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Kris Singh @krissingh.bsky.social · 4h

The extrajudicial killings by the US continue unchecked

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US airstrike near Venezuela may have killed two Trinidad citizens, police say

The Trinidadians were believed to be on a boat Donald Trump alleged was carrying drugs from Venezuela to the US

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Kris Singh @krissingh.bsky.social · 3d

Given the time of Davies’s writing, she connects Jones’s comments to the forms of detention that followed 9/11.

Their relation to ICE’s actions today is striking. The US always stands ready with enemy-within rhetoric to justify its own terror

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Kris Singh @krissingh.bsky.social · 3d

This is Claudia Jones speaking on the detention and planned deportation of herself and others in 1950 under the McCarran Act.

I take this from Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones, by Carole Boyce Davies.

$‘‘Many of us have had no hearings or legal examinations of any kind. We have never been confronted with any evidence, or made familiar with any crime, alleged or charged against us. Nor have any of us been informed or charged with the slightest infraction of the terms of our release on bail. . . . Nevertheless the government has re-arrested us without due process of law, and seeks to assign us to a virtual life-long imprisonment on Ellis Island.’’ Claudia Jones to John Gates, editor of the Daily Worker. The letter was published in that paper on November 8, 1950.$

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Kris Singh @krissingh.bsky.social · 3d

"we need to be able to ask what the best ideas and movements for serious change have been and how we should tell the story of what became of them and how, if at all, they might connect to our world now"

Small Axe Project @smallaxeproject.bsky.social · 3d

SX editor Davis Scott analyzes why the Marxist Left collapsed in Jamaica. “Is it merely a symptom of a wider malaise in the intellectual life of the country, or of the specific poverty—of courage as well as ideas—of the former Left intelligentsia?”

Read his Preface of SX 77, tinyurl.com/3td2jfxv

Kris Singh @krissingh.bsky.social · 4d

"Using maps and first-hand descriptions, we can reconstruct Bridgetown's topography and visualize the historical experience of the enslaved in an urban context in a way that does not reinscribe the violence of the archive and erase the enslaved women who were a significant presence"

Kris Singh @krissingh.bsky.social · 4d

"Left only with the newspaper trace of her scarred body, we lose her alongside 'all the lives that are outside of history.' By subverting the discourse of the runaway ad and the gaze of her white male owner, we shift the epistemological weight of the archive document."

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Kris Singh @krissingh.bsky.social · 4d

Such a powerful reorientation by Marisa J. Fuentes:

"From a single runaway advertisement we cannot know Jane's ultimate fate--whether she was harbored by friends, relatives, or strangers, caught, or continued her journey in danger...

Book cover with the title Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive by Marisa J. Fuentes

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Kris Singh @krissingh.bsky.social · 13d

A clear display of how techno-utopian fantasies have anti-worker sentiment baked in
"the alternative would be a kind of indentured labour...a company could say, we'll train you...but once you're fully trained, you're going to need to stick with us for 10 years" www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeTF...

The graduate 'jobpocalypse': Where have all the entry-level jobs gone? | FT Working It

YouTube video by Financial Times

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 21d

So many women have been talking, writing and warning people of the dangerous ideologies and biases of tech in Silicon Valley, for decades, and it’s so infuriating that so many men (not OP here) just flat out ignore it and act surprised at the technofascists infecting it now

Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 21d

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).

But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

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Kris Singh @krissingh.bsky.social · 23d

"It is time for the State and the private sector, together, to establish an arts-funding agency that will not be a political football and is properly constituted with strict funding rules to avoid nepotism and other forms of corruption."
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NGC’s exit and Bocas Lit Fest

The recent alarm over the National Gas Company’s (NGC) defunding of thriving steel orchestras located in their “fenceline” communities, as well as the national embarrassment of Barbados—a country with...

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Kris Singh @krissingh.bsky.social · 26d

My article on Sam Selvon and his post-indentureship narratives is now out in the latest issue of the journal Anthurium. Pleased to have my work alongside that of Cornel Bogle, Ronald Cummings, Nalini Mohabir, Simone Dalton, and Ramabai Espinet. It's open access:
anthurium.miami.edu/35/volume/20...

Screenshot of the cover photo for the special issue Selvon @ 100 and Beyond, which uses a black and white archived photo of Selvon sitting at a desk and working on a typewriter

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Kris Singh @krissingh.bsky.social · 26d

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‘A defining moment’: Trinidad and Tobago at a crossroads as oil runs out

Fossil fuels made the nation prosperous but as reserves dwindle, do they drill deeper, even as the Caribbean feels the heat of the climate crisis, or shift to a greener economy?

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · Sep 12

Must read

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A General Air of Anxiety - Boston Review

The Red Scare targeted my father. He taught me the meaning of resistance.

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Kris Singh @krissingh.bsky.social · Sep 14

This makes clear how irresponsible David Eby's recent comments in Surrey were

Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · Sep 13

escalation of fascism around migration - w/ anti immigration protests from toronto to australia to UK - is not a coincidence. borders create false binaries of workers vs migrants; provides a convenient scapegoat for austerity, and reinforces racism.

anti fascist, anti capitalist is pro-migrants!

Kris Singh @krissingh.bsky.social · Sep 9

the mendacity here is galling: "We can't have an immigration system that fills up our homeless shelters and our food banks."

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Kris Singh @krissingh.bsky.social · Sep 9

Irene Bloemraad with the right call here: "focusing on immigrants is an easy way, to be totally frank, to turn the attention away from deep structural problems such as a lack of affordable housing"

UBC News @news.ubc.ca · Sep 9

Ending the temp foreign worker program won't solve "deep structural problems" with housing and other issues in British Columbia.

It would create "problematic consequences" for labour availability, says Dr. Irene Bloemraad, @migration.ubc.ca co-director via @cdnpress.bsky.social

Expert 'taken aback' by Eby foreign worker claims, says axing program won't fix woes

VICTORIA - Ending the temporary foreign worker program won't solve "deep structural problems" with housing and other issues in British Columbia, while it would create "problematic consequences" for…

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Kris Singh @krissingh.bsky.social · Sep 6

widespread austerity measures, the omni-presence of the US military, and the unfettered deployment of everything AI are united in the aim of reining in all that might coordinate change

Kris Singh @krissingh.bsky.social · Sep 6

US boosts military presence in region: fighter jets coming

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...US boosts military presence in region: fighter jets coming

The United States is ramping up its military presence in the Caribbean region, with ten fighter jets being deployed to join a fleet of warships in the mission to dismantle

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Kris Singh @krissingh.bsky.social · Sep 4

More perverse rhetoric from Trinidad's PM: apnews.com/article/trin...

Trinidad and Tobago leader praises strike and says US should kill all drug traffickers 'violently'

Trinidad and Tobago’s prime minister is praising a U.S. strike on a boat suspected of carrying drugs in the southern Caribbean. U.S.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · Sep 3

So the US military is now at war with a vaguely defined enemy (drug cartels) across a vast area (the Caribbean) with no specific goal (“winning” and “defeating them”) and accusing a regional government (Venezuela) of sponsoring that vague enemy without showing proof?

Sounds pretty forever warish.

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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · Sep 4

Nine grafs deep into the article and we find out:

"Pentagon officials were still working Wednesday on what legal authority they would tell the public was used to back up the extraordinary strike in international waters."

Trump Administration Says Boat Strike Is Start of Campaign Against Venezuelan Cartels

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Daisy Rockwell @shreedaisy.bsky.social · Aug 30

My op-ed in the @chicagomaroon.bsky.social on the University of Chicago’s appalling plans to gut the humanities and possibly eliminate the South Asian studies department chicagomaroon.com/48353/viewpo...

Lost in Extraterrestrial Translation

The University celebrates the success of area studies alumni, all the while erasing the programs that made those careers possible.

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · Aug 29

Looking for some good reading about AI in education? Check out this new special issue "Theorizing the Future of Generative AI in Education" just out @lmt-journal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjem20/5...

Learning, Media and Technology

Theorizing the Future of Generative AI. Guest Editors: Maureen Ebben and Julien Murphy. Volume 50, Issue 3 of Learning, Media and Technology

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Kris Singh @krissingh.bsky.social · Aug 26

Absent of substance. The promise of broadly beneficial disruption is all Solomon ever manages. Hard not to think that selling that promise is his primary job

Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · Aug 25

Wth did I just read

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Evan Solomon Is the Opposite of an AI Doomer - Macleans.ca

Canada’s first-ever minister of AI and digital innovation is finding gold among the slop

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Kris Singh @krissingh.bsky.social · Aug 19

Edwidge Danticat - This Is My Body
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This Is My Body — The Dial

Edwidge Danticat reflects on violence and nourishment in America after experiencing a mass shooting hoax at a Florida mall.

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