Tiffany C. Li

I track everything I do in 3 places: a spreadsheet with tabs for Scholarship, Teaching, and Service + a fully detailed CV + a folder where I keep PDFs of the “receipts”

One of my mentors gave me the same advice when I just started out. Log every single thing you do, and save receipts! Compliments, thank-you notes, press mentions, any stats or proof of project success. Even rejections, to prove you tried.

Are you a researcher (from HCI, communication, or information science) studying online misinformaiton, disinfromation, hate speech, polarization, or related information toxicity? Apply to attend our CSCW workshop (with both remote and in-person options).

“Garber, in a conversation with one faculty member, said that the suggestion that Harvard was open to paying $500 million is ‘false’ and claimed that the figure was apparently leaked to the press by White House officials...”

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

YouTube video by Taylor Lorenz Age Verification Will Kill Free Speech Online

I did an hour long beginner’s breakdown on why age verification is extremely dangerous, bad, and leading to mass censorship, with tech policy expert @ericgoldman.bsky.social. What’s happening in the UK can and will happen here if we don’t fight it!

If you use AI to write my obituary, I will come back and haunt you

If you couldn't reach me in the last couple weeks, it's because I've been with @v0max.bsky.social in California in federal court... www.courthousenews.com/meta-violate...

Screenshot of a paper on a webpage, with a figure showing 5 levels of autonomy for AI agents and the tradeoff between user involvement and agent autonomy as the levels increase.

📢 New paper, published by @knightcolumbia.org

We often talk about AI agents augmenting vs. automating work, but how exactly can different configurations of human-agent interaction look like? We introduce a 5-level framework for AI agent autonomy to unpack this.

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Welp now my post shows up on a general query about a REAL HISTORICAL FACT lmao. Google is cooked

2 but I’m wondering how you use your office. For example, I don’t like my computer screen facing a bright window due to glare. And I like being able to get to my computer while meeting with students, so we can look at things on the screen together. So I’d choose the layout based on your habits.

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Graff, quoting Louis Fischer: “He [Hitler] would destroy democracy. Yet democracy tolerated him and helped him take office in order to destroy democracy. This peaceful death of German democracy is one of the strangest chapters in history.”

“And if the facts say otherwise then the facts must be altered. Thus history is continuously rewritten.“ —1984

Well, everything. The death of art. [Laughs.] A thing that I’ve been struck by in the last year of tech development around art is that what makes us human is making art, even if you’re not a professional artist. This is kind of corny, but I think about cavemen, right? One of the first things we ever did as a species was put our handprints on a wall, and it’s just this drive that has always been there. It’ll always be there. And I think it’s preposterous that these people are suggesting that they develop this technology, and the first thing they want to eliminate is art, so you have more time to…what, email? I don’t know what they think I’m going to do with my fucking day. Most of the population is not artists, but a lot of the population has artistic hobbies, and if you replace that with a computer doing it for you or whatever, it’s just pointless. I think there’s a death drive in these people, almost, and an actual hatred of artists; they are jealous of people with imagination because they don’t have one, and they almost consciously want to eliminate it.

My wife is in Vogue shitting on your AI-generated "art" 💜 www.vogue.com/article/matt...

You GUYS @mmasnick.bsky.social said this about my “compliancization” article!!

www.techdirt.com/2025/07/31/e...

👋🏾The issue of disbarring lawyers who tried to overturn the results of the 2020 election came up in this podcast when I interviewed Professor Hasen. He spoke of a lawyer's duty of candor. soundcloud.com/profciara/de... #disbarment #jeffreyclark #election2020 #democracyanddestiny #podsky 🗳️⚖️🎧

Full Committee Markup of Defense and Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Acts | United States Senate Committee on Appropriations United States Senate Committee on Appropriations

🧪 Senate appropriators say: NIH's budget gets a... boost!

Rather than 40% cut, NIH gets a $400M *increase* in the Senate committee bill for FY26 (about +1%).

"Congress has your back," said @murray.senate.gov.

ADVOCACY MATTERS! There's still a long road (esp in the House), so keep up pressure.

Wish I was teaching Professional Responsibility this term. Though I had enough current events examples last Spring!

"Lawyers cannot advocate for any outcome based on false statements and they cannot urge others to do so."

A lessons to the Trump admin's lawyers right now who have concealed the truth — there may be serious professional consequences for this dishonesty.

Flash flood warning was just issued for Bronx/Queens.

Nearly all parts of the five boroughs will be at an extreme risk for flooding the rest of the afternoon and evening.

Get your friends and neighbors out of their basement apartments if flooding is happening.
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The whole idea of a "Heritage American" is revisionist BS, and I say that as someone who can trace my own "heritage" in this land back to the 1640s. This country has always been a mish-mosh of peoples coming together to make a better future.

"E Pluribus Unum"; out of many, one.

What’s a technology that you think is overhyped? I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry. Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto. It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Fleeing One Step Ahead of Fascism The chilling warnings of Europe in the 1930s: "Reality is stronger than all our wishes"

As I worked over the winter on my new book, there was one chapter that felt particularly heavy—the accounts of Jewish refugee scientists fleeing Hitler's Europe and how democracy succumbed to fascism. Much of this feels too familiar right now: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/fleeing-on...

This also captures the vibe eerily www.wiley.com/en-us/Februa...

Respiratory viral infections awaken metastatic breast cancer cells in lungs - Nature Mouse models show that respiratory infections from viruses such as influenza and SARS-CoV-2 can trigger metastasis of dormant breast cancer cells in the lungs, a finding supported by epidemiological d...

Breakthrough study: COVID-19 reactivates dormant breast cancer, triggering deadly metastasis. Cancer survivors who got COVID had 4.5× higher cancer-related deaths and 1.4× greater breast cancer. MASK UP!! Protect yourself from Covid, which is airborne

Zero Knowledge Proofs Alone Are Not a Digital ID Solution to Protecting User Privacy In the past few years, governments across the world have rolled out digital identification options, and now there are efforts encouraging online companies to implement identity and age verification re...

It is disappointing to see Google and others pushing zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) for age verification. As EFF points out, ZKPs aren't enough to protect our privacy, and without a federal privacy law, they're just more fuel for data brokers.

Some additional thoughts 🧵

www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Due to age authentication mandates, we're witnessing the real-time destruction of the Internet as we know it. The barriers invade our privacy & block kids'--& adults'--access to material they are entitled to access.

My paper explains why none of this helps children ssrn.com/abstract=520...

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I have fallen victim to this - and other Property profs might’ve too! Crabgrass Frontier often gets misread and cited for the proposition that racial deed restrictions originated in The Lindens in Brookline MA. It’s false, a kind local historian pointed out. We need to be real skeptics in this age.

All historians know the sinking feeling of tracking an "authoritative" reference back through several generations of writers to an unsourced assertion by someone nobody's ever heard of.

Now AI can make up new ones in no time at all.