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Cathy N. Davidson is an American scholar and university professor. She is a Distinguished Professor of English, Digital Humanities, and… more

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I don't think there's any argument there. I expect it's not visible to those outside the industry, but there's real despair for engineers & the like inside tech because those CEOs control the culture of the industry and everyone worries about how to find a job if they don't conform to that culture.
October 17, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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by Cathy N. Davidson

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Beautiful
October 16, 2025 at 4:31 PM

by Cathy N. Davidson

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Welcome!!
October 16, 2025 at 4:26 PM

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datasociety.bsky.social
📣 Please join us in welcoming our ten new affiliates: Kiara Childs, Mar Hicks, Harry Hudome, Shannon Mattern, Joan Mukogosi, Miliaku Nwabueze, Marie-Therese Png, Jess Reia, Melinda Sebastian, & Émile P. Torres. We're excited to work with and learn from them! datasociety.net/announcement...
October 16, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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not to be trite and live laugh love but also: protest can be fun and antiauthoritarianism can be playful because you’re only going to get the one life—these are the structural conditions in which you find yourself, so why not make joy where you can
October 16, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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by Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò — Reposted by Cathy N. Davidson, Henry Jones, Raúl Pacheco-Vega , and 2 more

olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
we should all go out on October 18 and it's good that so many of us are planning to. but we should all start talking to each other about what we're going to do next, too - what we will withhold together if the abuses continue. we can go on offense, too!

time.com/collections/...
Why Protests Should Be Promises
Modern movements that aim to advance racial equity should withhold and promise, rather than perform, writes Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò
time.com
October 16, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Reposted by Cathy N. Davidson, Stephen M. Walt, Anna O. Law , and 13 more

kevinmkruse.bsky.social
If you think that professors exist as repositories of knowledge that students ask for answers, you’re missing the entire point of a college education.

We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.
porcupunk.bsky.social Department of 🐸™ @porcupunk.bsky.social · 2d
Wow. Just wow.

"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."
When Knowledge is Free, What are Professors For?
Higher Education Must Stop Competing with AI on Information and Start Teaching What Machines Can’t Do
www.forbes.com
October 16, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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by Cathy N. Davidson

cathyndavidson.bsky.social
Thank you. I try to post a peaceful photo,mostly of the sea, every morning too. #SeaScrolling #Breathe
October 16, 2025 at 12:56 PM

by Cathy N. Davidson

cathyndavidson.bsky.social
On behalf of the nation's morning people, I apologize to you (as I do to my patient but annoyed husband just about every single day). Is there a 12-steps program for perky morning people?
October 16, 2025 at 12:56 PM

by Cathy N. Davidson

cathyndavidson.bsky.social
Agree 100%. They are cybertruck level stupid and consumer-alien.
October 16, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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I send you peace my friends
October 16, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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I am in favor of the idea that we make signs that state what we want not just what we protest. Healthcare but so many basic principles (equity, democracy, environment, education, science, affordability...).Maybe the signs will help Dem "leaders" in Congress speak up and fight for our future.
October 16, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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by Cathy N. Davidson

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Good morning, world. #SeaScrolling #Breathe
October 16, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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Reposted by Cathy N. Davidson, Anna O. Law, Jennifer Dill , and 1 more

timdickinson.bsky.social
Un-presidented brass band at city hall in Portland tonight celebrating the release of their clarinet player from federal custody
October 16, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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by Cathy N. Davidson

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#backupdancerchallenge. @futuresed.bsky.social
October 16, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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Reposted by Cathy N. Davidson, Sanford F. Schram, Robert B. Reich

acyn.bsky.social
Sanders: Saturday, millions of people are going to come out on a No Kings day. Speaker Johnson said this is a hate America rally because people are coming out expressing their concerns.. It’s not a hate America rally, it's a love America rally.
October 16, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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Reposted by Cathy N. Davidson, Joseph Schafer, Seth Masket , and 1 more

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AOC: You're damn right that it's a Democratic priority to keep people from getting poisoned, from dangerous chemicals 

You're damn right that it's a Democratic priority to bring down the cost of housing

If they want to say that that's a Democratic priority, they're right,
October 16, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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Reposted by Cathy N. Davidson, Alison Phipps, Sanford F. Schram , and 6 more

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AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.
October 16, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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AOC: When one party wants the votes of another party. You negotiate, you come to a compromise and you pass a bill. That is schoolhouse rock. And that is how things should be
October 16, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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Reposted by Cathy N. Davidson, Sanford F. Schram, David Darmofal

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Sanders: They have refused to negotiate. And anyone thinks that tomorrow they'll suddenly start negotiating. I think, is smoking what is illegal in many states

AOC: And should be legal in more.
October 16, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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Reposted by Cathy N. Davidson, Stephen M. Walt, Anna O. Law , and 17 more

porcupunk.bsky.social
Wow. Just wow.

"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."
When Knowledge is Free, What are Professors For?
Higher Education Must Stop Competing with AI on Information and Start Teaching What Machines Can’t Do
www.forbes.com
October 16, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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by Cathy N. Davidson

cathyndavidson.bsky.social
I think you'll get a kick out of this one @tressiemcphd.bsky.social
October 15, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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by Cathy N. Davidson

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Where will @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social be on No Kings day?
October 15, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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More more more of this please . . . including from our universities and the major law firms and and and . . .
October 15, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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Reposted by Cathy N. Davidson, Nandita Sharma, Jonathan A. Eisen , and 3 more

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"In unison."

Amen.

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Reporters leave Pentagon en masse after refusing to sign on to new rules
After turning in their press credentials, journalists covering the Defense Department walked out rather than comply with its restrictive new policies.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 15, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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by Robert B. Reich — Reposted by Cathy N. Davidson

rbreich.bsky.social
Trump has frozen or canceled $28B in funding for infrastructure projects in Democratic congressional districts.

Meanwhile, representatives of those districts are fighting to extend ACA subsidies — more than half of which go to people in GOP-held districts.

Remember this.
October 15, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Reposted by Cathy N. Davidson, Graeme S. Cumming, Trevor A. Branch

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Baby orca mini breach! 🦑
October 15, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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by Robert B. Reich — Reposted by Cathy N. Davidson, Norbert Schwarz

rbreich.bsky.social
Meta has removed a Chicago ICE-tracking Facebook page.

The move follows Apple and Google removing ICE activity tracking apps from their app stores.

The removals came after a demand from Trump’s DOJ.

Once again, Big Tech is bending the knee to our tyrant-in-chief to protect its bottom line.
October 15, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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by Cathy N. Davidson

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Tea, anyone? I hear there's a party in Boston Harbor.
October 15, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Reposted by Cathy N. Davidson

shellyeversley.bsky.social
Since #JOY is an act of #resistance I thought I’d share some while I remind you that the @futuresed podcast launches next Tuesday, October 21! I’ll be talking with FI’s Founder @cathyndavidson You’ll find it everywhere and in YouTube💥
October 15, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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