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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

For our symposium on "The Forever War and the First Amendment," @knightcolumbia.org and @harpers.bsky.social co-commissioned this essay from @harikunzru.bsky.social about art and censorship after 9/11. It's really good, and I'm hoping Hari will turn it into a book. harpers.org/archive/2026...

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Stargazing, by Hari Kunzru

Art and censorship after 9/11

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 22h

The life and career of Jeffrey Archer, in quiz show form

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 06/10/2026

BREAKING: For the first time in 10 months, the U.S. admitted a refugee who is not a white South African. In September, the U.S. admitted 3,386 white South Africans and two Afghans (in D.C.) In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 16,287 white South Africans, five Afghans, and nobody else.

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Emanuel’s instinct here is just ruling class solidarity in action.

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Listening to the racist podcast about the “Indian Question” and wow mediocre 2026 white guys jealous of an Indian with a tech job is very much the new mediocre Central Valley white guys in 1941 jealous of Japanese with a thriving farm.

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Harper’s Magazine @harpers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“Years of propaganda had prepared Americans to accept invasive state surveillance as a necessary evil. Since the jihadis were so widely hated, it was easy to manufacture consent.” Hari Kunzru (@harikunzru.bsky.social) on art and censorship after 9/11. buff.ly/Bh7iV5c

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Stargazing, by Hari Kunzru

Art and censorship after 9/11

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Working on this reported essay, just published, increasingly took over my life for the last two months. PEN America did a terrible disservice with its sloppy reporting about American Jews and Israelis in publishing in July. Josh Lambert and I tried to do better. jewishcurrents.org/what-pen-ame...

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What PEN America Got Wrong About Antisemitism in Publishing

Misleading anecdotes, flawed data, and oversimplified analyses are at the heart of a narrative of Jewish exclusion promoted by the free expression…

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Man on the S-bahn sitting bolt upright, clenched jaw, wearing a “Not Censored” tee shirt. I have questions. I am also not making eye contact

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Unless it’s called “precautions, auditing and accountability” it’s more bullshit

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It will never not be wild to me that the Russians attacked Keir Starmer's home, successfully spread falsehoods about Starmer's love life, and this didn't changed British politics and British political elite behaviour *at all*.

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

At the very least, since the OpenAI Navier Stokes controversy, a suggestive pattern is emerging. Writers remember: they took our work without thinking twice. The commercial and reputational rewards of stealing science may be too tempting www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/s...

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Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)

An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.

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Harper’s Magazine @harpers.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“There were acceptable ways to react to 9/11, but there were also unacceptable ways. Notoriously, in the days after the attacks, the White House press secretary, Ari Fleischer, warned that ‘people should watch what they say.’” —Hari Kunzru buff.ly/Bh7iV5c

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Stargazing, by Hari Kunzru

Art and censorship after 9/11

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Another day, another bullshit move by Bill Ackman to reshape social science discourse according to his ideological preferences under cover of “academic courage” www.thecarobtrust.org/the-prize

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The Prize | The Carob Trust

Revitalizing core American principles and institutions.

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Another day, another bullshit move by Bill Ackman to reshape social science discourse according to his ideological preferences under cover of “academic courage” www.thecarobtrust.org/the-prize

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The Prize | The Carob Trust

Revitalizing core American principles and institutions.

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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Oh shit. THAT is worse than I realized

We are spending almost five billion more on AI related construction and ten billion dollars less on other private construction since 2024

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project?

Does the project involve any work that could be interpreted as promoting DEIA, climate change research, or non-compliant to any Presidential Executive Orders?

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

For some years the frame of "disinformation" has been around to explain ragebait content, with the presumption that this material is ideologically motivated. No doubt some of it is, but much of the motivation is purely financial...

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Goldsmiths Prize @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Goldsmiths Prize 2026 judges, Kate Briggs, Francis Spufford and David Sexton together @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social to choose this year's shortlist (@harikunzru.bsky.social beaming in from afar). Shortlist announcement next Wednesday, 30th September at 9.30am 🔥🔥🔥

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Least surprising thing ever that a Trump designed giant ballroom would leave hundreds of female guests queuing for 7 stalls

McCrery informed the White House that Trump's ballroom design did not meet fire safety codes, which require the majority of guests to be able to quickly exit through the main entrance during an emergency, according to the people and documents. The architect also pointed out that alternative emergency exit routes out of the building were insufficient, and that there was little in the design to prevent a kitchen fire from rapidly spreading into the event space on the floor above.
In addition to fire safety concerns, Trump's desired ballroom design did not include enough toilets to accommodate the structure's maximum occupancy, according to documents, and there were few options for adding more, as the event space occupied most of the building's footprint. One early ballroom design featured just seven stalls in the women’s bathroom

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Arrest and prosecute “Danny Tommo” or lose the country to the Fascists. That’s the choice here

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Own up, which of you melanated sexual deviants rejected Bret Stephens' novel manuscript?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/09/2026

LMFAO -- Trump is holding an event at the White House right now but there's no audio because the press pool isn't there. The Newsmax host notes that this is an example of Trump's attacks on the press "backfiring just a little bit"

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

Just finished this marvelous novel by @harikunzru.bsky.social and it was the perfect read for me at this moment because it's in part about what it means to make art in a fucked up world and I've been thinking a lot lately about getting out of the defensive position they want us to stay in 💙📚

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Blue Ruin by Hari Kunzru: 9780593686980 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK • From one of the sharpest voices in fiction today, a profound and enthralling novel about beauty and power, capital, art and those who devote their lives to creating...

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The US may not be feeling the effects of Trump’s war yet but in other places …

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

In every photo Mitch McConnell looks like he’s just seen what’s up ahead for him on the road, and it’s totally terrifying

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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

🇷🇸🇺🇸 Somebody on the Polish internet described Sydney Sweeney as "an actress with the eyes of a retired Serbian infantry major" and from now on I'll probably always think of war crimes when looking at her.

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Harper’s Magazine @harpers.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Hari Kunzru (@harikunzru.bsky.social) revisits the artistic response to 9/11 and the surveillance apparatus that emerged in the aftermath of the attacks. harpers.org/archive/2026...

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I once screened Passport to Pimlico at the Lincoln Center as a way of talking about Brexit…

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Things are getting really weird at the FBI

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A major sabotage attack has hit the Netherlands railway network at more than 20 locations. Two-metre metal pipes were attached to tracks to trick the network’s warning system into registering that the tracks were blocked.

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Tamoor Hussain @tamoorh.com · 14/09/2026

btw Kanye did a song Heil Hitler and no one stepped in to oppose his tour(s), which is ongoing. In fact, Kanye is scheduled to perform at one of the stadiums Macklemore has been stopped from being at.

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I am so done with low effort autofiction. Just because it happened to you doesnt make it interesting.

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WOZ @woz.ch · 14/09/2026

25 Jahre nach 9/11 blickt der Autor Hari Kunzru auf die Brutstätten des heutigen Autokratismus. Im Interview analysiert er die radikalisierende Dynamik der Onlinekultur, den eugenischen Wahn der Techbosse und die Beeinflussung von Regierungen durch das Silicon Valley.

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Hari Kunzru: «Verschwörung ist heute eine Regierungsform»

9/11 wirkt bis heute nach: Der britische Schriftsteller Hari Kunzru über die Brutstätten des rechten Backlash – und die kleinen Freuden der Popkultur.

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Simon Muster @simonmuster.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Ich habe den Schriftsteller Hari Kunzru in Berlin besucht und mit ihm über KI, Verschwörungstheorien, Ufos und Popmusik gesprochen: www.woz.ch/2637/hari-ku...

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Hari Kunzru: «Verschwörung ist heute eine Regierungsform»

9/11 wirkt bis heute nach: Der britische Schriftsteller Hari Kunzru über die Brutstätten des rechten Backlash – und die kleinen Freuden der Popkultur.

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Two billionaires give Reform £36m each. UK politics is cheap, compared to the US. The Tories have been given £10m so far in 2026, Labour £7m. This is the will of two men being imposed on an entire country donation.watch/en/unitedkin...

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Party donations United Kingdom | DonationWatch

DonationWatch gives clear insights into donors and parties, facilitating the understanding of political financing by explaining complex data in a simple manner

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The President of the United States bluntly asks his followers to cheat in an election.

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Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

breaking: XAI announces that they have used an unreleased grok model to solve a major open problem in the field of race science

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

If your mental model of "AI" is still spicy autocomplete, this account of the Hugging Face hack will be a challenge. Wildest for Bluesky AI haters is that it's all totally compatible with the most hardcore stochastic parrots understanding of their capabilities www.youtube.com/watch?v=X50z...

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Ajeya Cotra – "This might be the clearest warning shot we ever get"

YouTube video by Dwarkesh Patel

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 06/09/2026

Contrast the police statements about the Dover blockade yesterday with the Just Stop Oil protests in 2022

No arrests made during Dover protest, Kent Police says
published at 13:34 5 September
13:34 5 September
Kent Police has issued a statement following the disruption in Dover earlier today.
It says officers "responded to a spontaneous protest" during Saturday morning, adding "no arrests were made".
"Traffic is flowing normally, and all involved had dispersed by midday," it adds

The Met Police said 35 people had been arrested in response to the disruption.
Assistant Commissioner Matt Twist said the action was "criminality", not protest, and pledged to bring those involved to justice as quickly as possible.
"This was a very significant and co-ordinated effort to cause massive disruption to the entirety of the M25," he added.

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Small mercies here in Deutschland that the AfD and their motorbike riding salesman leader didn’t get an absolute majority in Sachsen-Anhalt, but the spectacle of the distant losers trying to form a coalition to keep them from governing is going to be messy

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Your hostile 1990s teen around Magdeburg willing to beat the crap out of any outsider while listening to Radio SAW is in the 2020s your respectable looking Bürger voting AfD so that the cops can beat the crap out of any outsider while listening to Radio SAW

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Given that we’re currently in a situation where any use of AI in published writing workflow risks severe reputational damage (inadvertent plagiarism is more or less baked in) this seems, uh, not well thought through.

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

This is a good example of old journalistic norms doing a disservice to the public under authoritarianism. “Critics have raised questions” is a formulation designed to preserve the outlet’s stance of objectivity. However this is not a matter of opinion. It is illegal and it should be stated bluntly

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