Hari Kunzru
@harikunzru.bsky.social
My library was dukedom enough. Novels: Red Pill, White Tears, Blue Ruin, Gods Without Men, My Revolutions, Transmission, The Impressionist. Essays in NYRB, Harper’s etc. Abolish ICE is the moderate position.
For some reason I am watching "The Glittering Prizes" a 1976 British tv drama about a group of 1950's Cambridge graduates and their subsequent adult lives. To say it's "aged badly" isn't quite right. It's like an artifact from an almost unimaginably distant time ...
And I plan to write a 20 novel sequence in the manner of the Rougon Macquart that will sell more than Harry Potter and be universally acknowledged as the definitive statement of the twenty first century human condition $HMNK
FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 8h ago$SPCX - SPACEX PLANS MOON FACTORIES POWERED BY HUMANOID ROBOTS
For some reason I am watching "The Glittering Prizes" a 1976 British tv drama about a group of 1950's Cambridge graduates and their subsequent adult lives. To say it's "aged badly" isn't quite right. It's like an artifact from an almost unimaginably distant time ...
Come ON. He’s going to leave office and we’ll discover a whole new level of fraud. This ‘deal’ is unacceptable
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2d agoFLAG: Trump gets to keep tax immunity for himself, his sons, and the Trump Organization under the new 'deal' struck by Todd Blanche. The new order also reaffirms that Trump won't have to pay any taxes he might have owed the IRS.
God it is taking all my will power not to post ill of the bad dead guy
The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.
The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor
The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.
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Send this to whoever is currently posting migrant invasion content to your timeline mrandrewfox.substack.com/p/ceutas-pha...
Ceuta’s phantom invasion
The online right declared the fall of Europe. By nightfall, most of the supposed invaders were already back in Morocco.
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😳 “A law to sell [parts of] Argentina to the ultra-rich of the world *** On Aug 6, the Senate plans to vote on Milei's new bill, the Private Property Inviolability Law. If approved, tech tycoons like Peter Thiel will be able to keep the water, energy & climate of Patagonia” By F. Gomez, 7/31/26… 1/
A year in which no Grands Crus Classés vintages were declared would do more to focus elites on the threat of climate change than any number of excess heat deaths
Nahel Belgherze@wxnb.bsky.social · 5d agoBordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.
“anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity;…extremism on migration, race, and gender; and hostility towards those who hold traditional American views." If some bad faith MAGA cop could characterize you in this way you are at risk reason.com/2026/07/28/m...
Minority report: FBI seeks AI for political watch list
Documents show the FBI seeking AI tools to flag Americans before they act, as the terror watchlist's focus moves toward domestic dissent.
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“anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity;…extremism on migration, race, and gender; and hostility towards those who hold traditional American views." If some bad faith MAGA cop could characterize you in this way you are at risk reason.com/2026/07/28/m...
Minority report: FBI seeks AI for political watch list
Documents show the FBI seeking AI tools to flag Americans before they act, as the terror watchlist's focus moves toward domestic dissent.
reason.com
God damn. What a book — sinister, haunted, and sharp as the shattered shellac of an old blues 78.
Apparently there’s some kind of revival of interest in Homer which reminds me I saw him live in Thrace in 790BC I bet most of these posers can’t even name three of his epics
Besides having the worst politics ever, this guy was married to a woman even Don Jr wouldn't give a ring. More skeletons in his closet than a Spirit Halloween. There is, literally, more oppo on this guy than anyone else in the history of the game. And they'll run one-source stories on the front page
Subscribe to Radio Free America (link in bio)@kleinman.bsky.social · last wk.Gavin Newsom would be great as the 2028 nominee if you want to spend the entire campaign defending his personal life www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/u...
Boy George seemed nicer when he was a poisonous junkie Blitz kid
Because it’s Meta, you can assume that they know very well that the core market for the perv glasses is stalking (and — once they switch on facial recognition — repression) and this concern about ‘misuse’ is just Kabuki to stall calls for regulation futurism.com/artificial-i...
Meta Desperately Trying to Ban Creeps Misusing Its AI "Pervert Glasses"
Meta is vowing to crack down on creeps misusing its Ray Ban smart glasses. Whether it will be enough to regain trust remains to be seen.
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Farewell Bill, most radical of the Goodies. Present at Grosvenor Square with Tariq & Vanessa. Turned his harassment by the Met into slapstick TV comedy for kids. Angry, hairy, furiously talented.
Because it’s Meta, you can assume that they know very well that the core market for the perv glasses is stalking (and — once they switch on facial recognition — repression) and this concern about ‘misuse’ is just Kabuki to stall calls for regulation futurism.com/artificial-i...
Meta Desperately Trying to Ban Creeps Misusing Its AI "Pervert Glasses"
Meta is vowing to crack down on creeps misusing its Ray Ban smart glasses. Whether it will be enough to regain trust remains to be seen.
futurism.com
In Biscarrosse, southwestern France, horses were set free into the wild to escape fast-moving wildfires. Hundreds of thousands of people have been evacuated in Europe due to the fires.
“She made me look foolish so I want one of you, my 241m followers, to murder her”
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · last wk.There is simply no ambiguity in what Elon Musk is arguing and endorsing here.
Is the rest of it just your favorite movie stars dying and the worst people breaking the few things that were working ok? I may have to get off this bus.
The NYRB Author’s Closet, a series of videos of the least camera-ready people in society mumbling inaudibly about Vasily Grossman.
Ned Resnikoff@resnikoff.bsky.social · 2w agoNYRB should do their own version of the Criterion Closet for their book publishing arm imo
I am listening to a France Culture podcast about Eleanor of Aquitaine and amidst the historians talking about the cultural differences between different courts they suddenly have people singing (in English) a kind of medieval lute cover of Elton John and Kiki Dee Don’t Go Breaking My Heart
When a major strategic victory in war is achieved by drone attacks on e-commerce hubs then you know the 20th century is well in the rear-view mirror
Igor Sushko@igorsushko.bsky.social · 2w ago💥 Ukraine has destroyed both the Wildberries and Ozon e-commerce fulfillment centers that serve Saint Petersburg in Russia. Damage should exceed $2 billion.
The White House didn’t weigh scientific merit or alleged noncompliance of grant terms when they cut billions in life-saving research, they just looked for words they didn’t like. Blue states were specifically targeted for defunding.
Sarah T Roberts, PhD@ubiquity75.xyz · 2w agoA reminder that UC _faculty_ and Faculty Associations — not the universities themselves nor their administrators — are waging this battle in court, demonstrating great bravery and moral clarity.
If there wasn’t a pee tape before there will be one soon
Roger Sollenberger@sollenbergerrc.bsky.social · 2w agoThe FBI director is traveling to Russia weeks before the midterm elections. “His host is likely to be the FSB, the Russian security service that is heir to the Soviet-era KGB” www.politico.com/news/2026/07...
If there wasn’t a pee tape before there will be one soon
Roger Sollenberger@sollenbergerrc.bsky.social · 2w agoThe FBI director is traveling to Russia weeks before the midterm elections. “His host is likely to be the FSB, the Russian security service that is heir to the Soviet-era KGB” www.politico.com/news/2026/07...
