Finally defended my Ph.D. and completed this long journey! Huge thanks to my great advisors @willrhobbs.bsky.social @informor.bsky.social and @alicirone.bsky.social and all people who supported me through these five years! (Now I can confidently wear this shirt.)

Unfortunately I'm not in Japan so I will present this work (in collaboration with @willrhobbs.bsky.social) remotely tonight/tomorrow morning in Japan. It is based on another interesting work about Weibo's surprisingly transparent community-driven digital jury system: osf.io/preprints/so...

An excellent film

没想到孙宇晨会这样出现在我的bluesky时间线（但我记得他是拿着格林纳达的护照）

很有意思！要是能在过评药品里发现as-if random的情况做自然实验就好了。如果有可靠的药品销量数据，也许可以一试？

我这段时间见的最可悲的事：反了一辈子文革，跑到海外看见什么都像文革都要反。最后真文革来了，立刻成了最坚定、最狂热的吹鼓手。 以种族性别斗争为纲，唯上是从，外行领导内行，小将抢班夺权，个人崇拜，政审，拍脑袋决策，和尚打伞无法无天，大字报，全部搞了一遍，他们识别不出这是文革

so...it seems R1 is different from previous deepseek models...

The new acting Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy — State’s top public diplomacy official: 1) not only denies the Uyghur genocide but appears to applaud it 2) says the US should sell out Taiwan to China for concessions in Antarctica (???)

Career trajectory: 1. Talking int'l norms to help 🀄 build a compliant legal system. 2. Sharing US experiences, so 🀄 understands problems and successes. 3. Fostering mutual awareness to avoid conflicts based on misunderstanding. 4. Sharing 🀄 experience to discourage US authoritarian drift,

This is a sad time for political scientists, and even much sadder for Chinese political scientists who wish to pursue a liberal democracy

Democracy sliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiides so quickly I'm not surprised, but still grieved

Community Notes needs Journalism. Here's some scientific evidence for it @andyzhao.bsky.social and I provided last year in the Journal of Online Trust & Safety where we looked at the dynamics of Cofacts, the Taiwanese crowdsourced fact-checked community: www.tsjournal.org/index.php/jo...

So, blatant racism in an AI ethics invited talk on #NeurIPS from an MIT professor. Guess she knows this is inappropriate, otherwise she wouldn’t even have a “Note”. Then she still chooses to leave the slide as it is and present it in this way.

1. The name Bluesky was originally a placeholder for the project started by Twitter to build an open social protocol. Purely by coincidence, my mother gave me the name Lantian, which translates to "blue sky."

So...Bluesky was not named by Lantian, but still happened to have the same name as the CEO?