Kristen Hanley Cardozo

Operation Metro Love Thy Neighbor Hello Friends of Operation Metro Love Thy Neighbor! Many of our neighbors in Minneapolis are being targeted based on the color of their skin, their accent, or their country of origin. From a healthcare standpoint, this is leading to very scary outcomes, as patients are terrified to leave home and are foregoing necessary care in an effort to stay safe. For moms and babies, medical professionals scramble to meet these needs and to ensure patient safety. As neighbors and community members, we want to ensure these moms and babies have their needs met in terms of supplies, personal care items, and infant and toddler items. While it's a far cry from a baby shower, we are doing our best to ensure that our neighboring mamas have what they need in times of massive distress. All items purchased on this list will be delivered to me and then immediately sent out into the community for maximum impact. On behalf of all the mama and baby teams, we so appreciate your love and generosity.

Black image with white text and white line drawing of a parent holding a baby. Text reads: "Mama + Baby donations needed. All items with an asterisk must be unused. Other items may be gently used. These items will go to immediate homes and be appreciated. [heart emoji] Thank you! ITEMS NEEDED: diapers (size 0-6)*, baby wipes*, pacifiers*, teething items*, free and clear detergent, baby shampoo, baby-safe lotion, infant clothing (all sizes), infant hats, baby blankets, burp cloths, swaddlers, hands-free baby carriers, breastfeeding guards*, feeding pillows, maternity pillows, belly bands, nipple cream*, pimps, infant safe toys, pack + play, epsom salt."

We're seeing a drop off in newborn donations in Minneapolis. Birth workers are seeing small/early babies due to stress/food insecurity—ICE has not stopped—families still in desperate need of support. If you're able, here is a wishlist compiled by folks doing mutual aid
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His Holiness Explains the Inadequacies of the Five-Paragraph Form

Pope Composition Teacher I

Yeah, if it works, don’t change it!

Eduardo Kohn is so interesting and good for thinking on.

Sauté the carrots with the onions and garlic (and meat, if they use it). They’ll help the onions to sweeten and make the tomatoes sweeter, too.

I see you! ♥️

I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!

"Human" isn't even a good shape for most tasks we'd like to offload. And I do not want a machine that does all tasks poorly. I want a machine that does one task well.

Not bad math related: The idea that we're all going to buy a humanoid robot is so weird to me. We live in a car-centric society; if we didn't, I probably wouldn't have a car. I have one because I need one, not because I want one. There's literally no reason I'd need or want a humanoid robot.

Deleted a repost because, tbh, I don't want to link to the NYT right now.

Meanwhile, there's been a documented rise in cosmetic surgeries among young teens that has gone largely under the radar because of the focus on surgeries that basically aren't happening.

I keep saying this, but I had gender-affirming surgery as a cis girl when I was 14 and still growing. I had a nose job and my surgeon framed my need for it as in part because my nose was too "masculine." People might have privately objected, but there was no political outcry.

Seriously, the way I got into knitting was because when I was learning, my need to count stitches interrupted my panic attacks. It's so important to give people in traumatic and stressful situations access to arts and crafts. I'm going to check my stash in a bit.

I'm pretty sure I have a lot of buddies on here who have good quality destash that could help with this situation.

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.

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.

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.

This! I was assaulted at a required medical exam for girls’ sports. That is, we now know, disturbingly common. The ideas now in play require MORE, and more invasive, medical exams.

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

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.

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.

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.

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I say no very firmly every time and they’re always surprised, which feels kind of weird, too.

“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

That's fair, although I offer a little more leeway on podcasts depending on the context. A lot are now professionally produced, but some are still pretty scrappy.

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.

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!

ALWAYS BLAME BRANWELL

Welp, I guess I was doing a particularly tedious and useless exercise, then!

Verbal clutter is actually important and useful! Not in every instance, but it's a way we as speakers take a moment to take stock and think and it also signals to the listener that what follows will be in some way important. It can be irritating, but it's not inherently bad.