Dr. Stephanie M Wong 黄欣慧

AI company Anthropic’s ironic warning to job candidates: 'Please do not use AI' The tech juggernaut wants to field communication skills without help from tech, and Anthropic isn’t the only employer pushing back.

Oh, this is funny... AI company urges job candidates not to use AI: "We want to understand your personal interest in Anthropic without mediation through an AI system, and we also want to evaluate your non-AI-assisted communication skills.”

fortune.com/2025/02/04/a...

Ironies…

Civil society in the US is mostly dead.

They’d probably be less shocked than we are. That generation saw the rise of totalitarian state powers and the military/corporate collaboration that accompanies it. James Chappell has a book (The Catholic Modern), and I think his thesis holds true for Chinese fascism and communism in the 30s too.

It's striking how quick some of gov office staffers and companies have been to rush to implement Trump's anti-DEI ethos, basically interpreting it as license to scrub all non-white people from historical past or present representation.

The Ama: Freediving with Japan's last sea women In Japan's remote Shima area, a tight-knit group of all-women divers from the Ama community have made the daunting depths their second home.

The Ama: Japan's last sea women
In the remote Shima area nestled near Ago Bay and the historic Toba city, a tight-knit group of all-women divers from the Ama community have made the daunting depths their second home.
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Congrats Jessica!!

How have I not watched this? This sounds amazing 😆:

Fascinating discussion the Ama sea diver women in Japan, now facing major demographic decline.

black and white photo of Wong Kim Ark, American of Chinese descent. He is looking straight at the camera.

A thread on birthright citizenship I wrote in 2018, that unfortunately remains relevant.

I always thought this was where it was all headed. Abolishing birthright citizenship for the non-white and non-rich. And why I teach on United States v. Wong Kim Ark every semester.

Who was Wong Kim Ark? 1/

People's dismissiveness of the term always seems a little strange to me, considering awakening is the classical/serious Buddhist aspiration. The MAGA people's mockery of being 'woke' always makes me think... 'ooohkay, so you want to remain stuck in the sleepy grips of greed, hatred, and delusion??'

Yep, I was testing ChatGPT and asked it some question about 20th century Chinese citizenship laws; it very confidently made something up though cited a real article; then when I pointed out that the cited article actually didn't address the topic at all, it was very apologetic about the error...