ProfKFH
@profkfh.bsky.social
Prof of English*Africana Prof at a college that’s a fascist bellwether.Blk Feminist. Quilter. Uses more tech than is good for her. Views my own.
Pinned
Kim F. Hall: The Sweet Taste of Empire
YouTube video by Barnard Center for Research on Women
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Then you can buy it at 40% discount.
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Then you can buy it at 40% discount.
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The entire point of this country is to make billionaires wealthier and they can’t do that if we aren’t forced to purchase everything at the highest possible price.
November 24, 2025 at 2:17 AM
The entire point of this country is to make billionaires wealthier and they can’t do that if we aren’t forced to purchase everything at the highest possible price.
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We don’t have health care infrastructure. We do not have transit infrastructure. We don’t have safety nets and we don’t have a functional CDC or FDA.
November 24, 2025 at 2:16 AM
We don’t have health care infrastructure. We do not have transit infrastructure. We don’t have safety nets and we don’t have a functional CDC or FDA.
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Man I am going to block people who respond to this thread with “it doesn’t have to be this way, just look at this other country”
No shit. I do not live in a country that has basic infrastructure, and that is why I am complaining about it.
No shit. I do not live in a country that has basic infrastructure, and that is why I am complaining about it.
November 24, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Man I am going to block people who respond to this thread with “it doesn’t have to be this way, just look at this other country”
No shit. I do not live in a country that has basic infrastructure, and that is why I am complaining about it.
No shit. I do not live in a country that has basic infrastructure, and that is why I am complaining about it.
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Anyway. We are paying like hell for our car culture. Insurance, cars, car maintenance, road upkeep, the incessant road widening which SHOULD NEVER EVER HAPPEN AGAIN.
I do not want it. I want trains and public transit. I would GLADLY get rid of cars.
But here we are.
I do not want it. I want trains and public transit. I would GLADLY get rid of cars.
But here we are.
November 24, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Anyway. We are paying like hell for our car culture. Insurance, cars, car maintenance, road upkeep, the incessant road widening which SHOULD NEVER EVER HAPPEN AGAIN.
I do not want it. I want trains and public transit. I would GLADLY get rid of cars.
But here we are.
I do not want it. I want trains and public transit. I would GLADLY get rid of cars.
But here we are.
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I know very few people who think the cost of public transit is prohibitive.
It’s that public transit in the US is treated in most cities like the thing you slap on after the fact.
It’s that public transit in the US is treated in most cities like the thing you slap on after the fact.
November 24, 2025 at 2:00 AM
I know very few people who think the cost of public transit is prohibitive.
It’s that public transit in the US is treated in most cities like the thing you slap on after the fact.
It’s that public transit in the US is treated in most cities like the thing you slap on after the fact.
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The issue isn’t cost. It’s that the entire infrastructure in this country has been put into cars. Parking lots everywhere and bus stations nowhere. Light rail that comes every half an hour and isn’t synchronized so it takes forever if you have to switch lines.
November 24, 2025 at 1:58 AM
The issue isn’t cost. It’s that the entire infrastructure in this country has been put into cars. Parking lots everywhere and bus stations nowhere. Light rail that comes every half an hour and isn’t synchronized so it takes forever if you have to switch lines.
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I could hypothetically take transit to an appointment in South Denver.
It would take me more than 2 hours one way, and I can drive in half an hour.
That’s the calculus.
It would take me more than 2 hours one way, and I can drive in half an hour.
That’s the calculus.
November 24, 2025 at 1:56 AM
I could hypothetically take transit to an appointment in South Denver.
It would take me more than 2 hours one way, and I can drive in half an hour.
That’s the calculus.
It would take me more than 2 hours one way, and I can drive in half an hour.
That’s the calculus.
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I am super-pro-public transit, and use it way more than the average American, but I live near a light rail station with very, very stable and predictable scheduling, and even then I would not use it for many things I use a car for because the cost of transit is time.
i wonder how much of Americans' views on driving vs. transit would change if they had to pay for gas/insurance/etc every time they turned on the engine
"i'm not paying $5 to take the train to work twice a day when i can just drive" is a genuine opinion held by so many people
"i'm not paying $5 to take the train to work twice a day when i can just drive" is a genuine opinion held by so many people
November 24, 2025 at 1:55 AM
I am super-pro-public transit, and use it way more than the average American, but I live near a light rail station with very, very stable and predictable scheduling, and even then I would not use it for many things I use a car for because the cost of transit is time.
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1/5 My 2020 interview with Alice Wong is now out and ready to be shared! You can download it here: tinyurl.com/2wke8tk6 (Note that you may not be able to view it online if you’re not signed into Google, but anyone can download it.)
November 24, 2025 at 5:36 PM
1/5 My 2020 interview with Alice Wong is now out and ready to be shared! You can download it here: tinyurl.com/2wke8tk6 (Note that you may not be able to view it online if you’re not signed into Google, but anyone can download it.)
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Yes! Truly gripping work.
If you haven't read Inkface by Miles Grier you're missing the best treatments of Othello (and Shakespeare in general) in living memory bookshop.org/p/books/inkf...
I was ready to go UP for Cynthia Erivo in Othello with David Oyelowo (and I still am) but I thought she would be playing Iago. It's alright, but she would eat that for the record
November 25, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Yes! Truly gripping work.
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Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
November 25, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
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Oh no, not Proton.
Proton is speed running an attempt to be a little Google. Over the last year they 1) made a crypto/NFT wallet, 2) made an AI assistant, and 3) seized journalist data for a state actor without a court order. On their own each is problematic. Together, they're a pattern.
November 25, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Oh no, not Proton.
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Zohran Mamdani just keeps making winning moves. Alondra on your technology committee is pretty much as good as it gets. Hot Damn.
Honored to serve on Mayor-elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Transition Committee on Technology. For too long, too many New Yorkers have been left behind. NYC deserves governance that centers affordability, equity, and the public good-looking forward to the work ahead. www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...
NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani announces transition committees
New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani announced Monday the creation of 17 transition advisory committees made up of more than 400 people.
www.cbsnews.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Zohran Mamdani just keeps making winning moves. Alondra on your technology committee is pretty much as good as it gets. Hot Damn.
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Oh my god that is so much money to manufacture consent for something that so many people do not want, and on which they have bet so much money and infrastructure. Holy shit. The popping of this "AI" bubble is gonna be such a nightmare.
The deal will create the government’s first AI high-performance computing infrastructure, adding nearly 1.3 gigawatts of capacity.
https://sherwood.news/tech/amazon-plans-to-invest-up-to-usd50-billion-for-ai-and-supercomputing/
https://sherwood.news/tech/amazon-plans-to-invest-up-to-usd50-billion-for-ai-and-supercomputing/
Amazon plans to invest up to $50 billion for “AI and supercomputing infrastructure” for the US government
The deal will create the government’s first AI high-performance computing infrastructure, adding nearly 1.3 gigawatts of capacity....
sherwood.news
November 25, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Oh my god that is so much money to manufacture consent for something that so many people do not want, and on which they have bet so much money and infrastructure. Holy shit. The popping of this "AI" bubble is gonna be such a nightmare.
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If you haven't read Inkface by Miles Grier you're missing the best treatments of Othello (and Shakespeare in general) in living memory bookshop.org/p/books/inkf...
I was ready to go UP for Cynthia Erivo in Othello with David Oyelowo (and I still am) but I thought she would be playing Iago. It's alright, but she would eat that for the record
November 25, 2025 at 2:41 AM
If you haven't read Inkface by Miles Grier you're missing the best treatments of Othello (and Shakespeare in general) in living memory bookshop.org/p/books/inkf...
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You don’t even have to be mediocre when you share the worldview of the ruling class.
"elevate charismatic figures such as Alan Dershowitz"
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November 25, 2025 at 4:45 AM
You don’t even have to be mediocre when you share the worldview of the ruling class.
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Student caught using AI on quiz. The only thing I disagree with is I have never cursed at a student. I model being a professional to them in expectation that they will be respectful and do the same. #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter
November 25, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Student caught using AI on quiz. The only thing I disagree with is I have never cursed at a student. I model being a professional to them in expectation that they will be respectful and do the same. #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter
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10/10
You're told it'll sabotage your career if you're a vocally politically opinionated, queer, woman. But things sabotaging my career are systemic xenophobia, sexism, and horrible job market. Which are a direct consequences of people not being vocally opinionated in the first place.
November 25, 2025 at 6:55 AM
10/10
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I’ll say more on this ltr, Mamdani picking Tisch for NYPD commish didn’t bother me much. I didn’t want him try to sell some new “diverse” & “progressive” person who wouldn’t be. Tisch was Adams’ THIRD CHOICE & not esp powerful. Not bad to have someone mediocre at NYPD who’s not yours while 👇 begins
So @alexvitale.bsky.social, who wrote THE END OF POLICING (which I cite heavily in my forthcoming book THE OVERSEER CLASS), has been tapped to join Mayor-Elect Mamdani’s Transition Team to work on “community safety issues.”
This is an extremely promising development.
This is an extremely promising development.
November 25, 2025 at 7:30 AM
I’ll say more on this ltr, Mamdani picking Tisch for NYPD commish didn’t bother me much. I didn’t want him try to sell some new “diverse” & “progressive” person who wouldn’t be. Tisch was Adams’ THIRD CHOICE & not esp powerful. Not bad to have someone mediocre at NYPD who’s not yours while 👇 begins
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What I love about this quote is that she unwittingly admits that her agenda is about scolding and policing public discourse, the kind of thing that she is projecting onto "wokeness' and "the left"
"elevate charismatic figures such as Alan Dershowitz"
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November 25, 2025 at 9:28 AM
What I love about this quote is that she unwittingly admits that her agenda is about scolding and policing public discourse, the kind of thing that she is projecting onto "wokeness' and "the left"
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This you @derbyuni.bsky.social?
"Sadness in the room .. people in floods of tears, with their heads on the desk"
200 staff at University of Derby are facing redundancy
Yet £75m spent on new Cavendish Building
It's screaming flashy infrastructure is valued more than teaching staff
www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/news/derby-n...
200 staff at University of Derby are facing redundancy
Yet £75m spent on new Cavendish Building
It's screaming flashy infrastructure is valued more than teaching staff
www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/news/derby-n...
University of Derby staff to strike before Christmas as redundancy threat looms
'We will be preparing for strike action to protect members' jobs'
www.derbytelegraph.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 11:06 AM
This you @derbyuni.bsky.social?
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I really don’t think we can overstate the harm that the tech ethos of move fast and break things (followed by the unsaid “and then just move on”) has done beyond tech. Government, ngos, universities, public schools that have invited the folks who think like this in keep ending up gutted
All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID.
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter
U.S. President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency has disbanded with eight months left to its mandate.
www.cnbc.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:48 PM
I really don’t think we can overstate the harm that the tech ethos of move fast and break things (followed by the unsaid “and then just move on”) has done beyond tech. Government, ngos, universities, public schools that have invited the folks who think like this in keep ending up gutted
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The city of Charlottesville is soliciting residents’ votes for a name for this year’s Christmas tree. Let’s keep a good thing going!
forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
November 25, 2025 at 12:53 PM
The city of Charlottesville is soliciting residents’ votes for a name for this year’s Christmas tree. Let’s keep a good thing going!
forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
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“The Kjoller case, though, is one of the first in which prosecutors, whose words carry great sway with judges and juries, have been accused of using A.I. without proper safeguards.”
Prosecutor Used Flawed A.I. to Keep a Man in Jail, His Lawyers Say
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:59 PM
“The Kjoller case, though, is one of the first in which prosecutors, whose words carry great sway with judges and juries, have been accused of using A.I. without proper safeguards.”
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we're going to win
Page One in Cincinnati:
“.. I need to be able to look my grandkids in the eye and say I did not remain silent.”
#ICE
“.. I need to be able to look my grandkids in the eye and say I did not remain silent.”
#ICE
November 25, 2025 at 1:02 PM
we're going to win