Bruce Holsinger
@bruceholsinger.bsky.social
Author of CULPABILITY, Oprah's Book Club summer 2025 pick, from Spiegel & Grau.
Best part of large holiday gatherings is when the men start summarizing the latest nonfiction books they're reading.
Ossoff: "You're seeing what I'm seeing, right? The president posting about the Obamas like a Klansman."
Just awful. The cuts at the Washington Post will include the elimination of the Books section--one of the nation's premier outlets for thoughtful book reviews.
seeing conservatives admit alex pretti was disarmed and need to change their message to “well you know where you won’t get shot? at home” is just an impressive level of pathetic allegiance to their dictator
ICE has now carried out two summary executions of innocent people in the streets of an American city. If you work for ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You don't get to claim in one year or ten or twenty that you didn't know what ICE was doing. You're complicit.
"Visual culture has changed form. It has become detached from human eyes and has become largely invisible. . . The overwhelming majority of images are now made my machines for other machines, with humans rarely in the loop." -Trevor Paglen
I recommend Culpability by @bruceholsinger.bsky.social, as it is thought-provoking and absorbing! www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Melissa's review of Culpability
5/5: I received Culpability a few months ago and hadn't heard of it until it arrived in the mail. However, it sounded interesting along the lines of Wally Lamb and I added it to my TBR. Once I started...
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Luis Suárez will be presenting the FIFA Peace Prize.
"that new book is so bad here's our second review, 4th profile, and third podcast about it"
Bruce Holsinger on Culpability — a novel about AI, moral agency, and a family facing impossible choices. Elizabeth George on A Slowly Dying Cause — an Inspector Lynley mystery set in Cornwall, rich with character, place, and difficult truths. @bruceholsinger.bsky.social Listen: tinyurl.com/WritersV
Next week Prince Andrew gets a cabinet post over here.
He's a great gadfly but he CANNOT be the nominee.
My university
homer simpson from the simpsons is standing in front of a grassy field .
ALT: homer simpson from the simpsons is standing in front of a grassy field .
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Dominique Baker@bakerdphd.bsky.social · 10mo agoBrown is out! They had to do more dancing in their letter because they previously capitulated and needed to reference their previous agreement but, at its core, this reiterates MIT's letter. The clock is now on for all other institutions. www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...
White House Deputy Press Secretary seen here posting data showing how much more prevalent right wing domestic terrorism is than left wing domestic terrorism... while thinking she's showing the reverse. Apparently she can only read headlines, but not the actual graph with the data.
About this Florida vaccine story: When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough. We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated. “Oh, they’d have died.”
Join us next week as @bruceholsinger.bsky.social discusses his Oprah's Book Club pick novel, "Culpability"! This book explores a world newly shaped by chatbots, autonomous cars, drones, & other nonhuman forces in ways that are challenging & unimaginably provocative. Tix: HolsingerBBS.eventbrite.com
Oh wait … that thing every #climate scientist told us was going to happen for the last 15 years is actually happening?!?!?!?! “Rapid loss of Antarctic ice may be climate tipping point, scientists say” - www.reuters.com/sustainabili... Trending Content
Rapid loss of Antarctic ice may be climate tipping point, scientists say
The study gathered data from observations, ice cores, and ship logbooks to chart long-term changes in the area of sea ice.
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Q for those w experience in politics or diplomacy: Is there *any* other example of a US prez, on US soil, letting a foreign leader control the mic for a very long time, in his own language, w/o consecutive translation, before letting US prez say anything all? I don't know of any. Humiliating.
Look, Gavin Newsom is always going to be Gavin Newsom, with everything that implies, but he seems to grasp the reality of what's happening here more clearly than most national figures in the Democratic Party
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 12mo agoNewsom: "He doesn't play by a different set of rules. He doesn't believe in the rules. As a consequence, we need to disabuse ourselves of the way things have been done. It's not enough to just hold hands, have a candlelight vigil, talk about way the world should be...we have got to meet fire w/fire"
mRNA tech is some of the coolest, most powerful, most promising scifi shit humans are currently doing. They are being investigated to help with cancers, autoimmune diseases, M.S., stroke recovery, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, and high cholesterol.
"We took a quick peek into your file" is an excellent subject line for a Democratic fundraising e-mail. Hit it out of the park. My wallet is open.
So excited for @bruceholsinger.bsky.social and his new book Culpability, which in unputownable! www.oprahdaily.com/entertainmen...
Oprah Announces <i> Culpability,</i> by Bruce Holsinger, as Her July Book Club Pick
Oprah hails her 116th Book Club pick as the “tale of our times”—a gripping, emotionally charged story that explores the explosive rise of AI, self-driving cars, and drones, all seen through the intima...
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Framing this around “viewpoint diversity” and the supposed expediency of tracking professors’ political donations is absolutely brilliant. www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...
A dive into the Board of Visitors’ political donations
Here is a look at Board members’ political donations — all but one of whom has records of political donations which are overwhelmingly to Republican candidates and campaigns.
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