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Mustafa Kaya

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Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 5h

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

Mustafa Kaya @mikaya.bsky.social · 15h

Imagine this: Netanyahu nominated Trump for the Nobel. Does he think of himself as a peacemaker too? What a world we’re living in!

Netanyahu Releases Letter Nominating Trump for Nobel Peace Prize

www.nytimes.com

Mustafa Kaya @mikaya.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly. One crime does not eliminate the other crime. And I’m not judging which is worse. Looking historically, the Zionist movement is the prime mover though not the only factor.

Mustafa Kaya @mikaya.bsky.social · 2d

“As Cartwright points out, the Ellisons are close with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and “a major reason” for their interest in Weiss’ platform is its pro-Israeli bent.”

apple.news/Aqo0nVT1oRZK...

Forget “DEI”—Bari Weiss Is Proof That Merit Doesn’t Matter — Slate

She’s made a career railing against “wokeness.” Now she’s in charge of a storied newsroom.

Mustafa Kaya @mikaya.bsky.social · 2d

So be careful. Maybe?

Mustafa Kaya @mikaya.bsky.social · 2d

Quotes are quotes and not universal and timeless ideas. That’s it. They illustrate their time and describe their speaker. They don’t necessarily increase the validity of a point of view in another context. What he said applied to his context, our context presents us with another difficult choice.

Mustafa Kaya @mikaya.bsky.social · 2d

I agree. Doesn’t diminish the role of Hamas attack though. Goes back to Balfour, and to the pogroms of the 19th century, it’s a long list if we are to include every single aspect.

Mustafa Kaya @mikaya.bsky.social · 2d

He did the right thing, he should have spoken so since the beginning. Hamas’ attack is directly responsible for the current war. If Israel is waging a genocidal war, Hamas made it easy for them. Hamas is not the answer to the current apartheid and the plight of the Palestinian people.

Mustafa Kaya @mikaya.bsky.social · 2d

You’re very very funny I’m sure somebody told you this.

Mustafa Kaya @mikaya.bsky.social · 2d

Your rhetoric serves MAGA though?

Mustafa Kaya @mikaya.bsky.social · 2d

If there are only two options (eg. Harris vs Trump), I will always and always vote to avoid a Trump presidency. Malcolm X was a great leader, doesn’t mean you can deploy all his quotes for all purposes.

Mustafa Kaya @mikaya.bsky.social · 3d

The $100 million has to be the tip of the iceberg.

Mustafa Kaya @mikaya.bsky.social · 3d

Has to be The Onion!

Mustafa Kaya @mikaya.bsky.social · 3d

Worst of the worst!

Mustafa Kaya @mikaya.bsky.social · 3d

In a final twist, Hegseth following his tenure as secretary will convert to Islam, marry a beautiful amirati princess (and her besties) and devote himself to a life of piety and shunning the world in Dubai.

Mustafa Kaya @mikaya.bsky.social · 3d

Export Bayraktar drones and Kaan airfighters (that fly to nowhere) enough and this is what you end up with.

Mustafa Kaya @mikaya.bsky.social · 3d

Though there’s the matter of drones export but this is hit and miss (get hit?). It wins Türkiye supporters and enemies at the same time.

Mustafa Kaya @mikaya.bsky.social · 3d

Has to be some sort of Turkish government PR. Turkey had some sort of “soft power” in Africa with Gulen schools (and the businessmen around them) but now that Erdogan either had them shuttered or took them over for a blunt nationalist foreign agenda, I don’t think Turkey commands the same sympathy.

Mustafa Kaya @mikaya.bsky.social · 3d

Three years and half a trillion dollars later we still have a dumb AI yet some in academia believe it’s a “research” tool. Imagine the millions of ways the money could have been used to actually serve humanity. AI is nothing meaningful but a stage in the adventures of capitalism.

Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social · 3d

And here we go. I never wrote this article, and yet it is cited here.

www.liberalbriefs.com/geopolitics/...

And of course, it sounds so plausible, I seriously checked whether I had forgotten it, or the footnote was slightly wrong.

#AIisnotresearch

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 3d

Mourning those murdered by Hamas isn't incompatible with mourning those murdered by the Israeli state.

Demanding that the hostages return isn't incompatible with naming & demanding an end to genocide.

Naming the power imbalance & impact thereof doesn't desecrate those murdered two years ago today.

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Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program @keymanmts.bsky.social · 8d

Join the Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program and Damir Imamović, University of Sarajevo Music Academy, for "Bosnian Love Songs Between Two Empires: Musical Tradition and Change from Ottoman to Habsburg Eras," on OCT. 8, from 12:30- 2:00PM at Kresge Hall, Room 1515 and via Zoom!

Mustafa Kaya @mikaya.bsky.social · 4d

You guys should stop framing it with “appears to be..” This is nonsense. Something is either as such or not.

Mustafa Kaya @mikaya.bsky.social · 4d

The ruthlessness and bluntness of some in the Trump administration reminds me of the taskmasters of the Umayyads. Here is the Umayyad governor and "sedition"-crusher and--also the eloquent--Hajjaj b. Yusuf vs Kristi Noem's ICE in Chicago. Parallels are, what's the word, uncanny.

Mustafa Kaya @mikaya.bsky.social · Sep 6

Incompetent idiots running the country.

Mustafa Kaya @mikaya.bsky.social · Sep 6

And the present administration is much more reckless and much less talented (cf Hegseth as “war” secretary) than the first one.