Ivan Kreilkamp
@ivan812.bsky.social
English prof, easily distracted Victorianist
Writing: https://ivankreilkamp.com/
Writing: https://ivankreilkamp.com/
B/c “building LLMs to study the vocal patterns of male speakers” definitely screams, “I am very cool & down & can ‘hang with the boys’”
November 11, 2025 at 12:37 PM
B/c “building LLMs to study the vocal patterns of male speakers” definitely screams, “I am very cool & down & can ‘hang with the boys’”
November 11, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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when you’re too embarrassing a wing nut for this SCOTUS you’ve cleared a very high bar
The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected Kim Davis' call to overturn its 2015 ruling that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.
www.mississippifreepress.org/us-supreme-c...
www.mississippifreepress.org/us-supreme-c...
US Supreme Court Rejects Kim Davis' Call to Overturn Same-Sex Marriage Rights
The Supreme Court has rejected a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.
www.mississippifreepress.org
November 10, 2025 at 3:24 PM
when you’re too embarrassing a wing nut for this SCOTUS you’ve cleared a very high bar
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Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
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In the name of "fighting antisemitism," Indiana University appointed a Christian scholar to tell Jewish scholars what they can and cannot say - all while they invited Tucker Carlson to speak on campus. www.jta.org/2025/11/07/u...
In Indiana, a vaunted Jewish studies program is upended by red-state politics over Israel and speech - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
A leadership shakeup, a defunded graduate student and political pressure from above have turned a storied program into a flashpoint for Trump-era campus politics.
www.jta.org
November 8, 2025 at 3:22 AM
In the name of "fighting antisemitism," Indiana University appointed a Christian scholar to tell Jewish scholars what they can and cannot say - all while they invited Tucker Carlson to speak on campus. www.jta.org/2025/11/07/u...
A solemn Wombat Day (Nov. 6) for those who honor it
November 6, 2025 at 1:10 PM
A solemn Wombat Day (Nov. 6) for those who honor it
omg. This calls for a Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe-style documentary short
Please don’t do it on one of the Disney channels we can’t get
November 5, 2025 at 7:16 PM
omg. This calls for a Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe-style documentary short
John Plotz on Arendt’s Refugee Politics in @publicbooks.bsky.social : “One of Arendt’s most surprising insights is that professing *love* for the X people may be a way to foreclose on freedom and on humanity just as effectively as professing *hatred* for the Y people.”
Arendt’s Refugee Politics - Public Books
One of Arendt’s most surprising insights is that professing “love for the X people” may be a way to foreclose on freedom and on humanity just as effectively as professing “hatred for the Y people.”
www.publicbooks.org
November 5, 2025 at 5:57 PM
John Plotz on Arendt’s Refugee Politics in @publicbooks.bsky.social : “One of Arendt’s most surprising insights is that professing *love* for the X people may be a way to foreclose on freedom and on humanity just as effectively as professing *hatred* for the Y people.”
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some jazzers have been griping about Hancock’s vocoder ad-lib segment, which he’s been doing every set. Allow me to set you straight. Herbie Hancock is one of the greatest musicians ever to live and in the context of music if he makes a choice then that is the right choice. Hope this clarifies
just saw Herbie Hancock at the Strathmore. played almost exclusively progressive jazz, went ~1 hour over time, much of the overage stemming from a nearly 40m lecture on evolution, compassion, & futurism done entirely via vocoder, and saved almost all the accessible fusion for post-lecture. the GOAT!
November 3, 2025 at 11:13 AM
some jazzers have been griping about Hancock’s vocoder ad-lib segment, which he’s been doing every set. Allow me to set you straight. Herbie Hancock is one of the greatest musicians ever to live and in the context of music if he makes a choice then that is the right choice. Hope this clarifies
"Or consider the claim of AI rights advocacy group UFAIR (United Foundation for AI Rights) that denying AI personhood amounts to 'digital apartheid' comparable to the violence of slavery, Indigenous dispossession, and the subjugation of women"... omg... ?!
November 1, 2025 at 12:44 PM
"Or consider the claim of AI rights advocacy group UFAIR (United Foundation for AI Rights) that denying AI personhood amounts to 'digital apartheid' comparable to the violence of slavery, Indigenous dispossession, and the subjugation of women"... omg... ?!
“The literal translation is, as best as we can tell, we will emit fire from our vaginas that will wound his penis.
This is one of the reasons why the protest movement became known as Vengeance of the Vagina Head.”
This is one of the reasons why the protest movement became known as Vengeance of the Vagina Head.”
October 31, 2025 at 8:30 PM
“The literal translation is, as best as we can tell, we will emit fire from our vaginas that will wound his penis.
This is one of the reasons why the protest movement became known as Vengeance of the Vagina Head.”
This is one of the reasons why the protest movement became known as Vengeance of the Vagina Head.”
Wole Soyinka: “all 10,000 women took off their head wraps. This is always a dramatic moment. The moment there's going to be conflict, off would come the head tie. It's like throwing down the gauntlet when a woman takes off her head tie, ties it like a sash around her waist, men scatter”
October 31, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Wole Soyinka: “all 10,000 women took off their head wraps. This is always a dramatic moment. The moment there's going to be conflict, off would come the head tie. It's like throwing down the gauntlet when a woman takes off her head tie, ties it like a sash around her waist, men scatter”
I’m enjoying this podcast
October 31, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I’m enjoying this podcast
“Give your money away, shorties!”
"If you're a billionaire, why are you a billionaire?" Billie Eilish speaking directly to Mark Zuckerberg, as she donates $11.5m to food poverty and climate justice organisations.
'Give your money away,' Billie Eilish tells billionaires
The singer called on the mega wealthy to donate more to charity, during a speech at the WSJ Awards attended by the likes of Mark Zuckerberg and George Lucas.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 31, 2025 at 12:17 PM
“Give your money away, shorties!”
Radu Jude’s Dracula film sounds exhausting… but/& interesting
“Jude’s film suffers from severe bloat…we get authoritarian ruler as vampire, capitalist fat cat as vampire, racist xenophobe as vampire, AI as vampire, religion as vampire, US imperialism as vampire”
“Jude’s film suffers from severe bloat…we get authoritarian ruler as vampire, capitalist fat cat as vampire, racist xenophobe as vampire, AI as vampire, religion as vampire, US imperialism as vampire”
Dracula
4columns.org
October 31, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Radu Jude’s Dracula film sounds exhausting… but/& interesting
“Jude’s film suffers from severe bloat…we get authoritarian ruler as vampire, capitalist fat cat as vampire, racist xenophobe as vampire, AI as vampire, religion as vampire, US imperialism as vampire”
“Jude’s film suffers from severe bloat…we get authoritarian ruler as vampire, capitalist fat cat as vampire, racist xenophobe as vampire, AI as vampire, religion as vampire, US imperialism as vampire”
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I could not love this essay more! What terrific public scholarship!
October 30, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I could not love this essay more! What terrific public scholarship!
"It's a bit ironic that “gaslighting” is the term that’s come to signify the psychological abuse... It would really be more apt to say that someone has been “brooched,” or “pocket-watched,” or “little pictured,” since those are the objects the husband uses to rattle the wife’s mind"
The Lost Ending of “Gaslight” That You Didn’t Know You Needed - Public Books
The only way to really understand the term is to sit down and watch the harrowing psychological film from which it got its name.
www.publicbooks.org
October 30, 2025 at 2:43 PM
"It's a bit ironic that “gaslighting” is the term that’s come to signify the psychological abuse... It would really be more apt to say that someone has been “brooched,” or “pocket-watched,” or “little pictured,” since those are the objects the husband uses to rattle the wife’s mind"
The Lost Ending of “Gaslight” That You Didn’t Know You Needed - Public Books
The only way to really understand the term is to sit down and watch the harrowing psychological film from which it got its name.
www.publicbooks.org
October 30, 2025 at 2:42 PM
"It's a bit ironic that “gaslighting” is the term that’s come to signify the psychological abuse... It would really be more apt to say that someone has been “brooched,” or “pocket-watched,” or “little pictured,” since those are the objects the husband uses to rattle the wife’s mind"
My tribute to genius cartoonist Edward Steed-- out in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social. "The 'homunculus' comics can be read as embodiments of the *actual truth* of the male self, one that is usually concealed or otherwise disguised"
@dandq.bsky.social
@dandq.bsky.social
Edward Steed’s Posthuman Comedy | Los Angeles Review of Books
Ivan Kreilkamp “blasts through ordinary perception” in Edward Steed’s “Forces of Nature: A Book of Drawings.”
lareviewofbooks.org
October 30, 2025 at 1:22 PM
My tribute to genius cartoonist Edward Steed-- out in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social. "The 'homunculus' comics can be read as embodiments of the *actual truth* of the male self, one that is usually concealed or otherwise disguised"
@dandq.bsky.social
@dandq.bsky.social
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Finally someone bold enough to ask, is new york ready for a mayor who opposes slavery? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/u...
October 29, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Finally someone bold enough to ask, is new york ready for a mayor who opposes slavery? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/u...
Finally saw this (the 160-minute director’s cut)… unbelievable 🤯
Joshua Oppenheimer (with scenes from his film "The Act of Killing") - BOTD
October 26, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Finally saw this (the 160-minute director’s cut)… unbelievable 🤯
Parenting triumph: I gave my daughter my copy of “the Hearing Trumpet” on her Fall break - she declared it one of the best novels she’s ever read and is taking it back to school to loan to friends
@nyrb-imprints.bsky.social
@nyrb-imprints.bsky.social
October 26, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Parenting triumph: I gave my daughter my copy of “the Hearing Trumpet” on her Fall break - she declared it one of the best novels she’s ever read and is taking it back to school to loan to friends
@nyrb-imprints.bsky.social
@nyrb-imprints.bsky.social
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So many pleasures in the new Frankenstein...
I did regret just a bit del Toro's decision to give it a Victorian setting. But that shift opens the way for an episode in which Elizabeth purchases a work of entomology that, I'm pretty sure, is L M Budgen's Episodes in insect life (1849): cover below!
I did regret just a bit del Toro's decision to give it a Victorian setting. But that shift opens the way for an episode in which Elizabeth purchases a work of entomology that, I'm pretty sure, is L M Budgen's Episodes in insect life (1849): cover below!
October 26, 2025 at 12:40 PM
So many pleasures in the new Frankenstein...
I did regret just a bit del Toro's decision to give it a Victorian setting. But that shift opens the way for an episode in which Elizabeth purchases a work of entomology that, I'm pretty sure, is L M Budgen's Episodes in insect life (1849): cover below!
I did regret just a bit del Toro's decision to give it a Victorian setting. But that shift opens the way for an episode in which Elizabeth purchases a work of entomology that, I'm pretty sure, is L M Budgen's Episodes in insect life (1849): cover below!
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Why did Indiana University attack and cut its own student newspaper?
Well, in a twist of irony any English professor would call clichéd, it turns out IU did it because they were angry about the students' reporting on a FIRE report naming IU as the worst public university for free speech in the US.
Well, in a twist of irony any English professor would call clichéd, it turns out IU did it because they were angry about the students' reporting on a FIRE report naming IU as the worst public university for free speech in the US.
October 25, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Why did Indiana University attack and cut its own student newspaper?
Well, in a twist of irony any English professor would call clichéd, it turns out IU did it because they were angry about the students' reporting on a FIRE report naming IU as the worst public university for free speech in the US.
Well, in a twist of irony any English professor would call clichéd, it turns out IU did it because they were angry about the students' reporting on a FIRE report naming IU as the worst public university for free speech in the US.
The new Sam Lipsyte story is hilarious & delightful. Surprisingly moving for a story about a “Charles in Charge” fanfic author
wake up babe, new sam lipsyte dropped!
“The doctor said it’s not good, but not hopeless.
'That’s his sweet spot,' I said.”
“The doctor said it’s not good, but not hopeless.
'That’s his sweet spot,' I said.”
“Final Boy,” by Sam Lipsyte
“Oh, you write fan fiction,” she said. “We all write fan fiction,” I told her. “Some of us are just more honest about it.”
www.newyorker.com
October 24, 2025 at 5:34 PM
The new Sam Lipsyte story is hilarious & delightful. Surprisingly moving for a story about a “Charles in Charge” fanfic author