Tiffany C. Li
@tiffanycli.bsky.social
Law professor and writer. Expert on tech, privacy, AI, and sarcasm.
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As Chinese media publish annual New Year’s messages — a tradition going back decades — the space for truth-telling continues to narrow in Xi Jinping’s China. chinamediaproject.org/2026/01/14/a...
A Tradition in Retreat - China Media Project
As Chinese media publish annual New Year's messages, the space for truth-telling continues to narrow in Xi Jinping's China.
chinamediaproject.org
January 14, 2026 at 6:17 AM
As Chinese media publish annual New Year’s messages — a tradition going back decades — the space for truth-telling continues to narrow in Xi Jinping’s China. chinamediaproject.org/2026/01/14/a...
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I wrote a piece about translation earlier in the year, talking about how a good translation isn't, and can't be, just matching words one-for-one:
whatever.scalzi.com/2025/02/03/h...
whatever.scalzi.com/2025/02/03/h...
How Translation Works, Book Title Edition
As any translator will tell you, translating a piece of fiction isn’t about simply transcribing words one-to-one from one language to another. It’s about capturing a vibe — making…
whatever.scalzi.com
December 18, 2025 at 10:15 PM
I wrote a piece about translation earlier in the year, talking about how a good translation isn't, and can't be, just matching words one-for-one:
whatever.scalzi.com/2025/02/03/h...
whatever.scalzi.com/2025/02/03/h...
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Authors, remember that you CAN insist on human translation for your foreign-language editions and have it written into your contracts. You can no longer just assume you're going to get a human to work on the book whose every word you wrote with intent.
December 18, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Authors, remember that you CAN insist on human translation for your foreign-language editions and have it written into your contracts. You can no longer just assume you're going to get a human to work on the book whose every word you wrote with intent.
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Good thing to remember when signing book contracts. Esp. since for most academic presses this doesn’t directly affect their bottom line at all so they’re likely to say yes w/o much pushback. (They make their money by selling off the rights to a foreign publisher who is commissioning the translation)
Authors, remember that you CAN insist on human translation for your foreign-language editions and have it written into your contracts. You can no longer just assume you're going to get a human to work on the book whose every word you wrote with intent.
January 14, 2026 at 6:21 AM
Good thing to remember when signing book contracts. Esp. since for most academic presses this doesn’t directly affect their bottom line at all so they’re likely to say yes w/o much pushback. (They make their money by selling off the rights to a foreign publisher who is commissioning the translation)
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I don’t tend to be highly judgey about parenting, but I maintain that putting AI slop content in front of infants and toddlers all day long is a form of neglect www.afr.com/technology/y...
YouTube creators have found a new consumer for AI slop: Babies
As younger children spend more time on YouTube Kids, concern is growing that their brains are being shaped by AI-generated videos purporting to be educational.
www.afr.com
January 14, 2026 at 4:23 AM
I don’t tend to be highly judgey about parenting, but I maintain that putting AI slop content in front of infants and toddlers all day long is a form of neglect www.afr.com/technology/y...
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I started worrying about this exact thing last March when I heard reports of different anti-Asian policies and I hate that my hunch was right
A St. Paul resident says federal officers knocked on her door and asked her to identify Hmong and Asian households in her North End neighborhood last week.
ICE in St. Paul: Man roughly detained at gas station, Border Patrol chief jeered in Midway Target
Videos and photos show a prevalence of federal agents in St. Paul recently.
trib.al
January 14, 2026 at 2:51 AM
I started worrying about this exact thing last March when I heard reports of different anti-Asian policies and I hate that my hunch was right
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Happy to share new resource, The Rule of Law Teaching Project w/videos by constitutional law professors from Harvard, Yale, Stanford, NYU & more, RuleofLaw101.org. @leahlitman.bsky.social @profmmurray.bsky.social @jmchacon.bsky.social @richardre.bsky.social Trailer here: youtu.be/ILpR3UMlwOM?...
Meet the Law Professors in the Rule of Law Teaching Project
YouTube video by Rule of Law 101
youtu.be
January 13, 2026 at 5:20 PM
Happy to share new resource, The Rule of Law Teaching Project w/videos by constitutional law professors from Harvard, Yale, Stanford, NYU & more, RuleofLaw101.org. @leahlitman.bsky.social @profmmurray.bsky.social @jmchacon.bsky.social @richardre.bsky.social Trailer here: youtu.be/ILpR3UMlwOM?...
In the Star Trek timeline, the 2020s included violent riots against government interment and also WWIII and a nuclear holocaust. So…
"We want to make Star Trek real," said Elon Musk.
"We want to make Starfleet Academy real so that it's not always science fiction, but one day the science fiction turns to science fact."
"We want to make Starfleet Academy real so that it's not always science fiction, but one day the science fiction turns to science fact."
January 14, 2026 at 12:46 AM
In the Star Trek timeline, the 2020s included violent riots against government interment and also WWIII and a nuclear holocaust. So…
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Oh hey, looks like Libby has a built in spot to let them know what we all think of their recent announcement about allowing AI books in their systems.
January 13, 2026 at 1:31 PM
Oh hey, looks like Libby has a built in spot to let them know what we all think of their recent announcement about allowing AI books in their systems.
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I wonder how long it will take for some of these celebs to go after Meta directly www.404media.co/instagram-ai...
Instagram AI Influencers Are Defaming Celebrities With Sex Scandals
Fake images of LeBron James, iShowSpeed, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, and even Nicolás Maduro show them in bed with AI-generated influencers.
www.404media.co
January 13, 2026 at 5:50 PM
I wonder how long it will take for some of these celebs to go after Meta directly www.404media.co/instagram-ai...
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“Thanks to our latest findings, we now know that early citizens of the United States had a more nuanced system of government than previously thought,” said Professor Lee Somers, director of the site excavation
Archaeologists: D.C. Capitol May Have Once Been Used For Legislating
WASHINGTON—Calling the discovery the “clearest proof yet” of how the U.S. government was originally designed to function, archaeologists published new evidence Thursday that suggests the Capitol build...
theonion.com
January 13, 2026 at 1:12 AM
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a reminder, again, that AltNPS is a grifter account run by people who have no affiliation with the National Park Service and indeed who never did have any affiliation with the National Park Service. They have no sources, they have no information, they are purely there to scam you.
"Receiving reports" my ass. AltNPS is not receiving reports of ICE raids in Saint Paul. They are seeing posts on social media like the rest of us.
I DO have loved ones in Saint Paul. ALL of my loved ones. They're terrified. Fuck you.
I DO have loved ones in Saint Paul. ALL of my loved ones. They're terrified. Fuck you.
January 12, 2026 at 3:30 AM
a reminder, again, that AltNPS is a grifter account run by people who have no affiliation with the National Park Service and indeed who never did have any affiliation with the National Park Service. They have no sources, they have no information, they are purely there to scam you.
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We love to see it!
Community-created harm reduction infrastructure to contest the alarming integration of AI agents into the Windows operating system (which is currently the most reckless deployment environment) ♥️
github.com/zoicware/Rem...
Community-created harm reduction infrastructure to contest the alarming integration of AI agents into the Windows operating system (which is currently the most reckless deployment environment) ♥️
github.com/zoicware/Rem...
GitHub - zoicware/RemoveWindowsAI: Force Remove Copilot, Recall and More in Windows 11
Force Remove Copilot, Recall and More in Windows 11 - zoicware/RemoveWindowsAI
github.com
January 12, 2026 at 6:48 PM
We love to see it!
Community-created harm reduction infrastructure to contest the alarming integration of AI agents into the Windows operating system (which is currently the most reckless deployment environment) ♥️
github.com/zoicware/Rem...
Community-created harm reduction infrastructure to contest the alarming integration of AI agents into the Windows operating system (which is currently the most reckless deployment environment) ♥️
github.com/zoicware/Rem...
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I've just posted my latest essay w/ @jessicasilbey.bsky.social, titled "How AI Destroys Institutions." We argue that AI systems are designed in ways that degrade & are likely to destroy our crucial civic institutions like the rule of law, universities & a free press. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
How AI Destroys Institutions
Civic institutions—the rule of law, universities, and a free press—are the backbone of democratic life. They are the mechanisms through which complex societies
papers.ssrn.com
January 12, 2026 at 2:15 PM
I've just posted my latest essay w/ @jessicasilbey.bsky.social, titled "How AI Destroys Institutions." We argue that AI systems are designed in ways that degrade & are likely to destroy our crucial civic institutions like the rule of law, universities & a free press. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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I have an op-ed in the NYT today about the Grok scandal, sharing my research from last year finding that legal risk hinders AI companies from making their models safer against CSAM - an echo of the years where white-hat hackers were chilled from good-faith research. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/o...
Opinion | There’s One Easy Solution to the A.I. Porn Problem
www.nytimes.com
January 12, 2026 at 4:34 PM
I have an op-ed in the NYT today about the Grok scandal, sharing my research from last year finding that legal risk hinders AI companies from making their models safer against CSAM - an echo of the years where white-hat hackers were chilled from good-faith research. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/o...
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Here's Abe Lincoln on the subject: “We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.”
January 12, 2026 at 4:25 PM
Here's Abe Lincoln on the subject: “We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.”
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An important behind the scenes look at how jawboning, the FCC, and the messiness of media regulation have collided in the last year. @genevievelakier.bsky.social has the definitive article on NRA v. Vullo and jawboning, a hugely important issues in Trump’s 2nd term.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/m...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/m...
How the MAGA Plan to Control TV Triggered a Free-Speech Fight
www.nytimes.com
January 12, 2026 at 1:34 PM
An important behind the scenes look at how jawboning, the FCC, and the messiness of media regulation have collided in the last year. @genevievelakier.bsky.social has the definitive article on NRA v. Vullo and jawboning, a hugely important issues in Trump’s 2nd term.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/m...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/m...
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Please apply (or encourage your grad students to apply) to our awesome funded summer program by January 15th!
Thanks to generous funding from the @sloanfoundation.bsky.social, John Basl and I are thrilled to be running the AI and Data Ethics summer school in 2026! ~12 graduate students, $10k stipend, 9 weeks to learn about scientific and ethical issues raised by AI. Please apply! aidesummer.org
AIDE Summer
AI + Data Ethics (AIDE) Summer is intended for graduate students with advanced training in applied ethics, ethical theory, philosophy of science, metascience, epistemology, or other areas with potenti...
aidesummer.org
January 12, 2026 at 2:54 PM
Please apply (or encourage your grad students to apply) to our awesome funded summer program by January 15th!
What if AI but only for the worst users and run by the worst company?
Some Grok users, mostly men, began to demand to see bruising on the bodies of the women, and for blood to be added to the images. Requests to show women tied up and gagged were instantly granted.
‘Add blood, forced smile’:
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
‘Add blood, forced smile’:
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
‘Add blood, forced smile’: how Grok’s nudification tool went viral
The ‘put her in a bikini’ trend rapidly evolved into hundreds of thousands of requests to strip clothes from photos of women, horrifying those targeted
www.theguardian.com
January 12, 2026 at 3:18 PM
What if AI but only for the worst users and run by the worst company?
Peace at last 🇺🇸
I thought this was a joke but it’s an actual post from the White House: “we are ending the war on protein”
How about ending the war on the health of this country?
How about ending the war on the health of this country?
January 12, 2026 at 3:09 PM
Peace at last 🇺🇸
Absolutely not.
Anthropic head of life sciences: “you can integrate all of your personal information together with your medical records and your insurance records, and have Claude as the orchestrator and be able to navigate the whole thing and simplify it for you.”
Anthropic joins OpenAI's push into health care with new Claude tools
Anthropic’s new offerings allow users and providers to work with medical data, mimicking similar moves by OpenAI.
www.nbcnews.com
January 12, 2026 at 12:02 AM
Absolutely not.
Didn’t get my act together in time to send Christmas cards, so I thought maybe I’d send New Year’s cards. Now I’m thinking … Chinese New Year? 🫠
January 11, 2026 at 7:41 PM
Didn’t get my act together in time to send Christmas cards, so I thought maybe I’d send New Year’s cards. Now I’m thinking … Chinese New Year? 🫠
New year, same dumpster fire
Constitutional crisis, measles back, looming economic recession, global democracy flailing, polar icecaps melting, every news headline bad …….. still gotta do emails
January 11, 2026 at 7:39 PM
New year, same dumpster fire
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If you are anxious and sad about the state of the world, that's fine, and there are plenty of strategies for dealing with that. But I think you already know that drive-by online dooming isn't a strategy. It's selfish and adolescent. It's a contagion that only spreads the worst of you, not the best.
January 8, 2026 at 3:51 AM
If you are anxious and sad about the state of the world, that's fine, and there are plenty of strategies for dealing with that. But I think you already know that drive-by online dooming isn't a strategy. It's selfish and adolescent. It's a contagion that only spreads the worst of you, not the best.
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Hey so this is happening if you need some good news right now www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/s...
Congress Is Reversing Trump’s Steep Budget Cuts to Science
www.nytimes.com
January 10, 2026 at 3:52 PM
Hey so this is happening if you need some good news right now www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/s...