Shane Glackin
Read Philosophy, write Philosophy, swear.
(senior lecturer at u of exeter; phil. of medicine, politics, ethics & metaethics, philosophical methodology. Irish, sports bore, hobbyist guitar pedal-builder)
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- Reposted by Shane Glackin“I look at the performative hand-wringing, all the ‘OMG can’t believe Starmer appointed him despite all this!’ and I feel I’m in a parallel universe. Starmer appointed him BECAUSE of, not despite it. To be our interface with a corrupt WH that operates in precisely the same way. Everyone understood.”
- 🔥 NEW: Binfire of the Vanities 👿 Mandelson: Beyond the schadenfreude 🎒 Education: What next for SEND policy? 🏺 Plus a very Homeric Wokey Dokey @sturdyalex.bsky.social, @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social & guest @samfr.bsky.social 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/61di... 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
- Reposted by Shane GlackinMy son was wearing Hi Viz and reflecting gear and a helmet with an embedded LED when an Islington Council van rolled through a mandatory cycle-crossing and hit him while the driver was looking at his phone. He tried to persuade me not to phone 999 in case he lost his job. I was surprisingly unmoved.
- Reposted by Shane GlackinIan McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.
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- Men will literally consciously make not going to therapy into a substitute personality rather than go to therapy.
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- This is a hell of a response to "the national emergency is the potential for a national emergency".
- "except in extraordinary and unusual circumstances" is a big enough loophole for a family of elephants to walk through. www.huffpost.com/entry/democr...
- Reposted by Shane GlackinIf Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.
- Reposted by Shane Glackinthe Swiss mixed doubles curling team is married and when their game ended the Peacock stream just showed them playing with their Curling Baby for like 5 minutes with the Olympics music playing
- Reposted by Shane GlackinI really do not think that the “set fires” crew will ultimately be pleased with any implementation of a universal rule that if someone at a protest is acting in a way you feel might cause danger to you, you should assault them
- After just 41 years, Peter Mandelson may finally have had a positive effect on British politics.
- Reposted by Shane Glackinalways bears repeating that this is NOT a financial decision. jeff bezos is worth over 250 billion dollars. he can afford to lose many millions and never even notice it. this is, at its core, a political and personal decision by bezos to destroy the post
- Reposted by Shane GlackinWeird and almost universal revisionism today. Even at the time, it was pretty clear that Mandelson wasn't appointed *despite* his dodgy links but *because* of them. Trump's Washington is a dirty swamp. Mandelson was deemed a man able to swim in it. This wasn't a secret. Everybody said it out loud.
- Reposted by Shane GlackinMy story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power
- Reposted by Shane Glackinworth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead
- Reposted by Shane GlackinA publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world
- Reposted by Shane GlackinNew in PN: Inside the resistance with @whstancil.bsky.social "They seem to have thought they could come in here with big guns and intimidate everyone, then we would all just sort of run away. That didn’t happen. Ultimately, I don’t see a way out for them that isn’t some kind of defeat or retreat."
- Reposted by Shane Glackinthere's a lot of people who mock liberals with "what are you going to do, vote harder" and yes actually that is exactly what will happen if you try to intimidate people outside voting places like this! that's how you drive presidential-level turnout from normie libs in a midterm
- Reposted by Shane Glackinwith his $253.2 billion, Jeff Bezos could afford to pay 100 sportswriters $100,000 a year for the next 25,000 years
- Reposted by Shane Glackinagain we do not really do a good job of explaining how wealthy people like Jeff Bezos are his net worth is $253.2 billion. so he could take one million dollars, and just light it on fire and then do it again tomorrow and again the day after that and then do it every day for 693 years and 8 months
- Reposted by Shane GlackinThe AI/LLM haters are legion, but they have a very real concern about the environmental cost of the tech. To say that all LLMs burn down the planet is simplistic, however. We have to evaluate the vendors and models and choose based on their commitment to clean energy. 1/11
- The smirk after "for what?" Just an absolute little cunt.
- Reposted by Shane GlackinBut Bezos had $75 million to spend on Melania’s vanity project.
- Reposted by Shane GlackinKindergarten teacher called a prank ICE hotline thinking it was real. She called to report her 6 year old student to ICE to try to get them and their family deported. 6 years old. She does not enjoy hearing her own words and actions played back to her.
- Reposted by Shane GlackinI am once again begging people to learn anything about governments east of western europe
- Reposted by Shane Glackinyou don't say? at some point we're going to acknowledge what every study ever on this subject has said, right? right? www.independent.co.uk/news/science...
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- Reposted by Shane GlackinBezos fucked the paper and instead of fixing it he’s destroying it despite the fact that he could spend the money to make things right without even noticing its absence.
- Reposted by Shane GlackinI personally do not think some rich man should be able to buy an institution like this like a toy and then break it when he doesn’t want to play with it anymore. bsky.app/profile/benm...
- Reposted by Shane GlackinMy favorite genre of Epstein emails are powerful people emailing WITH JEFFREY EPSTEIN about how MeToo has gone too far and the woke mob must be stopped.
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- Reposted by Shane GlackinThis is unreal. An AUSA talking like that in open court is about as close as you can come to a total breakdown. Never heard of anything like it.
- If I had to be Lindsay Graham, I'd probably drink myself into a stupor before 9am too.
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- Reposted by Shane GlackinBHATTACHARYA: I do not believe patients' care was disrupted. If there were disruptions, it's the responsibility of the researchers, not the NHS HASSAN: That is an unacceptable and outrageous response. You can make an edict - 'Don't disrupt care!' - but that can be a very complicated thing
- Reposted by Shane GlackinA retiree wrote this email to a DHS attorney. Within five hours, DHS demanded Google turn over records for his account. A Kafkaesque form of domestic surveillance, intimidating Americans for lawful speech. New from us at the Post: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio... @johnwoodrowcox.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Shane GlackinHear me out: can we have Gordon back
- Gordon Brown writes to Met to back case for investigation into Mandelson's 'inexcusable and unpatriotic' leaking - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
- Reposted by Shane GlackinIt is not illegal to watch, record, follow, or track immigration officers. It *is* illegal to threaten, punish, or point a gun at them when they've done nothing illegal. If all these people were doing is observing, this is a crime. As are all the similar videos. We can't let this become normal.
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- Reposted by Shane GlackinThis is now without question the biggest politico-financial scandal in United States history. Teapot Dome was trivial in comparison.
- I was a little late to catch up with this WSJ kleptocracy story. We already knew Sheikh Tahnoon dropped $2b on World Liberty Financial to get Trump to let UAE import advanced chips. Now we learn Tahnoon also purchased 49 percent of World Liberty Financial. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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- NEVERTHELESS HE PERSISTED.
- There are a lot of people dumping on Askell recently, in ways that seem to me unfair. BIG caveat here; the presentation of the ideas in stuff like the BI article here doesn't help, and there are sound commercial reasons (derogatory) not to correct the record. Here's the basic idea, I think. 🧵1/6
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- Reposted by Shane GlackinPresented without comment. I just want everyone here to know. I want you to know what you're looking at the next time you see this guy being interviewed or RTed by an Abundance bro. 1/8
- Reposted by Shane Glackin“Jaywalking is permitted in London. In 1966, the police tried to crack down on it, but gave up after three months.” People walk and cycle on roads by right, people drive under licence. Jaywalking is not a thing in English law and Waymo must not change that. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
