@krissingh.bsky.social
Faculty at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. Caribbean literature. Surreyite.
Insightful piece. The long project of AI only pretends at broadening our future while in fact hemming it in
08.12.2025 05:09 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"History has proven that ‘Big Stick’ white supremacy—now allied with subordinate Hindu supremacist ideology—will only ever deny justice, peace and a dignified existence to the working class and marginalized communities of Our Americas."
www.blackagendareport.com/why-caribbea...
“.. As the smoke cleared, they got a jolt: Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck.
“The Special Operations commander .. ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions .. The two men were blown apart ..”
@washingtonpost.com
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"The most common national issue that is said to be made worse by immigration is the housing crisis. Yet its main causes have little to do with immigration."
16.11.2025 22:40 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0"One of the things we did get is a doubling down on the scapegoating of migrants, international students, refugees when it comes to the housing and affordability crisis, and this budget really represents a retreat from the humanitarian obligations that Canada has to refugees."
09.11.2025 16:44 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Cover of this weekend's The Continent newspaper "Genocide resumes in Darfur as Sudan tears apart"
Screenshot of article by Khalid Elwalid in Khartoum "Sudan's split in two is now complete." Satellite imagery depicting destruction and possible dead included
Genocide resumes, reads this weekend's cover of @thecontinent.org, as El Fasher falls to the Rapid Support Forces after a year long siege.
Gruesome images of their killing spree that is estimated to have killed thousands, make the rounds. What Sudanese activists warned would happen is playing out.
Read @thecontinent.org article on the fall of El Fasher and how it fits into the longer advance of Hemedti and the RSF
01.11.2025 20:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Capital concentration is a primary goal of the long project of AI
"Without policy action, AI will not deliver the transformational productivity gains Canada needs; instead, it will preserve stagnation with higher profits for those already at the top"
The one call to action people could amplify is a trade and arms embargo on the UAE until they stop arming and supporting the RSF. The UAE is one of Canada and the US’ biggest trading partners in the MENA region.
#KeepEyesOnSudan
#KeepEyesOnDarfur
“Communications have been cut off. The situation is chaotic. In this context, it is difficult to estimate the number of civilians killed. Despite commitments to protect civilians, the reality is that no one is safe in El Fasher.”
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
The Caribbean boat strikes are egregiously illegal under both US domestic law and US-ratified international treaties.
Anyone carrying them out is following an illegal order. (Is that why Adm. Holsey resigned?)
Trump will not be in power forever, and will not save war criminals from accountability.
Trump has deployed an aircraft carrier to the Caribbean and launched a series of missile strikes that have killed dozens.
From Colombia to Mexico, leaders are calling it a war crime—and warning that the U.S. is reviving its old habit of gunboat diplomacy. Read the story here.
our duty must be to harness the strength of unity that we represent and that we genuinely embody. For only in unity can we earnestly fight to overcome the seemingly monumental difficulties of our region, ‘Our Americas,’ as José Martí, the great Americanist thinker, entitled our region."
25.10.2025 15:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0fought at the beginning of the 20th century for the unity of the Caribbean. As inheritors of these great traditions, we have a duty: that is, as we approach the 21st Century, doing so with collective experience of national independence and with an anti-colonial perspective,
25.10.2025 15:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0We think nobly, nationally, with special regard for the first fundamentals of a West Indian unity, and a West Indian identity.'
As Simón Bolívar fought at the beginning of the 19th century for the unity of Latin America, so too Marryshow
...In the early 20th century, the Grenadian Theophilus Marryshow, the Father of West Indies Federation said:
'A West Indies in a world like this must unite or perish. This is not the time for parish pump politics.
Maurice Bishop speaking in 1983
“The destiny of your English-speaking Caribbean is inextricably linked with that of our Spanish-speaking brothers and sisters. Not only Simón Bolívar, but also other great thinkers of our time have recognized that our future lies in the unity of our peoples...
This is truly obscene
25.10.2025 14:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
mask off imperialism
“The B-1 strategic bomber is designed to penetrate enemy airspace to deliver 37 tonnes of ordnance onto its target. Neither jet is in any way useful for stopping drug-smuggling"
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...
"This is not the first time Puerto Rico has been used as a military springboard. Its bases have served as logistical hubs for interventions across the hemisphere, from the US invasion of the Dominican Republic in 1965, to Grenada in 1983, and Panama in 1989."
23.10.2025 00:54 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
"The island that has lived under US rule since 1898 is once again being used as a staging ground for US militarism, this time for Washington’s latest “war on drugs” narrative, masking a campaign of coercion against Latin America’s independent governments."
www.commondreams.org/opinion/puer...
As Zuboff said, "We are the sources of surveillance capitalism's crucial surplus: the objects of a technologically advanced and increasingly inescapable raw-material-extraction operation. Surveillance capitalism's actual customers are the enterprises that trade in its markets for future behavior"
19.10.2025 00:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0When Canada puts its particular spin on surveillance capitalism
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Interviewer: A Harvard Business Review study recently showed that the No. 1 use for ChatGPT is therapy and companionship. Have you ever used it for that—or know anyone who has? Solomon: I just spoke to a doctor about this. If you ask a therapist if they’ve used a doll or a hand puppet, they’ll go, “Yeah. It’s a useful therapeutic tool.” Interviewer: Anything’s better than a puppet, in my opinion. Solomon: Everyone’s asking: how do we combat the loneliness epidemic? Social circles matter, and you’re lucky if you have a partner and kids and friends. A lot of people don’t. I had elderly family members whose only companion was a TV. I’ve met constituents whose lights were all off to save electricity but who left the TV on for the same reason. If you had something to carry on a conversation with—and not just watch—that might be better. But there was also that Joaquin Phoenix movie, Her, where he was in love with an AI. Of course we have to be vigilant.
Really can't get over Canada's AI minister saying this. Might as well have said that AI is here so that we can apply market logic to the very deficits created by capitalism
18.10.2025 20:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"On Thursday, Trinidad’s prime minister, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, who has previously expressed strong support for a US military operation in the region, avoided questions from reporters about the US airstrike that is thought to have killed Joseph and Samaroo."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
This was delightful
"If there is terror in small things, there is safety, too."
The fundamental premise of data enclosure is what remains consistent
18.10.2025 00:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The extrajudicial killings by the US continue unchecked
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
