Rachel E. Davis

I just got maybe the best comment I've ever gotten on a teaching evaluation: "Please give her some PTO she has more than earned it." 😅

This is high key making my head explode.

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“GPT-5 is the first time that it feels like talking to an expert in any topic — a Ph.D.-level expert,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said.

Sociologists, remember: This country needs the truths you expose now more than ever. Come see me at #ASA2025 in the Hyatt lobby and I'll make sure your arguments are sharp enough to do good. @asanews.bsky.social

One thing about me is that if I see an enamel pin that reminds me of you, I will buy it and give it to you!

Saturday at Brooks Falls.

List of books I read in July along with ratings out of 5: Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams (4) Audition by Katie Kitamura (3) Something in the Woods Loves You by Jarod K. Anderson (4) Tilt by Emma Pattee (4) The Mushroom at the End of the World by Anna Tsing (4) Black Woods Blue Sky by Eowyn Ivey (5) Unworld by Jayson Greene (3)

July reading wrap up! Follow me on fable:
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These three paragraphs are so spot on

A plain silver bolo tie that says "I am cool" in a boring font. It does not look cool.

my "I am cool" bolo tie has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my bolo tie

It's understandable but I fear we all swung too hard in the direction of becoming the Joker. We have to become something else if we're to find our way out of this. Personally I'm going to become Winnie the Pooh

I’ve had it with Microsoft The company is deceptively raising prices on existing customers to fund its AI spending

Last week, I got an email from Microsoft. It told me I’d be paying 46% more for my Office subscription, starting next month.

But when I tried to cancel, it offered me the same price I was already paying — without the generative AI features I never asked for in the first place.

Opinion | The ‘Boy Crisis’ Is Overblown

"In rural areas, young men may be making a rational economic decision to eschew college, as they can earn well without it, and young women are making a rational decision to attend college because that’s their only ticket to financial solvency." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...

“may every day be another wonderful secret” is what a pedophile says on SVU right before stabler crashes through the door and beats him half to death

I can’t wait for you to meet Arthur Morgan, my best friend.

Trying to celebrate small wins today.

🚨 New article out with @ramirez-fa.bsky.social on the romantic surveillance practices of Black and Latinx women, an often understudied pop. in the surveillance lit.

#AcademicSky #surveillance #Sociology #gender #race

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Stage screen reads “never ask permission for something that already belongs to you”

Beyoncé gliding above the stage in a giant neon horseshoe

Beyoncé posing in front of a golden horse

Beyoncé smiling in front of a giant Statue of Liberty wearing a bandana as a mask

🎶 We’ll be the ones to purify our fathers’ sins. Them old ideas are buried here. Amen. 🎶
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Check out my list on Amazon

Please consider buying something for public school teachers in my hometown this Prime Day! It really makes a difference! www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

Almost $120 million stolen from Tennessee

Collage of books I read in June:l along with ratings out of 5: We Do Not Part 4 Disposable 4 Sleep 5 Highway Thirteen 4 Vanishing World 5 Big Dumb Eyes 3 How to Eat Well for Adults with ADHD 4 The Book of Records 4 Hungerstone 3 You Didn’t Hear this from Me 4 When Religion Hurts You 4

June reading wrap-up. Follow me on Fable at
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I’ve figured out a litmus test for whether or not AI might be an appropriate tool for a task: If you would trust a trained monkey with a typewriter to do it, AI can do it effectively (discounting the environmental catastrophe). If you wouldn’t trust a trained monkey to do it, AI shouldn’t do it.

I worked late and missed my neighborhood cat tour (enormous wad of people walking around a circuit where people had been told to present their cats at their homes, pics are stolen from other peoples’ excellent posts) and I have never had such severe post-FOMO, luv u Minneapolis

Listening to Channel Orange like I’m longingly scrolling through old Instagram pics

Frank Ocean is like a toxic ex who texts you every year and half or so just tell you about their new scammy side hustle, and I fall for it every time.

“We are free, on the internet, to sexually valorize anything and anyone; we are free to sexualize ourselves for any audience; we are not and never will be free from the hypersexuality of an online world that is built around images and videos and that relentlessly turns individuals into commodities.”

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

This research demonstrates the harmful effects of FOSTA and Tumblr’s ban on sexual content, which drove sugar babies away from Tumblr, suppressed a vibrant digital sexual subculture, and limited free sexual expression online.

Seeking and surveilled: the effects of Tumblr’s sexual content ban on sugar babies’ posts Over the last decade, there has been an increase in concern about sugar arrangements, relationships in which sugar babies, typically young women, provide romantic companionship to sugar daddies, ty...

My article on the effects of Tumblr's sexual content ban on the digital sugar baby community is in the current issue of @femmediastudies.bsky.social! Read it for free here: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/CCZMB...

This is still the funniest image Nintendo has ever produced. Luigi, sitting down with his L coffee, reading up on some of the worst atrocities ever perpetuated by humanity: "OH MAMMA MIA"