MJ Carson

Joined April 2025

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Midwest-based writer rebuilding after a platform wipe. I cover internet trends, creator culture, and the digital noise that actually matters. This is Plugged In—where the signal cuts through the static.

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Fusion for Sale: What Canada’s Mini-Sun Really Means
Somewhere in British Columbia, a machine just lit a miniature sun. And nobody’s talking about what happens next.
By MJ Carson9 months ago in Futurism
The Panopticon Classroom Pt3
Part 3: Expose the corporate and political machine behind school surveillance. Reveal the profits, lawsuits, lobbying, predictive tech, and long-term risks. This is the series climax , the mask comes off.
By MJ Carson9 months ago in Futurism
The Panopticon Classroom Pt2
Pt 2: Reveal the emotional, psychological, and social damage inflicted by school surveillance. This part focuses on the kids — the ones censored, outed, profiled, or traumatized by the system.
By MJ Carson9 months ago in Futurism
The Panopticon Classroom Pt1
Part 1 or 3: Expose how the surveillance grid in K–12 schools was built, from isolated incidents to a normalized nationwide system. This part lays the foundation for the entire series.
By MJ Carson9 months ago in Futurism
The Shunning
The manuscript arrived like all the others. Courier font. Double spaced. First-line indents so sharp you could measure them with a ruler and piss off a copyeditor. The title was "The Shunning," which felt a little on the nose for horror, but whatever. Slush pile readers didn’t get paid to judge titles. They got paid to survive them.
By MJ Carson9 months ago in Horror
The AI in Your Lobby Has a Name
You know that one player: the one who always has your back, lands every headshot, revives you without hesitation, and never screams into his mic or rage quits? You finally get a teammate that doesn’t suck, doesn’t troll, and plays like a machine. Because, well, he is one. And he’s watching you closer than you think.
By MJ Carson9 months ago in Futurism
E C H O
Rachel pressed the bottle cap down until it clicked, over and over, her thumb worrying at the torn edge of the label. Tom had fallen asleep beside her, one arm slung off the mattress like he’d been dropped there. The monitor on the nightstand crackled faintly.
By MJ Carson9 months ago in Horror
When AI Governs the Poor
The Algorithm Is Already in Charge: How the U.S. Government Quietly Unleashed AI Systems That Are Already Failing Us
By MJ Carson9 months ago in Futurism
Welcome to the Ghost Web
There’s something weird happening online, and it’s not just another TikTok filter that makes you look like a Victorian child ghost. No, this is worse. Because this ghost is your grandma—and she just commented on your Facebook post from beyond the grave.
By MJ Carson9 months ago in Futurism
Minority Report Wasn’t Fiction
Remember when Minority Report was just a movie? Floating psychic bald people in a tank predicting murder before it happened? That was peak 2002 dystopia. It was fun because it wasn’t real. But now?
By MJ Carson9 months ago in Criminal
VIRAL VR Might Be the First Zombie Game to Actually Kill You (in a Good Way)
Let’s be real—zombies never left. They just got quiet, like that one friend who swore off social media and now only communicates through cryptic Spotify playlists. But today, they’re back. And this time? They’re dragging your entire body into the apocalypse. Meet VIRAL, the new multiplayer VR experience from Tidal Force VR that’s less “sitting on your couch shooting pixels” and more “try not to scream as your actual legs give out from real fear.”
By MJ Carson9 months ago in Gamers
TikTok Filters Are Creating a Generation That Doesn’t Know Its Own Face
Look me in the face and tell me who you are. No really — look. Because chances are, if you’re under 30 and spend any time on TikTok, you’ve seen a version of yourself that’s smoother, more symmetrical, glowing in the right places, with pores erased and jawlines sculpted like digital marble. And now, that version is in your head. You see it when you brush your teeth. You compare it to mirrors. You wonder if the "you" on screen is the real you.
By MJ Carson9 months ago in Futurism

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Fusion for Sale: What Canada’s Mini-Sun Really Means

The Panopticon Classroom Pt3

The Panopticon Classroom Pt2

The Panopticon Classroom Pt1

The Shunning

The AI in Your Lobby Has a Name

E C H O

When AI Governs the Poor

Welcome to the Ghost Web

Minority Report Wasn’t Fiction

VIRAL VR Might Be the First Zombie Game to Actually Kill You (in a Good Way)

TikTok Filters Are Creating a Generation That Doesn’t Know Its Own Face

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