Hari Kunzru
@harikunzru.bsky.social
Writer. Immigrant. Novels: Red Pill, White Tears, Blue Ruin, Gods Without Men +3. Non fiction in NYRB, Harper’s and elsewhere www.falloffreedom.com
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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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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.
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i asked chat gpt to fact check an article for me
December 8, 2025 at 9:33 PM
i asked chat gpt to fact check an article for me
“We are exiting the age of the public sphere and entering a time of magic, when signs and symbols have the power to reshape reality. “ www.artforum.com/features/yea...
Slopocalypse Now
Hari Kunzru surveys the AI slop that dominates our feeds and likens the way it drowns out information to a new form of censorship.
www.artforum.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:44 PM
“We are exiting the age of the public sphere and entering a time of magic, when signs and symbols have the power to reshape reality. “ www.artforum.com/features/yea...
Good morning
can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
December 8, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Good morning
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some people with autism understand this and approach it reflexively, others refuse to accept the basic instability and mutability of natural language and instead choose to see it as evidence of "neurotypical deceitfulness" from which they are exempt. i'd put karp in the later camp.
December 7, 2025 at 10:18 PM
some people with autism understand this and approach it reflexively, others refuse to accept the basic instability and mutability of natural language and instead choose to see it as evidence of "neurotypical deceitfulness" from which they are exempt. i'd put karp in the later camp.
Administration appears to be operationalizing NSPM-7. Bondi compiling list of ‘domestic terrorists’ : opposition to law, immigration enforcement; extreme views in favor of mass migration and open borders; radical gender ideology,” anti-Americanism,” “anti-capitalism,” and “anti-Christianity.”
December 7, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Administration appears to be operationalizing NSPM-7. Bondi compiling list of ‘domestic terrorists’ : opposition to law, immigration enforcement; extreme views in favor of mass migration and open borders; radical gender ideology,” anti-Americanism,” “anti-capitalism,” and “anti-Christianity.”
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🚨Pam Bondi is ordering the FBI to “compile a list" of Americans who may be extremists, per signed memo leaked to me:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leak-fbi-l...
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leak-fbi-l...
LEAK: FBI List of “Extremists” Is Coming, Memo Reveals
Are you on Trump's naughty list?
www.kenklippenstein.com
December 6, 2025 at 10:57 PM
🚨Pam Bondi is ordering the FBI to “compile a list" of Americans who may be extremists, per signed memo leaked to me:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leak-fbi-l...
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leak-fbi-l...
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One of the many reasons for concern about the killing spree at sea is that the administration is effectively asserting a license for POTUS to kill outside the law those he labels “terrorists.”
A term this administration also applies to domestic political opponents.
A term this administration also applies to domestic political opponents.
🚨Pam Bondi is ordering the FBI to “compile a list" of Americans who may be extremists, per signed memo leaked to me:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leak-fbi-l...
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leak-fbi-l...
LEAK: FBI List of “Extremists” Is Coming, Memo Reveals
Are you on Trump's naughty list?
www.kenklippenstein.com
December 7, 2025 at 4:52 AM
One of the many reasons for concern about the killing spree at sea is that the administration is effectively asserting a license for POTUS to kill outside the law those he labels “terrorists.”
A term this administration also applies to domestic political opponents.
A term this administration also applies to domestic political opponents.
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"It’s no longer necessary to suppress information. You just have to make the cost of sorting fact from fiction, in terms of time and effort, too high to pay for the ordinary person, who can’t spend all day online weighing up competing claims about robots or pedophilia or Iran."
Slopocalypse Now
Hari Kunzru surveys the AI slop that dominates our feeds and likens the way it drowns out information to a new form of censorship.
www.artforum.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:58 AM
"It’s no longer necessary to suppress information. You just have to make the cost of sorting fact from fiction, in terms of time and effort, too high to pay for the ordinary person, who can’t spend all day online weighing up competing claims about robots or pedophilia or Iran."
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“In the new age of magic, when reality is labile and can be recoded by the power of signs, by narrative and memes and vibes and compelling images, art becomes a truly political technology. “ I wrote about AI slop, truth, politics, art and magic www.artforum.com/features/yea...
Slopocalypse Now
Hari Kunzru surveys the AI slop that dominates our feeds and likens the way it drowns out information to a new form of censorship.
www.artforum.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:31 PM
“In the new age of magic, when reality is labile and can be recoded by the power of signs, by narrative and memes and vibes and compelling images, art becomes a truly political technology. “ I wrote about AI slop, truth, politics, art and magic www.artforum.com/features/yea...
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Just heard that Asad Haider died. Mistaken Identity is such a clear-eyed book. A great loss.
December 6, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Just heard that Asad Haider died. Mistaken Identity is such a clear-eyed book. A great loss.
“In the new age of magic, when reality is labile and can be recoded by the power of signs, by narrative and memes and vibes and compelling images, art becomes a truly political technology. “ I wrote about AI slop, truth, politics, art and magic www.artforum.com/features/yea...
Slopocalypse Now
Hari Kunzru surveys the AI slop that dominates our feeds and likens the way it drowns out information to a new form of censorship.
www.artforum.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:31 PM
“In the new age of magic, when reality is labile and can be recoded by the power of signs, by narrative and memes and vibes and compelling images, art becomes a truly political technology. “ I wrote about AI slop, truth, politics, art and magic www.artforum.com/features/yea...
The special boy gets his special prize.
December 5, 2025 at 6:01 PM
The special boy gets his special prize.
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imagine US political culture if Ford hadn't pardoned Nixon, and instead he went to jail
December 4, 2025 at 8:12 PM
imagine US political culture if Ford hadn't pardoned Nixon, and instead he went to jail
So now the US under Trump is going to align with Russia to squeeze Europe and back the emerging Fascist International
The new US National Security Strategy makes for scary reading. I wrote about how the US wants to support forces in Europe to tear itself apart back in November 2024, and last May. This NSS confirms that's exactly the US objective for Europe.
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
December 5, 2025 at 12:27 PM
So now the US under Trump is going to align with Russia to squeeze Europe and back the emerging Fascist International
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Oh and before I forget, here’s my Spotify wrapped
December 4, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Oh and before I forget, here’s my Spotify wrapped
It’s clear from Tom Cotton’s political career that killing people is one of his animating principles
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), to reporters, after viewing video footage of the U.S. strikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean on Sept. 2:
"Righteous strikes." "Entirely lawful."
"Righteous strikes." "Entirely lawful."
December 4, 2025 at 8:03 PM
It’s clear from Tom Cotton’s political career that killing people is one of his animating principles
Oh and before I forget, here’s my Spotify wrapped
December 4, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Oh and before I forget, here’s my Spotify wrapped
I am interviewing Geoff Dyer this evening at NYU and instead of questions I seem to have a page of jokes. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z72p...
Ted Chippington - Walking Down This Road The Other Day
YouTube video by MrCajfhoey
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December 4, 2025 at 4:02 PM
I am interviewing Geoff Dyer this evening at NYU and instead of questions I seem to have a page of jokes. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z72p...
Freedom is slavery etc.
SCOOP: Sources tell me Donald Trump's name was added to the exterior of the US Institute of Peace building ahead of Thursday's peace agreement signing between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which will be held inside the building. Confirming if it's been officially renamed.
December 4, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Freedom is slavery etc.
Time to find out if Americans ever believed in that high minded Ken Burns narrative voice flag folding shit
To the extent that we have a civic religion, this is actual blasphemy, and we need a Jesus fucking up the moneylenders plying their wares in our temples of democracy.
WTAF.
December 4, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Time to find out if Americans ever believed in that high minded Ken Burns narrative voice flag folding shit