Cathy Davidson
@cathyndavidson.bsky.social
CathyDavidson.com. Active Learning ("New Education") advocate. CoDirector HASTAC.org. #IntelligentArtifice blog. Fall 2026, w Jody Greene, "Faculties: A Dialogue on Inciting Constructive Change in Destructive Times." Lover of oceans. #SeaScrolling #Breathe
My new book is officially here! UNITED STATES OF OLIGARCHY looks at what oligarchy actually is, and how we got here, and where we're going—and how wealth inequality in the US threatens both democracy and national security alike, and has led directly to the resurgence of empire. Pick up a copy now!
Two slogans to live by this Fall: "The many versus the money" and "Republicans are in too little disarray."
byronbay_daily Tina Maree O'Donell Photographer "Watching this tiny calf burst out of the water in Byron Bay, then race straight back to mum, was unforgettable. This is my sixth newborn Humpback calf I’ve been lucky to see, and I’ve never witnessed one this confident, playful and cheeky 🐋🐋"
#alphabetchallenge #weekEforEphemeral Every evening, on our stay in west Wales, we were treated to the most amazing sunset. Can’t wait to go back.
A fleeting moment slips away Yet, refuses to fade Weaving itself into an eternal memory… #imageandverse #scape #sunsets #sunsetlovers #sunset #stunday #photographersunited #skyscape #seascape #alphabetchallenge #weekEforEphemeral #orangesun #photographersofbluesky #eck #photography #nature #sea
The ocean doesn’t fear the storm—it embraces it. Moments like this remind me why I love landscape photography. Every cloud, every wave, every beam of light tells its own story.
The Ephemeral moment when the sun is on the horizon. Colpoy's Bay, Ontario at sunrise for the #AlphabetChallenge #WeekEForEphemeral. #BrucePeninsula #BruceCounty #ECK #photography #TenMinutesFromHome
Starving millions of Americans to death isn't an unfortunate side effect of GOP economics; it's the intended outcome. They're trying to "accelerate" societal collapse & violence so they can establish a white ethnostate. News outlets like @npr.org fail us when they overlook this fact.
A field guide to ‘accelerationism’: White supremacist groups using violence to spur race war and create social chaos
A scholar of right-wing extremism provides an overview of some of the key white supremacist groups that pose significant threats to public safety.
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NPR@npr.org · 2d agoSNAP, also known as food stamps, has seen a rapid and consistent participation decline since last July. The drop comes as the program faces historic cuts and changes. n.pr/4w5XSc9
Inspired by @mattseybold.bsky.social, @tressiemcphd.bsky.social offers A Reading List for Our Age of A.I. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/o...
Opinion | A Reading List for Our Age of A.I. (Gift Article)
A.I. is a political theory. And it is gobbling up our democracy.
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As always, @tressiemcphd.bsky.social delivers the goods.Here's her superb list of what to read to protect/defend democracy against GenAI and its trillionaires. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/o...
Opinion | A Reading List for Our Age of A.I.
A.I. is a political theory. And it is gobbling up our democracy.
nytimes.com
As has happened before, we are about to be hit with a barrage of divisive information and misinformation whose sole purpose is to demoralize and divide us and keep us from voting for more sanity and less harm than we have now (even if not up to all of our ideals and wishes). #StayStrong everyone!
Not much of a sunset last night… the clouds rolled in and it’s raining this morning. Time to go home. ☀️🧡🌧️ #Photography #Scape #PNW #OregonCoast #Sunset
With all the chatter over "The Odyssey," including about race, I've not seen a discussion of Nobel Prize winner Derek Walcott's epic "Omeros" or his BBC play"The Odyssey" which counterpoints Odysseus journey with Caribbean history. It would make a brilliant course! www.amazon.com/dp/037452350...
Amazon.com: Omeros: 9780374523503: Walcott, Derek: Books
Amazon.com: Omeros: 9780374523503: Walcott, Derek: Books
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Melvilleans and 19th-centuryists!!! My girl @hesterblum.bsky.social has a podcast coming out with @robdelaney.bsky.social about the best book of all time (side eye 😒 to Middlemarch Mafia) the ineffable oceanic spirituo-textual cry to heaven that is Moby Dick. exploringthegreats.com/moby-dick
Exploring Moby-Dick — A Herman Melville Podcast & Book Club
Join Professor Hester Blum and actor-writer Rob Delaney as they navigate Moby-Dick, the both devastating and hilarious journey of men at odds with the sea and themselves. Together they explore the cha...
exploringthegreats.com
Gold-plating horse statues in DC while eliminating a program to help lower Medicare drug costs for senior citizens. If that doens't symbolize the end of empire, I don't know what does. Rome is burning. Get out the fiddles . . .
A few stills from tonight’s sunset taken from the kayak. I’m so glad I got out for a paddle tonight.
San Pancho, Nayarit Mexico 🇲🇽 turtle sanctuary beach
Meta is spending $600 billion+ to build out its AI model. That model is being aggressively integrated into platforms used by 3.9 billion people. This week, Meta announced its AI will be trained on content from Newsmax, the far-right website with a history of promoting pro-Trump conspiracy theories.
This is unspeakably grotesque. This is destroying centuries of human culture and achievement so people can generate an email response to an email their boss generated while watching world burn.
Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · last wk.No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.
Are you gearing up for fall? Thinking about classrooms that are welcoming, just, and kind? Check out -A Pedagogy of Kindness- for ideas about how to be kind to yourself, and how to thread kindness through your syllabus, assignments, and into your classroom. www.oupress.com/978080619385...
A Pedagogy of Kindness - University of Oklahoma Press
Academia is not, by and large, a kind place. Individualism and competition are what count. But without kindness at its core, Catherine Denial suggests, highe...
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Fun fact not everyone knows: the internet archive swoops in to buy libraries' (and similar outfits') stock when they go under. They've got warehouses filled with old libraries they're trying to save. I suspect they represent the largest such effort.
