Mike McGann
@mikemcgann.bsky.social
4 decades of journalism, current editor Times of Chester County (PA) (chescotimes.com). Covered pro sports, tech, politics, gov., etc. Proud father of 2, happily married. Interests: pets, music, sports, cars and taekwondo. Please — no DMs unless I know you
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Mike McGann
@mikemcgann.bsky.social
· Nov 30
Kindness and sympathy are signs of personal strength; hate is a sign of personal weakness.
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It is amazing how disrespectful every level of capital management is to anyone who knows how to actually do anything. If you write or draw or fabricate anything, your time is just considered absolutely worthless
November 24, 2025 at 7:15 PM
It is amazing how disrespectful every level of capital management is to anyone who knows how to actually do anything. If you write or draw or fabricate anything, your time is just considered absolutely worthless
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I’m sure I’m gonna get dragged for this, but I think AI is bad. AI has completely ruined Google search and it’s created a lot more slop that needs to be avoided on the Internet.
November 24, 2025 at 9:06 PM
I’m sure I’m gonna get dragged for this, but I think AI is bad. AI has completely ruined Google search and it’s created a lot more slop that needs to be avoided on the Internet.
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We saw it with big tobacco, we saw it with the fossil fuels industry. When their own internal research showed the harm from their product, the defunded the research and attacked independent researchers coming to the very same conclusions.
#ScienceUnderSiege
#ScienceUnderSiege
Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges
Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:59 AM
We saw it with big tobacco, we saw it with the fossil fuels industry. When their own internal research showed the harm from their product, the defunded the research and attacked independent researchers coming to the very same conclusions.
#ScienceUnderSiege
#ScienceUnderSiege
This guy is nearly as lovable as Joffrey, but without his youth, good looks and charm.
Things are going well over on Truth Social, where Trump just reposted AI Slop of himself as what I can only describe as imperial Lannister cosplay, with prominent Democrats kneeling at his feet
November 24, 2025 at 12:19 AM
This guy is nearly as lovable as Joffrey, but without his youth, good looks and charm.
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STUDY: Denmark tracked over 1,000,000 children for 21 years, and found those who had aluminum-adjuvanted vaccines were linked to a SHOCKING number of cases of autism, asthma, and 48 other chronic conditions. That shocking number was zero.
November 23, 2025 at 6:47 PM
STUDY: Denmark tracked over 1,000,000 children for 21 years, and found those who had aluminum-adjuvanted vaccines were linked to a SHOCKING number of cases of autism, asthma, and 48 other chronic conditions. That shocking number was zero.
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watching the real-time brain rot of people like nate silver bears this out
If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
November 23, 2025 at 6:28 PM
watching the real-time brain rot of people like nate silver bears this out
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Every time I listen to Trump, Bessent or Lutnick talk about economic conditions, it is always completely obvious how utterly disconnected they are from the everyday struggles the average American working family is dealing with right now. They simply can’t relate to normal people.
November 23, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Every time I listen to Trump, Bessent or Lutnick talk about economic conditions, it is always completely obvious how utterly disconnected they are from the everyday struggles the average American working family is dealing with right now. They simply can’t relate to normal people.
Axious? They'll cash the check and keep on keepin' on -- it's about money and power, not telling the truth.
Why did the Kremlin choose @Axios as their vehicle to manipulate US foreign policy by laundering their propaganda, and what are they going to do about it?
November 23, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Axious? They'll cash the check and keep on keepin' on -- it's about money and power, not telling the truth.
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X's new country tag just unmasked a swarm of troll farms, leaving users gobsmacked at the bot invasion. Who knew disinformation had such a global zip code? #TrollFarm
November 23, 2025 at 2:31 PM
X's new country tag just unmasked a swarm of troll farms, leaving users gobsmacked at the bot invasion. Who knew disinformation had such a global zip code? #TrollFarm
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Parents, if you have time to read anything today (and the capacity to feel rage), then these new allegations against two of the largest social media companies, and their apparent disregard of you and your kids’ relationships and mental health, should be it.
7 Allegations Against Meta in Newly Unsealed Filings
Court filings allege Meta tolerated sex trafficking, hid harms to teens, and prioritized growth over user safety for years.
time.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Parents, if you have time to read anything today (and the capacity to feel rage), then these new allegations against two of the largest social media companies, and their apparent disregard of you and your kids’ relationships and mental health, should be it.
I wrote a little something about our local Congress member, a video and a literally insane, lawless President.
chescotimes.com?p=42725
chescotimes.com?p=42725
Houlahan deserves our praise, not bomb threats | chescotimes.comHoulahan deserves our praise, not bomb threats – chescotimes.com
chescotimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I wrote a little something about our local Congress member, a video and a literally insane, lawless President.
chescotimes.com?p=42725
chescotimes.com?p=42725
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Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
We will look foolish. China will have cheaper, more plentiful power and we’ll have brownouts and bad porn. Great deal…
America putting most of its eggs in the generative AI basket, China going hard into green tech. When history looks back on this period, someone is going to look awfully stupid.
November 22, 2025 at 7:27 PM
We will look foolish. China will have cheaper, more plentiful power and we’ll have brownouts and bad porn. Great deal…
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The debate on the House floor right now is so very, very stupid. A bunch of people who's salaries are paid by tax payers, doing a job that would be impossible to outsource to the private sector are condemning the evils of socialism. Either they are stupid, or that they think you are.
November 21, 2025 at 3:03 PM
The debate on the House floor right now is so very, very stupid. A bunch of people who's salaries are paid by tax payers, doing a job that would be impossible to outsource to the private sector are condemning the evils of socialism. Either they are stupid, or that they think you are.
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If members of the military not following unlawful orders upsets you, maybe you shouldn’t be giving them in the first place. Just a thought.
November 21, 2025 at 2:16 PM
If members of the military not following unlawful orders upsets you, maybe you shouldn’t be giving them in the first place. Just a thought.
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Democrats: Don't do illegal things or participate in war crimes.
Republicans: Treason!
Republicans: Treason!
November 20, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Democrats: Don't do illegal things or participate in war crimes.
Republicans: Treason!
Republicans: Treason!
This is going to get ugly very quickly.
AI companies need $2 trillion in annual revenue by 2030. It’s not going to happen. Big tech firms are borrowing more than ever and they don’t have a way to pay their creditors. @ddayen.bsky.social reports: trib.al/Y77U9j9
The AI Bubble Is Bigger Than You Think - The American Prospect
It’s not just OpenAI that looks overhyped. There’s a whole mountain of sketchy financial engineering underneath.
trib.al
November 20, 2025 at 1:57 PM
This is going to get ugly very quickly.
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sincerely held belief that the live-blog style of journalism that has taken over media outlets is a net negative for society and that type of reporting should only be reserved for actual fast developing stories.
November 19, 2025 at 7:56 PM
sincerely held belief that the live-blog style of journalism that has taken over media outlets is a net negative for society and that type of reporting should only be reserved for actual fast developing stories.
To paraphrase Fitzgerald, I suspect our “gradually” phase is about to become “suddenly.”
November 19, 2025 at 5:42 PM
To paraphrase Fitzgerald, I suspect our “gradually” phase is about to become “suddenly.”
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Think it's time we reconsidered the Arthur C. Clark proposal for the presidency:
1) Pick an adult at random
2) If they do a good job, they can leave early
3) No one who actually wants the job can have it. Ideal candidate has to be dragged kicking and screaming into the White House.
1) Pick an adult at random
2) If they do a good job, they can leave early
3) No one who actually wants the job can have it. Ideal candidate has to be dragged kicking and screaming into the White House.
November 18, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Think it's time we reconsidered the Arthur C. Clark proposal for the presidency:
1) Pick an adult at random
2) If they do a good job, they can leave early
3) No one who actually wants the job can have it. Ideal candidate has to be dragged kicking and screaming into the White House.
1) Pick an adult at random
2) If they do a good job, they can leave early
3) No one who actually wants the job can have it. Ideal candidate has to be dragged kicking and screaming into the White House.
Anyone with even a minimum understanding of economics and trade knew this would be the outcome. American can likely endure a corrupt president. American can likely endure a stupid president. But it seems unlikely to survive having a corrupt, stupid president.
“.. Tariffs were pitched as the fix for America’s trade deficit.” 🤡
- Bilello
- Bilello
November 19, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Anyone with even a minimum understanding of economics and trade knew this would be the outcome. American can likely endure a corrupt president. American can likely endure a stupid president. But it seems unlikely to survive having a corrupt, stupid president.
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It was weird seeing Olbermann come charging out of the underbrush to step directly on a clearly marked landline, wasn't it
November 19, 2025 at 6:18 AM
It was weird seeing Olbermann come charging out of the underbrush to step directly on a clearly marked landline, wasn't it
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Why did not a single male reporter who were standing next to the president and the female reporter he called "piggy" say a word to the president about this and call him out then and there? Those who keep quiet in these moments are part of the problem.
November 19, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Why did not a single male reporter who were standing next to the president and the female reporter he called "piggy" say a word to the president about this and call him out then and there? Those who keep quiet in these moments are part of the problem.
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November 19, 1863, an American president: “Four score and 7 years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation…”. November 18, 2025, an American president: “Things happen”.
November 19, 2025 at 12:50 PM
November 19, 1863, an American president: “Four score and 7 years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation…”. November 18, 2025, an American president: “Things happen”.