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Cathy Davidson
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CathyDavidson.com. Advocate for active learning, student success. Author “The New Education” etc. Cofounder HASTAC.org ("world's first academic social network"--NSF). Science fiction fan. Lover of oceans. Opinions and typos my own. #SeaScrolling #Breathe .. more

Cathy N. Davidson is an American scholar and university professor. She is a Distinguished Professor of English, Digital Humanities, and Data Analysis and Visualization at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York where she founded the Futures Initiative. .. more

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Here's the press release of 2025 #McGraw Prize including videos of our careers and our acceptance speeches. It was such an honor to share the evening with the inspiring recipients of K-12 and Lifelong Learning. Thank you, #McGraw and @PennGSE. mcgrawprize.com/news-events/...

This is tonight--Chandra Mohanty and Linda Alcoff--and it's going to be great. Details below! @kwissoker.bsky.social @intellpublics.bsky.social @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @cuny.edu

Who needs a coup when you've got a junta?

Right? I have read so many books and articles on AI and have interviewed a number of its developers . . . sorry to say, Claude is smarter on Claude than they are (and, yes, that creeps me out . . .)

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court seems likely to expand president's power and back Trump's firing of independent-agency board members.

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New data reveals US layoffs in 2025 could surpass Great Recession levels.
Two months after President Donald Trump signed an executive order restricting H-1B visas, soaring costs are roiling rural health care facilities that have long struggled to find staff.
Rural America relies on foreign doctors. Trump’s visa fee shuts them out.
The Trump administration’s demand for companies to pay a $100,000 fee to hire an immigrant worker using an H1B visa has created turmoil among rural health providers.
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Not even trying anymore to guess what abominations today might bring.... #SeaScrolling #Breathe

This interview about Claude and with Claude is one of the most interesting I've read about what AI can and can't do. I'd love to hear what people who really know music think about this. Fascinating! The Missing Now open.substack.com/pub/dadadrum...
The Missing Now
An Interview with Claude
open.substack.com

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Monday Zen…🌺
They are now targeting people who did everything by the book and were literally at the ceremony where they were going to become citizens...

"Immigrants lined up to become U.S. citizens in Boston on Dec. 4 were pulled from line by USCIS officials moments before the oath ceremony"
Immigrants Approved for Citizenship ‘Plucked Out’ of Line Moments Before Pledging Allegiance: Report
Immigrants lined up to become U.S. citizens in Boston on Dec. 4 were pulled from line by USCIS officials moments before the ceremony. The incident comes after USCIS told employees to halt all immigrat...
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This really is a must read for anyone in academia.

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Horizon's disappearing melody...🌺
#Photography #BeachLife #Stunday #Eastcoastkin

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A stormy sunrise from last week.
#SundayYellow #Stunday #Photography #EastCoastKin

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Aqua water, blue skies, golden-white sands....

(Freezing water 🤣)

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Gotta finish #BlueSkyArtShow #Sky day with something local…from the local beach, a #sunset shot looking out over the Clyde Estuary, Scotland

#EastCoastKin #Arran #Seascape

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Another terrible winter day in California
Mamdani: Oftentimes when we win elections, we tell people to go home and just trust us. But the message really has to be that we want you to come along with us… That’s something we’ve been looking to share with New Yorkers: We want to not only win with New Yorkers, but also govern with New Yorkers.

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One of the most fascinating skies I've ever witnessed was at Seaside in Destin in November 2016 at Bud & Alley's. #PurpleSky #Sky #BlueSkyArtShow #Photos #Photography #Sunset #Sea #SeaSide #Beach #Waves #BudAndAlleys #30A #Florida #USA #Gulf

Working hard to be ancient, decadent Rome before the Fall. I hear Nero's tuning up his fiddle . . .

A calm day? Too much to ask? #SeaScrolling #Breathe
Sniffs at Bamburgh beach, Northumberland. There winter days are bringing some lovely colourful sunrises

#landscapephotography
#seascape
#sunrise

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Sarah Evans, contemporary Welsh artist and landscape painter #womensart

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Sun setting over a restless sea, waves rolling in over the smooth rock slabs and turning white as the waves break over the shore.
#photography #NaturePhotography #fujifilm

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The Golden Age.
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

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Wandering Aimlessly…🌺
#BeachLife