A clever or cunning trick, devices or expedients (especially intended to deceive)*
A Reader of the FT
@a-reader-ft.bsky.social
How to fight deepfakes—Reality is becoming diluted by artifice, and we are harmed twice over in the struggle to keep up: wrongly falling for the falsehoods and… www.ft.com/content/dd95... @anjahuja.bsky.social @financialtimes.com
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Athena Munden
@athena-munden.bsky.social
I’m going to have to re-read Stephen king’s, “needful things”. It’s so eerie how trump writes exactly like the notes the Faustian character leaves to create strife and conflict. All of the little strange punctuation and grammar choices King chose to portray artifice are present.
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The Arts Fuse
@theartsfuse.bsky.social
@pkeough1.bsky.social on Vicente Luis Mora's "Centroeuropa": An engaging and entertaining mystery, told in an evocative period setting, that deconstructs narrative conventions, analyzes the artifice of identity, and critiques the capitalist patriarchal system.
https://artsfuse.org/325620/book-review-unquiet-graves-and-uneasy-truths-in-centroeuropa/
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