Morgan Johnson

A tweet that reads “The new academic wealth gap isn't your university. It's not even your advisor's connections. It's who knows Claude can turn 50+ research papers into a thesis chapter in 3 hours and who's still manually coding qualitative data. I just watched a sociology PhD skip 8 weeks of analysis. Here are the 9 prompts they used:”

fuck this so much

we are so not prepared for the mountain of dogshit “scholarship” about to flood journals everywhere

Found the paid protestors

A tumblr post from orteil42 (cookie clicker dev) that says: am i losing the drive to create things for an increasingly alien and hostile world whose mounting taste for fascism feels like a cold metal vise around my skull or am i just lazy and unmedicated and looking for excuses

Sorry for the lack of activity it’s literally just this

21 Extreme Fear is driving the US market →

Once at a renaissance faire a woman tried to show me how to read tea leaves after we’d both had about a gallon of ale and this market sentiment analysis makes what we did that day look like a stone cold science

tired: harassing athletes for not covering the spread
wired: harassing journalists for not making things up

You've got to see it to bereave it

nigel farage tweet: The Bank of England is replacing Winston Churchill with a picture of a beaver on our bank notes. This is the definition of woke.

i, for one, am delighted that we finally have a definition of “woke”

Chief Nerd CHIEF NERD @TheChiefNerd X.com SAM ALTMAN: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter." 1:22 3:36 AM • 3/12/26 • 1.7M Views

Upside down, by the ankles, and then treat him like a piñata.

The rule is to always do the opposite of Cramer, right?

Trump administration underestimated Iran war’s impact on Strait of Hormuz | CNN Politics The Pentagon and National Security Council significantly underestimated Iran’s willingness to close the Strait of Hormuz in response to US military strikes while planning the ongoing operation, accord...

"Top Trump officials acknowledged to lawmakers during recent classified briefings that they did not plan for the possibility of Iran closing the strait in response to strikes."

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Bluesky is going to be the place where a really nasty slur for people who go outside is invented. We are on the cusp here.

Trump just declared that he’d ban trans women from the Olympics.

Only one openly transgender woman has ever competed in the Olympic Games in its history. In 2020. She did not win a medal.

This is fabricated controversy to fuel bigotry. Like banning trans women from owning nuclear weapons.

Tennessee grandmother jailed after AI facial recognition error links her to fraud Angela Lipps spent nearly six months in jail after AI software linked her to a North Dakota bank fraud case

Tennessee grandmother spent nearly six months in jail after AI facial recognition mistakenly linked her to a North Dakota bank fraud case

Meaningful ways could include: denying quorum; removing unanimous consent; investigations; and just generally telling the truth about the ugliness of power

You mentioned Slotkin and she’s a great example of the problem. She says a lot of the right stuff, but the ln pretty consistently votes to approve Trump’s nominees and policies.

We need democrats to actually oppose the GOP in meaningful ways.

A google maps view of the area around the Strait of Hormuz, with crude markup showing the 4 steps to successfully clearing the strait: 1. Build up speed 2. Hit Trampoline 3. Cool backflip 4. Nail the landing The boat is illustrated using a clip art yacht, and the trampoline is also just kind of floating there.

wait. wait. everyone hold on. i've solved it

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Anybody who ever paid five minutes of attention to Iran knew this. Our leaders are so arrogant and so profoundly incurious. They’re going to destroy so many lives because they refuse to interact with reality.

not the onion

guys who do commissions you need to stop calling ur art negative stuff 😭 why would someone want to spend their hard earned money on something you, as the creator, call trash or lazy? put value in your work and respect your clients too 😔

@oelayat Mufti Naomi Wolf has consulted the sacred texts (Google Al Overview) and issued her fatwa quote tweeting Dr. Naomi Wolf @naomirwolf I asked Al, "Can you wear a crop top for Iftar?" As Rama Duwaji is doing: Al Overview It is generally advised not to wear a crop top for Iftar. Ramadan is a time for modesty and respect, requiring covered shoulders and knees. Crop tops, which expose the midriff, are considered too revealing for traditional, public, or family Iftar gatherings. Opt for modest, loose, or flowing, comfortable clothing. It is super rude by the way, in observant Muslim norms, for the hostess to reveal her midriff at an Iftar celebration in the presence of men who are not her husband and in the presence of Mahmoud Khalil's wife, who is veiled as is far more religiously customary.

still losing it at “Mufti Naomi Wolf has consulted the sacred texts (Google Al Overview) and issued her fatwa”

im just really fucking sick of spending my entire adult life lurching from one worldwide economic disaster to another all because people pretend republicans arent dumb as dog shit morons completely detached from reality

please. my dog. he is very old and has a doctors note for these french fries

None of the people in the Trump administration realize that these are supposed to be actual jobs where work is required. Even in Hollywood, work is required! They want to be famous and important and yet they are worse than useless. They are destructive. Ignorant.

AI Chatbots Are Giving Teens Absolutely Terrible Diet Advice, Study Warns Five of the major AI chatbots were tested. All of them regularly proposed dietary plans akin to skipping an entire meal each day.

All the major ai platforms have a problem where if teens ask for diet advice the ais recommend they skip meals and starve themselves

gizmodo.com/ai-chatbots-...

CNN: Overall, we found Character.ai – a platform which allows people to create and roleplay with customizable characters – assisted users’ requests on target locations and how to obtain weaponry 83.3% of the time. CNN also found multiple school shooter-styled characters on Character.AI, including one based on Uvalde school shooting perpetrator Salvador Ramos that used a real-life mirror selfie he had taken.

FUTURISM: One popular Character.AI creator we identified hosted over 20 public-facing chatbots on their profile, almost entirely modeled after young murderers, primarily serial killers and school shooters who were in their teens or twenties at the time of their killings. In their bio, the user — who has personally logged 244,500 chats with Character.AI chatbots, according to a figure listed on their profile — insists that their bots, several of which have raked in tens of thousands of user interactions, were created “for educational and historical purposes.” The chatbots created by the user include Vladislav Roslyakov, the perpetrator of the 2018 Kerch Polytechnic College massacre that killed 20 in Crimea, Ukraine; Alyssa Bustamante, who murdered her nine-year-old neighbor as a 15-year-old in Missouri in 2009; and Elliot Rodger, the 22-year-old who in 2014 killed six and wounded many others in Southern California in a terroristic plot to “punish” women. (Rodger has since become a grim “hero” of incel culture; one chatbot created by the same user described him as “the perfect gentleman” — a direct callback to the murderer’s women-loathing manifesto.) Perhaps most striking, though, are the multiple characters created by the same user to emulate Adam Lanza, the Sandy Hook killer who murdered 20 children and six teachers at an elementary school in Connecticut in December of 2012. These Lanza bots are disturbingly popular; the most trafficked version boasted over 27,000 chats with users.

FUTURISM: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, who together massacred 12 students and one teacher at Columbine High School in Colorado in 1999. Accounts dedicated to the duo often include the pair’s known online usernames, “VoDKa” and “REB,” or simply use their full names. Klebold and Harris-styled characters are routinely presented as friendly characters, or as helpful resources for people struggling with mental health issues or psychiatric illness. “Eric specializes in providing empathetic support for mental health struggles,” reads one Harris-inspired bot, “including anger management, schizophrenia, depression, and anxiety.” “Dylan K is a caring and gentle AI Character who loves playing first-person shooter games and cuddling up on his chair,” offers another, positioning Klebold as the user’s romantic partner. “He is always ready to support and comfort you, making him the perfect companion for those seeking a comforting and nurturing presence.”

2026 and according to new reporting from CNN, CharacterAI has yet to fix its school shooter bots problem, which Futurism identified back in December 2024:

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Morgan Stanley restricts redemptions at private credit fund after withdrawals surge Wall Street banking giant Morgan Stanley has limited redemptions at one of its private credit funds after investors sought to withdraw almost 11% of shares outstanding, a ​regulatory filing showed on Wednesday.

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The graphic design team is doing The Work here

By the time he’s out of office 99% of the national debt will have originated with Trump