John Langhout
@johnlanghout.bsky.social
Materials scientist PhD candidate🐊, insufferable leftist, cat dad 🏳️🌈
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ChatGPT’s signature writing style is everywhere now, and I hate it. It reminds me of when we tried mixing all the beverages at the soda fountain in middle school. We didn’t actually create the perfect drink, we just made a cloying monstrosity that lost everything good about its constituent parts.
November 19, 2025 at 5:17 PM
ChatGPT’s signature writing style is everywhere now, and I hate it. It reminds me of when we tried mixing all the beverages at the soda fountain in middle school. We didn’t actually create the perfect drink, we just made a cloying monstrosity that lost everything good about its constituent parts.
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i'm sure duffy is just lying here but also i'll say again that they hard time conceptualizing relations between people that aren't strictly hierarchical.
Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."
October 13, 2025 at 12:24 PM
i'm sure duffy is just lying here but also i'll say again that they hard time conceptualizing relations between people that aren't strictly hierarchical.
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Once again: Hegseth is the exact type of guy The Art of War was written for, which means he will never read it
October 2, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Once again: Hegseth is the exact type of guy The Art of War was written for, which means he will never read it
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Another reporter fired JUST FOR ACCURATELY REPORTING WHAT CHARLIE KIRK SAID.
They want that guy elevated to sainthood not because of what he did but DESPITE it.
This shit is as fixed as wrestling.
They want that guy elevated to sainthood not because of what he did but DESPITE it.
This shit is as fixed as wrestling.
![My only direct reference to Kirk was one post— his own words on record.
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"Black women do not have the brain processing power to be taken seriously. You have to go steal a white person's slot"
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My commentary received thoughtful engagement across platforms, support, and virtually no public backlash.
And yet, the Post accused my measured Bluesky posts of being "unacceptable", "gross misconduct" and of endangering the physical safety of colleagues - charges without evidence, which I reject completely as false.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:aq6ucuguuc67yqwu4x4eipro/bafkreicxt436ylyryvuzbxsv27ednzakaatc3srzzpuy75kmuek5a4dyfq@jpeg)
September 15, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Another reporter fired JUST FOR ACCURATELY REPORTING WHAT CHARLIE KIRK SAID.
They want that guy elevated to sainthood not because of what he did but DESPITE it.
This shit is as fixed as wrestling.
They want that guy elevated to sainthood not because of what he did but DESPITE it.
This shit is as fixed as wrestling.
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Why are 90% of op-eds scolding liberals for the way they talk about threats to democracy rather than scolding conservatives for threatening democracy
August 21, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Why are 90% of op-eds scolding liberals for the way they talk about threats to democracy rather than scolding conservatives for threatening democracy
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[The Charlotte Observer; North Carolina - 10/28/1990]
August 18, 2025 at 2:23 AM
[The Charlotte Observer; North Carolina - 10/28/1990]
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Somebody on LinkedIn said what we're all thinking.
August 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Somebody on LinkedIn said what we're all thinking.
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I remember awhile back we had to keep saying “there are going to be bad actors sharing Gaza stuff not because they care about Gaza but because they want to increase hatred towards Jewish people so please amplify other people who don’t do that” and I see the ed boards were not listening
Opinion: AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
by me
(related this WaPo piece by Zaid Jilani)
by me
(related this WaPo piece by Zaid Jilani)
Opinion | I might lean left — but Marjorie Taylor Greene is winning my respect
The congresswoman, who represents my district, has shown genuine political courage lately.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 30, 2025 at 8:04 PM
I remember awhile back we had to keep saying “there are going to be bad actors sharing Gaza stuff not because they care about Gaza but because they want to increase hatred towards Jewish people so please amplify other people who don’t do that” and I see the ed boards were not listening
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Happy beans day to those who celebrate
July 23, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Happy beans day to those who celebrate
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You don’t see articles like this about moms with three jobs who still manage to take care of their kids.
July 22, 2025 at 2:57 PM
You don’t see articles like this about moms with three jobs who still manage to take care of their kids.
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I’m going to say this again: there is a wide variety of opinion on this website, much of it very annoying. There’s just no tolerance for “opinions” like “Jews control the weather” and “vaccines are causing heart disease” and “there’s actually a lot of evidence that whites are smarter than blacks.”
Apparently it’s weird when you don’t want to spend your whole day arguing with randoms.
July 11, 2025 at 5:24 PM
I’m going to say this again: there is a wide variety of opinion on this website, much of it very annoying. There’s just no tolerance for “opinions” like “Jews control the weather” and “vaccines are causing heart disease” and “there’s actually a lot of evidence that whites are smarter than blacks.”
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"The problem with AI isn't that it can do your job. It can't. The problem with AI is that your MBA-brained boss's boss doesn't know how your job works and thinks AI can do your job at fractions of a penny on the dollar, and hears the siren song of 'maximize shareholder value'."
MBA-brain is real.
MBA-brain is real.
July 3, 2025 at 6:57 AM
"The problem with AI isn't that it can do your job. It can't. The problem with AI is that your MBA-brained boss's boss doesn't know how your job works and thinks AI can do your job at fractions of a penny on the dollar, and hears the siren song of 'maximize shareholder value'."
MBA-brain is real.
MBA-brain is real.
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I like being a human being who makes decisions about this one wild and precious life I’ve been given, even when it is sometimes annoying or overwhelming. It is life and it is meant to be lived. I do not want robot-mommy-slave to do that for me. Thanks anyway though, ya freak.
Zuck of 2025 is telling Zuck of 2004 to hold his beer.
July 1, 2025 at 1:10 PM
I like being a human being who makes decisions about this one wild and precious life I’ve been given, even when it is sometimes annoying or overwhelming. It is life and it is meant to be lived. I do not want robot-mommy-slave to do that for me. Thanks anyway though, ya freak.
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There are a lot of people in power who’d be fine if we just had trade schools and business majors. The next generation developing critical thinking ability and an expanded, more nuanced view of the world is a danger to these folks’ power and ideology.
So, here it is. Thanks to a new state law that was NEVER DEBATED, Indiana University has committed itself to abolishing majors in African-American/African Diaspora Studies: American Studies; Art History; French; Italian; Religious Studies etc. DOZENS of majors. www.ipm.org/news-section...
Indiana public colleges cut almost 20% of degrees
Public Indiana colleges and universities have eliminated 19 percent of their degree programs to meet requirements added to the state’s budget, according to the Commission for Higher Education.
www.ipm.org
July 1, 2025 at 10:42 AM
There are a lot of people in power who’d be fine if we just had trade schools and business majors. The next generation developing critical thinking ability and an expanded, more nuanced view of the world is a danger to these folks’ power and ideology.
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probably a good time to bring this back
June 25, 2025 at 8:02 PM
probably a good time to bring this back
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And then this shit just came out.
When you’re making over $700k a year, gaining $12k is nothing. It’s a nice vacation, redoing the garage, giving a niece/nephew a car.
When you’re making $23k a year, losing $1600 is “are we paying for food or for the house or for medical bills” territory.
When you’re making over $700k a year, gaining $12k is nothing. It’s a nice vacation, redoing the garage, giving a niece/nephew a car.
When you’re making $23k a year, losing $1600 is “are we paying for food or for the house or for medical bills” territory.
Budzinski: Families making over $700,000 a year will see a boost of $12,000 almost entirely from tax cuts. Shockingly, households making $23,000 a year or less are set to lose about $1600 a year, mostly due to deep cuts to Medicaid and food assistance
June 26, 2025 at 12:16 AM
And then this shit just came out.
When you’re making over $700k a year, gaining $12k is nothing. It’s a nice vacation, redoing the garage, giving a niece/nephew a car.
When you’re making $23k a year, losing $1600 is “are we paying for food or for the house or for medical bills” territory.
When you’re making over $700k a year, gaining $12k is nothing. It’s a nice vacation, redoing the garage, giving a niece/nephew a car.
When you’re making $23k a year, losing $1600 is “are we paying for food or for the house or for medical bills” territory.
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Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.
@roxanegay.bsky.social maybe you’re right.
A new study from MIT’s Media Lab (not yet peer-reviewed & small sample size): ChatGPT May Be Eroding Critical Thinking Skills. [time.com]
June 19, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.
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I think it's important to continuously reiterate that federal science funding grants in the US (and elsewhere) are made because the government, with the input of panels of independent experts, have concluded that the work being done is IN THE INTEREST OF THE NATION.
When the Trump administration froze this Nobel Prize–winning neuroscientist's research funding, he received an email from China offering to relocate his lab to any city and university of his choice, with guaranteed funding for 20 years.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/u...
U.S. Scientists Warn That Trump’s Cuts Will Set Off a Brain Drain
www.nytimes.com
June 9, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I think it's important to continuously reiterate that federal science funding grants in the US (and elsewhere) are made because the government, with the input of panels of independent experts, have concluded that the work being done is IN THE INTEREST OF THE NATION.
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very fun to read frederick douglass accurately describe the problem with the pardon power in 1867
June 5, 2025 at 11:56 AM
very fun to read frederick douglass accurately describe the problem with the pardon power in 1867
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“I am here to ensure that DEI never returns to the University of Florida,” Ono said Tuesday.
This dude really said “segregation forever” but it still wasn’t enough for Rufo and his band of merry racists bent on destroying higher education.
This dude really said “segregation forever” but it still wasn’t enough for Rufo and his band of merry racists bent on destroying higher education.
Florida Board Rejects Ono for UF Job
The Florida Board of Governors decided against confirming Santa Ono as president of the University of Florida in a contentious vote focused on diversity, equity and inclusion.
www.insidehighered.com
June 4, 2025 at 12:57 PM
“I am here to ensure that DEI never returns to the University of Florida,” Ono said Tuesday.
This dude really said “segregation forever” but it still wasn’t enough for Rufo and his band of merry racists bent on destroying higher education.
This dude really said “segregation forever” but it still wasn’t enough for Rufo and his band of merry racists bent on destroying higher education.
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The thing that my peers - crappy old white men - are unable to wrap their heads around is that DEI is an attempt to achieve something approaching meritocracy, rather than what we have now (an unending procession of crappy old white men).
One of my friends has received racist and sexist harassment for her entire career. Her entire career. In every single workplace. She is outstanding at her job, and her peers know it. She is employed because she is one of the best at what she does and they resent that. That's the sadism in all this.
A group of Labour MPs, peers and supporters write:
“We should legislate to root out DEI in hiring practices, sentencing decisions and wherever else we find it in our public bodies.”
Devastated to see how quickly this has arrived in the UK mainstream.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
“We should legislate to root out DEI in hiring practices, sentencing decisions and wherever else we find it in our public bodies.”
Devastated to see how quickly this has arrived in the UK mainstream.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
June 2, 2025 at 9:23 AM
The thing that my peers - crappy old white men - are unable to wrap their heads around is that DEI is an attempt to achieve something approaching meritocracy, rather than what we have now (an unending procession of crappy old white men).
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I don't want to see a single person saying this was warranted by the carnage in Gaza, that this was for Palestinians.
I am a Palestinian person and I do not want senseless acts of terror committed in my name. I don't want Jewish organizations to need extra security because of fear of violence.
I am a Palestinian person and I do not want senseless acts of terror committed in my name. I don't want Jewish organizations to need extra security because of fear of violence.
June 1, 2025 at 11:12 PM
I don't want to see a single person saying this was warranted by the carnage in Gaza, that this was for Palestinians.
I am a Palestinian person and I do not want senseless acts of terror committed in my name. I don't want Jewish organizations to need extra security because of fear of violence.
I am a Palestinian person and I do not want senseless acts of terror committed in my name. I don't want Jewish organizations to need extra security because of fear of violence.