Recent clashes in S.China Sea reminded me of this.

China enacts rules requiring safeguards for humanlike AI services, emphasizing protection of minors and seniors, following increased global recognition of potential harms... WSJ: its about making babies! Occam's razor loses to dunning-kruger's shiv?

Not a single word about how these tariffs violate both our WTO & USCMA obligations. Every time Trump does this, the NYT & other outlets simply write as if we live in an international vacuum, where the US has no obligations under signed, ratified international treaties. It's journalistic malpractice.

This is a very helpful correction- and I think I'm guilty of having repeated the wrong story. That said.... we really need to have a talk about what "nuance" means.

WOW. The Trump admin just barred the FBI from investigating cases where DHS officers get into confrontations with immigrants or citizens. ICE HSI will lead all investigations, yet HSI has no jurisdiction to investigate civil rights violations. The fox is guarding the henhouse.

“My intention was not to offend anyone, but rather to push back culturally back <sic> on what constitutes antisemitism, to signal, in solidarity, that it’s not about ‘the Jews, that it’s about Israel and Palestine, and Lebanon, and Iran, and AIPAC. " But... the sign says "The Jews" 🤷‍♂️

This photo is one of the ages. And should be made famous.

So, he's on the "Countries dominating AI" side of the concerns spectrum; not the side where AI does the dominating.

OVER $100,000. That’s how much Trump’s teleprompter guy allegedly made betting on speeches he helped prepare. But he’s not the first insider accused of cashing in on information the public didn’t have. Congress needs to get to the bottom of how far this goes.

America's Lysenko

I have made this song into my ringtone. 【The lyrics are Gemini's threatening response to a student in Michigan】

Nice overview of related State Laws in the US and upcoming legislation. www.multistate.ai/updates/vol-...

People regularly ask me about going to US law school (because I work in one) and I've given the same advice for years: "You should get a JD if you want to practice law in the United States." A lot of people feel the need to disagree with this, and to explain to me why they are an exception.

These rules are taking effect today. They should be viewed as the "China piece of an AI story" more than "an AI angle on China's story". Regulating this type of human-machine interaction is a global effort where we all recognize potential harms, but are still just beginning to understand it.

I was going to make a joke about it seeming like Lindsey Graham was a "moderating influence" on Trump, but googling reveals people actually saying this.

I've been stressed out for 5 days that I forgot to make one of the points in my presentation at a recent conference. This guy won't even remember this tweet in a month.

Apologies, the image below seems to have been manipulated. Here is the actual picture:

False alarm, everything's fine.

Our top scientists are getting recruited overseas. 29 US scientists are from #NIH & Harvard, Yale, Columbia & Stanford universities. The fact that NIH scientists were recruited means that the world values what we built over 80 years, more than this administration. 🧪 nltimes.nl/2026/07/07/n...

It's the RayGun presidency. -So unfit for the role, critics are lost on how to address it -Fans argue it must be intentional (5D chess) -Leans into the controversy, which can be bluffed for a win, unlike the job -Too old -Talks trash -We can't stop watching -Calls the entire system into question

When I think about whether boots on the ground w/ daily American soldier deaths would shift Trump's base at all, I also remember that in Trump 1 we had 3,000 Covid deaths a day for a LONG time, and he just sort of ignored it, said crazy stuff on TV, and eventually claimed victory.

anyway of relevance bsky.app/profile/chin...

BTW, the reason I use human-like vs. Anthropomorphic in translation is to distinguish between a separate set of draft rules on human-appearing digital presentations, whether steered by a real person or machine. www.chinalawtranslate.com/en/virtual-h...

Starting to see some people saying that new rules on human-like (anthropomorphic) AI chatbots (taking effect July 15) are "banning" such services. That is not true- The rules emphasize prevention of excessive emotional dependence and crisis intervention. www.chinalawtranslate.com/en/the-frien...

I know it's just a gimmick, but it made me not go in.

China-born scientists having been moving back in growing numbers since Trump 1. It's a new sign entirely an eminent scientist with no ties to China takes a job there. It will be interesting to see if he can stick it out at Tsinghua University, & if other non-Chinese scientists make the same choice

Hong Kong records 176 suspected child abuse cases in first 5 months of mandatory reporting mechanism 🔗 hongkongfp.com/2026/07/09/h...

Mamdani: here are 5 grocery stores for affordable groceries in food deserts of NYC. Media: THIS IS COMMUNISM! MELTDOWN Trump: gas stations for affordable gas at $3.47 for the stupid war i just launched MEDIA: ???? www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

While China's 'Football Engineers' try to deconstruct the sport, and US 'Football Lawyers' debate an overturned red card, neither can produce the "aficionado's" pure love of the game. In China, they don't PLAY football, but KICK it. In the US, they are unclear on which sport even owns the name.

Yeah. Yang Meng, who teaches Yiddish and Jewish studies courses at Beida, had this to say:

It's the RayGun presidency. -So unfit for the role, critics are lost on how to address it -Fans argue it must be intentional (5D chess) -Leans into the controversy, which can be bluffed for a win, unlike the job -Too old -Talks trash -We can't stop watching -Calls the entire system into question

Once again, I am just a small-town international relations professor, standing here, begging our media & our Congress to take our most important signed, ratified international treaty seriously & threats by the One Special Boy to violate it as the presidency-ending scandal that it should have been.

Nobody is good at Catan.

This alone should be a decade-defining political scandal resulting in prison sentences.

There's no evidence that Trump actually mounted a golden eagle on the White House's Truman Balcony. While some people believed an image he shared on Truth Social was real, we spotted several signs that prove otherwise: www.snopes.com/fact-check/t...

(smugly) oh, your humiliation took a whole century?

From the people who brought you the Four Seasons Landscaping press conference....

Iran's ambassador to China insisted Saturday that new fees would be charged to ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz -- an idea rejected by Washington -- while assuring that "friendly" nations would receive special treatment.

What an image...

Meanwhile back home in Louisiana, a grand jury is investigating our AG.

These signs seem to have really bothered some people. Dan Wang's Breakneck also had a mention that made me pause.

I had not yet heard of his passing. I never met him in person, but connected a few times online-- interactions that always improved both me and my mood.

The joy of the infinite scroll is having stories like these appear next to each other through algorithmic kismet. www.kenklippenstein.com/p/450-years-...

We have recently uploaded these comparison charts: • Procuratorial Public Interest Litigation Law (1st vs. 2nd draft) — open for public comment through July 25: npcobserver.com/wp-content/u...

Plane appears to crash into Beijing’s tallest building 🔗 hongkongfp.com/2026/06/27/p...

No longer a place for reflection, so much as a reflection of the administrations priorities and tactics.