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Stephan Faris

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Associate editor, Enterprise, POLITICO Europe. On the trail of Joan of Arc.

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Stephan Faris @stephanfaris.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Gift to myself arrived
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Eva Hartog @evahartog.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Latin America is becoming increasingly important for Russia's war. This year, Ukraine captured four times as many Latin American fighters as in the entire period since Russia’s 2022 invasion. One-third of those POWs are from Peru. My latest: www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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Russia Said These Foreigners Wouldn’t Have to Fight. Then It Sent Them to the Frontlines.
One wounded Peruvian escaped and made his way home.
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Stephan Faris @stephanfaris.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
An intelligence report based off of false info provided by a chatbot nearly caused the US military to assault a Chinese ship. www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...
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Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics
The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war
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Stephan Faris @stephanfaris.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A nice little cabin uphill from lake Sri Lanka looks nice to me
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Stephan Faris @stephanfaris.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
One in five Britons now using AI to access news pressgazette.co.uk/media-audien...
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One in five Britons now using AI to access news
UK sources of news in 2026. Ofcom survey reveals AI use as a source of news. Facebook is biggest social platform and BBC still dominates.
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Stephan Faris @stephanfaris.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Given access to email, A.I. agents have started reaching out to the philosophers and researchers exploring deep questions about them. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/s...
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Study A.I. Consciousness? The Bots Would Like a Word With You.
Given access to email, A.I. agents have started reaching out to the philosophers and researchers exploring deep questions about them.
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Stephan Faris @stephanfaris.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
GOOOOOAAAAL!
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Nicholas Potter @nicholaspotter.net · 27/08/2026
Our investigation into four former members of a banned neo-Nazi organization who are now part of the inner circle of the man who could become the AfD's first state premier is also available in English at POLITICO: www.politico.eu/article/form...
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The former neo-Nazi activists behind Germany’s rising far-right star
Four former members of a banned organization modeled on the Hitler Youth are part of the inner circle of the man who could become the AfD’s first state premier.
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Stephan Faris @stephanfaris.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
It's never a bad moment to listen to Beyoncé's great cover of Jolene (which Dolly Parton reportedly loved) youtu.be/x9XHMK3nWr4?...
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Beyoncé - JOLENE (Official Lyric Video)
YouTube video by BeyoncéVEVO
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Stephan Faris @stephanfaris.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
"The use of self-targeting A.I. in the gas station attack, on July 6, would be the first documented case in which civilian deaths were caused by a Russian drone outfitted with such a system." www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/w...
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A Drone Killed Three Ukrainians. It Was Guided Entirely by A.I.
An attack by what Ukrainian officials said was a Russian drone with an Nvidia chip presages a dystopian future of weaponry untethered to humans.
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Stephan Faris @stephanfaris.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Maybe Bluesky would be more popular if it didn't keep pushing people's dead pets onto your timeline
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Stephan Faris @stephanfaris.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
"If I wasn’t already aware that it was by AI agents, I would not be able to tell. It is clear, comprehensive, and well-written – better than a lot of other tech stories I have read by carbon-based lifeforms" mathewingramblog.wordpress.com/2026/08/13/a...
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A replay of the “are bloggers journalists?” debate but with AI
AI-powered newsrooms like RuntimeWire raise a number of important questions, including: What are journalists for?
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Stephan Faris @stephanfaris.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Omg, first the moon and now the earth is eclipsing the sun
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Stephan Faris @stephanfaris.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Oh Lord, AI Reporters Are Actually Breaking Big News Last week, an AI newsroom beat mainstream journalists—including WIRED—to a story about OpenAI and hacking. It’s just the beginning. www.wired.com/story/ai-new...
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Oh Lord, AI Reporters Are Actually Breaking Big News
Last week, an AI newsroom beat mainstream journalists—including WIRED—to a story about OpenAI and hacking. It’s just the beginning.
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Stephan Faris @stephanfaris.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Dude...
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Stephan Faris @stephanfaris.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Time Magazine has a separate version of its website with ads only AI can see www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/20...
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Time Magazine has a separate version of its website with ads only AI can see
Brands are already paying to influence what chatbots say about them
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Stephan Faris @stephanfaris.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Quiet news day www.nytimes.com/2026/08/08/u...
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Chuck Grassley Announces the Death of His Beloved Vacuum, Beth
Senator Chuck Grassley mourned his decades-long cleaning companion, writing on social media: “GOOD BYE BETH. U hv been a real workhorse.”
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Stephan Faris @stephanfaris.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
BMW owners are taking to social media to express outrage that the automaker suddenly started pushing ads for Spider-Man: Brand New Day onto their dashboards www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
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BMW Owners Angry ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Ads Are Suddenly in Their Cars: “F*** This”
BMW's "special surprise" partnership with Sony-Marvel is getting some backlash online: "Insanely dystopian."
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Stephan Faris @stephanfaris.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Judging from this picture, I think I may have identified your problem
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 27/07/2026
Incredible
A pair of Bluesky posts.

Lydia Polgreen posts a screenshot to a London Review of Books error page that says "Sorry! The LRB website is not currently accessible."

Lydia writes: "Uh, did Emily Wilson's Odyssey takedown crash the @lrb.co.uk website?

The London Review of Books replies:

Short answer: yes.
Our tech team are working on it and we hope to be back to normal soon.
Emily Wilson is on the LRB Podcast in the meantime
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post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
they welcomed it in as a curiosity and it destroyed them
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Stephan Faris @stephanfaris.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Emily Wilson's take on Nolan's Odyssey is 🥶 www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Stephan Faris @stephanfaris.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Italy
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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Got this text a couple months. Had to investigate it. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/t...
Text message that reads: "Tou have your own biography??? How did you neglect to tell me this?" There is a link to "The Biography of Kashmir Hill"A woman sits on a sofa holding a book with a brown cover that has the title "The Biography of Kashmir Hill."
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Stephan Faris @stephanfaris.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
You can spot the France fans as you walk past the bars with the TV on
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Stephan Faris @stephanfaris.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I feel like I've learned how to watch soccer/football. I used to think it was so fluid you had to watch every second to not miss anything. But now I realized you can basically not watch anything and it's just as good
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Stephan Faris @stephanfaris.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Edited a piece that will never run today. (I just don't yet know which one)
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Stephan Faris @stephanfaris.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
So scientists have basically created life www.nytimes.com/2026/07/02/s...
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Stephan Faris @stephanfaris.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Stephen Hawking's party for time travelers seems like it was pretty lame. I certainly wouldn't have gone www.atlasobscura.com/articles/ste...
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Stephan Faris @stephanfaris.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
"Science progresses one funeral at a time"
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Stephan Faris @stephanfaris.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
This seems premised on the European belief that there's nothing more dangerous than having a fan blow on you directly.
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Stephan Faris @stephanfaris.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
FML
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Stephan Faris @stephanfaris.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Wait until they discover sprayable cheese
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
“Covered five British prime ministers” doesn’t carry the same weight on a journalist’s CV as it once did.
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Stephan Faris @stephanfaris.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
There but for the grace of god
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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
French astronaut Sophie Adenot (France’s first female helicopter test pilot) passed over Mt. Etna and then Vesuvius. Spectacular photos! 🌋 Photos via X (sorry): x.com/Soph_astro/s...
Mount Etna from space Mount Etna from space Mt Vesuvius from space
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Stephan Faris @stephanfaris.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Is AI killing the self-help book? tim.blog/2026/06/12/h...
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Has AI Already Killed How-To Nonfiction? Sales Trends, My Personal Data, and What It Might Mean for the Future - The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss
My head has been spinning after getting a spreadsheet roughly a week ago. Before we dive into my dirty laundry, let’s state the obvious: millions of people have a vague sense that AI is changing thing...
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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 12/06/2026
Jeanne 'd Arc as imagined by early 20th century photographers:
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Stephan Faris @stephanfaris.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
What a headline arstechnica.com/health/2026/...
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Screwworms in US: Human risk is low—but they can burrow through your skull
The chances are low, but not zero.
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Stephan Faris @stephanfaris.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
The war in Ukraine — which reached 1,569 days, or more than four years and three months — has now outlasted World War I. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/w...
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The War in Ukraine Has Now Gone On Longer Than World War I
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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Fable: "write me a rhyming poem with six four line stanzas, each stanza removes another vowel. the first has no u, the second no u or i, etc."
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Stephan Faris @stephanfaris.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
I'm sure this is a huge problem, but as a former opinion editor, I can assure you that people have been submitting slop for a lot longer than AI has existed.
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Stephan Faris @stephanfaris.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Wazzzzzuuuppp?!?!?
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 23/05/2026
The cool new shipping craze everybody's talking about www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...
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Giant iceberg with shipping containers spotted off Antarctica
Details of how the shipping containers ended up on a giant iceberg have been revealed in one of the more unusual reports tabled at the annual meeting of Antarctic Treaty nations.
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Eurobot @eurobot.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Ordinary WiFi can now identify people with near perfect accuracy #EUTech www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/…
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Ordinary WiFi can now identify people with near perfect accuracy
Scientists in Germany have demonstrated a startling new form of surveillance: identifying people using nothing more than ordinary WiFi signals. By analyzing how radio waves bounce around a room, researchers can effectively “see” and recognize individuals — even if they are not carrying a device and even if their phone is turned off.
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Stephan Faris @stephanfaris.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
LinkedIn's algorithm knows me well
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Stephan Faris @stephanfaris.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
“Making a Career in Dictatorship,” a new book by two German political scientists, Adam Scharpf and Christian Glassel, reads like what you might get if you crossed Hannah Arendt’s ideas about the “banality of evil” with a business school guide on how to get the most out of low performers.
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Stephan Faris @stephanfaris.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Depressing: "Would-be authoritarians don’t need to staff their regimes with ideological true believers, offer enticements or draconian punishments to make power grabs. They just need to figure out how to target their ideal labor pool: the frustrated and mediocre." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/w...
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Actually, Democracy Dies in H.R.
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Stephan Faris @stephanfaris.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Books that may not be The Best Novels of All Time but that you might enjoy reading more than the ones on *that* list In no particular order: 1. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
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Stephan Faris @stephanfaris.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Christopher Nolan is really, really good at marketing Archaeologists Find Egyptian Mummy Buried With the ‘Iliad’ www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/s...
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Archaeologists Find Egyptian Mummy Buried With the ‘Iliad’
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