Cathy Davidson

Absolutely. And brilliant. Thank you for your work.

Including by those who, just a few generations ago, would have been seen as the "other," excluded, vilified, despised, and excluded (Italians, the Irish, Catholics of every stripe, Jews). Amazing how quickly "pluralism" comes to mean "everyone but people like me."

#CelebrateEverything should be a motto, for really every darn thing these days. If hope is key to activism, celebrating one's victories, accomplishments, and joys, is one ingredient of that hope because it means sharing and spreading good feeling in a soul-deadening time. Thx for this post.

This is amazing.

When the government kills a crucial report, independent scientists decide to write it anyway and release it outside of government channels.

That’s science serving society, even when our political leaders don’t.

Thx for posting. Very inspiring. All over, from scientists to artists, people are "doing the work" even without remuneration. Studies of academic labor indicate that we work 50-61 hours a week, some 80 hours for researchers. Sometimes without a salary too . . . Not #trillionaires but #priceless.

#SeaScrolling #Breathe

Sunday thought: We will prevail Finding courage in a dark time

It’s been a hard week. If you’re feeling angry, you’re not alone. I see it in your comments. I’m struck by how you are fighting back against this tyranny, nonetheless.

You are giving me hope.

Some thoughts... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-we-will-prevail

I went a bit overboard taking #PHOTOS of the last night's #Sahara sunset! So, here's another ... It was lovely of the egret to come out for a little night fishing, exactly as I started taking snaps. I did have a heck of a time keeping all those horizontals straight tho! #NatureIsMagic #photographs

OpenAI's Head of Robotics Resigns, Says Pentagon Deal Was 'Rushed Without the Guardrails Defined' - Slashdot In a tweet that's been viewed 1.3 million times in the last six hours, OpenAI's head of robotics announced their resignation. They said they "care deeply about the Robotics team and the work we built together," so this "wasn't an easy call," but offered this reason for resigning: AI has an importa...

OpenAI's Head of Robotics Resigns, Says Pentagon Deal Was 'Rushed Without the Guardrails Defined'

#SeaScrolling #Breathe

Roxane has been a guiding light to so many, including me!--and I'd wager even for many who've never been lucky enough to meet her. (In fact it's only b/c of Roxane that I met Ashley--and I am so much the richer for that. ❤️)

Snow. Foam. #SeaScrolling #Breathe

It's one of the most demoralizing, disrespectful images I can imagine. A baseball hat? A baseball hat? A baseball hat?

Here's a sneak preview of "Faculties: A Dialogue on Inciting Constructive Change in Destructive Times," the book Jody Greene and I are publishing in the Fall from @dukepress.bsky.social. From my March 5 keynote @cuny.edu Women's Conference. Comments welcome! cathydavidson.com/blog/ten-mov...

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#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: