Annemcx
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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
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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...
Make things open, it makes things better... etc.
People who make primary source documents easily accessible to the public are the best
Thank you @paulgp.com
Thank you @paulgp.com
For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
November 13, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Make things open, it makes things better... etc.
We need to pay attention. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
BBC board member with Tory links ‘led charge’ in systemic bias claims, say insiders
Sources say Robbie Gibb amplified criticisms of Trump, Gaza and trans rights coverage, and had ‘a lot of oxygen in the room’
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:21 PM
We need to pay attention. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
This DJT/BBC thing's an existential challenge. On one side, we've got fascist ideas of truth. On the other there's publicly funded, libertarian discourse. How it plays will be a highly important milestone. The question - and the task - is: How do you counter a hyperactive fight-like-hell mentality?
November 10, 2025 at 9:15 PM
This DJT/BBC thing's an existential challenge. On one side, we've got fascist ideas of truth. On the other there's publicly funded, libertarian discourse. How it plays will be a highly important milestone. The question - and the task - is: How do you counter a hyperactive fight-like-hell mentality?
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"On top of that, I’d wonder why such close editorial scrutiny should have been entrusted to three key people who themselves rejected journalism in order to enjoy lucrative careers in corporate and political communications."
This is worth a read:
This is worth a read:
November 7, 2025 at 2:51 PM
"On top of that, I’d wonder why such close editorial scrutiny should have been entrusted to three key people who themselves rejected journalism in order to enjoy lucrative careers in corporate and political communications."
This is worth a read:
This is worth a read:
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Nearly two years ago, I wrote about the extraordinary influence of former Tory spin doctor Sir Robbie Gibb on the BBC. It's still a helpful backgrounder for what's going on now. New readers start here: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
How the government captured the BBC
A right-wing cabal, largely unaccountable, is waging war on the principles that made our public broadcaster great. It must not succeed
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Nearly two years ago, I wrote about the extraordinary influence of former Tory spin doctor Sir Robbie Gibb on the BBC. It's still a helpful backgrounder for what's going on now. New readers start here: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
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Remember—if you gather an armed mob blocks from the seat of your government at a time it's closed to the public, a crime to trespass on, and accessible only by overwhelming cops, then tell them that unless they "fight like hell" at that building they'll lose their country, it's not inciting violence
Maybe the BBC can learn a thing or two about fake news from Trump | John Crace
The broadcaster didn’t make a very good job of its untruth – possibly because it hasn’t had as much practice
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Remember—if you gather an armed mob blocks from the seat of your government at a time it's closed to the public, a crime to trespass on, and accessible only by overwhelming cops, then tell them that unless they "fight like hell" at that building they'll lose their country, it's not inciting violence
This. I hope the Beeb has the spine to 'fight like hell' and rebut this ridiculous storm in a teeny tiny teacup.
“When I was [at the BBC], at the height of Boris Johnson’s strength, that fear was ubiquitous. Scripts were sometimes written with a view not solely to their impartiality or truth, but the management of perception of impartiality from one side of the spectrum.“ @lewisgoodall.com
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
goodallandgoodluck.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:26 PM
This. I hope the Beeb has the spine to 'fight like hell' and rebut this ridiculous storm in a teeny tiny teacup.
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Farage is the most expert of hypocrites. Sometimes you just have to step back in amazement at his nerve & utter contempt for the intelligence of the public.
Oh dearie me! How shocking?
Any ideas of just who, exactly, may have betrayed small business owners?
I guess we’ll never know.
Any ideas of just who, exactly, may have betrayed small business owners?
I guess we’ll never know.
November 10, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Farage is the most expert of hypocrites. Sometimes you just have to step back in amazement at his nerve & utter contempt for the intelligence of the public.
Every time the Tories have a pop at this Government, remember this. For 14 years they bled us all dry. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Revealed: The billion-pound PPE contractor with a Tory MP on site
Special report: Uniserve was paid £1.4bn for Covid contracts that included supply of £178.5m in never-used equipment
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Every time the Tories have a pop at this Government, remember this. For 14 years they bled us all dry. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
This is a still from a video my father took from inside Concorde in 1974 en route to Abu Dhabi going at twice the speed of sound. Can't quite get my head around it.
November 8, 2025 at 9:45 AM
This is a still from a video my father took from inside Concorde in 1974 en route to Abu Dhabi going at twice the speed of sound. Can't quite get my head around it.
The Vaizey View is one of the best reads around and if it’s going to be hard adjusting to only a monthly publication. In the meantime this is a great read. www.arabnews.com/node/2615415
Why digital innovation is the new blueprint for resilience and peace
When nations emerge from conflict, the first images we see are bulldozers clearing rubble and cranes lifting steel. Rebuilding homes, schools and hospitals is essential, but peace cannot rest on brick...
www.arabnews.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:50 PM
The Vaizey View is one of the best reads around and if it’s going to be hard adjusting to only a monthly publication. In the meantime this is a great read. www.arabnews.com/node/2615415
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n... Useful intervention. Global organisations need to lead the way now.
Unesco adopts global standards on ‘wild west’ field of neurotechnology
UN body’s recommendations driven by AI advances and proliferation of consumer-oriented neurotech devices
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:38 PM
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n... Useful intervention. Global organisations need to lead the way now.
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What began as immigration enforcement is mutating into something else entirely — a government learning to police through surveillance, not borders.
Read in The Dispatch →
dispatch.techoversight.org/big-tech-ta...
Read in The Dispatch →
dispatch.techoversight.org/big-tech-ta...
Big Tech Takes Election Day Off, OpenAI Logs Into Wall Street, and ICE Logs Everything Else
This week in The Dispatch we’re covering how Big Tech gave up on content moderation and keeping people safe, and how that impacts information flow around elections, and OpenAI’s conversion from mission to market.
dispatch.techoversight.org
November 4, 2025 at 8:32 PM
What began as immigration enforcement is mutating into something else entirely — a government learning to police through surveillance, not borders.
Read in The Dispatch →
dispatch.techoversight.org/big-tech-ta...
Read in The Dispatch →
dispatch.techoversight.org/big-tech-ta...
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👁️ ICE is building its own social network — not to connect people, but to track them. Using social media to search for "crimes" has evolved into using Big Tech's infrastructure to scan for criticism.
November 4, 2025 at 8:32 PM
👁️ ICE is building its own social network — not to connect people, but to track them. Using social media to search for "crimes" has evolved into using Big Tech's infrastructure to scan for criticism.
Crafting is our most indispensable human capability. It always has been and it always will be. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Stone tool discovery suggests very first humans were inventors
The find shows that the technology was passed down through thousands of generations.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Crafting is our most indispensable human capability. It always has been and it always will be. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
This.
X isn't just a renamed Twitter.
It's a fully-weapoinized extreme right-wing information warfare machine, and everyone that's still using it is an absolute fucking moron that's complicit in making it a success.
It's a fully-weapoinized extreme right-wing information warfare machine, and everyone that's still using it is an absolute fucking moron that's complicit in making it a success.
October 29, 2025 at 2:54 PM
This.
Well this is about time. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Car headlights to be reviewed after drivers complain of being 'blinded' at night
Concern over the glare from brighter headlamps is prompting the government to review vehicle design.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 28, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Well this is about time. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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When Trump said he would bring on a "New Golden Age," he was talking about his wallet.
October 26, 2025 at 5:31 PM
When Trump said he would bring on a "New Golden Age," he was talking about his wallet.
Badenoch feebly clutching at pointless straws in the absence of any actual credible policies is extremely tedious.
Non-Substack version now at davidallengreen.com/2025/10/what...
What the Chinese spying case witness statements reveal
16th October 2025 The Crown Prosecution Service appears to have made at least one serious error, while the government’s position now makes sense * Yesterday this blog sought to make sense of …
davidallengreen.com
October 16, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Badenoch feebly clutching at pointless straws in the absence of any actual credible policies is extremely tedious.
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NEW: We need to talk about Russia.
So, yes, that's why we need to talk about Nigel Farage.
My personal newsletter on the story behind the story. Brexit, Trump, Russia & now...Nathan Gill.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
So, yes, that's why we need to talk about Nigel Farage.
My personal newsletter on the story behind the story. Brexit, Trump, Russia & now...Nathan Gill.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
October 12, 2025 at 7:10 PM
NEW: We need to talk about Russia.
So, yes, that's why we need to talk about Nigel Farage.
My personal newsletter on the story behind the story. Brexit, Trump, Russia & now...Nathan Gill.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
So, yes, that's why we need to talk about Nigel Farage.
My personal newsletter on the story behind the story. Brexit, Trump, Russia & now...Nathan Gill.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
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
www.bbc.co.uk
October 10, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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.
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This is very interesting. And points to an interesting and productive use of LLMs for certain forms of modeling social behavior.
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...
October 8, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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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A day in the Portland war zone
The Portland War Zone isn't for everyone but at least the chaos is locally sourced.
The Portland War Zone isn't for everyone but at least the chaos is locally sourced.
October 7, 2025 at 4:49 PM
A day in the Portland war zone
The Portland War Zone isn't for everyone but at least the chaos is locally sourced.
The Portland War Zone isn't for everyone but at least the chaos is locally sourced.