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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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Zia Weise @ziaweise.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A climate nightmare lurks in the Atlantic. Europe is starting to pay attention. Just out — my long read on European governments waking up to the threat of a possible collapse of the AMOC, the ocean currents that keep our continent's climate mild: www.politico.eu/article/clim...
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A climate nightmare lurks in the Atlantic. Europe is starting to pay attention.
A slowdown of ocean currents that would disrupt life on the continent on an unthinkable scale.
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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 · 19/09/2026
The gods walk among us
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Stephan Faris @stephanfaris.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Mandela effect. Ever since the invention of the dot matrix printers have ever been trickster gods.
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Stephan Faris @stephanfaris.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Me too. But this is a classic case of nostalgia for a past that never existed.
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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 · 03/09/2026
I started watching La Grande Bellezza on Netflix in one EU country but then couldn't finish it the next day because I had traveled to another and it wasn't carried there (countries were Belgium and Italy but I can't remember which direction I traveled)
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Stephan Faris @stephanfaris.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This sounds like Amazon just following the rules, no? There's no single market for media rights
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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
Ooh. I'll take that recommendation. I'll add it to the list
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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 · 14/08/2026
Years wise it's exactly the same as kids dressing up like Elvis when Metallica was at its peak.
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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
You can look toward the sun when it's eclipsed by the earth
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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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Stephan Faris @stephanfaris.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
"This never happened to Pablo Picasso"
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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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ghost malone ergo propter bones @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
The next paragraph is even meaner
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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 · 16/07/2026
I'll take stitches
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Stephan Faris @stephanfaris.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Only one of my kids has ever broken a bone. And I distrust the other two for it
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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
Except for the penalty shootouts. Those you watch with your heart in your mouth
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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 · 27/06/2026
I have not! Will add to my list
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Stephan Faris @stephanfaris.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
I'm also dying to read a bio of Sackville -West, who seems to have had quite a life
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Stephan Faris @stephanfaris.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
That's one of my faves (along with the regine pernoud treatments). Fwiw, once you're done and know the story, the actual transcript is a real treat. It's got an arc like a novel and it's amazing how her voice cuts through.
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Stephan Faris @stephanfaris.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Nerdy question, but which Joan book are you reading?
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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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