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Kristen Hanley Cardozo

@khandozo.bsky.social
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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

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Kristen Hanley Cardozo @khandozo.bsky.social · 33m
There's a billboard I've been seeing lately that reads something like "Agents, your web is ready for you," and it makes me so mad that people are putting a ton of work into making the web accessible to fucking "agents" when they weren't willing to put that work in for disabled humans.
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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 4h
George Saunders on using AI: "Writing is the most precious way one person can communicate their essence to another person. I’ve spent a lifetime trying to get better at making myself present in my writing. Why would I want to sacrifice even one iota of that?"
Have you spent time trying to write or revise with AI? Is there an experiment that would be interesting enough to try?

I have not. Not for a second. To me, this whole idea of using AI to write is . . . anathema. A thing to be most radically avoided.

Writing is the most precious way one person can communicate their essence to another person. I’ve spent a lifetime trying to get better at making myself present in my writing. Why would I want to sacrifice even one iota of that? Not even in an email and certainly not in a short story or novel.Who are we ceding our authority to, exactly, when we let AI write for us? And why? Why surrender our agency (that amazing ability we have to reach across time and space, with our strange, idiosyncratic phenomenon, and land within the sensibility of another human being) to something that, by its very design, pushes the individual sensibility aside? And in the name of . . . what, exactly? Ease, I guess? Efficiency? The person who chooses to write with AI has also sacrificed, from the start, the opportunity of experiencing difficulty, of struggling to say what he wants to say, of making himself evident in his prose, of trying to find out what he believes. By this, he sacrifices a chance to know himself and his mind better. To me, that’s a shame. And it’s dangerous, because, as we are now finding out, it affects the brain and lessens our capabilities. Thanks, but no thanks, get thee behind me, etc.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Since PTSD is being invoked to excuse any and all abuse and misconduct, let us acknowledge where it is most common. .... From my book Recollections of My Nonexistence.
The former Marine David J. Morris, author of a book on ­ post-
­ traumatic stress disorder, notes that the disorder is far more com-
mon and far more rarely addressed among rape survivors than
combat veterans. He wrote me, “The science on the subject is pretty
clear: according to the New England Journal of Medicine, rape is about
four times more likely to result in diagnosable PTSD than combat.
Think about that for a ­ moment— being raped is four times more psy-
chologically disturbing than going off to a war and being shot at and
blown up. And because there are currently no enduring cultural nar-
ratives that allow women to look upon their survival as somehow he-
roic or honorable, the potential for enduring damage is even greater.”
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Kristen Hanley Cardozo @khandozo.bsky.social · 5h
The thing about Ai “art” is that humans care deeply about context in judging a work. Scandals about fake memoirs only make sense because we care about the context of creation. The content of a good fake memoirs only doesn’t change when we find out it’s fake. Only the context.
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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 20h
a lot of very annoying men have been going on about “restoring trust” in universities, by which they mean increasing “viewpoint diversity,” by which they mean privileging evidence-free conservative beliefs. but it seems like a bigger deal that students and faculty can’t trust their school this way:
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Kristen Hanley Cardozo @khandozo.bsky.social · 19h
Dead people gossip: The model for this painting was a young George Meredith. While the painting was underway, Wallis and Meredith's wife fell in love and later ran off together. Meredith would go on to write a number of works about how Victorian marriage was a fucked up mess.
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Kristen Hanley Cardozo @khandozo.bsky.social · 19h
The bunny was off doing her own thing until she realized I was about to go into another room to write emails and then she materialized beside me and demanded attention. And I'm afraid I'd much rather pet a bunny than send an email so she got her way.
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Kristen Hanley Cardozo @khandozo.bsky.social · 21h
I teach three classes in a row on Tuesdays right now and it's just a lot on the ol' bod, though I am very grateful to have work.
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Kristen Hanley Cardozo @khandozo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
How am I supposed to get things done when a small cute mammal is regularly accosting me for snuggles?
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Kristen Hanley Cardozo @khandozo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's one economy Michael, what could it take to fix it? One promised steel mill?
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Kristen Hanley Cardozo @khandozo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I love that just changing the text of something with a dot webp to a dot jpg does in fact change it to a jpg.
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Kristen Hanley Cardozo @khandozo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I have so many thoughts on outsourcing household management to LLMs, and they're too numerous and complicated to all put here, but one 19th-century thought that occurs to me is that with servants far less common now, we've lost sight of what it means to have a home staff.
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Kristen Hanley Cardozo @khandozo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Is every humanities PhD getting the cold emails to work on Grok?
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Kristen Hanley Cardozo @khandozo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula.
Carmilla is about to crawl onto Bertha, a girl she loved and killed
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Kristen Hanley Cardozo @khandozo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Mike Johnson feels like a folksy automaton made by Walt Disney in the sixties that has somehow been granted its wish to become a real evil boy. Some kind of evil Velveteen Rabbit situation at play there.
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Vaccines work" isn't a political statement. "Immigrants do not increase crime" isn't a political statement. "Climate change is real" isn't a political statement. "Genocide is bad" isn't a political statement. Stop neutralizing the power of facts by framing them as "politics." Reality matters.
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Some people claim that they haven’t read The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner: Written by Himself: With a detail of curious traditionary facts and other evidence by the editor but this book has been a banger for 202 years.
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Academic Audio Transcription Ltd @aat-transcribes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Find out more (with an arrow pointing to a QR code which points to https://academicaudiotranscription.com). 

In the bottom left-hand corner is the company logo, a pair of hands over a sideways oriented speech bubble (as if a keyboard), and the words Academic Audio Transcription. 

In the background is a semi-transparent image of a white man with short greying hair and brown eyes yelling in the direction of the camera.
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Kristen Hanley Cardozo @khandozo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Got an email from UC Davis recently saying they just admitted their largest ever first year class and now have over 40k students.
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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The University of California system, not including CSU or community colleges, is 300,000 students.
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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The combined undergraduate and graduate student populations of all Ivy League schools is about 140,000 students. The CUNY system alone is 250,000.
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Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Running for president as a single-issue candidate: Requiring websites to make Boolean searches work again
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Kristen Hanley Cardozo @khandozo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The devil just married the guy from the sickos comic in my daughter’s Tomodachi Life game. Love is so beautiful. ♥️
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Kristen Hanley Cardozo @khandozo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“Many said they are still being treated as if they have a psychological illness, and still being pushed into GET and CBT.” 😡
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Kristen Hanley Cardozo @khandozo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Adding to my list and reposting for other people who might want to do the same
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ha ha that’s gross and should make everyone uncomfortable, anyway, Rahm presided over a Chicago police black site, lied about what it was and then I sued the Chicago police for its records that proved it:
theguardian.com
Homan Square revealed: how Chicago police 'disappeared' 7,000 people
Exclusive: Lawsuit exposes scale of detention at off-the-books interrogation warehouse while attorneys describe find-your-client chase ‘from a Bond movie’
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Kristen Hanley Cardozo @khandozo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Democratic Pollster Doing Middle-Aged Married Sex Wrong
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“She nearly lost her home to foreclosure and her teenage daughter was entrusted with running her household. Her college-age son left a football scholarship to return home and help with costs around the home. Mason has three children and also raised four of her brother’s children.”
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ceej @ceej.online · 24/09/2026
impeach them all. fuck em. why should they get to fly around on our dime and hurt people? “they’ll never actually removed from office” who gives a shit? I want them miserable every day for the rest of the term. I hope they have nightmares. air their dirty laundry. make em sweat
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 24/09/2026
Y'all @nora.zone and I are pleased to tell you that Gavbot, the bot that provides fun Gavin Newsom facts, is live. Follow @heygavin.bsky.social for facts every 48 hours, @ him if you need one RIGHT NOW, and please submit your sourced suggestions. Be nice to him he's a baby and we're still building!
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Kristen Hanley Cardozo @khandozo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If you give Conundrum a delicious lettuce leaf, she gets so excited that she grabs it, runs out of the room, does a victorious circuit of the other room carrying her bounty, then runs back to the starting point to eat her leaf. It's a highlight of our day that luckily occurs multiple times a day.
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Mark Sample @samplereality.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
You hear about faculty who are demoralized, exhausted, and ready to quit. All true! But what you don't hear is that for many of us, the time we spend with students is the best part of our day and it's what keeps us going. I for one am uplifted by my students.
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Kristen Hanley Cardozo @khandozo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Daniel called Conundrum "the golden retriever of rabbits" recently, and it is ridiculously apt. All that animal wants to do is be friends with every living thing and run around carrying her toys and treats from room to room.
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 21/09/2026
“Everything is 40% more expensive because of AI” is a great line for an opposition party trying to unseat the AI-supported incumbents, if any Democratic consultants wanted to take a short break from dehumanizing trans kids to actually try winning a contested election.
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Kristen Hanley Cardozo @khandozo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Fuck Gavin and fuck Bonta. Wreckers.
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Kristen Hanley Cardozo @khandozo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
See, this is the energy I need clothiers to bring to the table.
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Kristen Hanley Cardozo @khandozo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Back in art school being told by the fine arts professors that my work is "too narrative." (I was an illustration major before I dropped out.)
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 20/09/2026
"My opponent wants to hire creeps to inspect your daughter's genitals if she wants to play soccer. I wouldn't trust him or any hired weirdo from his pedophile-protecting party alone in a room with any kid." Go on the offensive, you cowards! It's not that hard!
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Kristen Hanley Cardozo @khandozo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Thought I got an email that said "these cursed styles would look so great on you!" but it was "curated." Disappointing. I think I'd look smashing in a cursed amulet.
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Kristen Hanley Cardozo @khandozo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I wish this essay my friend Christian wrote in 2017 wasn't still relevant, but regardless: he talks about lacking access to bathrooms in a pre-ADA world and how that affected him, and how it affects him now as a disabled trans man.
buzzfeednews.com
I’m Trans, Disabled, And Tired Of Fighting To Get Into Bathrooms
After growing up with a disability, I thought being excluded from public restrooms was a relic of my past, not a part of my — and thousands of other trans people’s — futures.
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Kristen Hanley Cardozo @khandozo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
What does a “slow down” mean? Who enforces it and how? Because if the companies calling for this wanted it, it seems like they could just do it?
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Kristen Hanley Cardozo @khandozo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Enjoy a quote from my favorite local rabid bat story. And don't touch bats! www.berkeleyside.org/2023/05/22/r...
It was also a reminder of the wisdom of young children like 4-year-old Eliana, who took instructions to not disturb wildlife very seriously. She now hopes to work for animal control when she’s older.

“Then I could actually touch the bat,” Eliana said. “Because you have gloves on.”
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Kristen Hanley Cardozo @khandozo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Most of my subscriptions email and/or text me before shipping so I can reschedule if needed, but not Petco, so the rabbit bedding packages are piling up.
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Elias Greig @eliasgreig.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I keep seeing articles about men worrying they won't pass on their genes, and I don't understand why the media won't tell the plain truth: as a man hoping to sire children, the most important thing to do is artfully assemble a bower and surround it with a collection of startlingly blue objects.
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Kristen Hanley Cardozo @khandozo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Put my glasses on to read from my phone and everything was still really blurry, huh, I guess my eyes are getting wor...these are sunglasses.
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Mark Doyle @markdoyle.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Was very happy to beam into QUB today to launch the Africans in Ireland website that I and a number of colleagues have been working on for years. Maps, database, & other resources documenting the African presence in Ireland from the late 16th to early 20th centuries. africansinireland.com
A right-facing silhouette of the Black preacher and seaman John Jea, Methodist preacher and seaman, from his 1816 book The Life, History, and Unparalleled Sufferings of John Jea, the African Preacher
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Kristen Hanley Cardozo @khandozo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A great gift was a friend telling me she sent my dissertation to a friend who got interested in brutes after seeing the Wuthering Heights movie, and that friend read the whole thing. As far as I know, the first person to do so outside of my narrow academic circles!
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Ok that's 3 minutes, keep moving, got a lot of sad teens here.
Just 3 minutes with a mini horse or donkey improves teens' moods, study says
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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 17/09/2026
hey, marcy kaptur is a dogshit bigot and if you live in her district, i would really appreciate you stopping at her office and telling them to pull this fucking ad. this is not helpful, not necessary, and fucking disgusting.
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