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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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...
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Back in June, I gave the keynote address at the American Library Association's Carnegie Awards, and I'm very pleased that @literaryhub.bsky.social has republished the full text of my speech:
In Praise of Librarians in Dangerous Times
Librarians are on the front lines of history and current events, when news and change arrive at a furious clip that only quickens every day. And without libraries, my work would simply not exist. I…
lithub.com
November 3, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Back in June, I gave the keynote address at the American Library Association's Carnegie Awards, and I'm very pleased that @literaryhub.bsky.social has republished the full text of my speech:
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"The Australian Wars" (2025) The history of over 150 years of battles, massacres and guerilla warfare as Indigenous nations resisted colonial invasion and occupation of their lands. Editors: Rachel Perkins, Stephen Gapps, Mina Murray & Henry Reynolds. HB 4Nov2025. 416p. #Australia #history #BookSky
November 2, 2025 at 9:56 AM
"The Australian Wars" (2025) The history of over 150 years of battles, massacres and guerilla warfare as Indigenous nations resisted colonial invasion and occupation of their lands. Editors: Rachel Perkins, Stephen Gapps, Mina Murray & Henry Reynolds. HB 4Nov2025. 416p. #Australia #history #BookSky
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Judge rules George R.R. Martin and other authors can sue OpenAI for copyright infringement
• Said ChatGPT generated 'Game of Thrones' content similar enough to infringe copyright
• OpenAI’s motion to dismiss was denied
• Said ChatGPT generated 'Game of Thrones' content similar enough to infringe copyright
• OpenAI’s motion to dismiss was denied
October 30, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Judge rules George R.R. Martin and other authors can sue OpenAI for copyright infringement
• Said ChatGPT generated 'Game of Thrones' content similar enough to infringe copyright
• OpenAI’s motion to dismiss was denied
• Said ChatGPT generated 'Game of Thrones' content similar enough to infringe copyright
• OpenAI’s motion to dismiss was denied
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For you @smellosopher.bsky.social and @keithwilson.eu Sigh!
Otherwise, and excellent podcast from both of them
Otherwise, and excellent podcast from both of them
Jon Stewart is rightly sceptical when @geoffreyhinton.bsky.social says ‘They’ve now got to digital smell’. He equivocates, saying ‘You can transmit smells over the web’ No. You can send instructions to release odours at the other end. Real smells to real noses. Not a digitized smell. Not even close
October 27, 2025 at 8:08 PM
For you @smellosopher.bsky.social and @keithwilson.eu Sigh!
Otherwise, and excellent podcast from both of them
Otherwise, and excellent podcast from both of them
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You know what? My Alma mater can f*ck right off. They aren’t here or I would tag CWRU and tell them—I’m ashamed and embarrassed and furious. Yes I know #AI is not a single entity, has utility, and isn’t evil in itself, but it currently threatens the earth, all creatives, everyone except 1% tech bros
October 28, 2025 at 10:01 AM
You know what? My Alma mater can f*ck right off. They aren’t here or I would tag CWRU and tell them—I’m ashamed and embarrassed and furious. Yes I know #AI is not a single entity, has utility, and isn’t evil in itself, but it currently threatens the earth, all creatives, everyone except 1% tech bros
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I have Issues with the concept of writers block, such that I wrote a post on it. kjcharleswriter.com/2019/11/13/w...
There are a ton of things you can do if you're struggling to write, and none of them require using the theft-based environment-ruining plagiarism machine.
There are a ton of things you can do if you're struggling to write, and none of them require using the theft-based environment-ruining plagiarism machine.
People who aren’t writers think writer’s block is at least as big and real a problem as I thought quicksand would be, as a child.
AI can help authors beat writer’s block, says Bloomsbury chief
Publisher last week reported jump in revenue in academic and professional arm thanks to AI licensing deal
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 8:52 AM
I have Issues with the concept of writers block, such that I wrote a post on it. kjcharleswriter.com/2019/11/13/w...
There are a ton of things you can do if you're struggling to write, and none of them require using the theft-based environment-ruining plagiarism machine.
There are a ton of things you can do if you're struggling to write, and none of them require using the theft-based environment-ruining plagiarism machine.
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I really hope outrage builds over historic abuse in institutions *not* run by nuns or brothers.
www.thejournal.ie/investigates...
www.thejournal.ie/investigates...
‘They have been sidelined’ - historic trauma at Ireland's mental institutions
The Journal Investigates hears allegations of historic neglect, forced labour and isolation in Ireland’s shuttered state-run asylums from the 1950s to the early 2000s.
www.thejournal.ie
October 28, 2025 at 9:54 AM
I really hope outrage builds over historic abuse in institutions *not* run by nuns or brothers.
www.thejournal.ie/investigates...
www.thejournal.ie/investigates...
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One of my colleagues discovered a journal had published an article co-authored by her that she never wrote. Appears to have been AI generated and put behind a paywall. Identity fraud, plagiarism, exploitation. Just more awesome benefits of AI...
#NihilismAndTechnology
#NihilismAndTechnology
October 24, 2025 at 7:03 AM
One of my colleagues discovered a journal had published an article co-authored by her that she never wrote. Appears to have been AI generated and put behind a paywall. Identity fraud, plagiarism, exploitation. Just more awesome benefits of AI...
#NihilismAndTechnology
#NihilismAndTechnology
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'Breakout: Pilgrim in the Microworld', the fascinatingly important 1983 book on the video game experience, has apparently been republished by Boss Fight Books.
🔖Find it here: bossfightbooks.com/products/bre...
🔖Find it here: bossfightbooks.com/products/bre...
October 24, 2025 at 5:46 AM
'Breakout: Pilgrim in the Microworld', the fascinatingly important 1983 book on the video game experience, has apparently been republished by Boss Fight Books.
🔖Find it here: bossfightbooks.com/products/bre...
🔖Find it here: bossfightbooks.com/products/bre...
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we made this beautiful record with my Georgian friend Natalie Beridze in 2014
I Am Life
by A-symmetry
agf-poemproducer.bandcamp.com/album/i-am-l...
I Am Life
by A-symmetry
agf-poemproducer.bandcamp.com/album/i-am-l...
I Am Life, by A-symmetry
13 track album
agf-poemproducer.bandcamp.com
October 29, 2024 at 8:07 AM
we made this beautiful record with my Georgian friend Natalie Beridze in 2014
I Am Life
by A-symmetry
agf-poemproducer.bandcamp.com/album/i-am-l...
I Am Life
by A-symmetry
agf-poemproducer.bandcamp.com/album/i-am-l...
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You might be interested in this older piece: alternative-democracy-research.org/2015/06/10/r...
Rationalizing the unreasonable: there are no good academics in the EU
Jan Blommaert Attracting external funding has become, everywhere, one of the main priorities of academics, and writing funding application has consequently also become one of their main tasks. The…
alternative-democracy-research.org
October 23, 2025 at 6:16 PM
You might be interested in this older piece: alternative-democracy-research.org/2015/06/10/r...
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After submitting a FOIA request UKRI, I obtained success rates by three grant call scheme and I can only say that I am disheartened by the results:
- AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2%
- ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1%
- ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%
- AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2%
- ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1%
- ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%
October 22, 2025 at 7:55 AM
After submitting a FOIA request UKRI, I obtained success rates by three grant call scheme and I can only say that I am disheartened by the results:
- AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2%
- ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1%
- ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%
- AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2%
- ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1%
- ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%
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A moth got into the shelter tonight and it was the event of the season.
October 24, 2025 at 1:03 AM
A moth got into the shelter tonight and it was the event of the season.
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My latest for @nowthenmag.bsky.social:
Who Remembers Attention Spans?
Half of people in the UK think their attention span has shrunk. With "doomscrolling" becoming an increasing concern for policymakers, I ask: but is this even real though?
nowthenmagazine.com/articles/who...
Who Remembers Attention Spans?
Half of people in the UK think their attention span has shrunk. With "doomscrolling" becoming an increasing concern for policymakers, I ask: but is this even real though?
nowthenmagazine.com/articles/who...
Who Remembers Attention Spans?
Why can't we focus on anything these days? Sean Morley takes a brief interlude from checking the latest death tolls to investigate our belief in the shrinking attention span.
nowthenmagazine.com
October 22, 2025 at 12:13 PM
My latest for @nowthenmag.bsky.social:
Who Remembers Attention Spans?
Half of people in the UK think their attention span has shrunk. With "doomscrolling" becoming an increasing concern for policymakers, I ask: but is this even real though?
nowthenmagazine.com/articles/who...
Who Remembers Attention Spans?
Half of people in the UK think their attention span has shrunk. With "doomscrolling" becoming an increasing concern for policymakers, I ask: but is this even real though?
nowthenmagazine.com/articles/who...