Anthony McCann (N Ireland)
@anthonymccann.bsky.social
Pers/Prof Coach, Adult ADHD, Burnout & Recovery, 6000+ hrs. I help people help themselves. Philosophy; Sociology; Anthropology; Anthro of Music. Research: ADHD; Safety/Threat; Recovery; Enclosure; Hope; Change; Neuroinflammation. Carer. TCK.
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For every heady post with big words I release here I have to balance the world by posting something like this.
Two fish in a tank.
One turns to the other
And says
How do we drive this thing?
Two fish in a tank.
One turns to the other
And says
How do we drive this thing?
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Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
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Trying to forecast the future is prone to uncertainty, though I am probably closer to the alarmist end of the spectrum.
This article is most useful in highlighting the dismissals of such warnings. Big question is why? Normalcy bias? Not being vulnerable?
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
This article is most useful in highlighting the dismissals of such warnings. Big question is why? Normalcy bias? Not being vulnerable?
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
The Americans Who Saw All This Coming—but Were Ignored and Maligned
Call them the Cassandras: the people—mostly not white and male—who smelled the fascism all over Trump from jump street. Why were they “alarmists,” and how did “anti-alarmism” become cool?
newrepublic.com
December 18, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Trying to forecast the future is prone to uncertainty, though I am probably closer to the alarmist end of the spectrum.
This article is most useful in highlighting the dismissals of such warnings. Big question is why? Normalcy bias? Not being vulnerable?
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
This article is most useful in highlighting the dismissals of such warnings. Big question is why? Normalcy bias? Not being vulnerable?
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
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My top five favourite words to pronounce like they’re Greek philosophers…
5. Monocles
4. Bicycles
3. Popsicles
2. Obstacles
1. Testicles
5. Monocles
4. Bicycles
3. Popsicles
2. Obstacles
1. Testicles
December 18, 2025 at 12:13 PM
My top five favourite words to pronounce like they’re Greek philosophers…
5. Monocles
4. Bicycles
3. Popsicles
2. Obstacles
1. Testicles
5. Monocles
4. Bicycles
3. Popsicles
2. Obstacles
1. Testicles
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Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."
December 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."
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New plan just dropped
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
December 14, 2025 at 8:57 PM
New plan just dropped
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This is the best of Sydney. Beauty of multicultural Australia in its darkest hour
The man who heroically tackled and disarmed one of the Bondi Beach gunmen has been named:
The hero’s name is Ahmed al Ahmed, a 43-year-old father of two, who owns a fruit shop.
The hero’s name is Ahmed al Ahmed, a 43-year-old father of two, who owns a fruit shop.
December 14, 2025 at 1:23 PM
This is the best of Sydney. Beauty of multicultural Australia in its darkest hour
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“The goal of academic training is not to solve problems as efficiently and quickly as possible, but to develop skills for identifying and dealing with novel problems, which have never been solved before.”
Open letter, consider signing 🖊️ if you haven’t yet 🙏 openletter.earth/open-letter-...
Open letter, consider signing 🖊️ if you haven’t yet 🙏 openletter.earth/open-letter-...
Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia
openletter.earth
December 10, 2025 at 11:10 PM
“The goal of academic training is not to solve problems as efficiently and quickly as possible, but to develop skills for identifying and dealing with novel problems, which have never been solved before.”
Open letter, consider signing 🖊️ if you haven’t yet 🙏 openletter.earth/open-letter-...
Open letter, consider signing 🖊️ if you haven’t yet 🙏 openletter.earth/open-letter-...
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New podcast interview about my @princetonupress.bsky.social book, The Greatest of All Plagues: How Economic Inequality Shaped Political Thought from Plato to Marx, with Will Li at The Missing Piece.
Economic Inequality Still Matters To The World
YouTube video by Will Li
www.youtube.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:48 PM
New podcast interview about my @princetonupress.bsky.social book, The Greatest of All Plagues: How Economic Inequality Shaped Political Thought from Plato to Marx, with Will Li at The Missing Piece.
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My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
December 7, 2025 at 8:31 AM
My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
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'The media has not yet picked up on the fact that Northumbria University has also now quietly closed applications to its Music degree. This is a new course, which admitted its first students only five years ago. Staff with excellent research profiles were appointed'. 1/3
A discipline in danger | Alexandra Wilson | The Critic Magazine
I have written previously for The Critic about the closure of Music departments in British universities and it gives me no pleasure to be revisiting the issue. Unfortunately, the domino effect that…
thecritic.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 11:36 AM
'The media has not yet picked up on the fact that Northumbria University has also now quietly closed applications to its Music degree. This is a new course, which admitted its first students only five years ago. Staff with excellent research profiles were appointed'. 1/3
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We can't really say this enough...
> Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate.
www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...
> Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate.
www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...
AI tools are 'deskilling' workers, philosophy professor says
A philosophy professor warns that AI reliance is weakening workers' judgment, creativity, and problem-solving.
www.businessinsider.com
November 30, 2025 at 6:09 PM
We can't really say this enough...
> Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate.
www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...
> Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate.
www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...
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Terrible!
This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started
November 30, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Terrible!
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my recent miniseries on the connections between the american far right & the apartheid regime started back in february - the first episode opens with a series of rallies in american cities organized by a white south african woman who moved to the US and joined the aryan nations
New episode of Weird Little Guys: The White House Weighs in on White Genocide
@socialistdogmom.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social
www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...
@socialistdogmom.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social
www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...
May 10, 2025 at 2:20 PM
my recent miniseries on the connections between the american far right & the apartheid regime started back in february - the first episode opens with a series of rallies in american cities organized by a white south african woman who moved to the US and joined the aryan nations
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BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
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The BBC has so thoroughly culled its science team that the national broadcaster is now using journalists from other corporations as correspondents on its flagship Inside Science show, rather than the wealth of specialists I was able to draw from. What a sad loss
November 25, 2025 at 10:35 AM
The BBC has so thoroughly culled its science team that the national broadcaster is now using journalists from other corporations as correspondents on its flagship Inside Science show, rather than the wealth of specialists I was able to draw from. What a sad loss
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In an era filled with tech dipshits who never developed emotionally past the age of 13 & use their wealth to become odious monsters ...
... listen to Steve Wozniak.
... listen to Steve Wozniak.
November 21, 2025 at 7:41 PM
In an era filled with tech dipshits who never developed emotionally past the age of 13 & use their wealth to become odious monsters ...
... listen to Steve Wozniak.
... listen to Steve Wozniak.
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As a health journalist I often come across scams/grifts where there has been a complete failure of regulation. This is magnitudes above that.
This might be one of the most disturbing pieces I’ve ever read. Staggering investigative work from Sirin Kale and Lucy Osbourne www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:16 PM
As a health journalist I often come across scams/grifts where there has been a complete failure of regulation. This is magnitudes above that.
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This piece has stirred up a lot of debate. There is clearly much work to do in oversight of how trusts are treating their locally employed doctors, the contracts they are on and training offered. Here’s a rapid response from the @rcphysicians.bsky.social www.rcp.ac.uk/news-and-med...
November 22, 2025 at 1:11 PM
This piece has stirred up a lot of debate. There is clearly much work to do in oversight of how trusts are treating their locally employed doctors, the contracts they are on and training offered. Here’s a rapid response from the @rcphysicians.bsky.social www.rcp.ac.uk/news-and-med...
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"A court in Munich has ruled that OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT violated German copyright laws by using hits from top-selling musicians to train its language models in what creative industry advocates described as a landmark European ruling" www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
ChatGPT violated copyright law by ‘learning’ from song lyrics, German court rules
OpenAI ordered to pay undisclosed damages for training its language models on artists’ work without permission
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:19 AM
"A court in Munich has ruled that OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT violated German copyright laws by using hits from top-selling musicians to train its language models in what creative industry advocates described as a landmark European ruling" www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Do really bad scuba divers think they’re better than they really are? Yes, they do! Dunning Kruger effect replicates in 40 novice scuba divers diving for the first time as part of a PADI DSD class
#SSSP2025
#SSSP2025
November 8, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Do really bad scuba divers think they’re better than they really are? Yes, they do! Dunning Kruger effect replicates in 40 novice scuba divers diving for the first time as part of a PADI DSD class
#SSSP2025
#SSSP2025
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“War—whether it takes place between societies or within them—has no heroes, only distributions of cruelty, debasement, and ruin, a fact that is routinely denied, ignored, or repressed by those most responsible for perpetuating it.”
Violence and the Sacred | Ryan Ruby
Violence may not be the totality of life, but it is closer to the core than humanists would have us believe.
thebaffler.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:16 PM
“War—whether it takes place between societies or within them—has no heroes, only distributions of cruelty, debasement, and ruin, a fact that is routinely denied, ignored, or repressed by those most responsible for perpetuating it.”
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"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
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www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
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www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
www.404media.co
November 6, 2025 at 6:12 PM
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
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www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
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www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...