Kathryn Morris

Statistics, Probability, Mathematics, Higher Ed, Yoga, Gardening, LDS, special needs mom

[Connor Boyack 📚 @cboyack]

“Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.”

―Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

[Connor Boyack 📚 @cboyack]

Yuval Harari was asked what the biggest economic and political question of the coming decades would be.

His answer: "What to do with all these useless people."

Read that again. He didn't say 'people made redundant by technology.' He didn't say 'workers in transition.' He used the word *useless*.

And when asked how those people might find meaning when their labor is no longer needed, his best guess was: "a combination of drugs and computer games."

Drugs and computer games. Sedation. That's it.

This is not Orwell. This is not the floating-chair dystopia of WALL-E presented as a warning. This is the casual, shrug-shouldered expectation of a man who the global elite listen to.

And the most disturbing part? He's not entirely wrong about the trajectory.

We already have enormous segments of the population—materially comfortable, technologically saturated—sinking into anxiety, depression, and quiet despair because nothing in their environment is asking anything of them.

We have not yet arrived at the world Harari describes. The real question is whether that future is inevitable.

I co-wrote a book arguing it is not. But preventing it requires people on the front line—particularly those with resources, capability, and time—to take responsibility for building a different model now, while it's still possible.

Drop your email here and I'll let you know when the book is available for order: https://t.co/li54UesQ5H

[david friedberg @friedberg]

they’re not jobs if they’re not valued. they’re not valued if there aren’t customers out there willing to pay them for their great work. needing the government to “create” a job is tantamount to welfare and that level of welfare resolves these individuals to a dependency on the government and lack of economic mobility. and chains our people, collectively, to a more indentured future.

you may be well intentioned but you have, and always will, fail to see the destitute folly of government as a job creation engine.

i have tried to engage you on this topic, in good faith, with empiricism and reasoning, but you have only dodged my points and pivoted to some populist refrain about the importance of taxation and the evils of productivity-driven success.

i can only assume you’re dodging these truths because you and the rest of the politburo leadership have deemed the conversation unsafe speech and put your oligopoly at risk.

let’s leave it at that then.

perhaps if your ways get their day, we can all bask in the glories of the dark ages ahead.

[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints @Ch_JesusChrist]

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is coordinating with government agencies and other organizations to support community response efforts following the magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck off the coast of Maasim, Sarangani, in Mindanao on Monday, June 8, 2026.

The earthquake affected more than 88,000 people and damaged homes, public facilities, roads, utilities, and other infrastructure.

Local Church leaders continue to assess needs and determine how best to provide food, water, sanitation, and other immediate assistance. Local Church members, including some who were also impacted by the earthquake, have begun assisting neighbors as communities work to recover. Several Church meetinghouses in affected areas have been opened to accommodate evacuees after being assessed as safe and suitable for use as temporary shelters.

Learn more on Church Newsroom.

https://t.co/7C0GVmnYVY

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

As of two days ago, the Pentagon recognizes every Christian faith in America as Christian

Except one

That’s not okay, and it needs to change—now

Pass it on if you agree

[Neil L. Andersen @AndersenNeilL]

In our day, with social media, artificial intelligence, and all the technology of our modern age, it is very easy to be misrepresented or to misrepresent the intent of others.

Let us be determined to be completely honest and most generous as we speak of others.

[@jason @Jason]

They updated the most legendary chart on twitter

What stands out?

[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints @Ch_JesusChrist]

The First Presidency has announced new age-group names for young women—names that reflect their identity, growth, and purpose.

The new age-group names are:
• Builders of Faith (young women turning 12 or 13)
• Messengers of Hope (young women turning 14 or 15)
• Gatherers of Light (young women turning 16 or older)

Young Women General President Emily Belle Freeman said the spiritual significance of the names became especially clear to her during a recent visit with young women in Tahiti.

“As the girls sang, I was inspired to think of these covenant-keeping young women whose purpose and mission would be to build faith, share hope, and gather and reflect light around the world,” President Freeman said. “My eyes teared up as I realized the Spirit had been leading this process all along, inspiring names of faith, hope, and light that would help God’s daughters live as disciples of Christ and prepare them to enter a lifelong sisterhood of charity—the Relief Society.”

Learn more by visiting the link below:
https://t.co/xa6DAnu7Ke

[Jeffrey Harmon @JeffreyHarmon]

Amazingly well done.

[david friedberg @friedberg]

it’s not political and should
not be partisan to ask “where did all the money go?”
California’s functional bankruptcy threatens the nation and should be a front-and-center state and national discussion.
ignore the bs. this is what matters.

[Kathryn Morris @MathrynMorris]

@JeffreyHarmon As the parent of a disabled child who will never gain independence and who makes traveling very challenging, I wouldn't trade it. Having him is still the best thing that ever happened to us.

[Kathryn Morris @MathrynMorris]

Even though we ended up having a child with disabilities who would never be independent, and would always make travel challenging, having him is the best thing that ever happened to us. I wouldn't trade it. Ever.

[Lauren Chen @TheLaurenChen]

Having children is the most meaningful thing you can do in your life.

And kids don't have to stop you from traveling, but if I did have to choose between my kids or travel?

I'd choose my kids. Easy.

[Connor Boyack 📚 @cboyack]

Too many kids finish school without ever learning how to think.

7 things worth teaching before they graduate:

1. How to question a source, not just cite it
2. What inflation actually does to their savings
3. Why laws don't always equal justice
4. How markets solve problems governments can't
5. That failure is data, not defeat
6. How to make a case, not just an argument
7. What rights they have and where they come from

btw @tuttletwins helps you teach critical thinking to your kids. School won't do it. You can.

[Kathryn Morris @MathrynMorris]

@cboyack And flipping burgers is not supposed to pay rent. It should pay for car insurance and gas, or saved up for college or a car or some tech toy. While you're still in high school and under your parents' roof. Not to pay for an independent life.

[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints @Ch_JesusChrist]

While ministering in his homeland of France on his first international assignment as an Apostle, Elder Gérald Caussé of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles plays the piano and speaks about one of the 12 new hymns the Church released on February 26, 2026. The hymn, titled “Long Ago, Within a Garden,” refers to three sacred gardens: the Garden of Eden, the Garden of Gethsemane, and the Garden of the Empty Tomb. “You see those three gardens that represent three major events in the plan of salvation,” Elder @Gerald_Causse says.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨🇮🇱🇮🇷 In what might be some of the most powerful footage to come out of today, Israelis and Iranians are dancing and celebrating side by side in the streets of London.

[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints @Ch_JesusChrist]

“I’m the oldest of five kids. We moved around a lot growing up, and it was almost always somewhere cold. My dad always dreamed of living somewhere warm, and when he was able to buy a small business here in Maui, it completely changed our life. It felt like this huge blessing after a long stretch of hard years.

“I was away when the fires happened. I remember opening my phone one morning and seeing a message from my mom saying they were evacuating. Life around me kept going, but home was burning. It was a strange, heavy feeling being far away, not fully able to talk to my family, and having no one around who really understood what it felt like.

“A little before that, I had been going through a really hard situation and I kept thinking, hard times are sacred. I started noticing how people often discover their strength in their hardest moments. That is when you learn what you are made of, who is with you, and what truly matters.

“Hard things are sacred. That is what I have learned.” — Hailey

[Jason Howerton @jason_howerton]

Almost 1 year ago, James Van Der Beek posted this video as he wrestled with his mortality and reflected on the meaning to life.

Today, he died.

I strongly encourage the rest of us to listen to what he discovered before his battle was over.

I truly hope in the past year, he met Jesus. That is where the road he was on ultimately ends.

He is right that you are worthy of God's love. He loves you. He is real. And he really sent his son to die for your sins so you can be with Him forever.

[Kathryn Morris @MathrynMorris]

@KSL5TV Felt in Herriman. I mostly felt it rumbling in my ears. It was weird.

[Neil L. Andersen @AndersenNeilL]

It was 60 years ago, this year, that I moved into this house in Pocatello, Idaho. Being here again after so many years floods me with wonderful memories and helps me to further realize that life is quick in passing.

Let us remember what the Book of Mormon teaches us:

“For behold, this life is the time for men to prepare to meet God; yea, behold the day of this life is the day for men to perform their labors” (Alma 34:32).