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Charles Kriel

@charleskriel.bsky.social
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Film & Television Director & EP, Author, self-shooting doc maker, adviser to UK Parliament. Brought down Cambridge Analytica. I post about AI, preserving democracy, and my très cool daughter.

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Charles Kriel @charleskriel.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
“My gas is too expensive” vs “They killed all the children in our village”. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/b...
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Average Gasoline Price Hits $4 in U.S., a ‘Headache’ for Drivers and Trump
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Richard Hull @richardhull54.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
"Jouissance ... captures what the far right offers. An endless, exhilarating game of opposition that saves its players from confronting the emptiness behind the curtain." Great stuff by @charleskriel.bsky.social. www.bylinesupplement.com/p/trump-and-...
bylinesupplement.com
Trump and The Far Right Know What We’ve Forgotten
Dr Charles Kriel explains why Marco Rubio's Munich speech was all feeling and no policy
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Charles Kriel @charleskriel.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
We are. That’s what Metrotone and Screenburn exist for. Not content. Culture. Stories that deserve to live in someone’s inner life. More on this soon.
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Charles Kriel @charleskriel.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
The tools have never been more powerful. GenAI, global distribution, accessible production. But almost nobody is using them to tell stories that matter.
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Charles Kriel @charleskriel.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Benjamin warned in 1936: industrialised information replaces deep experience with disposable sensation. Byung-Chul Han updates him — the algorithm removes the friction that makes stories transformative.
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Charles Kriel @charleskriel.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
We build our selves from the stories around us. Ricoeur called it narrative identity. Lacan understood that inherited stories structure our desire before we know we’re desiring. Whoever makes culture makes the raw material of the self.
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Charles Kriel @charleskriel.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
The creator economy keeps having conversations about tools and reach and engagement. Almost none of them are about storytelling.
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Charles Kriel @charleskriel.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Neither are the problem. The problem is a system dependent on, yet built against, the vast majority of the people.
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Charles Kriel @charleskriel.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
“Stand down and surrender”? Tell me without telling me it’s martial law.
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Charles Kriel @charleskriel.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
I’m still here. I get more done in the shadows. Thanks for raising awareness of the film.
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Charles Kriel @charleskriel.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Thank you for watching
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Charles Kriel @charleskriel.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Alligator Auschwitz
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Charles Kriel @charleskriel.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
New shots game: every time YouTube shows you an ad
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Charles Kriel @charleskriel.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
This is the most important thing you’ll see today
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Charles Kriel @charleskriel.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
There are a few great ways to use AI for screenplays; this isn’t one. Gemini is being used to provide screenplay coverage. ProdCos will be uploading screenplays en masse, looking for a Gemini pass before they actually read one. Good luck ever getting read again. nofilmschool.com/google-gemin...
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How Are People Using Google Gemini for Screenplay Coverage?
Is it a replacement or just a supplement for actual coverage?
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Charles Kriel @charleskriel.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
This is all one needs to know - the protests are over. Anything that happens from here out will have been instigated from the top.
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Charles Kriel @charleskriel.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Ignatius misses the point here. Putin said no to a ceasefire because the moment the “NATO crisis” and “US crisis” ends for Russia, Putin’s head will land at the end of a stick. wapo.st/3ZaCWmG
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Opinion | An overreaching Putin refused to take yes for an answer
The Russian president has a chance to escape his Ukraine disaster. He’s blowing it.
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Charles Kriel @charleskriel.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
You can’t ship excuses
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Charles Kriel @charleskriel.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Absolutely out of nowhere, I have fallen in love with Bolis Pupul’s music and production. Spacious. Knowing. Sardonic, in a good way. It started with this mix from my Deewee bros, Soulwax. It’s the first track. Check it music.apple.com/gb/station/e...
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Episode 1 Radio Station on Apple Music
Listen on Apple Music.
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Charles Kriel @charleskriel.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Is it absolutely lost on the press that the two schools getting the most crap are Harvard and Columbia, Obama’s alma matres? apple.news/AJWsbdbVHSOi...
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Trump's ban on Harvard foreign students may come at a hefty price to the economy — The Hill
The Trump administration’s efforts to block international students from Harvard could come at a hefty price — and not just for the university.
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Charles Kriel @charleskriel.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Do London PR agencies next apple.news/ADpbtNF2-RmS...
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The Wagner Group’s dealings are darker than we thought — The Telegraph
In Death is our Business, John Lechner offers a rare, vivid portrait of the mercenary group by interviewing ex-members – itself a feat
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Charles Kriel @charleskriel.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Hahahahahhahahhaha! wapo.st/4mxCyZy
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Opinion | Liz Truss: Elites killed my pro-growth agenda. Trump can’t let them stop his.
The White House’s proposed tax cuts, tariffs and spending reforms are showing the West the way forward.
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Charles Kriel @charleskriel.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Discussion on AI filmmaking on France 24 right now, featuring our own @⁨Katharina Gellein Viken⁩ www.france24.com/en/live
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Watch France 24 English Live
Watch online the France 24 livestream: International News TV Channel 24/7. Get the latest live news from France 24 online on our website.
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Charles Kriel @charleskriel.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Says everything
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Charles Kriel @charleskriel.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
This is real: Amazon (or someone) has censored Robin Hood (2010). They’ve censored out the statement on standing up to tyranny.
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Charles Kriel @charleskriel.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Word
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Charles Kriel @charleskriel.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
You have to understand: race is the foundation of everything this guy does, and not the way you’d hope for a Kennedy, despite his protestations www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Analysis | RFK Jr.’s absurd statistic on the spike in chronic diseases in the U.S.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said the percentage of Americans with chronic diseases has gone up 20 times in six decades. That makes no sense.
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Charles Kriel @charleskriel.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
It’s only been three months and we’ve sunk to this level of depravity gothamist.com/news/4-year-...
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4-year-old migrant girl, other kids go to court in NYC with no lawyer: 'The cruelty is apparent'
The Trump administration cut funding for lawyers aiding unaccompanied minors in court.
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Charles Kriel @charleskriel.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Universal childcare, universal healthcare, mandatory maternity leave and high public education standards would make a good start.
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Charles Kriel @charleskriel.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
This runs contrary to nearly every human principle of the EU. I understand that Europe without Hungary would put a literal hole in the southern heart of the union, but I fail to see how Hungary continues as a member of the EU or NATO under Orban (and Putin). www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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Hungary poised to adopt constitutional amendment to ban LGBTQ+ gatherings
The controversial amendment also recognises only two sexes, providing a basis for denying other gender identities
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Charles Kriel @charleskriel.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Unpacking an old game of mine to give to my daughter this morning, I found this wonderful piece from David Medalla. I’d tucked it away years ago during a house move, and now here it is to delight us again. Old friend, I miss you.
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Charles Kriel @charleskriel.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Nothing good makes it out of Wiltshire alive
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Charles Kriel @charleskriel.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Four and a half brutal paragraphs from @theguardian.com. Misogyny is radicalization & violence against women a form of ideologically driven terrorism a cabal of US leaders has embraced without embarrassment, when they should fear prosecution, much less their political survival. Such a brutal age.
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Charles Kriel @charleskriel.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
If you’re an “entrepreneur” (hate that word) with a startup (hate that word too) and think you can just walk up to a #nocode environment and create a product from a prompt, I have some news for you….
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Charles Kriel @charleskriel.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Good thing they didn’t discover oil, or Mars would need it some Democracy! www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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Nasa rover discovers largest organic compounds yet found on Mars
Presence of long-chain alkanes in rock raises new questions about possible existence of life billions of years ago
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Charles Kriel @charleskriel.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Today’s workspace. I’m building an app to help people structure stories, across all formats and genres. And then to flip formats, say, from Feature to Microdrama. I’ve spent my life studying story: structure, character, conflict, plot, tension, resolution and ambiguity. It’s called Story Arkitect.
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Charles Kriel @charleskriel.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
I remember doing the Time Warp… wapo.st/429bkA6
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‘Rocky Horror’ doc underscores heightened relevancy of a cult classic
“Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror,” a new documentary by the son of “Rocky Horror” creator Richard O’Brien, highlights the film’s enduring fandom.
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Charles Kriel @charleskriel.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Not just foreign tourists. I’m an American, and there’s not a chance in hell I’d fly into the US right now, especially not with my foreign wife. So long USA. You won’t be the same next time I see you. wapo.st/4iJMM6w
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Nervous about Trump, international tourists scrap their U.S. travel plans
International tourists are canceling plans to visit the United States, with Canadians leading the way.
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Charles Kriel @charleskriel.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
www.perplexity.ai/page/univers... Someone help this poor art school graduate understand this please. Whether a galaxy spins clockwise or counter depends on the angle from which it’s observed, right? So how can that be an indicator of anything?
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Universe May Exist in Black Hole
A significant discovery by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revealed an unexpected pattern in galaxy rotation, potentially supporting the theory that...
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Charles Kriel @charleskriel.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Read about the new New Order. It doesn’t look like this is going away without an “event” - what that will be no one knows. If we’re lucky there’ll be rebellious teens around in 50 years naming their cool bands Tesla, MAGA & The Republicans after today’s fascists. www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...
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Techno-Fascism Comes to America
The historic parallels that help explain Elon Musk’s rampage on the federal government.
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Charles Kriel @charleskriel.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
I'm tickled we’re nominated for 3 AIMI Awards - UK's biggest genAI awards. @katharinagellein.bsky.social - Best Indie AI Music Video. Me - Outstanding Indie AI Video Producer, & Best Indie AI Short Film. See you at Brighton Beach House tomorrow night for an impromptu after party!
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Charles Kriel @charleskriel.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
And there it is. Me and a bunch of other journalists and thinkers and civil society activists have been banging this drum since at least 2014. I practically bankrupted my family making films about it. But we’re here now, and it’s not going back in 4yrs. America lost the asymmetric war with Russia.
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Charles Kriel @charleskriel.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Does what it says on the tin
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Charles Kriel @charleskriel.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Meth. In this case it’s meth.
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Charles Kriel @charleskriel.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Democrats, walking straight into a trap. Trusk crashes the economy ***as planned*** and gets to blame the Dems for it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Democrats in Congress see potential shutdown as leverage to counter Trump
Republicans will need Democrats’ help to pass funding bill by 14 March as hard-right lawmakers push to cut costs
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Charles Kriel @charleskriel.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Me, every gd day…
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Charles Kriel @charleskriel.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
One of the most shameful chapters in American international diplomacy - leaving US professionals and their families to find their own way back to the US from hostile environments. It’s cruel bullying, and bad diplomacy. Who today would consider an assignment abroad for the US? wapo.st/4gFCZwD
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Charles Kriel @charleskriel.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
And all that dialogue about one-AI-to-rule-them-all (see GPT) hasn’t aged well. Well to the AI age of extreme fragmentation across thousands of verticals.
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Charles Kriel @charleskriel.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Chinese AI is largely going open source. When I advise governments on AI, I suggest their best soft power move would be to train an LLM with their ideology and release it to the world free. (See DeepSeek.) Much cheaper than a bunch of nukes and drones. www.reuters.com/technology/a...
reuters.com
China's Baidu to make latest Ernie AI model open-source as competition heats up
Chinese search engine giant Baidu said on Friday it would make its next-generation artificial intelligence model Ernie open-source from June 30, a major shift in strategy as competition heats up.
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Charles Kriel @charleskriel.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
RIP Coyote “There’s a level on which life might be perceived as a joke, and this bothers a lot of people. The trickster’s function is to break taboos, create mischief, stir things up. In the end, the trickster gives people what they really want, some sort of freedom.” wapo.st/418wVIp
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Tom Robbins, comic author of ‘Even Cowgirls Get the Blues,’ dies at 92
He gained a cult following through novels that married zany, acid-tinged humor with philosophical inquiry and literary zest.
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