Ivan Kreilkamp
@ivan812.bsky.social
English prof, easily distracted Victorianist
Writing: https://ivankreilkamp.com/
Writing: https://ivankreilkamp.com/
“I am a hater, and I will not be polite. The machine is disgusting and we should break it. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.
AI cannot be a hater, because AI does not feel, or know, or care. Only humans can be haters. I celebrate my humanity” ❤️
AI cannot be a hater, because AI does not feel, or know, or care. Only humans can be haters. I celebrate my humanity” ❤️
I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
anthonymoser.github.io
January 13, 2026 at 11:28 PM
“I am a hater, and I will not be polite. The machine is disgusting and we should break it. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.
AI cannot be a hater, because AI does not feel, or know, or care. Only humans can be haters. I celebrate my humanity” ❤️
AI cannot be a hater, because AI does not feel, or know, or care. Only humans can be haters. I celebrate my humanity” ❤️
At my kid’s college this year they had a showing of the Holdovers for students staying on campus over
thanksgiving- loved that
thanksgiving- loved that
Loved reading this @newrepublic.com essay by @sayanniething.bsky.social on what has come to be one of my comfort movies, The Holdovers:
newrepublic.com/article/1764...
newrepublic.com/article/1764...
Alexander Payne’s School for Sad Sacks
“The Holdovers” is a brilliant study of an all-boys school and the troubled men it produces.
newrepublic.com
January 11, 2026 at 10:21 PM
At my kid’s college this year they had a showing of the Holdovers for students staying on campus over
thanksgiving- loved that
thanksgiving- loved that
“Yeah, but would America really buy a n**** winning?” Trump said. From @emilynussbaum.bsky.social’s CUE THE SUN
January 11, 2026 at 7:39 PM
“Yeah, but would America really buy a n**** winning?” Trump said. From @emilynussbaum.bsky.social’s CUE THE SUN
Reposted by Ivan Kreilkamp
“Anti-democracy measures do not simply arrive and takeover healthy democracies. They are workshopped first – most often on the most vulnerable communities.”
January 10, 2026 at 1:40 AM
“Anti-democracy measures do not simply arrive and takeover healthy democracies. They are workshopped first – most often on the most vulnerable communities.”
Loved this essay (about a permanent grad student in the UCLA history department who “was our truth-telling hermit, able to turn a mirror on historians’ follies”). But am concerned that a flaunt/ flout error in @nplusonemag.com may be sign of end times? 😳
January 9, 2026 at 5:11 PM
Loved this essay (about a permanent grad student in the UCLA history department who “was our truth-telling hermit, able to turn a mirror on historians’ follies”). But am concerned that a flaunt/ flout error in @nplusonemag.com may be sign of end times? 😳
"Some, too, applaud the swift extrajudicial execution with a bullet to the head of a young mother for not moving her car out of the way quickly enough. Such is the rich tapestry of our diverse, argumentative country!"
New CBS News anchor Tony Dokoupil closing the broadcast from MN last night.
January 9, 2026 at 2:53 PM
"Some, too, applaud the swift extrajudicial execution with a bullet to the head of a young mother for not moving her car out of the way quickly enough. Such is the rich tapestry of our diverse, argumentative country!"
“One thing is important: human dignity. Please don’t destroy it. Please don’t humiliate.” Not a bad aesthetic/ political credo (Hungarian filmmaker Bela Tarr’s)
January 9, 2026 at 12:59 PM
“One thing is important: human dignity. Please don’t destroy it. Please don’t humiliate.” Not a bad aesthetic/ political credo (Hungarian filmmaker Bela Tarr’s)
Reposted by Ivan Kreilkamp
“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...”
A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.
lithub.com/renee-nicole...
A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.
lithub.com/renee-nicole...
Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem.
Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s…
lithub.com
January 8, 2026 at 3:54 AM
“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...”
A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.
lithub.com/renee-nicole...
A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.
lithub.com/renee-nicole...
😯 “"We have asked for Maduro to leave, to retire, for President Donald Trump of the United States to be able to remove him, and we have visualized that next year this will happen,” said shaman Ana María Simeón"
(article dated Dec 29)
(article dated Dec 29)
Peruvian shamans predict Maduro's fall, continued global conflicts in 2026
A group of Peruvian shamans gathered in front of the sea in the Miraflores district of Peru’s capital city to carry out an annual ritual in which they make predictions for the upcoming year.
apnews.com
January 6, 2026 at 5:50 PM
😯 “"We have asked for Maduro to leave, to retire, for President Donald Trump of the United States to be able to remove him, and we have visualized that next year this will happen,” said shaman Ana María Simeón"
(article dated Dec 29)
(article dated Dec 29)
Jeffrey Isaac in @commondreams.org: "US hypocrisy about 'making the world safe for democracy' was bad, and sometimes very bad. Trump’s geopolitical brutalism is worse. Much worse."
Trump's Attack on Venezuela Is Not Your Average American Imperialism | "Anyone who considers the current attack on Venezuela as in tension with MAGA has not been paying attention to MAGA."
Trump's Attack on Venezuela Is Not Your Average American Imperialism
Anyone who cares about democracy in the US or in Venezuela ought to be very concerned about what is happening now.
www.commondreams.org
January 5, 2026 at 7:12 PM
Jeffrey Isaac in @commondreams.org: "US hypocrisy about 'making the world safe for democracy' was bad, and sometimes very bad. Trump’s geopolitical brutalism is worse. Much worse."
Trump obviously thinks this is akin to Loews “running” Home Depot after a corporate takeover. (Or Pottery Barn)
January 4, 2026 at 2:31 PM
Trump obviously thinks this is akin to Loews “running” Home Depot after a corporate takeover. (Or Pottery Barn)
“Now that Trump has announced without euphemism a conquest of Venezuela, resistance to it is to be expected. The U.S. has, once again, entered the Fuck Around phase and, once again, expects it to be eternal”
@attackerman.bsky.social
@attackerman.bsky.social
A Criminal Empire
The United States launches a conquest and occupation of Venezuela to extract its oil wealth. The neocon dream is the America First dream
www.forever-wars.com
January 3, 2026 at 9:54 PM
“Now that Trump has announced without euphemism a conquest of Venezuela, resistance to it is to be expected. The U.S. has, once again, entered the Fuck Around phase and, once again, expects it to be eternal”
@attackerman.bsky.social
@attackerman.bsky.social
Reposted by Ivan Kreilkamp
Im seeing discussions about consultations with congress, authorizations of force etc. I have to say this transcends any of what I would call sub constitutional technicalities. The president has gone to war with a foreign power and, it seems, kidnapped a foreign head of state on the basis of nothing.
January 3, 2026 at 9:43 AM
Im seeing discussions about consultations with congress, authorizations of force etc. I have to say this transcends any of what I would call sub constitutional technicalities. The president has gone to war with a foreign power and, it seems, kidnapped a foreign head of state on the basis of nothing.
Reposted by Ivan Kreilkamp
Mayor Mamdani already delivering results to his city
January 2, 2026 at 1:20 PM
Mayor Mamdani already delivering results to his city
Sylvia Townsend Warner hilarious: “Beneath all concessions to broadmindedness,” Mr. Fortune’s views “on oiling were positive and unshakable. Oiling, and all that sort of thing, was effeminate, unbecoming, and probably vicious. It was also messy.”
January 2, 2026 at 3:25 PM
Sylvia Townsend Warner hilarious: “Beneath all concessions to broadmindedness,” Mr. Fortune’s views “on oiling were positive and unshakable. Oiling, and all that sort of thing, was effeminate, unbecoming, and probably vicious. It was also messy.”
Loved Kleber Mendonça Filho’s The Secret Agent. Plot turns out to revolve partly around a corrupt right-wing functionary who shows up at a university & dismisses all the research being done there as useless bullshit. So that hit home!
January 2, 2026 at 12:44 PM
Loved Kleber Mendonça Filho’s The Secret Agent. Plot turns out to revolve partly around a corrupt right-wing functionary who shows up at a university & dismisses all the research being done there as useless bullshit. So that hit home!
My friend and I were shooting hoops on Bleecker Street court in 1991 when we realized the other guy also shooting was Keanu Reeves. Soon some schoolgirls spotted him and he ran off
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
December 30, 2025 at 5:12 PM
My friend and I were shooting hoops on Bleecker Street court in 1991 when we realized the other guy also shooting was Keanu Reeves. Soon some schoolgirls spotted him and he ran off
Nell Zink gives an entertaining interview. “American sex workers are an even scarier organized affinity group than translators. (I mean scary in the social-media sense)”
The New Yorker Books & Fiction Newsletter
link.newyorker.com
December 30, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Nell Zink gives an entertaining interview. “American sex workers are an even scarier organized affinity group than translators. (I mean scary in the social-media sense)”
Yes (with an extra fillip of hate and disdain directed at certain humanities disciplines)
The current attack on higher education is an attack on subject-matter, evidence-based expertise—the subject specifics are now completely irrelevant.
I wasn’t sure they were going to publish this. So good for them.
December 29, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Yes (with an extra fillip of hate and disdain directed at certain humanities disciplines)
Katherine Hepburn asking “What shall we hang, the holly or each other?" brings the right kind of Christmas spirit
Here's a Christmas Day recommendation for a Christmas-set movie that has basically nothing to do with Christmas: The Lion in Winter, a deeply ahistorical but very funny movie about Henry II trying to choose his successor. A big influence on Succession, and you can tell in how biting the dialogue is.
December 25, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Katherine Hepburn asking “What shall we hang, the holly or each other?" brings the right kind of Christmas spirit
It is happening here
So I have the cover story in next month's TNR.
I interviewed the heads of police groups; immigration defense attorneys, ex-judges and ex-prosecutors; former DOJ and DHS officials, and the former head of Border Patrol.
They're all horrified at what we've seen, and they all fear what's coming.
I interviewed the heads of police groups; immigration defense attorneys, ex-judges and ex-prosecutors; former DOJ and DHS officials, and the former head of Border Patrol.
They're all horrified at what we've seen, and they all fear what's coming.
Trump’s Immigration Nightmare: It Is Happening Here
With astonishing speed, the administration has toppled the most cherished pillars of a free society. And the experts agree: It’s all going to get much, much worse.
newrepublic.com
December 24, 2025 at 5:09 PM
It is happening here
Just discovered this Bernie Sanders banger (Smithsonian Folkways 1979) on Spotify. How does it only have ~2500 plays per track?!
@dchiasso.bsky.social
@dchiasso.bsky.social
December 22, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Just discovered this Bernie Sanders banger (Smithsonian Folkways 1979) on Spotify. How does it only have ~2500 plays per track?!
@dchiasso.bsky.social
@dchiasso.bsky.social
I pledged to We're Not in Harlem Anymore - a new short film by Tarik Rashaan Davis on @kickstarter.com
We're Not in Harlem Anymore - a new short film
A proof of concept for a feature length pulpy throwback to classic detective stories that inserts Black representation into noir.
www.kickstarter.com
December 22, 2025 at 5:14 PM
I pledged to We're Not in Harlem Anymore - a new short film by Tarik Rashaan Davis on @kickstarter.com
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I would hope Ross Douthat deplores the Harvard Salient’s move into open fascism but he should take responsibility for paving the way with his own Salient pieces that, e.g., defended Pinochet
December 20, 2025 at 11:28 PM
I would hope Ross Douthat deplores the Harvard Salient’s move into open fascism but he should take responsibility for paving the way with his own Salient pieces that, e.g., defended Pinochet