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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

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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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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · Dec 5
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/...

Reposted by Cathy N. Davidson, Daniel W. Drezner

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 15h
Minnesota family says ICE agents faked car trouble to lure man out of home

www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

Reposted by Steve Peers, Cathy N. Davidson, David Merrett , and 1 more

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 23h
"AI detectors" are themselves AI, and yet are endlessly trusted by people on here if they say that a newspaper article is AI.

AI detectors are snake oil. None of them reliably works. And UK broadsheet are not yet using AI to write articles. No, that link to the deal you found doesn't prove it.
yiannisbab.bsky.social Yiannis @yiannisbab.bsky.social · 23h
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?

Reposted by Steve Peers, Cathy N. Davidson

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Yiannis @yiannisbab.bsky.social · 23h
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?

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 1d
I propose to make universal the old policy of the Blackfriars conference at the American Shakespeare Center:

If you do not end your paper on time, you will be forced to exit, pursued by a bear. Literally, a bear will come take your paper from you.
The organizer, introducing the bear on stage A tardy speaker, trying to fend off the bear as he/she leans forward patiently.

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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 1d
Definitely it’s the music. First and foremost.

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Gabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social · 1d
The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering

The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory

Reposted by Cathy N. Davidson, Stephen D. Murphy

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 2d
Thread of some services/software I'm using instead of various billionaire-owned surveillance/fascist/"A.i." trash products:

For my newsletters, @buttondown.com. Does the job! Great customer service - usually get personalized responses within 24 hours. (Never gonna join Substack.)

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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 2d
Genius example!

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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 2d
I am collecting examples like this as potential classroom exercises so students can explore and find out the limits of AI for themselves. Did you do this ChatGPT prompt? May I reproduce it on a HASTAC blog and give you credit (unlike ChatGPT, I acknowledge what I learn from others!)

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Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 3d
It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this

Reposted by Anna O. Law, American Library Association, Cathy N. Davidson , and 7 more

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Aaron Clauset @aaronclauset.bsky.social · 3d
My employer, Univ. Colorado will pay OpenAI $2M/year under the banner of “equity”. That’s 54 full scholarships / year. Plus, our IT will be able to read our chatGPT logs, and our chats can be requested under public records law. No thanks. Surveillance is not equity

www.axios.com/local/boulde...
CU signs $2M OpenAI deal for ChatGPT access
Students and faculty will gain access to ChatGPT Edu starting in March under a three-year deal.
www.axios.com

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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 3d
Agree! Or to make it the default to enroll us into monthly orders (and fees that require cancelling) for products one hasn’t even tried. (Goes for sketchy political fund raising too.)

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Ken Wissoker @kwissoker.bsky.social · 3d
Joan Scott on why the attack on gender studies by powerful patriarchal men is not a coincidence, but an attempt to silence critique and analysis of their abusive behavior. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Gender studies courses are shutting down across the US. The Epstein files reveal why | Joan Wallach Scott
Texas A&M University is the latest school to end women’s and gender studies programs and teaching race. We know why
www.theguardian.com

Reposted by Cathy N. Davidson

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 3d
MAHA: Eating a giant steak cooked in butter alongside beef tallow fries and washing it down with coffee spiked with butter

Not MAHA: Clean air, clean water, health insurance, vaccines, disease monitoring, scientific research, food assistance, food safety, bike lanes

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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 3d
Ok, I am taking a break from reading books, articles, and blogs about AI to watch actual, real humans w real consciousness who have really trained (hard) to skate, sled, ski, and do other amazing things that I will never care to watch being done by a robot.

Reposted by Pierre Bataille, Cathy N. Davidson, Devon Greyson , and 10 more

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 3d
Eliminating gender studies courses helps to ensure that universities and other institutions will continue to protect men who benefit from the abuse of women and girls, either directly or through their connections to those who exploit girls and women for profit.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Gender studies courses are shutting down across the US. The Epstein files reveal why | Joan Wallach Scott
Texas A&M University is the latest school to end women’s and gender studies programs and teaching race. We know why
www.theguardian.com

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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 3d
Thanks for posting this, @anildash.com Full of helpful insights and even some remedies!

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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 3d
Welcome new @hastacscholars.bsky.social --and welcome everyone to the Spring 2026 @hastac.bsky.social Newsletter--info and events and a great vibrant new class of HASTAC Scholars--by students, for students (but, yes, faculty and general public welcome too!)
mailchi.mp/hastac/upcom...
HASTAC Newsletter – Welcoming the Spring 2026 Semester
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 3d
This, from @aredridel.dinhe.net, is excellent. aredridel.dinhe.net/2026/02/12/t...
The AI hater's guide to code with LLMs (The Overview) | All Confirmation Bias, All The Time
aredridel.dinhe.net

Reposted by Steve Peers, Cathy N. Davidson, Manisha Sinha

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 3d
DHS is shutting down. Why? Because Democrats took an oath of office to uphold the Constitution and ICE is lawless and out of control. We cannot fund an agency that is murdering our citizens, tear gassing school zones, and disappearing legal immigrants.

Reposted by Cathy N. Davidson, Nathan P. Kalmoe

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Steve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 3d
Trump justifies his brutal immigration tactics by painting illegal immigrants as criminals. But in reality, they commit fewer crimes than native-born Americans.

My @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social Chart

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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 3d
Not conscious . . . but potentially omnipotent if they allow them access to all our data (including banking, social security, everything) and we end all laws about monopolies and, in fact, allow full collusion of corrupt governments (worldwide) and technology billionaires.

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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 3d
Appalling. Sole funder in the humanities because, uh, the Feds in effect shut down the NEH, slashed museum funding, library funding, arts funding. . . and universities are cutting humanities of all kinds, even the so-called traditional kinds he likes.

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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 3d
I could not agree more. The woo-woo talk is designed to baffle us and to obscure the fact that the Broligarchy is spending millions, maybe billions, worldwide to prevent or undo sane regulation and guardrails. If it half as omnipotent as they say, then we need more not less regulation!

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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 3d
They're all going to Mars--or, I guess, it's now the Moon . . .

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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 3d
Last week I wrote a blog "Artificial Ignorance and Data Sycophancy." I'll add some comments about this New Yorker piece later--it adds to my cynicism about both how the data is cooked/coddled going on, then coddles the user coming out. technology-networks-sciences.hastac.hcommons.org/2026/02/10/a...
“Artificial Ignorance” and Data Sycophancy – Technology, Networks, and Sciences
technology-networks-sciences.hastac.hcommons.org

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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 3d
I have many problems with this article but I liked it a lot for being one of the first major places that actually tells us the "actual" preprogramming in the "black box" and underscoring the extreme level of security designed to keep us from knowing what is pre-programmed. I'm more alarmed than ever

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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 3d
"The hype being true" is a categorically false statement. I use AI wisely and well all the time, and I try to teach others to do so, but the hype is . . . hype. I's either false ("AI will be smarter than all humanity combined by 2030") or, if true, then terrifying without guardrails, regulation.

Reposted by Cathy N. Davidson, Ann Bartow, Michael Larkin

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 3d
"Racist people are firing and laying off Black women at three times the rate of other women."

😬Yikes! It sounds bad when you say it like that!

"Black women are losing jobs at 3 times the rate."

Much better! Makes it sound like the Black women just need to be more careful or better at their jobs!
Black Women Are Losing Jobs At Three Times The Rate Of Other Women | Essence
New labor data shows Black women accounted for a disproportionate share of job losses across 2025, especially in federal, education, and care-sector roles.
www.essence.com

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Lisa Laporte @lisalaporte.bsky.social · 4d
Amazon invests $61 billion in Anthropic as @leolaporte.me, @jeffjarvis.bsky.social, & @paris.nyc debate AI breakthroughs on Intelligent Machines, covering Google doubling capex to outspend Big Tech and AI agents violating ethics 30–50% of time! twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines/episodes/857
Intelligent Machines: Taskrabbit Arbitrage | TWiT.TV
Leo Laporte and Paris Martineau go head-to-head over whether today’s AI breakthroughs are truly unprecedented or history repeating itself. Hear what happens when the show’s
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