Matt Morrison
@senseistarman.com
Librarian. Freelance writer/editor and comics historian. Cosplayer. General Know-It-All and Doctor of Many Things. KabOOOOOm.
SuperHeroHype. No Flying, No Tights. Opinions are my own.
He/him. https://linktr.ee/senseistarman
SuperHeroHype. No Flying, No Tights. Opinions are my own.
He/him. https://linktr.ee/senseistarman
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Matt Morrison
@senseistarman.com
· Jan 20
Buy audiobooks & support local bookstores
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Just cancelled all my Prime and Audible subscriptions.
Trying out Libro which lets you download audio books and support local book stores.
Also, if you sign up for a Libro subscription now, you can get two free audio books. Just use the promo code SWITCH.
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Trying out Libro which lets you download audio books and support local book stores.
Also, if you sign up for a Libro subscription now, you can get two free audio books. Just use the promo code SWITCH.
libro.fm/referral?rf_...
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what's the German word for "need to shave but too depressed"
November 12, 2025 at 11:31 AM
what's the German word for "need to shave but too depressed"
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"Emotional conversations were also common in the conversations analyzed by The Post... In some chats, the AI tool could be seen adapting to match a user’s viewpoint, creating a kind of personalized echo chamber in which ChatGPT endorsed falsehoods and conspiracy theories."
How people really use ChatGPT, according to 47,000 conversations shared online
What do people ask the popular chatbot? We analyzed thousands of chats to identify common topics discussed by users and patterns in ChatGPT’s responses.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:44 AM
"Emotional conversations were also common in the conversations analyzed by The Post... In some chats, the AI tool could be seen adapting to match a user’s viewpoint, creating a kind of personalized echo chamber in which ChatGPT endorsed falsehoods and conspiracy theories."
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Hey guys
I’m in this and it should be good fun and it’s for a very good cause
Please come if you can swing it
It’s also going to be streaming so check it out
I’m in this and it should be good fun and it’s for a very good cause
Please come if you can swing it
It’s also going to be streaming so check it out
November 11, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Hey guys
I’m in this and it should be good fun and it’s for a very good cause
Please come if you can swing it
It’s also going to be streaming so check it out
I’m in this and it should be good fun and it’s for a very good cause
Please come if you can swing it
It’s also going to be streaming so check it out
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November 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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The change.org petition demanding Chuck Schumer step down as Minority Leader has now reached 50,000 signatures.
Sign here: www.change.org/p/demand-tha...
Sign here: www.change.org/p/demand-tha...
November 11, 2025 at 11:08 PM
The change.org petition demanding Chuck Schumer step down as Minority Leader has now reached 50,000 signatures.
Sign here: www.change.org/p/demand-tha...
Sign here: www.change.org/p/demand-tha...
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Funny how we all just “have to” accept AI as progress even if it’s janky and either has demonstrated no improvements to productivity or outright tanks it, but we never had to accept remote work despite every study showing it improves productivity AND workers lives.
Hmmmmm
Hmmmmm
November 12, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Funny how we all just “have to” accept AI as progress even if it’s janky and either has demonstrated no improvements to productivity or outright tanks it, but we never had to accept remote work despite every study showing it improves productivity AND workers lives.
Hmmmmm
Hmmmmm
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A classic Charlton Comics hero, most famous for inspiring the villain of Watchmen, returns in a tongue-in-cheek revamp.
Matt explains the complicated history of #PeterCannonThunderbolt and reviews this first issue of the revival, rating it 4/5 - kabOOOOm!
Matt explains the complicated history of #PeterCannonThunderbolt and reviews this first issue of the revival, rating it 4/5 - kabOOOOm!
PETER CANNON: THUNDERBOLT #1 [Advance Review/Preview]
One of the classic Charlton Comics heroes who inspired Watchmen returns in a tongue in cheek revamp.
kabooooom.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:04 PM
A classic Charlton Comics hero, most famous for inspiring the villain of Watchmen, returns in a tongue-in-cheek revamp.
Matt explains the complicated history of #PeterCannonThunderbolt and reviews this first issue of the revival, rating it 4/5 - kabOOOOm!
Matt explains the complicated history of #PeterCannonThunderbolt and reviews this first issue of the revival, rating it 4/5 - kabOOOOm!
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Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round
November 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round
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"If you’re a Republican official convicted of corruption, your odds of receiving clemency from Trump are roughly 100%...
"The latest move seems intended to deliver a political message: Those who assist Trump with his schemes need not worry about legal consequences..."
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
"The latest move seems intended to deliver a political message: Those who assist Trump with his schemes need not worry about legal consequences..."
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
November 10, 2025 at 7:15 PM
"If you’re a Republican official convicted of corruption, your odds of receiving clemency from Trump are roughly 100%...
"The latest move seems intended to deliver a political message: Those who assist Trump with his schemes need not worry about legal consequences..."
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
"The latest move seems intended to deliver a political message: Those who assist Trump with his schemes need not worry about legal consequences..."
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
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Demand That Chuck Schumer Step Down As Minority Leader
Sign the petition: c.org/c5PbGWk6hM
(Change(dot)org will ask you to donate. You *do not* need to donate.)
Sign the petition: c.org/c5PbGWk6hM
(Change(dot)org will ask you to donate. You *do not* need to donate.)
Sign the Petition
Demand That Chuck Schumer Step Down As Minority Leader
c.org
November 10, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Demand That Chuck Schumer Step Down As Minority Leader
Sign the petition: c.org/c5PbGWk6hM
(Change(dot)org will ask you to donate. You *do not* need to donate.)
Sign the petition: c.org/c5PbGWk6hM
(Change(dot)org will ask you to donate. You *do not* need to donate.)
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
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Rereading The Running Man, and what a wild fantasy of a dystopian future where nobody has access to healthcare or food and the rich watch the poor die for entertainment.
November 10, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Rereading The Running Man, and what a wild fantasy of a dystopian future where nobody has access to healthcare or food and the rich watch the poor die for entertainment.
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A new epic begins, revealing the untold tale of how #ConanTheBarbarian becomes a king by his own hand.
Matt reviews Conan The Barbarian #26, rating it 5/5 - kabOOOOOm!
"Violent and visceral, this is a perfect introduction to the world of one of most famous heroes of fantasy."
Out November 12!
Matt reviews Conan The Barbarian #26, rating it 5/5 - kabOOOOOm!
"Violent and visceral, this is a perfect introduction to the world of one of most famous heroes of fantasy."
Out November 12!
CONAN THE BARBARIAN #26 [Advance Review/Preview]
A new epic begins, revealing the untold tale of how Conan became King of Aquilonia.
kabooooom.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:53 PM
A new epic begins, revealing the untold tale of how #ConanTheBarbarian becomes a king by his own hand.
Matt reviews Conan The Barbarian #26, rating it 5/5 - kabOOOOOm!
"Violent and visceral, this is a perfect introduction to the world of one of most famous heroes of fantasy."
Out November 12!
Matt reviews Conan The Barbarian #26, rating it 5/5 - kabOOOOOm!
"Violent and visceral, this is a perfect introduction to the world of one of most famous heroes of fantasy."
Out November 12!
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Girl Scouts in a Chicago Suburb hosted a food drive. But the girls encountered masked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents with weapons.
"ICE turned it into a scary and what felt like an unsafe environment for us to be out with these kids"
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
"ICE turned it into a scary and what felt like an unsafe environment for us to be out with these kids"
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Masked ICE agents put damper on Oak Park Girl Scout food drive: ‘It’s heartbreaking as a mom’
Federal immigration agents were confronted in Oak Park on Saturday morning by residents blowing whistles as local Girl Scouts collect food for local pantries, rattling some girls and their parents.
chicago.suntimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Girl Scouts in a Chicago Suburb hosted a food drive. But the girls encountered masked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents with weapons.
"ICE turned it into a scary and what felt like an unsafe environment for us to be out with these kids"
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
"ICE turned it into a scary and what felt like an unsafe environment for us to be out with these kids"
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
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“We have rarely witnessed such brutality erupt into public view like it has in Chicago,” writes Michael Woolf, senior minister of Lake Street Church of Evanston. “For me, this is a spiritual emergency, and it means putting our bodies on the line in order to stop deportations.”
I’m One of the Clergy ICE Assaulted. They Treat Immigrants Worse
I learned the hard way that my clerical collar doesn’t offer much protection from ICE. But immigrants have no protection at all.
sojo.net
November 9, 2025 at 3:53 PM
“We have rarely witnessed such brutality erupt into public view like it has in Chicago,” writes Michael Woolf, senior minister of Lake Street Church of Evanston. “For me, this is a spiritual emergency, and it means putting our bodies on the line in order to stop deportations.”
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✋🏼 my day job is in a highly regulated industry. I’m not outsourcing my writing to something that hallucinates facts and can’t correctly say how many r’s are in strawberry
Also I feel like the ability to write (and draw) well is going to be increasingly valuable
Also I feel like the ability to write (and draw) well is going to be increasingly valuable
Hands up if you've never used Chat GPT ✋
(I feel like Dozer and Tank in The Matrix right now - at first I didn't use it because, rather ironically, I'm lazy and stubborn (peak Taurus energy there) - literally no, don't make me use the new thing I don't wanna. Now I'm glad I didn't 😅)
(I feel like Dozer and Tank in The Matrix right now - at first I didn't use it because, rather ironically, I'm lazy and stubborn (peak Taurus energy there) - literally no, don't make me use the new thing I don't wanna. Now I'm glad I didn't 😅)
Probably a good way to tell right now if the job you’re applying for is run by absolute dumbfucks is to ask if they’re using AI.
November 9, 2025 at 1:34 PM
✋🏼 my day job is in a highly regulated industry. I’m not outsourcing my writing to something that hallucinates facts and can’t correctly say how many r’s are in strawberry
Also I feel like the ability to write (and draw) well is going to be increasingly valuable
Also I feel like the ability to write (and draw) well is going to be increasingly valuable
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I have written to the American Battle Monuments Commission, info@abmc.gov, asking them to restore the plaques, and then I submitted a comment to the Heritage Foundation via the form on their website telling them, politely but firmly, exactly what I thought about their request. It took 10 minutes.
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 1:24 PM
I have written to the American Battle Monuments Commission, info@abmc.gov, asking them to restore the plaques, and then I submitted a comment to the Heritage Foundation via the form on their website telling them, politely but firmly, exactly what I thought about their request. It took 10 minutes.
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Questionable uses of AI are making their way into classrooms. In Houston, some teachers are required to use district teaching materials made partly with AI — including, recently, AI-generated art imitating Harlem Renaissance art in which Black-appearing people's faces are distorted. (6/x)
September 2, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Questionable uses of AI are making their way into classrooms. In Houston, some teachers are required to use district teaching materials made partly with AI — including, recently, AI-generated art imitating Harlem Renaissance art in which Black-appearing people's faces are distorted. (6/x)
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I've been working for many months on this article on Silicon Valley's under-the-radar role in bringing AI into schools across the US. I really hope you'll read it — here's a gift link — but I'll tell you some of the highlights in this thread. (1/x)
How Chatbots and AI Are Already Transforming Kids' Classrooms
Educators across the country are bringing chatbots into their lesson plans. Will it help kids learn or is it just another doomed ed-tech fad?
www.bloomberg.com
September 2, 2025 at 4:31 PM
I've been working for many months on this article on Silicon Valley's under-the-radar role in bringing AI into schools across the US. I really hope you'll read it — here's a gift link — but I'll tell you some of the highlights in this thread. (1/x)
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Today I wrote about Zohran Mamdani's historic win, the energizing power of holding to shared principles of decency, and a taxonomy of the endlessly intertwined relationship between shame and vision. www.the-reframe.com/the-extraord...
The Extraordinary Power of Standing For Something
Winning by creating vision in the positive space of shared standards, and expertly negotiating the negative space of shame.
www.the-reframe.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Today I wrote about Zohran Mamdani's historic win, the energizing power of holding to shared principles of decency, and a taxonomy of the endlessly intertwined relationship between shame and vision. www.the-reframe.com/the-extraord...
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London's latest Blue Plaque is a brilliant one. (It was put up at the Tesla dealership in Tottenham by campaigners)
November 7, 2025 at 6:54 PM
London's latest Blue Plaque is a brilliant one. (It was put up at the Tesla dealership in Tottenham by campaigners)
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Libraries! We need your help... have any of you purchased a 3D printer for your library, if so, how do you like it? Do patrons use it?
#LibraryLife
#LibraryLife
November 5, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Libraries! We need your help... have any of you purchased a 3D printer for your library, if so, how do you like it? Do patrons use it?
#LibraryLife
#LibraryLife
#LetsPlay #DungeonKeeper2 - Part 18
We arrive in the midst of a conflict between the Monks of St. Cuthbert and the vampire legions commanded by Keeper Malleus. Since an alliance with Malleus is impossible, we must convert the monks to our dark designs before we can conquer this land.
We arrive in the midst of a conflict between the Monks of St. Cuthbert and the vampire legions commanded by Keeper Malleus. Since an alliance with Malleus is impossible, we must convert the monks to our dark designs before we can conquer this land.
Sensei Starman Plays Dungeon Keeper 2 - Part 18
YouTube video by Sensei Starman
youtu.be
November 8, 2025 at 12:54 PM
#LetsPlay #DungeonKeeper2 - Part 18
We arrive in the midst of a conflict between the Monks of St. Cuthbert and the vampire legions commanded by Keeper Malleus. Since an alliance with Malleus is impossible, we must convert the monks to our dark designs before we can conquer this land.
We arrive in the midst of a conflict between the Monks of St. Cuthbert and the vampire legions commanded by Keeper Malleus. Since an alliance with Malleus is impossible, we must convert the monks to our dark designs before we can conquer this land.
Maybe reading is the real punk rock?
@jamesgunn.bsky.social? @dc.com? @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social? Can we get that on a poster?
@jamesgunn.bsky.social? @dc.com? @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social? Can we get that on a poster?
Banned Book Club's been on many prestigious lists, but none more exciting than today.
@freedomreadproject.bsky.social has it on a list ofways to help talk to your kids about banned books. We're helping!
And a school newspaper included it in a list of PUNK BOOKS! The youths think we're PUNK!
@freedomreadproject.bsky.social has it on a list ofways to help talk to your kids about banned books. We're helping!
And a school newspaper included it in a list of PUNK BOOKS! The youths think we're PUNK!
November 8, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Maybe reading is the real punk rock?
@jamesgunn.bsky.social? @dc.com? @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social? Can we get that on a poster?
@jamesgunn.bsky.social? @dc.com? @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social? Can we get that on a poster?
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I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:12 AM
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...