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Kristen Hanley Cardozo
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Last name is two words, one name: Hanley Cardozo. I teach writing and literature and study Victorian brutes. My views do not represent those of my employer. Website: khandozo.com
Deleted a repost because, tbh, I don't want to link to the NYT right now.
February 17, 2026 at 11:48 PM
I'm pretty sure I have a lot of buddies on here who have good quality destash that could help with this situation.
HELLO, FRIENDS!

The women's shelter where I volunteer lost almost all of their art and craft supplies last year. I can't fix everything, but I have a big network here, and so do a lot of you, and I'm pretty sure that together, we can fix this.

www.thingstogetme.com/2169641a9c163
Craft Supplies for Park Slope Women's Shelter
The Park Slope Women's Shelter serves unhoused women with mental health and/or substance-use disorder diagnoses in NYC. Due to an incident this past year, the shelter is attempting to rebuild and re...
www.thingstogetme.com
February 17, 2026 at 9:17 PM
By the time I looked at the Talarico interview, it had 2.2 million views, but it's already up to 2.3 million. They Streisand Effected the hell out of that joint.
February 17, 2026 at 9:06 PM
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They raided the jailed children to steal their letters.

The problem, in federal officials' minds, wasn't confining children in prison-camp conditions; it was that the children could tell the public about it.
“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.

Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.

www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
February 17, 2026 at 8:01 PM
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Can we please make sure we keep this in mind when everyone decides to make fun of people concerned about their safety in regard to civil disobedience.
February 17, 2026 at 7:36 PM
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I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is
February 17, 2026 at 11:41 AM
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Every so often there's a story about polling that breaks through as though it is some immutable insight into fixed values, rather than a reflection of what people with power and influence are willing and unwilling to push for. The answer is not abandoning policy but doing politics in defense of it.
February 17, 2026 at 6:42 PM
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NEW: ChatGPT and other chatbots are feeding users' fixations on real people, reinforcing users' delusional ideas and obsessions about others as they descend into unwanted harassment, stalking, and/or domestic abuse — traumatizing victims and profoundly altering lives.

futurism.com/artificial-i...
AI Delusions Are Leading to Domestic Abuse, Harassment, and Stalking
ChatGPT and other AI chatbots are reinforcing users' delusions about other people — fueling fixations linked to stalking and other abuses.
futurism.com
February 17, 2026 at 3:58 PM
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“Readers should be able to assume that every word between quotation marks is what the speaker or writer said… The writer should, of course, omit extraneous syllables like ‘um’ and may judiciously delete false starts.”
-NYT ethical guidelines
Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?
February 16, 2026 at 7:48 PM
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I’ve watched a very smart child try to encode what chaptgpt thinks is “human” so that her class assignments don’t get flagged for plagiarism.

I’ve heard expert professionals admit to self-editing so they don’t “sound” like an llm.

This is the kind of cultural flattening that accelerates fascism.
“As some universities and journals adopt AI-text detectors, they risk creating a feedback loop that constrains how authors express themselves. I have seen colleagues intentionally simplify their grammar or break down complex rhetorical structures to avoid arousing algorithmic suspicion.”
Why artificial intelligence detectors could penalize academic writing - Nature Human Behaviour
Writing produced using artificial intelligence is becoming more common in academia, which has prompted institutions to look for ways to detect it. Bo Hu warns that an overreliance on fixed linguistic ...
www.nature.com
February 16, 2026 at 8:45 PM
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My Trans Bill of Rights protects the freedom for all trans people to live as their full, authentic selves. It’s time to get this passed!
February 16, 2026 at 12:06 AM
One of many Wuthering Heights pet peeves is how often people associate Branwell and Heathcliff when Hindley is right there.
February 16, 2026 at 7:53 PM
Alt text added. When I’m teaching my students about transcription, I note that it’s usual to remove verbal clutter and when it’s left in, it’s often a sign that the writer wants you to regard the speaker with disrespect. Not great!
February 16, 2026 at 7:31 PM
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It’s easy to think writing is mainly the transcription of ideas you already have—that is, until you try to write something worthwhile, and you find what you thought were saying transform into something far more interesting in the process. This skips that last step, and that is *not* an improvement.
“We plan to hire an AI rewrite specialist to ingest the reporting by Hannah and others and use AI to convert it into stories.”

The editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer said it will use AI to ‘write’ its articles.

www.cleveland.com/news/2025/10...
February 16, 2026 at 2:45 PM
This! People are using LLMs to check whether work is produced by LLMs and the tech cannot do this! It’s the same tech that will confidently tell you to put glue on your pizza.
Just because I keep seeing those "I checked this piece and it's written by AI" - this is an old article of mine, before AI was available. So could we not?
February 16, 2026 at 6:27 PM
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Yo Harvard's being a little shit and trying to axe its Yiddish programme + refusing to bargain in good faith with the union. You can send a letter of support here (maybe edited a bit) saveharvardyiddish.org #yiddish #harvard
Save Yiddish at Harvard!
Please join us in sending letters. Share this campaign as widely as possible!
saveharvardyiddish.org
February 16, 2026 at 12:35 AM
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Exactly this. "I'll vote for whichever candidate has a D next to their name no matter what their actual policy positions are!" sends a message to the politicians that they don't need to care about what you want at all. It's wild that people keep volunteering their unconditional support.
It's like sitting down in a negotiation and telling the person you're trying to get something out of that you're going to agree to the deal, regardless of what they put on the table. Even if that were true, it is obviously a bad idea to tell them that!
February 15, 2026 at 9:20 PM
My kid, on their way out the door (and apropos nothing): “Sometimes people slander Strega Nona by attributing Big Anthony’s actions to her.”
February 15, 2026 at 8:36 PM
I’ve been getting colonoscopies covered by insurance since my early forties and all I had to do was *checks notes* be hospitalized for almost a week with an inflamed digestive system and uncertain diagnosis. It shouldn’t take that to get good preventative care.
February 13, 2026 at 6:37 PM
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Gavin Newsom would have put down the Bell Riots with tanks and napalm I can tell you that much
March 5, 2025 at 8:55 PM
"abuse those people instead of other people" is not a solution to abuse, I don't know what to tell you
February 12, 2026 at 8:45 PM
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cannot believe it still needs to be said: suggesting sex workers should just fuck the misogynists is misogyny. you don’t “manage” male supremacy with sex workers’ lives and labor
February 12, 2026 at 1:00 PM
ICE nonironically doing the "not involved in human trafficking" tweet
February 12, 2026 at 6:25 PM
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Washington State has a weird dumb nonsense short legislative session for some reason so when people say NOW is the time to take action in the Washington State legislature they absolutely mean NOW is the time!
Y'all are amazing. We've generated more than 500 letters to pass this bill in the last 18 hours. Let's keep the momentum. If you're in Washington please send one, or if have friends/family in Washington, please ask them to join us to ban surveillance and surge pricing on groceries! bit.ly/WA2481
February 3, 2026 at 4:33 PM
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SB6045, a bill to allow farmworker collective bargaining in WA state, will soon be voted on in WAs Senate. This bill is critical for WA farm workers like those at Windmill mushroom who have been fighting to get a contract since 2022. Take action today: act.seiu.org/a/waorganizi...
February 11, 2026 at 7:20 PM