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Allison Morrow

@amorrow.bsky.social
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Journalist. Runner. Always looking for my next coffee/tattoo. Founder of the CNN Business Nightcap newsletter. Former WSJ.

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Allison Morrow @amorrow.bsky.social · 32m
"Machchhar, despite being attacked and dealing with an aircraft that was losing altitude, had the presence of mind to open the cockpit door, make an announcement over the public-address system and call for help." Gift link:
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The 38-Year-Old Captain Who Fought Off Cockpit Attack on FlyDubai Flight
Machchhar, who didn’t always want to be a pilot, was hailed for his heroism after being stabbed on Flight 1073.
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 22h
The image is of a four panel comic.
The first panel shows Sarah, the protagonist, holding a red ball labeled "A SILLY MEME".
The second panel shows Sarah taking the ball and going through a door labeled "GROUP CHAT".
The third panel shows a group of women sitting together and consoling one woman in the center. The woman in the center is saying "...And that's how it happened. It's been the worst day of my life."
The fourth panel shows Sarah standing in the doorway behind them awkwardly holding the red ball.
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Allison Morrow @amorrow.bsky.social · 23h
I'm constantly baffled by the AI proponents who point to an LLM output and say, "look it can do art!" Quite simply: No, it cannot.
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Allison Morrow @amorrow.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time...Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes." -Annie Dillard, Write Till You Drop
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Write Till You Drop
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Jeff Stein @jeffstein.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Scoop: 4 anonymous accounts that perfectly correspond w/ Trump & sons’ holdings have taken first step to enable offloading of family’s own crypto, records show Could be worth billions of dollars Meanwhile, retail investors have lost +$1B www.washingtonsun.com/donald-trump...
washingtonsun.com
Is the Trump Family Preparing to Cash Out on Its Own Crypto?
President Donald Trump and his three sons have taken a step that would permit them to sell World Liberty Financial’s digital tokens.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
WSJ, with an ice-cold graphic: @wsj.com
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Allison Morrow @amorrow.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
@djlavoie.bsky.social asked me what would happen if Elon died and I said I didn't know but I'd look into it. Here's what I found out: Lots and lots of paper value goes up in smoke.
cnn.com
SpaceX investors may be overlooking a major risk: There’s no replacing Elon Musk | CNN Business
Ahead of its June IPO, SpaceX described its CEO as the “driving force behind our growth, innovation, and operational success.” His loss, “whether due to death, disability, or otherwise … could signifi...
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404 Media @404media.co · 27/08/2026
The deputy resigned after an investigation uncovered an alleged history of racism, stalking, and sexual abuse.
404media.co
Florida ‘Deputy of the Year’ Used Flock to Stalk Ex, Held Gun in Her Mouth, Did a Nazi Salute
The deputy resigned after an investigation uncovered an alleged history of racism, stalking, and sexual abuse.
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Allison Morrow @amorrow.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Dolly Parton was a poet
Title: Coat of Many Colors 

Back through the years
I go wonderin' once again
Back to the seasons of my youth
I recall a box of rags that someone gave us
And how my momma put the rags to use
There were rags of many colors
But every piece was small
And I didn't have a coat
And it was way down in the fall
Momma sewed the rags together
Sewin' every piece with love
She made my coat of many colors
That I was so proud of
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Allison Morrow @amorrow.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
A CNN investigation found that a Russian-born federal contractor in the US led a double life. The US govt has said nothing about who Ilya Beloozerov was or why the FBI shot killed him. Incredible reporting from my colleague Isabelle Chapman. (Paywalled)
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The untold story of a Russian-born federal contractor killed by the FBI | CNN
Ilya Beloozerov drained his bank account and was on the run when he was shot to death by federal agents in a parking lot in Mississippi. CNN unravels the final weeks of his life.
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Allison Morrow @amorrow.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Investors are bracing for the end of the AI rally. Short interest is now higher than at any other time since the fallout of the financial crisis.
cnn.com
Shorts are back in fashion on Wall Street | CNN Business
The most popular trade on Wall Street for the past couple of years has been a simple one: Buy Big Tech and ride the AI wave.
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Allison Morrow @amorrow.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
If you're recording social conversations you're a narc and a loser. Publicly shame these people. Smash the device. Do not give consent. (Gift link)
wsj.com
This Conversation Is Being Recorded. They All Are.
People in tech use AI apps to record and transcribe meetings, workplace chats and even dates—all in the name of productivity.
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Allison Morrow @amorrow.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
* screaming *
bloomberg.com
SpaceX Cursor Deal Mints Four Multibillionaires in Their Mid-20s
Around the time ChatGPT and Github’s Copilot brought AI to the masses, four MIT classmates with backgrounds in computer science and finance decided they wanted in. They just didn’t quite know how.
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Allison Morrow @amorrow.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Last night, I published the last edition of Nightcap, the CNN Business newsletter I launched six years ago. It feels weird! But it means I'll be able to do more in-depth reporting outside the confines of a daily deadline. I'm excited, if a bit sad. www.cnn.com/newsletters/...
ix years ago, sitting in my PJs at my dining table-slash-Covid-era work desk, I pitched my boss an idea for a newsletter. The concept wasn’t particularly novel — wasn’t everyone launching a newsletter in 2020? — but I couldn’t shake it. I slacked him something along the lines of: “business news, but, like, fun?”
The truth is that I needed a project. Ask any writer what’s the thing they’re most afraid of in the world, and you’ll get one of two possible answers: “writing” or “not writing.” Either state can be dreadful, but the latter is intolerable.
So that August, with the help of incredible editors, producers and designers, I launched the CNN Business Nightcap newsletter. A year later, it became my full-time gig. And tonight, I’m putting my project to bed.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20/05/2026
i think it is a solid sign of how fundamentally checked out bezos is from the actual state of american politics that he is mouthing the cliches of 20 years ago as if they are novel insights
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Allison Morrow @amorrow.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
1. This is super well done. 2. There's a kicker that doesn't get talked about enough: "We are making the most money we have ever made, yet we have the least financial freedom we have ever experienced."
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Allison Morrow @amorrow.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Bottom line: Nothing about this offer makes much sense, financially or strategically.
cnn.com
GameStop’s pursuit of eBay has analysts scratching their heads | CNN Business
It’s not just in your head: GameStop’s pursuit of eBay doesn’t seem to make a lot of sense.
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Allison Morrow @amorrow.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
I just think if you know me here, you should also know Hank. This is Hank.
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Allison Morrow @amorrow.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
“Try to control your propensity to use social media to make things worse outside this courtroom...perhaps you've never done that before. This would be a first. Can you agree to that?" --Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers to Elon Musk, Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, per CNN's Samantha Delouya
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Allison Morrow @amorrow.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Two copy editors high-fiving so hard right now
"Because of an editing error, an earlier version of this article misstated which day the New York Mets suffered their 11th straight loss. It was on Sunday, not Monday. Even the Mets cannot lose on an off day."
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Allison Morrow @amorrow.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
The nail in the coffin of Millennial optimism
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Allbirds shares soar 600% as it pivots from footwear to AI | CNN Business
Shares of Allbirds — the 2010s pioneer of trendy sneakers and eco-conscious Millennial retail marketing — took flight in an almost comical fashion Wednesday morning after the company announced an extr...
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Allison Morrow @amorrow.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
I don’t know how you run this story on a pile of evidence that amounts to “these two cryptography enthusiasts on the internet sometimes said similar things”
nytimes.com
My Quest to Solve Bitcoin’s Great Mystery
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Allison Morrow @amorrow.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
So good.
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Allison Morrow @amorrow.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
The first words I ever published about the Metaverse 💅
What’s the metaverse? Just a distraction from Facebook’s real-life hellscape
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Ben McKenzie @benmckenzie.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
The trailer for EVERYONE IS LYING TO YOU FOR MONEY. In select theaters starting April 17th 🍿🤑🤣
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Allison Morrow @amorrow.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Horrifying as expected but also pretty funny at the end when Mace says "if you can't define what a woman is, you can't define what fraud is."
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Allison Morrow @amorrow.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
The FBI director fired a dozen counterintelligence experts, days before the Iran attacks, because those people did their jobs. www.cnn.com/2026/03/03/p...
Just days before the United States launched a major military operation in Iran, FBI Director Kash Patel fired a dozen agents and staff members from a counterintelligence unit tasked with monitoring threats from Iran, according to two sources familiar with the matter.

They were ousted for a simple reason: Each was involved in the investigation of President Donald Trump’s alleged retention of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate.
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Allison Morrow @amorrow.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
“This isn’t an AI story. It’s a workforce correction wearing an AI costume,” wrote Jason Karsh, a former Block employee, on X. Gift link:
wsj.com
Jack Dorsey Blamed AI for Block’s Massive Layoffs. Skeptics Aren’t Buying It.
Block—owner of payment apps, bitcoin and music streaming—grew its workforce to nearly 13,000 during the pandemic.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
The biggest obstacle to this website's growth is that almost all of its user base goes to bed at 8 pm
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Allison Morrow @amorrow.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
"The narrative that U.S. growth was dependent on AI spending emerged early last year when the economy looked wobbly ... It was tough to shake the narrative once it took hold."
washingtonpost.com
This economic idea transfixed Wall Street and Washington. It may be a mirage.
Massive investment in AI contributed “basically zero” to U.S. economic growth last year, Goldman Sachs has calculated.
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Allison Morrow @amorrow.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Super sustainable, I'd say
Employee compensation and corporate profits as share of GDP, 4Q
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Allison Morrow @amorrow.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Gosh if only some economist would have warned us this would happen
cnn.com
A year in, it’s official: Americans, not foreigners, are paying for Trump’s tariffs | CNN Business
A new report from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York confirms what economists have long warned about: The burden of tariffs is borne almost entirely by the people living in the country that imposes ...
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Allison Morrow @amorrow.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Every time one of these AI CEOs goes viral for saying the most self-serving, demonstrably false nonsense I am fascinated by how many people take it seriously.
AI CEO warns AI’s disruption will be”much bigger” than COVID: “the people I care about deserve to hear what is coming”
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Allison Morrow @amorrow.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
OpenAI disbanded its mission alignment team, created in 2024 to promote the company's stated mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity, per @caseynewton.bsky.social @platformer.news.web.brid.gy
platformer.news
Exclusive: OpenAI disbanded its mission alignment team
Joshua Achiam will become the company's chief futurist
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Allison Morrow @amorrow.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
This is not a "free grocery store," it's a pop-up food bank, open for one long weekend, designed to give Polymarket some good press.
timeout.com
NYC’s first free grocery store opens next week—here’s everything we already know about it
Yes, it’s real: free groceries, no catch.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
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Allison Morrow @amorrow.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Fun fact: Yale University holds a 379-year-old “perpetual” bond, written on goat skin and issued by Hoogheemraadschap Lekdijk Bovendams, a Dutch water authority. som.yale.edu/story/2026/p...
som.yale.edu
Prof. Rouwenhorst Discusses Yale's 378 year-old Perpetual Bond with the BBC
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Allison Morrow @amorrow.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Scoop: In a letter to lawmakers, NY AG Tish James and four DAs call out Tether and Circle for throttling law enforcement efforts to claw back funds for victims of fraud.
cnn.com
Stablecoin law allows crypto firms to profit from fraud, prosecutors say | CNN Business
Exclusive: Stablecoin law allows crypto firms to profit from fraud, prosecutors say
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Allison Morrow @amorrow.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Instead of career journalists, we really ought to be sending Gen-Z interns with three roommates and no health insurance to cover Davos
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Allison Morrow @amorrow.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
In my “listening to Max Richter and crying while I make dinner” era, join me fam this shit rips
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Allison Morrow @amorrow.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
“Racy”
“Racy Images Grok Created Fuel Outcry”
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 07/01/2026
X basically industrialized the creation of fake porn of women who don't consent. Others did it first, but Grok made it normalized and centralized: publicly visible, instantly creatable by anyone, regardless of who's being targeted and dehumanized. Only question now is will X suffer any consequences
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Allison Morrow @amorrow.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
There are no more Gary Genslers for crypto to blame for its problems. The industry got everything it wanted this year, and it still can't find its footing.
cnn.com
Crypto’s slump may be a cultural problem as much as a financial one | CNN Business
Crypto managed to have a year without a systemic collapse or major scandal. And it’s still shaping up to be one of the industry’s worst years ever.
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Allison Morrow @amorrow.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
We're already seeing brands shun AI. That's only going to get louder as corporate America realizes their consumers aren't computers.
cnn.com
Why 2026 could be the year of anti-AI marketing | CNN Business
It’s getting harder to escape AI slop. But a growing backlash could put a premium on “human-made” content.
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Allison Morrow @amorrow.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
I lived in Hong Kong in a golden era of free speech, when Jimmy Lai's pro-democracy Apple Daily was just part of the ether. His conviction should be a warning to democracies everywhere.
nytimes.com
Opinion | Trump Said Freeing Jimmy Lai Would Be Easy. He Should Prove It.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
When your “exclusive” lasts all of 7 hours, because you publicly named a guy who was never charged with a crime, and who now is being hounded by trolls, and will have this show up in internet searches for the rest of his life.
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Exclusive: The person of interest authorities took into custody in connection with the shooting at Brown University is Benjamin Erickson, a 24-year-old originally from Wisconsin, people briefed on the investigation told The Post.
Live updates: Person of interest in Brown U. shooting is 24, from Wisconsin, officials savLive updates
Authorities release person of interest in Brown University shooting
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Ryan Bernardoni @dangercart.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Stealworkers
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Allison Morrow @amorrow.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
If we want to cheer the "architects" of AI, fine, but they aren't Sam Altman or Elon Musk. Those guys built word generators. GenAI simply doesn't exist without the writers and artists whose work is the only real value underpinning chatbots.
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Allison Morrow @amorrow.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
#econsky question: The Fed says inflation is elevated and econ growth is forecast to be stronger next year. There's no change to their unemployment forecast. So why are they cutting rates?
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Allison Morrow @amorrow.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
These are not pull-ups.
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