Today I saw a city burning on TV. —Charles Simic

Columbia Law Review is proud to announce our 2024 Symposium, on the “Law of Protest.” The Symposium brings together brilliant legal minds to discuss a pressing issue in the legal community and in society writ large. This year's Symposium will take place 11/15/24 in NYC.

The rise of Generative AI bots constantly scraping the web for training data is going to shut down a lot of smaller websites that can't afford the traffic costs. It's not just an OpenAI problem it's all of them, multiple scrapes by many AI companies desperate for new data.

T.D. Lee passed away last month at 97. The Nobel laureate proposed my undergrad program in China and taught Mao about symmetry. For @npr, I reflect on the physicist's work and contributions to US-China scientific exchange, and the questions he left behind: npr.org/2024/09/05/nx-…

Microsoft built data centers near the drought stricken city of Colon—Mexico gave it subsidies & just one facility was allocated 25 million liters of groundwater a year. That's ~25% of what the general public gets. My colleague Diana Baptista visited:context.news/ai/video/forge…

"He embodied the best of both countries he called home and confronted some of their worst elements..With the purity of will, he revealed the beauty of the world as well as its brokenness." For @npr, I write in memory of Chinese-American physicist T.D. Lee: npr.org/2024/09/05/nx-…

Today, we're launching *From the Vault* - a series that will highlight some vintage posts from our archive. First up, antitrust, featuring Sanjukta Paul, Sandeep Vaheesan, Marshall Steinbaum 🔥, Brian Callaci, John Mark Newman, and a certain FTC Chair. lpeproject.org/blog/from-the-…

This absolutely wild post unintentionally highlights something very real: Silicon Valley has specifically designed information technologies as a *retreat* from material concerns, not a way of addressing them

She was volunteering for the same organization where Rachel Corrie was volunteering before she was crushed and killed by an Israeli army bulldozer more than 20 years ago.

Adoption from China is deeply enmeshed in its population politics. This The New York Times piece on China’s sudden ban of foreign adoption opened with Prof Wang Feng’s insights that position the current moment in the long chain reactions of the one-child policy. I also shared some thoughts

I'm grateful that TIME's AI 100 list offers a concise portrait of the generative AI industry, and who the technology is being developed by, and for: The ultrarich. The list was hotly debated yesterday; these lists always are. My biggest concern is that it is entirely accurate.

The survey of nearly 3,000 faculty members found that about 70% of respondents are dissatisfied w/ the political atmosphere around higher ed & about 55% of survey respondents are disappointed in their school’s admin for “not adequately defending academic freedom & tenure.”

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“When the AI provided an incorrect result, researchers found inexperienced and moderately experienced radiologists dropped their cancer-detecting accuracy from around 80% to about 22%. Very experienced radiologists’ accuracy dropped from nearly 80% to 45%.”😮

大声的YouTube频道开通会员了！感谢观众和朋友们的一路支持与陪伴，大声已经发布了200期视频和音频节目。欢迎愿意支持大声的朋友们加入会员，帮助我们有资源和信心坚持下去，始终做高质量的节目。 加入会员链接：youtube.com/channel/UC7FLW…

黄雪琴：“做记者，给了我书写的自由，经历了什么，被什么所打动，我就记录什么，写什么。其实也有些不够专业，不够理性，不够中立，我对弱势群体总投以最温情的眼光，容易被个体打动，被情感裹挟。这一路走来，高高低低、风风雨雨，也真是不枉这半生了，因为不是麻木不仁的人生，不是对不公不义视而不

New piece on Shein, the sort of Singaporean, but really Chinese, fast fashion company that is everywhere but no one knows much about. How the exceedingly opaque company and its billionaire founder became a Chinese success story realized in America: theatlantic.com/international/…

The Nobel Laureate T.D. Lee died recently. Yangyang Cheng wrote about Lee’s role in lifting science in China, and in bridging China and America. These magical years of 1980s! npr.org/2024/09/05/nx-…

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