Hari Kunzru
@harikunzru.bsky.social
Writer, premature antifascist. Novels: Red Pill, White Tears, Blue Ruin, Gods Without Men +3. Non fiction in NYRB, Harper’s and elsewhere
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Hari Kunzru
@harikunzru.bsky.social
· Dec 31
A short thread on what I've done this year. In May my novel Blue Ruin was published. A kind of Covid pastoral, populated by art monsters ...
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the “you should love ai” line is best outlined by a recent joe rogan episode. he LOVES ai music and always tells guests this. a guest pushed back on him saying “i’ve heard ai podcasts are amazing too” and joe rogan immediately pushes back. losers love it until it comes for them
December 16, 2025 at 1:55 AM
the “you should love ai” line is best outlined by a recent joe rogan episode. he LOVES ai music and always tells guests this. a guest pushed back on him saying “i’ve heard ai podcasts are amazing too” and joe rogan immediately pushes back. losers love it until it comes for them
The Szechuan advent calendar was a good move. Marinading myself in chili crisp
December 16, 2025 at 12:15 AM
The Szechuan advent calendar was a good move. Marinading myself in chili crisp
Because the world is large and strange I am now having to find out about the My Little Pony mod for Hearts of Iron 4 and someone has made drawings to show how the ponies can hold guns and drive tanks with their little hooves. It involves magnets.
December 15, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Because the world is large and strange I am now having to find out about the My Little Pony mod for Hearts of Iron 4 and someone has made drawings to show how the ponies can hold guns and drive tanks with their little hooves. It involves magnets.
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Just want to share with my American friends how the Australians respond to a shooting tragedy. Action, rather than thoughts and prayers.
December 15, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Just want to share with my American friends how the Australians respond to a shooting tragedy. Action, rather than thoughts and prayers.
The new part is the AI agent to slop aggregation to training data cycle. More than virality. A hoax becoming canon, getting baked in as ‘fact’
This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
December 15, 2025 at 2:27 AM
The new part is the AI agent to slop aggregation to training data cycle. More than virality. A hoax becoming canon, getting baked in as ‘fact’
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Steve isn’t here anymore, but he always posted this picture on Hanukkah so I thought we could carry on his tradition and remember him.
Happy Hanukkah to our friends who celebrate. Rachel Posner, a rabbi’s wife in Kiel, Germany, took this photograph in 1931 -- a potent reminder that fascism must be fought in every generation, even if it's wrapped in an American flag and a red hat.
December 14, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Steve isn’t here anymore, but he always posted this picture on Hanukkah so I thought we could carry on his tradition and remember him.
Good to see the eugenics marketing budget is being well spent. No problem with this at all.
December 14, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Good to see the eugenics marketing budget is being well spent. No problem with this at all.
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In 1965 the CIA managed to lose a plutonium powered generator on top of Nanda Devi in the Himalayas, in a failed mission to spy on China. Still missing, it could potentially contaminate the Ganges www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
How Did the C.I.A. Lose a Nuclear Device in the Himalayas?
A plutonium-packed generator disappeared on one of the world’s highest mountains in a covert mission that the U.S. will not talk about.
www.nytimes.com
December 14, 2025 at 2:11 AM
In 1965 the CIA managed to lose a plutonium powered generator on top of Nanda Devi in the Himalayas, in a failed mission to spy on China. Still missing, it could potentially contaminate the Ganges www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
That’s a recipe for chaos
From the Oklahoma U student paper: the school is now saying it will automatically suspend faculty (with pay) in response to student complaints
www.oudaily.com/news/ou-poli...
www.oudaily.com/news/ou-poli...
December 14, 2025 at 1:28 AM
That’s a recipe for chaos
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America 250 is going to be unbearable, unless it is celebrated in the only sincere and meaningful way: by a revolution overthrowing tyranny
December 13, 2025 at 4:09 PM
America 250 is going to be unbearable, unless it is celebrated in the only sincere and meaningful way: by a revolution overthrowing tyranny
This is what the asylum system is for. ICE is not acting in the national interest
In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites.
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
ICE Holding Chinese Man Who Documented Uyghur Camps
Heng Guan is awaiting an immigration hearing on Monday that could lead to his removal from the U.S. and ultimately land him back in China, according to his lawyer and a New York-based activist group.
www.wsj.com
December 13, 2025 at 4:18 PM
This is what the asylum system is for. ICE is not acting in the national interest
America 250 is going to be unbearable, unless it is celebrated in the only sincere and meaningful way: by a revolution overthrowing tyranny
December 13, 2025 at 4:09 PM
America 250 is going to be unbearable, unless it is celebrated in the only sincere and meaningful way: by a revolution overthrowing tyranny
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The 25th anniversary of Bush v Gore is today. The conspiracy mongering & corruption of the GOP has been brewing for a long time.
Roberts, Barrett and Kavanaugh were all on Bush's legal team, where they pushed unfounded legal theories. SC justices were already enmeshed in voter fraud myths.
Roberts, Barrett and Kavanaugh were all on Bush's legal team, where they pushed unfounded legal theories. SC justices were already enmeshed in voter fraud myths.
Here's Sandra Day O'Connor endorsing News Max levels of voter fraud conspiracies in the 2000 election.
December 12, 2025 at 2:17 PM
The 25th anniversary of Bush v Gore is today. The conspiracy mongering & corruption of the GOP has been brewing for a long time.
Roberts, Barrett and Kavanaugh were all on Bush's legal team, where they pushed unfounded legal theories. SC justices were already enmeshed in voter fraud myths.
Roberts, Barrett and Kavanaugh were all on Bush's legal team, where they pushed unfounded legal theories. SC justices were already enmeshed in voter fraud myths.
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my read is they were trying to whip up the usual frenzy, but then the effort got blown up by Candace Owens saying The Jews did it
It’s kind of incredible how little has been published about this guy and how little conservatives seem to care. Did people just forget these people were screeching for civil war when they thought he was a liberal?
Suspected Charlie Kirk assassin makes first in-person court appearance
The Utah man charged with killing Charlie Kirk made his first in-person court appearance Thursday as his attorneys pushed to further limit media access in the high-profile criminal case.
www.ctvnews.ca
December 12, 2025 at 4:09 PM
my read is they were trying to whip up the usual frenzy, but then the effort got blown up by Candace Owens saying The Jews did it
Candace, Milo, new demon-pilled Tucker v. Erica Kirk, Tim Pool, Fuentes (though sometimes Candace, Fuentes v all the Christian Zionists). The splintering of MAGA is only going to get worse/better www.thebulwark.com/p/candace-ow...
Everybody Hates Candace
Right-wing media figures join together to counter her conspiracy theories about the killing of Charlie Kirk.
www.thebulwark.com
December 11, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Candace, Milo, new demon-pilled Tucker v. Erica Kirk, Tim Pool, Fuentes (though sometimes Candace, Fuentes v all the Christian Zionists). The splintering of MAGA is only going to get worse/better www.thebulwark.com/p/candace-ow...
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'Let it Snow' with all the positive lines removed
December 11, 2025 at 9:33 PM
'Let it Snow' with all the positive lines removed
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Donald Trump Will Piss Away the Western Order Investing in Jared Kushner's Imagined Business Savvy
www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/11/d...
www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/11/d...
Donald Trump Will Piss Away the Western Order Investing in Jared Kushner's Imagined Business Savvy - emptywheel
Throw enough goodies at my son-in-law and I will betray Europe, Donald Trump seems to be saying. And that's all it took.
www.emptywheel.net
December 11, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Donald Trump Will Piss Away the Western Order Investing in Jared Kushner's Imagined Business Savvy
www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/11/d...
www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/11/d...
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It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.
December 10, 2025 at 10:32 PM
It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.
Absolutely.
An absolute horrific nightmare of two AI bots caught in a loop with each other is the perfect example of the total nothingness of AI “brains”.
December 10, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Absolutely.
Whispering in Trump’s ear to mandate Comic Sans across all branches of government www.huffpost.com/entry/rubio-...
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Whispering in Trump’s ear to mandate Comic Sans across all branches of government www.huffpost.com/entry/rubio-...
In my twenties I used to date someone who worked at London zoo and it was a scene
We don’t do court reports, especially when it comes to violent crime, but there’s always an exception.
December 9, 2025 at 4:36 PM
In my twenties I used to date someone who worked at London zoo and it was a scene
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They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
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BREAKING: A federal judge ordered the government to restore Rümeysa Öztürk's SEVIS student record after it was wrongfully terminated in retaliation for exercising her freedom of speech.
This allows her to fully engage with the opportunities of her PhD program.
This allows her to fully engage with the opportunities of her PhD program.
December 8, 2025 at 10:36 PM
BREAKING: A federal judge ordered the government to restore Rümeysa Öztürk's SEVIS student record after it was wrongfully terminated in retaliation for exercising her freedom of speech.
This allows her to fully engage with the opportunities of her PhD program.
This allows her to fully engage with the opportunities of her PhD program.
A freaksome lynching, you say? That’s the very worst kind.
December 9, 2025 at 12:38 AM
A freaksome lynching, you say? That’s the very worst kind.