this is still fascinating to me. Lots to learn from the ancients and their wisdom. #emergecode www.slideshare.net/slideshow/em...
History of Human Connectivity 2024 Edition
History of Human Connectivity 2024 Edition - Download as a PDF or view online for free
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Annemcx @annemcx.bsky.social · 1d
Trump craves global recognition but ironically he doesn’t himself realise the contradiction when he then rails against global institutions like the Nobel Prize and the UN. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... This award is right and just for the world. We increasingly need to come together. This is how.
María Corina Machado: Venezuelan opposition leader wins Nobel Peace Prize
Machado is recognised for
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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 3d
This is very interesting. And points to an interesting and productive use of LLMs for certain forms of modeling social behavior.
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 28d
This Atlantic analysis echoes the long convo I had recently with a European researcher who maintains that social media cannot be fixed because the problem lies in its very infrastructure and human nature cannot deal with it. I increasingly think he is correct. arstechnica.com/science/2025...
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 4d
A day in the Portland war zone

The Portland War Zone isn't for everyone but at least the chaos is locally sourced.
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Annemcx @annemcx.bsky.social · 3d
Absolutely love this. Humans maybe aren’t that fucking clever.
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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 3d
This is just incredible

A tiny, tagged Monarch butterfly has flown from Southern Ontario in Canada to *Oklahoma* in a couple of weeks, as part of their migration

And they haven't got google maps open on their phones either, they just know where to go
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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 4d
Look at her go!
#invertebrates 🌿
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 3d
One significant - & dangerous - thing to watch for is professional commentators objecting to words rather than examining the evidence. It's pearl-clutching & cowardly, obviously, but also a deliberate attempt to avoid confronting exactly what they themselves are facilitating and often cheering on.
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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 4d
“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight
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Annemcx @annemcx.bsky.social · 3d
Nice use of graphics there.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 3d
A bubble so large you can see it from space and it's going to fuck all of us.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d
NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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Annemcx @annemcx.bsky.social · 4d
The Instagram action going on is utterly bonkers.
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Annemcx @annemcx.bsky.social · 4d
Harvest moon over Santorini.
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Annemcx @annemcx.bsky.social · 4d
Sometimes it’s effective…he’s being played. I don’t mind either him or Starmer kissing this creep’s ass if it softens him up a bit and we can get what we want.
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Annemcx @annemcx.bsky.social · 4d
Yes. Thank you.
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Annemcx @annemcx.bsky.social · 4d
I wonder what things would be like if the media facilitated equal coverage for each one of them. But it doesn’t.
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Annemcx @annemcx.bsky.social · 4d
The media are highly complicit in this and an increasingly disturbing liability to the quality of life for each and every one of us.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 4d
No sudden rupture is now required for the far right to take power in this country. For what we're seeing is a steady normalisation of extremists by the Conservative and Labour Parties, BBC, Telegraph, Mail and others. A shift once considered unthinkable beings to look acceptable, even inevitable.🧵
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Annemcx @annemcx.bsky.social · 4d
Metal’s never been my thing, but I read this and spat out my tea. So funny. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...
‘People screamed. Cried. Threw up’: 10 extraordinary life lessons from Ozzy Osbourne’s new memoir
The man who ended up smoking 30 cigars a day after trying to quit cigarettes also comes across in his book as level-headed, self-aware and savagely funny. Here’s what the late rock legend can teach us...
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Annemcx @annemcx.bsky.social · 5d
The media’s bias against fair representation is absolutely abhorrent.
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Annemcx @annemcx.bsky.social · 5d
A brilliant read.
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Brian Klaas @brianklaas.bsky.social · 5d
I wrote about all the lived experiences and strange structures of modern society — many of which we take for granted — that were literally impossible for all previous generations of Homo sapiens. www.forkingpaths.co/p/we-are-dif...
We are different from all other humans in history
Countless experiences that have become routine for us are unprecedented in the history of our species. Here's why that matters.
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Annemcx @annemcx.bsky.social · 5d
The Daily Fail will clutch at any straw they can to whip up some febrile right wing fantasy and anti BBC dog whistle, even an overweight straw that happens to be the worst dancer in the entire history of the programme. He was appallingly bad!
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Annemcx @annemcx.bsky.social · 5d
Nor devalued the Jewish cause. He’s done his people an unspeakable injustice.
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Annemcx @annemcx.bsky.social · 5d
No amount of saccharine can save this situation.
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Annemcx @annemcx.bsky.social · 5d
File under ‘deeply embarrassing political cringe’ and ‘the Tories have lost the plot’.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 5d
It helps to be able to spell the country you say only you are competent enough to run.
Goody-bag merch from Tory Conference branded "When Labour negotiates Britian loses" and signed "Kemi Badenoch".
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Annemcx @annemcx.bsky.social · 5d
I wish there was a Choisic for books. Anyone know of one?
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Annemcx @annemcx.bsky.social · 5d
I thought it was neither. So there's that.
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Annemcx @annemcx.bsky.social · 5d
OK. Because fake news is so in fashion right now.
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Annemcx @annemcx.bsky.social · 5d
You're quoting someone who's quoting the Daily Fail celebrity news, seriously?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 6d
Still waiting for it to trickle down...
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