Tiffany C. Li

Every new word in this sentence is worse than the last

Tech elites are starting their own for-profit cities They want to escape from regulation and ‘failing’ democracy — but are they more opportunistic than libertarian?

The Tech Coup on steroids. ‘Society as a (tech run) service’ How Silicon Valley billionaires and ideologues dream of start-up nations to avoid the rule of law, by Hannah Murphy in @financialtimes.com ↘️ www.ft.com/content/b127...

One can only hope!

There’s a researcher with my same first and last name who’s studying AI from the technical side. Should I reach out so we can co-author in a way that confuses everyone, Y/N?

"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read

“You can’t separate human intellectual or reasoning powers from other aspects of human embodied life such as our vulnerability, our dependence on one another, and the fact that we are mortal”
nymag.com/intelligence...

Are we not even making our own disinformation? What happened to American manufacturing?

Kudos to whoever advised him on this—and to his campaign for having the foresight to take this seriously. Names can mean a lot in Chinese!

Official Cantonese translations of English names for British officials - Wikipedia

Picking a good Chinese name is such an art and science that to this day, the British Consulate General in Hong Kong has dedicated staff to provide official names of UK prime ministers and cabinet members to the rest of the Cantonese-speaking world. It's a gesture of goodwill and care

cartoon sun: panel 1 says I'm going to bed, panel 2 a man says "it's only 4:30", panel 3 sun says sorry what & panel 4 sun gives middle finger

How I've felt about sunsets for the past couple of weeks:

RIP to @sfdirewolf.bsky.social, a tireless advocate for disabled people's right to live full, dignified, joyful lives.

ChatGPT violated copyright law by ‘learning’ from song lyrics, German court rules OpenAI ordered to pay undisclosed damages for training its language models on artists’ work without permission

"Munich regional court sided in favour of Germany’s music rights society GEMA, which said ChatGPT had harvested protected lyrics by popular artists to “learn” from them" Paying for the lack of respect and permission
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Boooooooooo

Are there any photo print/card companies that *don’t* reserve rights to use your photos to train AI?

ok one last post -- oldheads are always going to "why is the web dying.... how can we get the kids invested in the free and open web"

bro the kids can't read. that's why the web is dying. first things first

my latest: CRIT grants personhood status to #coloradoriver - 3rd in North America by Indigenous peoples. www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...

Opinion | If You Tell ChatGPT Your Secrets, Will They Be Kept Safe?

I'm sure there's been Discourse on this today that I've missed, but my $0.02: I think it conflates three distinct concepts - privacy laws, privileges in court proceedings, and professional ethics rules governing confidentiality. They don't all protect the same thing!

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...

I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.

what if technology wasn't something that was done to us, but instead something that we do?

A small army is racing against time and Trump to preserve U.S. history Like 'monks' in the Middle Ages, volunteers are working to preserve cultural treasures they fear are under threat from President Trump’s war against 'woke.'

“Historians, librarians and volunteers are racing to document museum displays and historical records they fear the Trump administration will remove or alter.” www.latimes.com/california/s...

Today in class we read two papers on data and ethics:

"Data Is the New What? Popular Metaphors & Professional Ethics in Emerging Data Culture"
culturalanalytics.org/article/1105...

"Ethical and Privacy Considerations for Research Using Online Fandom Data"
par.nsf.gov/servlets/pur...

🕯️ manifesting this energy for midterms 🕯️

Boston Police Can No Longer Use Facial Recognition Software | Built In Boston The law makes it illegal for city officials to “obtain, retain, possess, access, or use” facial recognition technology, acknowledging that it “has the potential to harm communities of color who are al...

www.builtinboston.com/articles/bos...

In 2008, Google created an ad-powered wiki encyclopedia called Knol, seen as a "Wikipedia killer" amid its highly-publicized launch. And the Wikimedia Foundation gave an unbothered response that I quite like: "the more good free content, the better for the world." Anyway Knol instantly flopped

Privacy Papers for Policymakers Call for Papers The Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) invites privacy scholars and authors with an interest in privacy issues to nominate finished papers for consideration for FPF’s annual Privacy Papers for Policymakers...

For all the #privacy academics out there: In case you missed it, submissions are open for FPF's annual Privacy Papers for Policymakers (PPPM) award! You have until Oct. 30 to submit the best privacy scholarship from the past year.

⏩ See details here: fpf.org/privacy-pape...

al procedure revolution, and just a few years into the Roberts Court’s full-throated embrace of originalist jurisprudence. Whether many of the protections we have come to know and recognize from the Warren Court—the exclusionary rule, Miranda warnings, and Gideon’s mandate— are subjected to re-evaluation under a “history and tradition”- style analysis and, if so, whether they survive that analysis, remains to be seen. At the same time, state courts and constitutions offer the same hope now as they did at the onset of judicial federalism in the 1970s. Attorneys for criminal defendants sought refuge in the states to vindicate their rights, and they rejuvenated state constitutions as independent sources of liberty that can extend beyond the bare minimums of federal protection. However, while these litigants produced changes in case law, those changes were not frequently accompanied by formal constitutional changes. Few state constitutions were amended to include the core criminal procedure requirements, and few changes were even seriously considered.

I’m pleased that my Georgia Law Review article is now out! I did a content analysis of every state constitutional amendment from 1960 to the present that altered any criminal procedure protection—which revealed how few states even *tried* to ratify the Warren Court’s criminal procedure holdings.

And the price of gold is surging. This feels familiar…

Sign that your 9YO may have two lawyers for parents:

Me: “You’re not complaining, are you?”

9YO: “No. I’m just stating my feelings in an aggravated tone!”

There is unfortunately no end to doomscrolling, but you still need time to rest and recover.