Erik Davis
@erikwdavis.bsky.social
This is my personal account. Feel free to just ignore me and leave me alone.
When old friends become politicians, getting email from them becomes a very bewildering experience
October 31, 2025 at 8:39 PM
When old friends become politicians, getting email from them becomes a very bewildering experience
I was just accidentally (I mean, I assume) invited to an undergraduate party via
mass email with all addresses visible. 😂
mass email with all addresses visible. 😂
October 29, 2025 at 3:51 AM
I was just accidentally (I mean, I assume) invited to an undergraduate party via
mass email with all addresses visible. 😂
mass email with all addresses visible. 😂
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I used to teach a college level 'community organizing' class many years ago. After a class one day, a student came to me and said "it's so much work to organize. I thought change just happened." I think of that student often.
October 23, 2025 at 1:12 PM
I used to teach a college level 'community organizing' class many years ago. After a class one day, a student came to me and said "it's so much work to organize. I thought change just happened." I think of that student often.
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The dialogue is a whole other thing but the bit about "fuck you shoot me I'll die for this shit" and the reaction is the crux here, from Gandhi's time on down, no authoritarian in history ever knows how to respond to this and it's why it beats them whenever deployed
"Man goes scorched earth on ICE agents kidnapping people in his hometown."
Source:
old.reddit.com/r/PublicFrea...
Source:
old.reddit.com/r/PublicFrea...
October 23, 2025 at 4:37 PM
The dialogue is a whole other thing but the bit about "fuck you shoot me I'll die for this shit" and the reaction is the crux here, from Gandhi's time on down, no authoritarian in history ever knows how to respond to this and it's why it beats them whenever deployed
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The question to ask all young men is 'how many people have you helped this week? how many have you cared for?"
October 23, 2025 at 2:34 AM
The question to ask all young men is 'how many people have you helped this week? how many have you cared for?"
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How did the U.S. public get to a place where we find it acceptable to passively watch collapse, catastrophic crises, & even genocide? @williamcson.bsky.social argues that the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic was a litmus test that revealed to the ruling powers just how much they could get away with.
Another way out: Building resistance when passivity is the norm
The COVID-19 pandemic should have shown us that we’re supposed to be meeting needs, not falling in line behind fascist incursions
prismreports.org
September 16, 2025 at 3:42 PM
How did the U.S. public get to a place where we find it acceptable to passively watch collapse, catastrophic crises, & even genocide? @williamcson.bsky.social argues that the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic was a litmus test that revealed to the ruling powers just how much they could get away with.
So….Trump is bragging about being too scared to walk down the street in Baltimore, even accompanied by the mayor and their security teams?
Blowhard masculinity norms have changed, I guess?
Blowhard masculinity norms have changed, I guess?
August 26, 2025 at 7:15 PM
So….Trump is bragging about being too scared to walk down the street in Baltimore, even accompanied by the mayor and their security teams?
Blowhard masculinity norms have changed, I guess?
Blowhard masculinity norms have changed, I guess?
No disrespect to actual K-Pop artists, but it really feels like “K-Popped” could be the moment this bubble finally bursts.
August 26, 2025 at 2:42 AM
No disrespect to actual K-Pop artists, but it really feels like “K-Popped” could be the moment this bubble finally bursts.
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BREAKING: BlueSky is blocking access to Mississippi.
This is the No. 1 platform for @mississippifreepress.org.
We ditched X for BlueSky early this year.
And now, at 3 pm on a Friday, poof.
I don't know what we'll do next.
Keep up with us using our newsletter at mfp.ms/subscribe.
This is the No. 1 platform for @mississippifreepress.org.
We ditched X for BlueSky early this year.
And now, at 3 pm on a Friday, poof.
I don't know what we'll do next.
Keep up with us using our newsletter at mfp.ms/subscribe.
Unfortunately, Bluesky is unavailable in Mississippi right now, due to a new state law that requires age verification for all users.
While intended for child safety, we think this law poses broader challenges & creates significant barriers that limit free speech & harm smaller platforms like ours.
While intended for child safety, we think this law poses broader challenges & creates significant barriers that limit free speech & harm smaller platforms like ours.
August 22, 2025 at 8:34 PM
BREAKING: BlueSky is blocking access to Mississippi.
This is the No. 1 platform for @mississippifreepress.org.
We ditched X for BlueSky early this year.
And now, at 3 pm on a Friday, poof.
I don't know what we'll do next.
Keep up with us using our newsletter at mfp.ms/subscribe.
This is the No. 1 platform for @mississippifreepress.org.
We ditched X for BlueSky early this year.
And now, at 3 pm on a Friday, poof.
I don't know what we'll do next.
Keep up with us using our newsletter at mfp.ms/subscribe.
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Chattel slavery was so bad that when we tell you how bad it in fact was most of y'all shut down and tell us we're making it up and pass laws against us ever telling you how bad it was again because your brains literally cannot handle how bad it in fact was.
"How bad slavery was" is worse. Much worse. Much worse than you think, much worse than you're taught, much worse than museums depict. Worse.
August 21, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Chattel slavery was so bad that when we tell you how bad it in fact was most of y'all shut down and tell us we're making it up and pass laws against us ever telling you how bad it was again because your brains literally cannot handle how bad it in fact was.
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"No, you cannot hide from fascism, and unfortunately for many of us, our very lives are a threat. It doesn’t matter if you’re minding your business, fighting back, or hiding somewhere quietly—tyranny comes for everyone." prismreports.org/2025/08/21/o...
Another way out: Hiding and obedience won't stop fascism
By being obedient to the point of giving up all self-determination, we’re poised to return to what many before us fought to overturn
prismreports.org
August 21, 2025 at 9:57 PM
"No, you cannot hide from fascism, and unfortunately for many of us, our very lives are a threat. It doesn’t matter if you’re minding your business, fighting back, or hiding somewhere quietly—tyranny comes for everyone." prismreports.org/2025/08/21/o...
The Strange History of University Autonomy — and Why We Need It More Than Ever www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
The Strange History of University Autonomy — and Why We Need It More Than Ever
Academic freedom from the Middle Ages to apartheid South Africa to now.
www.chronicle.com
August 20, 2025 at 2:54 PM
The Strange History of University Autonomy — and Why We Need It More Than Ever www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
Subject: The Review: The University of Chicago falls on hard times
August 20, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Subject: The Review: The University of Chicago falls on hard times
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This really sucks. Libby is already not very good but it’s also the almost universally-used ebook lending platform.
Heads up library workers, Overdrive is shoving AI into Libby. It will be making book recommendations and they are rolling it out over the next few weeks. Smoke is pouring out of my ears. 📚
August 18, 2025 at 11:14 PM
This really sucks. Libby is already not very good but it’s also the almost universally-used ebook lending platform.
UC Officials to Face Lawmakers Over Failure to Return Native American Remains and Artifacts
August 18, 2025 at 6:17 PM
UC Officials to Face Lawmakers Over Failure to Return Native American Remains and Artifacts
I have had a truly lovely time at the IABS conference in Leipzig and then subsequent workshop in Leiden. This was a bit of a surprise to me, and I’m grateful for it.
August 16, 2025 at 8:37 PM
I have had a truly lovely time at the IABS conference in Leipzig and then subsequent workshop in Leiden. This was a bit of a surprise to me, and I’m grateful for it.
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It is very difficult, when organizing people in this moment, to balance two true things in tension w/ each other:
1. The threat is bigger/longer than you are perceiving and you are underreacting on offense
2. The threat is less proximate/powerful than you fear and you are overreacting on defense
1. The threat is bigger/longer than you are perceiving and you are underreacting on offense
2. The threat is less proximate/powerful than you fear and you are overreacting on defense
August 15, 2025 at 1:23 AM
It is very difficult, when organizing people in this moment, to balance two true things in tension w/ each other:
1. The threat is bigger/longer than you are perceiving and you are underreacting on offense
2. The threat is less proximate/powerful than you fear and you are overreacting on defense
1. The threat is bigger/longer than you are perceiving and you are underreacting on offense
2. The threat is less proximate/powerful than you fear and you are overreacting on defense
Two cups of coffee are required.
The first is to destroy the calm of morning hormonal chemistry. The second gives you the focus needed to act to regain that calm.
This is not irrational but merely paradoxical.
The first is to destroy the calm of morning hormonal chemistry. The second gives you the focus needed to act to regain that calm.
This is not irrational but merely paradoxical.
August 10, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Two cups of coffee are required.
The first is to destroy the calm of morning hormonal chemistry. The second gives you the focus needed to act to regain that calm.
This is not irrational but merely paradoxical.
The first is to destroy the calm of morning hormonal chemistry. The second gives you the focus needed to act to regain that calm.
This is not irrational but merely paradoxical.
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You can, in fact, just decide to start a thing. I do it all of the time and it's a good way to execute ideas rather to just critique others' ideas. Critique by doing as Michelangelo said. Critique by DOING.
August 9, 2025 at 1:54 PM
You can, in fact, just decide to start a thing. I do it all of the time and it's a good way to execute ideas rather to just critique others' ideas. Critique by doing as Michelangelo said. Critique by DOING.
Our eyes locked across a room: so we know each other?
August 8, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Our eyes locked across a room: so we know each other?
The weather in Northern Europe right now is just perfect, and I’m going to spend most of my day in museums!
August 8, 2025 at 7:32 AM
The weather in Northern Europe right now is just perfect, and I’m going to spend most of my day in museums!
Amsterdam remains lovely.
August 7, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Amsterdam remains lovely.
Sotheby’s returns ancient Buddhist gem collection to India after legal pressure
August 4, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Sotheby’s returns ancient Buddhist gem collection to India after legal pressure