Shelly Kraicer

Avenue de l'Opera, Place du Theatre Francais. Misty

Avenue de l'Opera, Place du Theatre Francais. Misty
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Canada is saying the same too, shamefully. Our PM should know better, since he is ostensibly leading us in our struggle to find a way to defend our own country's sovereignty against the U.S. regime.

We are indeed in a Learian time. I had thought, back when I studied the play, that it painted a bleaker, darker, harsher world than we could ever see in our own time. I was wrong.

Here’s the kind of statement I would have hoped for from our PM.

"Rather hard to pinpoint" is putting it kindly. How about: incoherent, ad hoc? Carney's Davos speech recognizes that the "international order" is broken. Perhaps the conclusion he draws is not to reestablish a new order (sans the U.S.), but to embrace the breakage here, along with the U.S.?

Imagine hastily gutting the arguments of the Davos speech weeks after you make it. Carney has changed his mind? Was never sincere? Only supports international regimes of order and stability insofar as they protect Canada?

Carney declared the results based international order hypocritical and probably dead at Davos. We are seeing the consequences of what a world without rules looks like.

If Canada pretends that the Trump regime's illegal aggression against Iran is legal and justified, what happens when it faces US aggression against Canada itself?

The Government of Canada's incoherent, deeply shameful statement of instant support for open US aggression. Was Carney's Davos speech sincere? Was Canada's pledge to defend a broken international order restricted to those aspects that protect(ed) only Canada? This is self-destructive.

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Palestinian villagers - a man, a woman and a baby, and a young child, raising holding their hands in the air, probably as they are forced to leave their village. Photograph taken by a Israeli soldier. Source: Haaretz/Akevot

Haaretz @haaretzcom.bsky.social with Akevot @akevabanshee.bsky.social report on a trove of archival documents, with granular detail on atrocities committed in the 1948 Nakba. Ground level documentation by soldiers demonstrate the pervasive nature of murder and expulsion of Palestinian civilians.

that is in fact principled, it is commendable, and yeah, it is in a real sense a brave act. it is the kind of behavior that we need and want to see from elites. sorry if acknowledging that breaks your cool shield of irony or whatever, but it's true.

Love it when our nation’s defense contractors all spend their Friday nights subtweeting each other about killing everyone in the world

So now the most careless people in history will have fully autonomous weapons that use janky AI to pick targets: Altman joining Hegseth to commit war crimes.

I'm registering alarm and bleakness too, as if an evil thing once well-contained, with a real but limited footprint, has broken though formerly solid barriers and has now re-joined mainstreamed hateful discourse. I'm just wondering if social media is distorting our perception of this?

Cautious question: is this a real thing "out there" in the real world (in person-to-person discourse, social action, violence & vandalism etc.) or is the lens of social media focussing on & distorting (by expanding) its prevalence? I mean both social media practitioners and critics of anti-semitism.

Please tell us more :)

I continue to be fascinated by the phenomenon whereby an expert engages with any of the LLMs on their field of expertise and is instantly horrified by the wrong answers, and then goes on to use it for things they are not experts in as though it won’t be just as bad for those.

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One of my favourite films is from 1999: Fruit Chan's LITTLE CHEUNG 細路祥. One of the best post-1997 realist-fantasies about the loss of Hong Kong's future, as seen by fabulously spirited (and blissfully undefeated) youngsters.

oh my god. i am boggled / creeped out.

At the heart of the book, for me, is a lesson, an encouragement for how to think analogically: how works of art can have political meanings, can speak politically and historically (as well as in other ways). It's an inspiration for my own writing, I hope.

book cover: The Chinese Tragedy of King Lear, by Nan Z. Da

I can't recommend more strongly Nan Z. Da's THE CHINESE TRAGEDY OF KING LEAR. Da writes with power & eloquence about how thinking about Maoist China's history informs Shakespeare's play, and thinking about Lear can enrich our understanding of that history. ...1/

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Professor Marci Shore @ the Munk School, Toronto, this evening: Four Years into Full-Scale War: The Gap between Past and Future. @marcishore.bsky.social is an amazing communicator: plain-spoken and eloquent, absolutely precise when necessary (phenomenology! Husserl!), ... 1/

A professor challenged the Smithsonian. Security shut the gallery. As President Donald Trump seeks to reshape museums and other cultural institutions, historian James Millward has been “guerrilla teaching” visitors about changes that have been made.

You can't erase history. Bravo James Millward wapo.st/4kT0GVX

I guess there won't be a documentary about the triumph of the U.S. men's hockey team since Leni Riefenstahl died in 2003

2/ Shore inspired us to think more expansively and incisively about time/history, about where we are situated temporally (relatively) and epistemologically and morally (in absolute terms) as a pathway to imagining a positive, vibrant, necessary future for Ukraine.

Professor Marci Shore @ the Munk School, Toronto, this evening: Four Years into Full-Scale War: The Gap between Past and Future. @marcishore.bsky.social is an amazing communicator: plain-spoken and eloquent, absolutely precise when necessary (phenomenology! Husserl!), ... 1/

Yale and 30 other universities have made deals with the Trump administration to end their partnerships with an organization that the government accused of discrimination for aiding members of underrepresented groups in seeking doctoral degrees, the Department of Education announced in a press release on Thursday. The nonprofit organization, called the PhD Project, provides resources — such as mentoring, conferences and networking — to people from underrepresented groups who are seeking doctorates in business fields, and encourages them to enter academia or management.

Shameful work by my alma mater. yaledailynews.com/articles/gov...

Eileen Chang Time Tunnel (cover) trans Karen Kingsbury & Jie Zhang

Finished reading the "new" Eileen Chang TIME TUNNEL (2025), translated by Karen Kingsbury & Jie Zhang. The translations of the Chinese texts are fine, and catch some of Chang's wry, Möbius-strip-like doubly/triply enfolded prose, ... 1/