Paul Kim

from the river to the sea | phd student @ ucsb film+media

[jawni han | 한겨울 @kimchimarx]

Some words on Take Care of My Cat, one of my longtime letterboxd top 4 and among the greatest Korean films of this century so far, for @reverse_shot. Thank you @kani_releasing for bringing this gem to North America at last!

[Streetli 🍉 @StreetliTweets]

Desperately need to put an end to this.

[Cinema Guild @CinemaGuild]

Wow.

[🔻agitprop + absurdity🔻 @agtprpnabsrdty]

A months-long Sky News investigation into the US double-tap strike on a Minab girls' school found the Pentagon had tracked the site by satellite since 1987 and could still count children's shadows in the courtyard before firing anyway.

What the evidence shows:

Three Tomahawk missiles fired from the USS Spruance, 716 kilometers away in the Arabian Sea, hit the Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab on Feb 28, the opening day of the US-Israeli war on Iran. Witnesses described a second strike hitting the exact spot where a teacher had moved surviving students for shelter, killing nearly everyone who had taken cover there. A third strike followed on the same site. Death tolls range from 156 to over 170, most of them girls aged seven to twelve. The school had been walled off from the adjacent IRGC naval base since at least 2015, had its own website, and was geolocatable through open-source materials any analyst could have pulled in minutes.

Built to fail:

The Pentagon's own machinery for preventing exactly this outcome had already been dismantled. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth slashed the Civilian Protection Center of Excellence workforce by roughly 90 percent and cut CENTCOM's civilian casualty assessment team from ten people to one, months before the war started. A May Pentagon Inspector General report found the office had become a shell on paper with no budget, no mandate, no real mission. A functioning warning system was defunded on purpose, then blamed for not warning anyone.

Accountability buried:

Four months on, CENTCOM's commander told reporters the investigation was near complete, yet nothing has been released. Asked in June whether anyone would face consequences, Trump called it a strange question, adding that mistakes are made and war is nasty. The mistake was choosing not to fund the office that exists to catch mistakes like this one.

My take: A military that surveilled a schoolyard for four decades didn't fail to see the children, it decided in advance that seeing them wouldn't change the targeting. Nobody in this chain lacked information.

[Alec MacGillis @AlecMacGillis]

This is pretty bleak.

[Will 🦥 Menaker @willmenaker]

Just pull over his motorcade and plant a gun or a brick on him and also he will almost certainly resist arrest causing officers to fear for their lives …

[jatella @jatella]

I hate to say it because it doesn’t have to be this way but it’s downstream from the left’s shift in focus—to appeal to the center—from state violence to affordability.

[Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar) @HHamayel2]

In this essay, I examine the challenge of the intellectual in Palestine, both in relation to Western audiences, whose ears are often conditioned to turn truth into noise, and to a Palestinian community that remains skeptical of the power of words.
https://t.co/5RLG4hkRCj

[Alex Turner @Turn_Trout]

I resigned from Google DeepMind bc it broke its founding promise by selling AI to the military without restrictions against killer robots or mass spying.

For months, I worked to stop this but watched powerful ethicists and institutions choose silence.

Here's what happened. 🧵

[Mahmoud Khalil | محمود خليل @mahmoudkhalel]

Today, I sued the Heritage Foundation, Stephen Miller, a Columbia affiliate, and others under the KKK Act. I will not stop fighting until everyone who willingly contributed to my missing the birth of my son—and 104 days of my life—answers for it. More actions will come soon.

But this lawsuit is about far more than what was done to me. It is about a coordinated, ongoing plot to punish, silence, and intimidate everyone who dares to dissent and speak out for Palestinian liberation. We will hold them accountable.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

BREAKING: Deadly bacteria found in major US city's water system traced to Mark Zuckerberg's $800 million, $META, data center, per TechRadar

[Middle East Eye @MiddleEastEye]

“By the way, in the country where children are dying, they wear the jerseys of Argentina, Barcelona, Manchester City, and Real Madrid.”

Egypt’s coach Hossam Hassan condemned the football community for their silence regarding the killing of Palestinian children https://t.co/AIgbitqNvE

[Harrison Lee @HarrisonCLee]

Thierry and Zlatan saying they wouldn't have become soccer players because of the costs of the American youth system, then seeing Lalas say it's a great system because it makes a lot of money for some people really sums it all up nicely

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

This is the most sadistic thing I’ve ever heard

[Kylian Mbappé @KMbappe]

Madame Celeste Amarilla,
Vous êtes une femme méprisable et indigne de sa fonction.
Vous ne représentez pas le Paraguay, ce pays qui a transpiré la passion et l’honneur tout au long de la compétition. Par votre inconscience et votre racisme décomplexé, le monde entier a déjà oublié le parcours et l’effort historique que vos joueurs ont réalisés durant cette coupe du monde pour laisser place à une dame incompétente donnant la pire image possible de son pays.
Je ne laisserai jamais aux gens comme elle, la liberté de laisser propager leur haine et leur racisme à travers le monde.

[Redacted @redactedobscure]

the State imposes its will on constituents through governmental legitimacy, corporatist seizure, and media coercion as both naturalized and necessary recalibrations. it happens so gradually that we passively sign our own resignation as consensual concurrence.

[Redacted @redactedobscure]

this probably the best example I could provide for grasping “manufactured consent”

[The Intercept @theintercept]

A first-of-its-kind analysis by The Intercept found that in the Army, women are more likely to be killed by their fellow service members than by enemy combatants, in a reversal of the threat soldiers are trained to face.

[tayler (😬) @billdifferen]

I KNOW THEY MAD AS FUCK THEY GOTTA PRETEND THEY WANNA CLEAN THE STADIUM TOO LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO