Annemcx
@annemcx.bsky.social
Digital business design, data strategy, quantified organisation and ceramics. Likes firing synapses. More at annemccrossan.com
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· Dec 18
History of Human Connectivity 2024 Edition
History of Human Connectivity 2024 Edition - Download as a PDF or view online for free
www.slideshare.net
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...
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Will Hutton
“When the story of the 2024 - 29(?) Parliament is told one of the strangest chapters will be the refusal to close down foreign donations to British political parties”.
What on earth do Labour MPs think their ministers are doing here?
observer.co.uk/news/politic...
“When the story of the 2024 - 29(?) Parliament is told one of the strangest chapters will be the refusal to close down foreign donations to British political parties”.
What on earth do Labour MPs think their ministers are doing here?
observer.co.uk/news/politic...
Reform’s record £9m crypto donation is just the latest offering from abroad | The Observer
observer.co.uk
December 7, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Will Hutton
“When the story of the 2024 - 29(?) Parliament is told one of the strangest chapters will be the refusal to close down foreign donations to British political parties”.
What on earth do Labour MPs think their ministers are doing here?
observer.co.uk/news/politic...
“When the story of the 2024 - 29(?) Parliament is told one of the strangest chapters will be the refusal to close down foreign donations to British political parties”.
What on earth do Labour MPs think their ministers are doing here?
observer.co.uk/news/politic...
RIP Frank Gehry. Thank you for your phenomenal contribution to architecture and for inspiring people like me.
December 5, 2025 at 8:25 PM
RIP Frank Gehry. Thank you for your phenomenal contribution to architecture and for inspiring people like me.
No UK political party should be doing this, and worse, it's a privately owned one. Political parties for sale is clearly a thing.
A Thailand-based crypto investor has handed a record-breaking £9 million to Reform UK, shortly before Nigel Farage used media interviews to plug his crypto firm and promise lower taxes and deregulation on the industry
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/04/c...
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/04/c...
Crypto Investor Donates £9 Million to Reform UK After Nigel Farage Plugs His Company and Tells Industry 'I Am Your Champion'
The Reform leader recently used media interviews to back Christopher Harborne's company while promising to cut taxes and regulations on crypto firms
bylinetimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:42 AM
No UK political party should be doing this, and worse, it's a privately owned one. Political parties for sale is clearly a thing.
An important read. Surely, data on landfill sites should be #opendata #devra
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
UK and Europe’s hidden landfills at risk of leaking toxic waste into water supplies
Exclusive: Rising flood risks driven by climate change could release toxic waste from ageing sites – posing threats to ecosystems
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:05 PM
An important read. Surely, data on landfill sites should be #opendata #devra
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Everything that's crap about humanity in one tweet.
"Why yes, I'm happy to help you with your question. The Queen of Sheba was Coca-Cola."
December 2, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Everything that's crap about humanity in one tweet.
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Nigel Farage has spent £1m taking out adverts in the papers to distract from the Nathan Gill Russian bribe scandal.
We can't let him buy himself out of this. We need an investigation into Russian influence in our politics.
We can't let him buy himself out of this. We need an investigation into Russian influence in our politics.
November 27, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Nigel Farage has spent £1m taking out adverts in the papers to distract from the Nathan Gill Russian bribe scandal.
We can't let him buy himself out of this. We need an investigation into Russian influence in our politics.
We can't let him buy himself out of this. We need an investigation into Russian influence in our politics.
The febrile press are doing a lot of damage to this country.
The predictable crushing uniformity of the coverage of this Budget tells you an awful lot about the priorities of those papers, and also why there's actually quite a lot to praise in it bylinetimes.com/2025/11/26/t...
November 27, 2025 at 10:25 AM
The febrile press are doing a lot of damage to this country.
Very useful
Postcodes in Polygon: an #opendata tool from my Datadaptive side project – draw a shape on a map, get a list of postcodes www.datadaptive.com/pip/ (Great Britain only)
Now updated with postcode data from the latest release of the ONS Postcode Directory (November 2025)
Now updated with postcode data from the latest release of the ONS Postcode Directory (November 2025)
November 27, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Very useful
A new post: About activist artists and wrangling with online futures. annemccrossan.com/writing/jour...
November 26, 2025 at 5:31 PM
A new post: About activist artists and wrangling with online futures. annemccrossan.com/writing/jour...
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Humanism in six words: Think for yourself, act for everyone.
For many people, it won't truly feel like Christmas until they're in their a festive fuzzy jumper, in front of the fire, tucking into their favourite chocolates. (We can't wait).
Buy your quirky humanist Christmas cards today.
For many people, it won't truly feel like Christmas until they're in their a festive fuzzy jumper, in front of the fire, tucking into their favourite chocolates. (We can't wait).
Buy your quirky humanist Christmas cards today.
November 26, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Humanism in six words: Think for yourself, act for everyone.
For many people, it won't truly feel like Christmas until they're in their a festive fuzzy jumper, in front of the fire, tucking into their favourite chocolates. (We can't wait).
Buy your quirky humanist Christmas cards today.
For many people, it won't truly feel like Christmas until they're in their a festive fuzzy jumper, in front of the fire, tucking into their favourite chocolates. (We can't wait).
Buy your quirky humanist Christmas cards today.
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User needs first
Service design second
Operating model third
Technology fourth
This order is still reversed way too often.
Service design second
Operating model third
Technology fourth
This order is still reversed way too often.
November 26, 2025 at 11:36 AM
User needs first
Service design second
Operating model third
Technology fourth
This order is still reversed way too often.
Service design second
Operating model third
Technology fourth
This order is still reversed way too often.
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🔥 Highly recommended that you all sign and share.
Link to the petition—> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Link to the petition—> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
November 26, 2025 at 8:55 AM
🔥 Highly recommended that you all sign and share.
Link to the petition—> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Link to the petition—> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
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We have a US administration trying to bully Ukrainians into accepting Russia’s proposal that their sovereignty be undone. Aside from the naked injustice of this, there are five basic practical reasons why it would make the world far more dangerous.
(video)
snyder.substack.com/p/the-putin-...
(video)
snyder.substack.com/p/the-putin-...
The Putin-Witkoff Plan Worsens the War
Five Reasons the US should not help Russia subjugate Ukraine
snyder.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:11 PM
We have a US administration trying to bully Ukrainians into accepting Russia’s proposal that their sovereignty be undone. Aside from the naked injustice of this, there are five basic practical reasons why it would make the world far more dangerous.
(video)
snyder.substack.com/p/the-putin-...
(video)
snyder.substack.com/p/the-putin-...
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The pain and the god within you – Carl Jung on the relationship between suffering and creativity
November 21, 2025 at 1:02 PM
The pain and the god within you – Carl Jung on the relationship between suffering and creativity
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We’re watching a shift where AI simulates the cohesion and reinforcement that used to require an entire online community. A single person can now build a complete parallel reality with nothing more than a prompt window. Which seems bad.
November 19, 2025 at 2:25 PM
We’re watching a shift where AI simulates the cohesion and reinforcement that used to require an entire online community. A single person can now build a complete parallel reality with nothing more than a prompt window. Which seems bad.
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Just published a deep look at where open social networks stand in 2025: Mastodon’s leadership change, Bluesky’s trajectory, AT Protocol, ActivityPub, cross-network tools, and more. For newsrooms and public service orgs, this moment really matters. werd.io/the-state-of...
The State of the Open Social Web
A comprehensive look at Mastodon, Bluesky, and the growing ecosystem of open, interoperable social networks.
werd.io
November 18, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Just published a deep look at where open social networks stand in 2025: Mastodon’s leadership change, Bluesky’s trajectory, AT Protocol, ActivityPub, cross-network tools, and more. For newsrooms and public service orgs, this moment really matters. werd.io/the-state-of...
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Wonderful interview with @kwastell.bsky.social in @designweek.co.uk which nicely captures the pragmatism, messiness and sheer human graft required to create the organisational, conditions for customer centricity. www.designweek.co.uk/there-is-no-...
www.designweek.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Wonderful interview with @kwastell.bsky.social in @designweek.co.uk which nicely captures the pragmatism, messiness and sheer human graft required to create the organisational, conditions for customer centricity. www.designweek.co.uk/there-is-no-...
Omfg
a visionary, touched by the muse, has created their Yorkshire Pudding Sistine Chapel
November 18, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Omfg
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That #r4today interview just now was as clear a demonstration of the social impacts of #cognitivedebt as you might ever want.
smithery.com/methods/cogn...
smithery.com/methods/cogn...
Cognitive Debt
“Cognitive Debt is where you forgo the thinking in order just to get the answers, but have no real idea of why the answers are what they are.” Artefacts Newsletter #247, April 25th, 2025 I first wr…
smithery.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:47 AM
That #r4today interview just now was as clear a demonstration of the social impacts of #cognitivedebt as you might ever want.
smithery.com/methods/cogn...
smithery.com/methods/cogn...
When/why did hotel prices get so expensive? I'd like to go to Paros next year, but all the good places seem to be charging £1k+ a night. And not just in Paros, it's everywhere. Who can afford that and how on earth can it be justified? It stumps me.
November 18, 2025 at 8:15 AM
When/why did hotel prices get so expensive? I'd like to go to Paros next year, but all the good places seem to be charging £1k+ a night. And not just in Paros, it's everywhere. Who can afford that and how on earth can it be justified? It stumps me.
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Excited to share a new #interactive #dataviz, putting 50 years of #neuroscience research on the map:
The State of Neuroscience 2025
stateofneuroscience.thetransmitter.org
#StateOfNeuro
The State of Neuroscience 2025
stateofneuroscience.thetransmitter.org
#StateOfNeuro
State of Neuroscience 2025: Trends & Breakthroughs | The Transmitter
A comprehensive look at major trends shaping the neuroscience landscape in 2025
stateofneuroscience.thetransmitter.org
November 17, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Excited to share a new #interactive #dataviz, putting 50 years of #neuroscience research on the map:
The State of Neuroscience 2025
stateofneuroscience.thetransmitter.org
#StateOfNeuro
The State of Neuroscience 2025
stateofneuroscience.thetransmitter.org
#StateOfNeuro
Paywalled but interesting. www.ft.com/content/f98a...
A new spectre looms over democracy: prediction markets
They offer a troubling opportunity to manipulate public perceptions of the outcome of political events
www.ft.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Paywalled but interesting. www.ft.com/content/f98a...
Excellent.
November 16, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Excellent.
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Lower Norwood, 1871 #pissarro #camillepissarro
November 16, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Lower Norwood, 1871 #pissarro #camillepissarro