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Tiffany C. Li
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Law professor and writer. Expert on tech, privacy, AI, and sarcasm.

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tiffanycli.bsky.social
Are we not even making our own disinformation? What happened to American manufacturing?
dieworkwear.bsky.social derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d
Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.

My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
A Twitter account called Ivanka News tweets an AI image of a young woman wearing Muslim garb. The woman is holding a sign that says "I came here illegally. Should I be deported?" Ivanka News writes: What is your response to this person ?? In the "About this account" tab, it appears the account is based in Nigeria An account called MAGA scope writes: Who, in your view is the great enemy of the United States? Communism, Islam, Democratic Party, or Satan? The account is based in Nigeria. An account called MAGA Nadine writes: You go to work and find this. What would you do? The attached pic is an AI image that shows a microwave. The microwave has a sign that says "For religious reasons, this microwave is now making halal food only." The account is based in Morocco. An account called America First posts an AI image of Tulsi Gabbard. They wrote: How would you rate your trust in Tulsi Gabbard on a scale of 1-10?
November 24, 2025 at 12:24 AM
tiffanycli.bsky.social
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!
alexip718.com Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 21d
Zohran picked 「卓蘭」("excellent orchid") for his first name and「夸梅」("brilliant plum") for his middle name.

The orchid and the plum are among "The Four Noble Ones" in traditional Chinese art, the former symbolizing an indifference to fame and fortune, the latter an indomitable, incorruptible spirit.
bbghost.bsky.social emily 🩷 @bbghost.bsky.social · 26d
highlight of my day!!!! vote @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social vote @workingfamilies.org ❤️❤️❤️
November 22, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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alexip718.com
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
Official Cantonese translations of English names for British officials - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 3, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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jhammersley.bsky.social
How I've felt about sunsets for the past couple of weeks:
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
December 18, 2024 at 2:04 AM
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riana.bsky.social
RIP to @sfdirewolf.bsky.social, a tireless advocate for disabled people's right to live full, dignified, joyful lives.
thrasherxy.bsky.social Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 10d
“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
Black text on a yellow background - This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it looks like I ran out of time. I have so many dreams that I wanted to fulfill and plans to create new stories for you. There are a few in progress that might come to fruition in a few years if things work out. I did not ever imagine I would live to this age and end up a writer, editor, activist, and more. As a kid riddled with insecurity and internalized ableism, I could not see a path forward. It was thanks to friendships and some great teachers who believed in me that I was able to fight my way out of miserable situations into a place where I finally felt comfortable in my skin. We need more stories about us and our culture. You all, we all, deserve the everything and more in such a hostile, ableist environment. Our wisdom is incisive and unflinching. I'm honored to be your ancestor and believe disabled oracles like us will light the way to the future. Don't let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.
November 16, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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chrismarsden.bsky.social
"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...
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
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 4:32 AM
tiffanycli.bsky.social
Are there any photo print/card companies that *don’t* reserve rights to use your photos to train AI?
November 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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sarahjeong.bsky.social
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
November 11, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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debkrol.bsky.social
my latest: CRIT grants personhood status to #coloradoriver - 3rd in North America by Indigenous peoples. www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...
Colorado River wins personhood status from Arizona tribal council
Personhood status creates a powerful new mechanism for protecting the eponymous river that makes life possible in their arid homelands.
www.azcentral.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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riana.bsky.social
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...
Opinion | If You Tell ChatGPT Your Secrets, Will They Be Kept Safe?
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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agawande.bsky.social
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.
November 6, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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rebeccawilliams.info
what if technology wasn't something that was done to us, but instead something that we do?
And while we cast our ballots alone, we chose hope together. Hope over tyranny. Hope over big money and small ideas. Hope over despair. We won because New Yorkers allowed themselves to hope that the impossible could be made possible. *And we won because we insisted that no longer would politics be something that is done to us. Now, it is something that we do.*
November 6, 2025 at 12:41 AM
tiffanycli.bsky.social
“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...
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.'
www.latimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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mariaa.bsky.social
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...
November 4, 2025 at 6:37 PM
tiffanycli.bsky.social
🕯️ manifesting this energy for midterms 🕯️
colindickey.com Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 20d
Normal People Don’t Want This Shit is running away with the vote tonight
November 5, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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tepski.tech
www.builtinboston.com/articles/bos...
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
October 29, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social
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
October 29, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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jordfran.bsky.social
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...
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...
fpf.org
October 15, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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yeargain.bsky.social
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.
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.
October 17, 2025 at 4:48 PM
tiffanycli.bsky.social
And the price of gold is surging. This feels familiar…
marklemley.bsky.social Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · Oct 11
And this:
92% of the growth in the entire country this year has been data centers. And some of that is "circular deals" that dont involve actual money

fortune.com/2025/10/07/d...
Without data centers, GDP growth was 0.1% in the first half of 2025, Harvard economist says | Fortune
Is a U.S. without data centers a country without GDP growth?
fortune.com
October 13, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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stevevladeck.bsky.social
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!”
October 12, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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karenho.bsky.social
There is unfortunately no end to doomscrolling, but you still need time to rest and recover.
October 6, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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icymilaw.org
For your #FollowFriday consideration, a random list of folks whose posts my dev @davidcolarusso.com has found interesting:

@profsteed.bsky.social

@tiffanycli.bsky.social

@elienyc.bsky.social

@mikewhelanjr.bsky.social

@lifewinning.com

@neorsd.org

@profmmurray.bsky.social

@bunkum.us
September 26, 2025 at 12:45 PM