CathyRobichaux
@cathyrx.bsky.social
RN, PhD. Ethics education. Dog friend.
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Even just trying to avoid it as an ethical participant in higher education is taking work, time, and professional risks, all of which are worth it not to contribute to this very real problem, but are a real waste.
“While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.”
AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education
Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.
www.project-syndicate.org
November 17, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Even just trying to avoid it as an ethical participant in higher education is taking work, time, and professional risks, all of which are worth it not to contribute to this very real problem, but are a real waste.
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“This country would not exist if Black women had not birthed it from their wombs on the blood-soaked earth of Native people. Enslavement, lynching, Jim Crow, genocide, the prison industrial complex aren’t footnotes in American history. They’re the main text.” — Imani Gandy
"Black people are tired. Not metaphorically tired—actually tired. The kind of tired that turns every group chat into a mix of gallows humor and emotional triage."
I write about white ignorance and how exhausting it is to hear white ppl insist "this isn't who we are, when it's ALWAYS who we've been.
I write about white ignorance and how exhausting it is to hear white ppl insist "this isn't who we are, when it's ALWAYS who we've been.
White People’s Performative Ignorance Is Exhausting—Opinion
Disbelief over authoritarianism in America isn’t a cutesy personality trait. It’s a confession: You haven’t been paying attention.
rewirenewsgroup.com
October 8, 2025 at 5:54 PM
“This country would not exist if Black women had not birthed it from their wombs on the blood-soaked earth of Native people. Enslavement, lynching, Jim Crow, genocide, the prison industrial complex aren’t footnotes in American history. They’re the main text.” — Imani Gandy
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Outstanding piece-please take the time to read it. So many points to quote, this one seems helpful for White America to understand exactly how we got here:
“Authoritarianism is as American as slavery, as internment camps, as police brutality, as voter suppression.”
“Authoritarianism is as American as slavery, as internment camps, as police brutality, as voter suppression.”
"Black people are tired. Not metaphorically tired—actually tired. The kind of tired that turns every group chat into a mix of gallows humor and emotional triage."
I write about white ignorance and how exhausting it is to hear white ppl insist "this isn't who we are, when it's ALWAYS who we've been.
I write about white ignorance and how exhausting it is to hear white ppl insist "this isn't who we are, when it's ALWAYS who we've been.
White People’s Performative Ignorance Is Exhausting—Opinion
Disbelief over authoritarianism in America isn’t a cutesy personality trait. It’s a confession: You haven’t been paying attention.
rewirenewsgroup.com
October 8, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Outstanding piece-please take the time to read it. So many points to quote, this one seems helpful for White America to understand exactly how we got here:
“Authoritarianism is as American as slavery, as internment camps, as police brutality, as voter suppression.”
“Authoritarianism is as American as slavery, as internment camps, as police brutality, as voter suppression.”
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I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset.
In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia.
In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)
In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia.
In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)
August 29, 2025 at 11:56 AM
I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset.
In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia.
In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)
In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia.
In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)
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🚨🚨SERIES PITCH CALL: Maintaining CertAInty.
We are looking for articles that address:
How AI is affecting the practices of history, health and/or medicine
Challenges you’re facing in the classroom or in public conversations thanks to ambiguous data
Alternative views provided by AI
And more!
We are looking for articles that address:
How AI is affecting the practices of history, health and/or medicine
Challenges you’re facing in the classroom or in public conversations thanks to ambiguous data
Alternative views provided by AI
And more!
August 13, 2025 at 2:51 PM
🚨🚨SERIES PITCH CALL: Maintaining CertAInty.
We are looking for articles that address:
How AI is affecting the practices of history, health and/or medicine
Challenges you’re facing in the classroom or in public conversations thanks to ambiguous data
Alternative views provided by AI
And more!
We are looking for articles that address:
How AI is affecting the practices of history, health and/or medicine
Challenges you’re facing in the classroom or in public conversations thanks to ambiguous data
Alternative views provided by AI
And more!
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Yay DonQuenick! I hope you get every cent and enjoy the rest of your life doing exactly what you want, and nothing else.
August 20, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Yay DonQuenick! I hope you get every cent and enjoy the rest of your life doing exactly what you want, and nothing else.
Jury awards 20 million to nurse in discrimination case…https://nurse.org/articles/nurse-donquenick-joppy-case/#:~:text=%2420%20Million%20Awarded%20To%20DonQuenick%20Joppy,-The%20jury%20awarded&text=%245%20million%20in%20compensatory%20damages,engaged%20in%20discrimination%20and%20retaliation
August 20, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Jury awards 20 million to nurse in discrimination case…https://nurse.org/articles/nurse-donquenick-joppy-case/#:~:text=%2420%20Million%20Awarded%20To%20DonQuenick%20Joppy,-The%20jury%20awarded&text=%245%20million%20in%20compensatory%20damages,engaged%20in%20discrimination%20and%20retaliation
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3/ Same thing for the Health Equity EP members
Which is pretty shitty given the context in which folks trying to advance health justice & ethics are working rn
Not to have a home base with fellow health equity experts who can provide support/mentor
Yes it’s everybody’s job but
Now there’s no EP
Which is pretty shitty given the context in which folks trying to advance health justice & ethics are working rn
Not to have a home base with fellow health equity experts who can provide support/mentor
Yes it’s everybody’s job but
Now there’s no EP
August 8, 2025 at 12:15 PM
3/ Same thing for the Health Equity EP members
Which is pretty shitty given the context in which folks trying to advance health justice & ethics are working rn
Not to have a home base with fellow health equity experts who can provide support/mentor
Yes it’s everybody’s job but
Now there’s no EP
Which is pretty shitty given the context in which folks trying to advance health justice & ethics are working rn
Not to have a home base with fellow health equity experts who can provide support/mentor
Yes it’s everybody’s job but
Now there’s no EP
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This is collaborating. This is shit in line with Aktion T4.
It's evil.
It's evil.
This is absolutely devastating - the NIH hospital called ICE about a patient on a patient seeking care.
Sadly, this is, yet, one of countless examples of health care settings being extensions of the carceral state.
As health care workers, it our duty to do no harm, to protect our patients.
Sadly, this is, yet, one of countless examples of health care settings being extensions of the carceral state.
As health care workers, it our duty to do no harm, to protect our patients.
Patient seeking care at NIH hospital detained by ICE
NIH officials called immigration authorities after scrutinizing the patient’s identification presented to security at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 8, 2025 at 9:45 PM
This is collaborating. This is shit in line with Aktion T4.
It's evil.
It's evil.
On medical ideology and the production of docile doctors: The politics of care in an age of authoritarianism
Applies to nursing as well.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Applies to nursing as well.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
On medical ideology and the production of docile doctors: The politics of care in an age of authoritarianism
The United States is the only high-income nation that does not provide universal healthcare as a fundamental public service to its citizens. Instead, …
www.sciencedirect.com
July 26, 2025 at 1:40 PM
On medical ideology and the production of docile doctors: The politics of care in an age of authoritarianism
Applies to nursing as well.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Applies to nursing as well.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Will AI Serve as a Pattern of Knowing in Nursing? nursology.net/2025/07/07/w...
Will AI Serve as a Pattern of Knowing in Nursing?
Contributor: Victoria Soltis-Jarrett Will nurses consider Artificial Intelligence (AI) a pattern of ‘knowing’ in nursing in the future? I recently completed a course that required me to ensure that…
nursology.net
July 7, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Will AI Serve as a Pattern of Knowing in Nursing? nursology.net/2025/07/07/w...
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Can you hit repost? Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn't want you to know the name of her opponent but will try every desperate attempt to save her seat.
My name is Shawn Harris. I am a Democrat, husband, father, Retired Brigadier General, farmer, and I'm running against MTG. Can you share and follow me?
My name is Shawn Harris. I am a Democrat, husband, father, Retired Brigadier General, farmer, and I'm running against MTG. Can you share and follow me?
July 5, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Can you hit repost? Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn't want you to know the name of her opponent but will try every desperate attempt to save her seat.
My name is Shawn Harris. I am a Democrat, husband, father, Retired Brigadier General, farmer, and I'm running against MTG. Can you share and follow me?
My name is Shawn Harris. I am a Democrat, husband, father, Retired Brigadier General, farmer, and I'm running against MTG. Can you share and follow me?
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“…this paper serves to illuminate the roots, extent, evolution and obfuscation of the surveillance AI pipeline and, in doing so, aims to provide access to information with which individuals and communities may understand, influence or disrupt these pathways to surveillance.”
New paper hot off the press www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance
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We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance
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Computer-vision research powers surveillance technology - Nature
An analysis of research papers and citing patents indicates the extensive ties between computer-vision research and surveillance.
www.nature.com
June 29, 2025 at 1:24 PM
“…this paper serves to illuminate the roots, extent, evolution and obfuscation of the surveillance AI pipeline and, in doing so, aims to provide access to information with which individuals and communities may understand, influence or disrupt these pathways to surveillance.”
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10/ Speaming of which, if we can precept with agentic A.I. (with a modicum of hands on training), what’s to stop us from also replacing the clinical educators with chat bots as well?
Ready yourself for a host of online only programs where human collaboration & cohorts get replaced by agents too
Ready yourself for a host of online only programs where human collaboration & cohorts get replaced by agents too
June 28, 2025 at 3:15 PM
10/ Speaming of which, if we can precept with agentic A.I. (with a modicum of hands on training), what’s to stop us from also replacing the clinical educators with chat bots as well?
Ready yourself for a host of online only programs where human collaboration & cohorts get replaced by agents too
Ready yourself for a host of online only programs where human collaboration & cohorts get replaced by agents too
ASBH webinar tomorrow, June 24. When Immigration Enforcement Comes to Our Hospitals and Schools" for free now:
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: ASBH Webinar: "When Immigration Enforcement Comes to Our Hospitals and Schools: Considerations for Ethics and Policy" . After registering, you will receive ...
This webinar will feature panelists from diverse professional backgrounds, who will discuss the rapidly changing landscape for immigration enforcement in the US. Healthcare professionals, leaders, and...
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June 23, 2025 at 3:17 PM
ASBH webinar tomorrow, June 24. When Immigration Enforcement Comes to Our Hospitals and Schools" for free now:
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Really valuable site on what is happening to the CDC: www.cdcdataproject.org
We are every one of us endangered by these reckless fools
We are every one of us endangered by these reckless fools
The CDC Data Project
In the proposed FY26 budget, programs that help Americans live safer, healthier, longer lives are on the chopping block.
www.cdcdataproject.org
June 20, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Really valuable site on what is happening to the CDC: www.cdcdataproject.org
We are every one of us endangered by these reckless fools
We are every one of us endangered by these reckless fools
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I've been watching Jonathan through med schl for 3 yrs. I turned over stones bc, like a lot, wonder if the real deal. I asked him to post student ID, he did. His schl acknowledged his existence, but shrugged. He wanted help w/research, he showed up. He graduated, I watched that. #TooLegitToQuit
June 11, 2025 at 2:06 AM
I've been watching Jonathan through med schl for 3 yrs. I turned over stones bc, like a lot, wonder if the real deal. I asked him to post student ID, he did. His schl acknowledged his existence, but shrugged. He wanted help w/research, he showed up. He graduated, I watched that. #TooLegitToQuit
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ATTN Health Care Workers-New pub alert!
Digital Defense Toolkit: Protecting Ourselves from Artificial Intelligence-related Harms
doi.org/10.3912/OJIN...
has been published via the ANA's Online Journal of Issues in Nursing
Follow me for a quick review of what this toolkit is & why it exists (🧵)⬇️
Digital Defense Toolkit: Protecting Ourselves from Artificial Intelligence-related Harms
doi.org/10.3912/OJIN...
has been published via the ANA's Online Journal of Issues in Nursing
Follow me for a quick review of what this toolkit is & why it exists (🧵)⬇️
June 10, 2025 at 8:39 PM
ATTN Health Care Workers-New pub alert!
Digital Defense Toolkit: Protecting Ourselves from Artificial Intelligence-related Harms
doi.org/10.3912/OJIN...
has been published via the ANA's Online Journal of Issues in Nursing
Follow me for a quick review of what this toolkit is & why it exists (🧵)⬇️
Digital Defense Toolkit: Protecting Ourselves from Artificial Intelligence-related Harms
doi.org/10.3912/OJIN...
has been published via the ANA's Online Journal of Issues in Nursing
Follow me for a quick review of what this toolkit is & why it exists (🧵)⬇️
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Sen Bernie Sanders (I-VA) just now on CNN:
"We have a President moving this country rapidly into authoritarianism. He's suing media who criticize him. He's going after law firms that have clients who were against him. He's suing universities who teach courses he doesn't like"
"We have a President moving this country rapidly into authoritarianism. He's suing media who criticize him. He's going after law firms that have clients who were against him. He's suing universities who teach courses he doesn't like"
June 8, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Sen Bernie Sanders (I-VA) just now on CNN:
"We have a President moving this country rapidly into authoritarianism. He's suing media who criticize him. He's going after law firms that have clients who were against him. He's suing universities who teach courses he doesn't like"
"We have a President moving this country rapidly into authoritarianism. He's suing media who criticize him. He's going after law firms that have clients who were against him. He's suing universities who teach courses he doesn't like"
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Harvey Milk served his country honorably — first in uniform, then in public office.
Taking his name off this Navy ship sends a clear message, and it’s one of disrespect and cruelty.
Taking his name off this Navy ship sends a clear message, and it’s one of disrespect and cruelty.
June 3, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Harvey Milk served his country honorably — first in uniform, then in public office.
Taking his name off this Navy ship sends a clear message, and it’s one of disrespect and cruelty.
Taking his name off this Navy ship sends a clear message, and it’s one of disrespect and cruelty.
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abcnews.go.com/Politics/heg...
Thread 🧵
I am full of heartache & disgust
Pride Month 🌈
We should be HONORING HARVEY MILK
NOW THIS
HEGSETH orders NAVY
to rename ship named for Harvey Milk, Gay Rights Activist
HARVEY MILK IS A HERO
He, served in the Navy
This was done intentionally
Thread 🧵
I am full of heartache & disgust
Pride Month 🌈
We should be HONORING HARVEY MILK
NOW THIS
HEGSETH orders NAVY
to rename ship named for Harvey Milk, Gay Rights Activist
HARVEY MILK IS A HERO
He, served in the Navy
This was done intentionally
Hegseth orders Navy to rename ship honoring gay rights activist Harvey Milk
Pete Hegseth has ordered the Navy to strike the name of gay rights activist Harvey Milk from one of its ships, orchestrating the change amid Pride month celebrations.
abcnews.go.com
June 3, 2025 at 7:48 PM
abcnews.go.com/Politics/heg...
Thread 🧵
I am full of heartache & disgust
Pride Month 🌈
We should be HONORING HARVEY MILK
NOW THIS
HEGSETH orders NAVY
to rename ship named for Harvey Milk, Gay Rights Activist
HARVEY MILK IS A HERO
He, served in the Navy
This was done intentionally
Thread 🧵
I am full of heartache & disgust
Pride Month 🌈
We should be HONORING HARVEY MILK
NOW THIS
HEGSETH orders NAVY
to rename ship named for Harvey Milk, Gay Rights Activist
HARVEY MILK IS A HERO
He, served in the Navy
This was done intentionally