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Bruce Holsinger

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Author of CULPABILITY, Oprah's Book Club summer 2025 pick, from Spiegel & Grau.

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An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me Summary: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into acceptin…

Link: theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...

12.02.2026 22:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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For all the minimizers out there:

12.02.2026 22:46 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks so much! Glad you enjoyed it.

08.02.2026 20:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Ossoff: "You're seeing what I'm seeing, right? The president posting about the Obamas like a Klansman."

07.02.2026 23:38 β€” πŸ‘ 43489    πŸ” 12339    πŸ’¬ 962    πŸ“Œ 678
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Just awful. The cuts at the Washington Post will include the elimination of the Books section--one of the nation's premier outlets for thoughtful book reviews.

04.02.2026 14:48 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

seeing conservatives admit alex pretti was disarmed and need to change their message to β€œwell you know where you won’t get shot? at home” is just an impressive level of pathetic allegiance to their dictator

25.01.2026 15:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1646    πŸ” 215    πŸ’¬ 34    πŸ“Œ 19

Thanks so much!!

25.01.2026 15:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

ICE has now carried out two summary executions of innocent people in the streets of an American city.

If you work for ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You don't get to claim in one year or ten or twenty that you didn't know what ICE was doing. You're complicit.

24.01.2026 15:55 β€” πŸ‘ 20866    πŸ” 7057    πŸ’¬ 523    πŸ“Œ 261

It's not happening, people. Not anytime soon.

21.01.2026 12:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Weed. They were carrying weed.

29.12.2025 21:18 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

"Visual culture has changed form. It has become detached from human eyes and has become largely invisible. . . The overwhelming majority of images are now made my machines for other machines, with humans rarely in the loop."
-Trevor Paglen

29.12.2025 19:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

NPR going the way of CBS.

29.12.2025 11:07 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I thought this was an Onion story.

29.12.2025 11:06 β€” πŸ‘ 147    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

There are county records offices in the UK that describe their records in terms of kilometers of shelf space--like 15 kilometers of parchment alone (to say nothing of paper), none of which has been digitized.

22.12.2025 14:18 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Melissa's review of Culpability 5/5: I received Culpability a few months ago and hadn't heard of it until it arrived in the mail. However, it sounded interesting along the lines of Wally Lamb and I added it to my TBR. Once I started...

I recommend Culpability by @bruceholsinger.bsky.social, as it is thought-provoking and absorbing! www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

09.12.2025 14:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks so much! Appreciate the nice words.

10.12.2025 20:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Luis SuΓ‘rez will be presenting the FIFA Peace Prize.

05.12.2025 21:08 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"that new book is so bad here's our second review, 4th profile, and third podcast about it"

03.12.2025 16:35 β€” πŸ‘ 370    πŸ” 46    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 5
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Bruce Holsinger on Culpability β€” a novel about AI, moral agency, and a family facing impossible choices.
Elizabeth George on A Slowly Dying Cause β€” an Inspector Lynley mystery set in Cornwall, rich with character, place, and difficult truths. @bruceholsinger.bsky.social
Listen: tinyurl.com/WritersV

21.11.2025 01:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Next week Prince Andrew gets a cabinet post over here.

30.10.2025 22:11 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

He's a great gadfly but he CANNOT be the nominee.

28.10.2025 13:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My university

15.10.2025 20:04 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Abigail Jackson saying: Democrats, calling your political opponents Nazis has consequences. 

Study: Left-wing terrorism climbs to 30-year high

And posting a graph from Axios that shows WAY WAY WAY more right wing terrorism, and showing a very slight increase in left wing terrorism this year that would still have it lower than basically every other year of right wing terrorism.

Abigail Jackson saying: Democrats, calling your political opponents Nazis has consequences. Study: Left-wing terrorism climbs to 30-year high And posting a graph from Axios that shows WAY WAY WAY more right wing terrorism, and showing a very slight increase in left wing terrorism this year that would still have it lower than basically every other year of right wing terrorism.

White House Deputy Press Secretary seen here posting data showing how much more prevalent right wing domestic terrorism is than left wing domestic terrorism... while thinking she's showing the reverse.

Apparently she can only read headlines, but not the actual graph with the data.

29.09.2025 00:16 β€” πŸ‘ 3657    πŸ” 993    πŸ’¬ 85    πŸ“Œ 98

omg

09.09.2025 15:38 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

About this Florida vaccine story:

When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough.

We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated.

β€œOh, they’d have died.”

03.09.2025 22:06 β€” πŸ‘ 23099    πŸ” 6786    πŸ’¬ 741    πŸ“Œ 313
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Join us next week as @bruceholsinger.bsky.social discusses his Oprah's Book Club pick novel, "Culpability"! This book explores a world newly shaped by chatbots, autonomous cars, drones, & other nonhuman forces in ways that are challenging & unimaginably provocative. Tix: HolsingerBBS.eventbrite.com

03.09.2025 19:13 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

As a fellow Bruce, I endorse this advice.

02.09.2025 01:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Rapid loss of Antarctic ice may be climate tipping point, scientists say The study gathered data from observations, ice cores, and ship logbooks to chart long-term changes in the area of sea ice.

Oh wait … that thing every #climate scientist told us was going to happen for the last 15 years is actually happening?!?!?!?! β€œRapid loss of Antarctic ice may be climate tipping point, scientists say” - www.reuters.com/sustainabili... Trending Content

21.08.2025 22:14 β€” πŸ‘ 176    πŸ” 75    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 9

so great to meet you! talking to my dad this afternoon...

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