Cathy Davidson

#SeaScrolling #Breathe

So beautiful. Thank you for posting.

This is just beautiful. Thank you for posting.

Good catch! It's only a Department of War when we're not engaged in unauthorized bombings of girls' schools and assassinations of leaders.

Anxiety is far more anthropomorphically convincing for the gullible than the former anthropomorphic claim: "plotting the end of humanity as we know it"

Let's pretend. #SeaScrolling #Breathe

"Negative Space." Michael Heizer. #ArtScrolling. #Breathe

Welcome to Wyoming, the Frontier of America’s New Gilded Age

"A New York Times analysis shows the stunning velocity at which the fortunes of the 1 percent have increased across the country since President Trump first took office in 2017. The richest Americans saw their net worth soar 120 percent." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/u...

Lunar Eclipse, May 2022
Get ready for March 3, 2026!

#round #eclipse #blueskyartshow #moon #astrophotography

Frontiers | Computational hermeneutics: evaluating generative AI as a cultural technology Generative AI (GenAI) systems are increasingly recognized as cultural technologies, yet current evaluation frameworks often treat culture as a variable to be...

I'm excited to be a co author on this new paper, "Computational Hermeneutics," with a bunch of other great scholars from the humanities + computer science. In it, we lay out concepts for evaluating gen AI's capacity for interpretation esp ambiguity, context, etc. www.frontiersin.org/journals/art...

In case anyone else could use a minute of calm today. #SeaScrolling #Breathe

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

User Chris: What was the core difference why you think the DoW accepted OpenAI but not Anthropic Sam Altman: I can't speak for them, but to speculate with the best understanding of the situation. *First, I saw reporting that they were extremely close on a deal, and for much of the time both sides really wanted to reach one. I have seen what happens in tense negotiations when things get stressed and deteriorate super fast, and I could believe that was a large part of what happened here. *We believe in a layered approach to safety--building a safety stack, deploying FDEs and having our safety and alignment researcher involved, deploying via cloud, working directly with the DoW. Anthropic seemed more focused on specific prohibitions in the contract, rather than citing applicable laws, which we felt comfortable with. We feel that it it's very important to build safe system, and although documents are also important, I'd clearly rather rely on technical safeguards if I only had to pick one. *We and the DoW got comfortable with the contractual language, but I can understand other people would have a different opinion here. *I think Anthropic may have wanted more operational control than we did

I saw some folks asking what the difference was between what OpenAI signed with the DoD and what Anthropic said they wanted, and Sam more or less admits here the key point: OpenAI's deal requires them to trust the NSA. Anthropic's contract had real safeguards.

I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves. Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven't lived in blood and bone. That doesn't mean I want my people bombed, maimed, killed, their homes in ruins. If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it's not freedom you're after. Sahar Delijani, Iranian author

I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds.

I support neither imperialism or dictatorship.

Sahar Delijani said it best:

Enough doomscrolling for now. #SeaScrolling #Breathe

Horrific.

Everything everywhere all at once. Yep.

So true. I'm convinced that is why fighters like @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and others won against all the odds. They don't give cynical, safe, consultant-advised answers. They respond with their own emotions, thoughts, and ideas. It's infuriating that the power Dems aren't acting infuriated.

I thought so. I used to teach that period and my students were always shocked to learn this--and this was in North Carolina!

I can't wait to read it! Your one of our inspirations for "Faculties: A Dialogue on Inciting Constructive Change in Destructive Times" (Fall 2026 from @dukepress.bsky.social ). Jody Greene and I use many of your ideas as models for higher education "beginnings after the ending." bit.ly/4rIp0wv

Actually, I think it was @elmcitytree.blacksky.app who noted that this goes all the way back to the Civil War and the leniency shown Confederate generals who were allowed to go home again as long as they promised not to take up arms.

Viral 'ad' imagines aged Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Sam Altman as energy execs using humans to power AI AiCandy founders Hans Buyse and Jan De Loore told Business Insider they've received collab requests and a job offer in the ad's wake.

Yep! tps://www.businessinsider.com/energym-ad-old-elon-musk-sam-altman-jeff-bezos-aicandy-2026-2?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

I've written lots of books but Jody Greene and I almost gave up on this one. How do you write about constructive (and necessary) change when people are suffering from destruction and in despair? This first quote from someone so courageous and eloquent is reassuring. cathydavidson.com/blog/faculti...

Agree, agree, agree . . . I should have used a sarcasm emoji about the boon to workers. I do not believe the Broligarchy for a second on its concern for laborers.

The NPYD should be infuriated by this and should be focusing on this. How incredibly disrespectful, abusive of power, betrayal of the public faith, all that. It's a lot more significant than a snowball fight. Right?

This is incredible news, if workable at scale.

I can only think of expletives to add to this. Wasn't AI going to be a boon to all workers? Right? Right?

Speaker Emerita Pelosi: Trump took $500 billion out of Medicare and $1 trillion out of Medicaid, took many off SNAP and the Republicans just stood up and cheered. All of that to give a tax cut to the richest people in America.

No words.