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Borrowed Language @wikanghiram.bsky.social · 13h
New York Times headline is all "Democratic Candidate Accused of Being Bad Office Manager" and five paragraphs in "Their Republican opponent was convicted of child murder and receiving a bribe in a bag full of Arby's Big Beef 'n Cheddars but received a full pardon from Mr. Trump"
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 15/10/2026
Download the zine to print and share here! (Be sure to print at "Scale: 100%") This is also the link to share for folks to read the whole zine online! gregpak.net/2026/10/15/z...
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ZINE: What If You See ICE at the Polls? - gregpak.net
Indivisible roped me in to design and illustrate a new zine! Check it out below -- and visit linktr.ee/wewillvote to sign up for the Election Protection Prog...
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Borrowed Language @wikanghiram.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Vara "seems to feel duty-bound to place a whole-ass story into Pangram as soon as its award is announced. Okay, so that’s how some people spend their time, but let’s be honest with ourselves: this kind of scandal helps only AI" wikanghiram.wordpress.com/2026/10/14/t...
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The Caine Prize Controversy
To be upfront, I had forgotten about the Commonwealth Prize AI allegations from earlier this year. It is another instance of non-white people being accused of lying about the origins of their work,…
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Borrowed Language @wikanghiram.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
"I don't have to learn anything about anybody's humanity, I just want to see the world in a new way, which is something that transformer technology is fundamentally incapable of." New post on the Caine Prize controversy.
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The Caine Prize Controversy
To be upfront, I had forgotten about the Commonwealth Prize AI allegations from earlier this year. It is another instance of non-white people being accused of lying about the origins of their work,…
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Borrowed Language @wikanghiram.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
And what if hypocrisy still mattered...? L’Affaire Orélien, Samuel Fitoussi, and right-wing slop, all smooshed up together. New post at: wikanghiram.wordpress.com
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Pourquoi Samuel Fitoussi ne nos trompe pas
As I noted in my last post, one of the agents at the heart of l’Affaire Orélien is Le Figaro columnist Samuel Fitoussi. It is worth, then, pausing to consider Fitoussi’s intellectual pr…
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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Un compte anon sur X avec 92 abbos. Une accusation totalement improuvée. La mesure, la proportionnalité et toussa. Les médias ont totalement perdu leur boussole. C'est vraiment l'affaire Arday bis. (mes pensées pour Thélyson Orélien) Et ça ne présage rien de bon pour les elex.
Thélyson Orélien accusé d'avoir utilisé l'IA pour son roman


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L'écrivain Thélyson Orélien accusé d'avoir utilisé une IA : "Il faut quand même être très prudent", déclare Philippe Claudel, président de l'Académie Goncourt
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Le Nouvel Obs
Un spécialiste de l’IA décrypte la polémique Thélyson Orélien : “Les indices sont assez parlants…”
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Libération
«Je ne vois pas pourquoi je ferais appel à une machine» : Thélyson Orélien se défend d’avoir utilisé l’IA pour écrire «C’était ça ou mourir»
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Le Parisien
Thélyson Orélien a-t-il utilisé l’IA pour son roman « C’était ça ou mourir » ? Cinq minutes pour comprendre la polémique
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Télérama
L’affaire du livre de Thélyson Orélien et l’IA vécue “comme un foudroiement” dans le monde de l’édition
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Le Monde.fr
Thélyson Orélien accusé d’avoir utilisé l’IA pour son livre « C’était ça ou mourir »
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Mediapart
Thélyson Orélien : mécanique d’une polémiqueOpinion


Valeurs actuelles
Littérature artificielle : le cas Thélyson Orélien
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Le Nouvel Obs
Affaire Thélyson Orélien : n’en déplaise aux inquisiteurs de l’IA, les “indigènes” savent écrire
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Libération
«C’était ça ou mourir» de Thélyson Orélien : un roman dopé à l’IA ?
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Le Point
Thélyson Orélien et l’IA : bienvenue dans l’ère du soupçon
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Ouest-France
Avec la polémique Thélyson Orélien, la question de l’IA bouscule l’édition
Le Canadien d'origine haïtienne Thélyson Orélien est soupçonné d'avoir écrit son texte avec une IA, ce qu'il dément.
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Le livre phénomène de l'écrivain québécois Thélyson Orélien, C'était ça ou mourir, fait désormais scandale à la suite d'une accusation...
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Pangram, cet outil de détection de l’IA au cœur de la polémique Thélyson Orélien chez Grasset
Cette start-up américaine, qui a vu son activité exploser cet été, annonce être la plus fiable et précise du secteur. La polémique autour du...
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Libération
«Je ne vois pas pourquoi je ferais appel à une machine» : Thélyson Orélien se défend d’avoir utilisé l’IA pour écrire «C’était ça ou mourir»
Exclusif. «Je ne vois pas pourquoi je ferais appel à une machine» : Thélyson Orélien se défend d'avoir utilisé l'IA pour écrire «C'était ça...
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L'Express
Thélyson Orélien, un Romain Gary à l’ère de l'IA ? Comment l'affaire a mis en ébullition le milieu littéraire
Dès le début du mois, une rumeur bruissait dans le landerneau des lettres : il se murmurait que Thélyson Orélien aurait écrit C'était ça ou...
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La maison d'édition Grasset condamne "fermement tout propos malveillant" à l'égard de l'auteur Thélyson Orélien, accusé d'avoir utilisé l'IA
L'écrivain canado-haïtien Thélyson Orélien se retrouve au centre d'une controverse après avoir été accusé par un compte sur X d'avoir eu...
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Borrowed Language @wikanghiram.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Les accusations contre Thélyson Orélien me frappent comme des dilogies
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Borrowed Language @wikanghiram.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The accusations against Thélyson Orélien sure sound Like dog-whistles
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The Accusations Against Thélyson Orélien Sure Sound Like Dog-whistles
For the second time in two months, a Black author has been accused by (initially) anonymous individuals of writing their debut novel with AI. Four Accusations, Four Outcomes Last month, Jerry Falad…
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Borrowed Language @wikanghiram.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I'm sorry, I know that he's a real despicable asshole, but every time he speaks I think of Ricky Gervais... who I also hate.
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Borrowed Language @wikanghiram.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"That’s when Zuckerberg kicked off his AI hiring strategy in earnest, even hand-delivering soup to researchers and engineers he wanted to recruit" Incomparable reporting from @vicmsong.bsky.social @miasato.bsky.social @laurenfeiner.bsky.social @haydenfield.bsky.social
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Borrowed Language @wikanghiram.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A reminder to all of those in Epstein Files who say "oh, I just talked about academics/business with him." Well, did you ever think of maybe not? I'm looking at you, Dan Ariely.
Section of New Yorker article on Hermes: "In 2016, at a benefit auction, Jeffrey Epstein placed the winning bid on an internship at Hermes; the company withdrew the lot and reimbursed the charity. Dumas later explained that the last thing Hermes needed was to get involved with a 'louche financier.'"
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Borrowed Language @wikanghiram.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
macklemore really wasn't on my 2026 bingo card
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Borrowed Language @wikanghiram.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Recursive self-improvement hasn't happened and may not be close, acc. to this MIT Tech Review article. This thread is premised on the same lies that the AI companies themselves are pitching investors on. Stop scareselling AI: www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/18/1...
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AI’s recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all
AI agents are not yet creative enough to carry out genuinely innovative open-ended AI research, it seems.
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Borrowed Language @wikanghiram.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
and don't listen to a word that Coxon guy is saying: he is lying about both capability and structure
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Borrowed Language @wikanghiram.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
especially after SpaceX's sort of mid opening. and SpaceX *has* real business
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Borrowed Language @wikanghiram.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
y'all, this is why all those men in the Valley are suddenly trying to "slow things down": they had to dangle the IPO for their backers who are getting sweaty about cashing out, but they knew there was no path and had to find an out
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OpenAI delaying IPO amid AI safety concerns, Sam Altman says
Altman's comments come as fears over doomsday AI scenarios have ramped up in recent days.
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Borrowed Language @wikanghiram.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
which leads to the fourth: we must pursue generative AI at breakneck speed and with great caution
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Borrowed Language @wikanghiram.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I think the third antinomy is the most overhyped, but I guess has some relevance rn: generative AI is the torment nexus and liberator from all labor
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Borrowed Language @wikanghiram.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
second antinomy of AI marketing: generative AI is so simple anyone can use it to make anything they want and so baffingly complex and mysterious that we must train children from infancy to use it
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Borrowed Language @wikanghiram.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
first antinomy of AI marketing: generative AI is both a consumer product and a creative agent, since it is mindlessly repetitive and consistently new, and yet can't be either, since these conflict
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 02/09/2026
Who would like to guess why UK, US and European media outlets are not publishing 3,000 articles per minute about this www.dukechronicle.com/article/duke...
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‘Insane data’: Duke professor Dan Ariely accused of additional research fraud
New evidence released Monday shows that Dan Ariely, professor of business administration in the Fuqua School of Business, likely tampered with or fabricated data in an influential research paper from ...
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Borrowed Language @wikanghiram.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Tyler Austin Harper can see racist anti-racism anywhere. New Post: Absence of Evidence: Tyler Austin Harper's bad faith account of DEI wikanghiram.wordpress.com/2026/08/12/a...
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Absence of Evidence: Tyler Austin Harper’s bad faith account of DEI
Like Tyler Austin Harper, I left a tenured position at a private, non-profit college in New England not long ago. Unlike Harper, I did not work for a “prestigious” (his word) school, bu…
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Borrowed Language @wikanghiram.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Yesteryear is Kindred for Karens. (book review of Yesteryear)
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Book review: Caro Claire Burke, Yesteryear — Kindred for Karens
You lost me at “hello.” Or, if not hello, at least from the first page, where we read the nonsensical pathetic fallacy of a radiator “puffing hot air.”1 This is not what a r…
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Borrowed Language @wikanghiram.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
The post-#MeToo campus novel is a stressful mess. Double book review up: Julia Langbein's Dear Monica Lewinsky and Maria Adelmann's The Adjunct. wikanghiram.wordpress.com/2026/07/01/p...
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Post-#MeToo Campus Novel Round-up (Book Review: Maria Adelmann, The Adjunct, and Julia Langbein, Dear Monica Lewinsky)
Two novels rose to my attention around the same time that both feature protagonists reckoning with their previous sexual encounters with professors in college. The explicit attempts to confront and…
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Borrowed Language @wikanghiram.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
WHOSE MONEY IS IN CORNHOLE AND WHY? www.playcornhole.org/pages/rules
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Cornhole Rules | Official Cornhole Rules and Gameplay
The official cornhole rules and regulations are used for ACA cornhole tournament play as well as settling backyard disputes. The rules for the game of cornhole were developed by the original and offic...
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Borrowed Language @wikanghiram.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
something bad is gonna happen...
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Borrowed Language @wikanghiram.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
i think the main reason to read history is to find out that the CIA hired Bing Crosby to make a porno film with a "Hispanic-looking" man playing Indonesian president Sukarno to try to force him out because communism Reading Vincent Bevin's "The Jakarta Method"
page from Vincent Bevin's The Jakarta Method about the CIA hiring a "Hispanic-looking" actor to play Sukarno in a porno film to be made by Bing Crosby and his brother Larry
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Borrowed Language @wikanghiram.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
batshit do one thing today at least (note, though, that you have to provide your name and address for public record so everyone who can do this SAFELY should do so) glaad.org/fcc?utm_sour...
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Tell the FCC that LGBTQ Stories Don’t Need a Warning Label | GLAAD
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is targeting LGBTQ stories. They are trying to control what you see on television. This government overreach is dangerous...
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Borrowed Language @wikanghiram.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
why do i keep reading with jenna!??! Book Review on Patrick Ryan's Buckeye: wikanghiram.wordpress.com/2026/05/11/b...
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Book Review: “Buckeye,” by Patrick Ryan
I Am Cursed to Read with Jenna The last time I read with Jenna Bush Hager, I ended up having to analyze how racist American homeschooling is. The time before that, I had to ponder what it meant to …
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Borrowed Language @wikanghiram.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
he's not, bros, this is the neocon gasp of a consumer contraction: blow up the world, and then make it buy in your image. absorb the overcapacity of production that we are hitting as a result of inflation. it isn't working, because it is a stupid idea. but it is an old saw he's playing. 5/5
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Borrowed Language @wikanghiram.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
indeed, why would we fight to *import* oil when we are both one of the largest oil producers in the world, and trump has spent the rest of his presidency confusingly tariffing imports because he doesn't understand what a "balance of trade deficit" is? 4/
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Borrowed Language @wikanghiram.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
"Consequently, they fight in Vietnam not for the land or for the raw materials found there. Rather, they fight *because they need the people!* Western capitalists need people in order to have buyers at too-high prices for their now overexpanding market." 3/
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Borrowed Language @wikanghiram.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
in 1972's "the technology question," Newton writes, "Why do tyrants fight? They fight simply because of the need of the ruling, reactionary circle of the United States to sell the products of their technology to more and more people for capital gains." 2/
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Borrowed Language @wikanghiram.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
the call "no blood for oil" is such a confusion. yes, both Venezuela and Iran are oil-producing countries, but the US produces more than either of them. since the war on Iran started, oil transportation has gone down, although profits for oil co's have gone up. better to look to Huey P. Newton /🧵
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Borrowed Language @wikanghiram.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
"the start of your skin care journey" is one of the most ominous things i've ever heard in an ad
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Borrowed Language @wikanghiram.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Hey California voters! Sad the (alleged) sex assaulter is out? His billionaire backer may now call himself a "libertarian Republican," but plenty of billionaires are lining up behind another tech-schill because their preferred (alleged) sex pest is out of the race. 🫠 www.forbes.com/sites/zachar...
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Here Are The Billionaires Backing Matt Mahan After Swalwell Exits California Governor’s Race
Rep. Eric Swalwell dropped his bid for California governor amid sexual assault allegations, opening up chances for struggling candidates like Mahan.
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Borrowed Language @wikanghiram.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
bro, mikey johnson and jimmy dean vance might not want to be invoking just war doctrine after killing more than 100 little girls in Iran and having donald "sweet potato pie" trump threaten civilian infrastructure, just saying
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Borrowed Language @wikanghiram.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
a small comfort in reading Jacob Silverman's Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley is the reminder on almost every page that tech idiots think Meatball Ron DeSantis and Blake "Skeletor" Masters are good political bets
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Borrowed Language @wikanghiram.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
y'all don't need to exaggerate deaths of US military or Iranian civilians. any loss of life in an illegal, immoral, and chosen war is too many dead (and yes we all agree Khamenei sucked and no one is sad about that dude; but you can smile at his death and frown at his murder at the same time wtaf)
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Borrowed Language @wikanghiram.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
In addition to her own horrifying story, this interview with Marimar Martinez also includes a litany of related horrors. Also important to remember that abolishing ICE isn't enough; most of these monsters are CPB. All of DHS has to go chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
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Marimar Martinez, shot by Border Patrol in Chicago, speaks out after Good, Pretti deaths: ‘I am their voice’
In a wide-ranging interview with the Chicago Sun-Times and WBEZ, Martinez discusses her shooting, the federal government’s failed attempt to prosecute her and the role she now sees for herself in a fi...
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Borrowed Language @wikanghiram.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
I feel cursed to read "Read with Jenna" books, and here I am again, now thinking through the racism of the unschooling movement with Stefan Merrill Block's Homeschooled: A Memoir My post: wikanghiram.wordpress.com/2026/02/02/h... The book: www.stefanmerrillblock.com/about-homesc...
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About — Stefan Merrill Block
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Borrowed Language @wikanghiram.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
this f-ing guy. from an NYT story about how he mocked a Jewish attorney for his faith comes this pick of Skeletor Greg Bovine looking like Steve Buscemi playing an Austin Powers villain
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Borrowed Language @wikanghiram.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Screen capture of article from HuffPost saying, "The Federal Reserve would not be independent 'if there is any level of cause' for removal, Roberts said later. Barrett, like Kavanaugh, raised the real-world implications of eliminating the central bank's independence. A group of economists filed a brief in the case stating that such a move would cause a recession, Barrett pointed out. Shouldn't the court consider the public interest?" Followed by a text saying, "wait. all of a sudden these robes are bunched about 'real world' implications? amazing how little of a shit originalism matters then you fuck with their bag"
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Borrowed Language @wikanghiram.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
When you hear someone say that reading builds empathy, just remember that Henry Kissinger loved to read. Also, discussion of Katie Kitamura's Audition (2025) and Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955). wikanghiram.wordpress.com/2026/01/15/r...
Two trees with bright red foliage bordering a sidewalk
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Borrowed Language @wikanghiram.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
How Claudio Lomnitz, narcopolitics, and the Mexican state explain ICE, the murder of Renee Nicole Good, and the cephalopod government of the United States wikanghiram.wordpress.com/2026/01/08/i...
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ICE and a New State Form in the United States
If you want to understand the current United States regime, you have to understand Mexico. Not the stereotypes peddled by the Millers and Trumps, but Mexico as it exists, its long history and dense…
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Mia Sato @miasato.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
A 23 year old larping as a journalist made a misleading and inaccurate YouTube video that the administration full of chronically online shitposters used to justify the “largest immigration operation ever” and now someone is dead
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Borrowed Language @wikanghiram.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
In the USA 2026, the bright side is that most of the poor kids who would develop heart disease from this inverted food pyramid will probably die early of preventable diseases they aren't vaxxed for
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Borrowed Language @wikanghiram.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
woke up at 4:45 to write but quickly decided i should research international law on being an unwilling citizen accomplice to the kidnapping of the Venezuelan president
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Borrowed Language @wikanghiram.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
No new year -- you still owe us for the last one youtu.be/wVphQhp4BgU?...
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Tens of thousands protest on New Year's Eve in Serbian capital, demanding political reforms
YouTube video by AP Archive
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Borrowed Language @wikanghiram.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Rage quit this whole year wikanghiram.wordpress.com/2025/12/23/a...
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Artificially Smart Ragebait
Congratulations, Oxford Languages, on selecting a word from 2002–an internet eon ago–to represent the year 2025. The Oxford Word of the Year is “rage bait”, something genera…
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