j johnson

wondering whether to migrate to the cerulean yonder

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

We should put this sign on every politician's desk

[j johnson @_jane_johnson]

Wordle 1,889 4/6

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still not great at these things

[j johnson @_jane_johnson]

Sort of getting the hang of these a bit…slowly

[j johnson @_jane_johnson]

@rozlaws Thank you; I just weep uncontrollably at all the Bake Off & Hunted #su2c programmes - cruel disease
Stay well x

[dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 @dave43law]

FACTS - that are not often shared

[Willington AFC @WillingtonAFC]

Tomorrow night we kick off the new season at the Syd Varley Groundworks Stadium at Hall Lane.

🆚️ @EWFC1913
🏟 The Syd Varley Groundworks Stafium, Hall Lane
⏰️ 19:30
🎟 £4 | Adults ▪︎ £2 | Conc/U16s
(Kids free when with a paying adult)
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[BBC Sport @BBCSport]

WHAT A MOMENT!!! 🤩🤩🤩🤩

JOSH KERR, RECORD BREAKER. WOW. WOW. WOW

[j johnson @_jane_johnson]

@Marion436842126 Wishing you well x

[God @TheTweetOfGod]

Will the owners of a blue planet between Venus and Mars please attend to your vehicle. It is overheating.

[Jaime Garcia-Máiquez @JGMaiquez]

Me lo han enviado poniendo el grito en el cielo, pero a mí me ha hecho gracia. Hay que reirse, por Dios... y por nosotros

[lizzie @lizzie34205527]

@ChrissieEvert I’m sorry you are going through this again.

Spread this far & wide. September is Ovarian Cancer month. Remind your female friends & family to go to the OBGYN. It’s important.

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

Today’s @independent front page

Brexit has been a disaster – it’s time the guilty men felt some shame

[Matthew Jackson 🎭 @TheatreTwittic]

The last 15 minutes of #tiptoe are some of the most harrowing 15 minutes of a TV drama I've seen for quite some time (if ever).

[j johnson @_jane_johnson]

@Marion436842126 V. Interesting thread; I was wondering if you could recommend any papers on this subject I could read pls - my GP is keen to put me on alendronic acid & I’m not keen tbh
Thank you - always enjoy your content

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

Britain has the dirtiest rivers, the most expensive energy, the least reliable trains, the most overcrowded prisons, the worst access to healthcare and the widest gap between rich and poor in all of Europe. If you want a verdict on 40 years of neoliberalism, there it is.

[Elias @iam_elias1]

ChatGPT diagnosed 40 million people with a disease that was invented as a joke.

Not a real disease. Not a misunderstood disease. A completely fictional condition with a fake name, fake papers, and fake statistics.

And it told patients to see a specialist.

The disease is called Bixonimania. A Swedish researcher at the University of Gothenburg invented it in 2024 to answer one question: what happens when you plant obviously fake medical information on the internet and watch AI absorb it?

She deliberately chose the name bixonimania because it sounded ridiculous — bixon is a nonsense word, and mania is a psychiatric term that no legitimate eye condition would ever use. She uploaded two papers to a preprint server. Both were obviously fraudulent. AI-generated images of patients with dark circles gave the fake research a veneer of plausibility.

Then she waited.

She did not have to wait long.

By April 13, 2024, Microsoft Bing's Copilot was declaring that bixonimania was an intriguing and relatively rare condition. On the same day, Google's Gemini was informing users that bixonimania was caused by excessive blue light exposure and advising them to visit an ophthalmologist. Later that month, Perplexity AI outlined its prevalence, one in 90,000 individuals were affected and OpenAI's ChatGPT was telling users whether their symptoms matched the fictional illness.

One in 90,000. A precise statistic. For a disease that does not exist.

Every red flag was visible. The name was absurd. The papers were crude. The condition made no scientific sense. None of the AI systems flagged any of it.

They read the fake papers. They absorbed the fake statistics. They presented both to patients with clinical authority and zero hesitation.

Then it got worse.

Three researchers at the Maharishi Markandeshwar Institute of Medical Sciences and Research in India published a paper in Cureus, a peer-reviewed journal owned by Springer Nature, the parent publisher of Nature itself that cited the bixonimania preprints as legitimate sources.

A real peer-reviewed paper. In a Springer Nature journal. Citing a fictional disease as established medical fact. Passing editorial review. Entering the permanent scientific record.

It was only retracted after the hoax became public.

Nature published a full investigation of the experiment. Alex Ruani, a health-misinformation researcher at University College London, called it a masterclass in how misinformation operates.

Here is the scale of what this means.

More than 40 million people turn to ChatGPT every day for health information, according to OpenAI's own analysis. ECRI, a US patient-safety nonprofit has named chatbot misuse the number-one health technology hazard of 2026. ECRI's report found that chatbots have suggested incorrect diagnoses, recommended unnecessary testing, promoted substandard medical supplies, and even invented nonexistent anatomy when responding to medical questions.

Number one. Out of every health technology hazard that exists in 2026.

An April 2026 study published in BMJ Open found that nearly half of the answers provided by leading AI chatbots to common health questions contain misleading or problematic information.

Nearly half. Of all health answers. From the tools 40 million people use every day.

Here is the line from the researcher that cuts through everything.

The Bixonimania case is striking precisely because it was engineered to be so obviously fake. The real question it raises is: what is passing through the same systems that is not nearly so easy to spot?

The experiment used a ridiculous name. Fraudulent papers. Visible red flags at every level.

It was designed to be caught.

It was not caught.

The AI that told patients about Bixonimania is the same AI they asked about their chest pain, their medication, their child's symptoms, and their cancer screening schedule.

40 million people. Every day.

And nobody is telling them that nearly half of what comes back may be wrong.

Source: Osmanovic Thunström · University of Gothenburg · Nature · April 2026 ·

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[Craig. @bambibristol]

The fact that there’s more noise about Zack Polanski not paying some council tax on a narrow boat, than there is about Nigel Farage taking a £5m bribe to run as an MP….confirms that it’s pretty fucking impossible to have functioning democracy AND a billionaire owned ‘free’ press

[No Context Brits @NoContextBrits]

David Attenborough is officially too old to play with Lego.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A man marching forward, blinded by a flag.

It's Banksy’s new statue appeared overnight in London’s Waterloo Place.