Cate Denial

You know the best way to kill AI? Don't use it. Don't buy it. Don't share it. Don't give the people who use it your labour or your money.

Totally work!

I wrote this blog entry one year after things began shutting down for Covid, focusing on the ways our bodies remember anniversaries. We're six years in, and amid everything happening in the world the resonance is still there. catherinedenial.org/blog/uncateg...

Although now I've said that, I can see the endgame, and it's companies inflating prices rapidly to see how much we will pay to avoid their pitches, and we either get the item for "market" value and get a firehose of emails, or they charge $15 for the first one and then . . .

I would, in fact, pay $2 extra for them to miss me with all of their ratings pitches.

When my brother was a baby, she sold Avon. And the moment he was in school she worked outside the home.

Grew up in the UK. For some years, before I went to primary school, my mum didn't work. But then we also didn't have an indoor toilet until I was two, or hot water inside the house.

You bet!

The DEI Debacle BY NIMISHA BARTON Following the infamous “Dear Colleague” letter sent out by the Department of Education in February 2025, colleges and universities rushed to shutter diversity, equity, and inclusi…

Did everyone catch @nimishabarton.bsky.social's incredible essay on the DEI debacle in Academe Magazine? If not, here's your chance to catch up on an essay we badly need academeblog.org/2026/02/04/t...

Indeed, the 2-3 minutes is where I live. But no matter where a person lives, it's not an extra hour.

It is costing me everything I have not to point out to everyone saying "more light" that it's about 2-3 minutes more than yesterday

too soon

Yikes!

Oh goodness. Fingers crossed for you!

Just got my utility bill for next month. I am on a budget plan, and it STILL went up 29%. Mercy.

. . . you can see exactly where you would have been on the first path. You can still see the landmarks. But as you keep walking on the new path, the distance between you now and where you might have been grows larger. The grief, though powerful, is not as acute.

This helped me. I hope it's useful

I hope this is helpful - someone once said to me that grief is a fork in the road, with the path you thought you were on stretching off toward the horizon in a straight line, and the path you're now on twisting off to who knows where. Grief is the gap between the paths. At first . . .

A good copy editor is such a gift!

Don’t Call It ‘Intelligence’ Humans are question machines. AI is an answer machine.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Eyes on AI Eyes on AI is a game that helps you understand how AI-powered surveillance impacts your life and community.

This is a fascinating tool! I just went through the exercise, and the personalized report at the end was really thought provoking. eyeson-ai.org

It's especially surprising in my case because I grew up in a big city and nowhere near a farm.

I learned to drive a tractor before I learned to drive a car.

It's the most amazing fun!

• The History of Birth Control and Reproduction in the United States.
• The History of Gender and Sexuality in the United States.
• The History of Marriage in the United States.

• Seminar: Exploring Native and Indigenous History.
• Seminar: Museums, Monuments and Memory.
• Seminar: Reproductive Justice in the U.S. since 1973.
• Seminar: Women, Gender, and the American Revolution.
• Sleuthing, Sources, and Skills.

(more)

Academic history colleagues, list all the courses you teach:

• History Pedagogy for Future Educators.
• Intro to Native and Indigenous History.
• The Historian's Workshop.
• Native and Indigenous History since 1871.
• Pirates in the Atlantic World.
• Power and Inequity in America to 1865.

more:

This is pathological

Totally. And yeah, the second book is always such a big lift!

And I did not enjoy it, to be honest! But it was foundational

Lots of things about my comps experience were very bad. But the fact that reading widely and analyzing texts is foundational to a PhD progam is something that AI cannot replace (which is the context here)