We are saddened to hear of the passing of Jerome A. Cohen, the eminent scholar of Chinese law. Our condolences to his family and all those who loved him. He authored many books, most recently the memoir, "Eastward, Westward: A Life in Law." (1/2)

Another great big-picture, long-term overview of journalism in China comes in this episode of the Gateway to Global China podcast, featuring @yangyangcheng.bsky.social in conversation with Luqiu Luwei and @fangkc.bsky.social.

Apropos of nothing, here's a thread of worker-owned cooperative news sites that you might want to support: www.404media.co/membership/

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

Congrats to our editorial board members Aziz Rana and Luke Herrine on being named 2025 Freedom Scholars 🥳🥳

Style lessons from Robert Redford, one of the most stylish men in the last century. 🧵

Stuart Hall Essay Prize. Please disseminate: www.stuarthallfoundation.org/foundation/s...

Flesh and blood alone cannot halt the advance of iron and steel. To stop the tanks, we need people to place blocks on the road and throw sand into the gears. From our fall issue, @yangyangcheng.bsky.social on living through authoritarianism: www.dissentmagazine.org/article/to-o...

“… people who organize strikes at the production plant so that tanks are never built, and people who convert weapons factories into spaces that nurture and sustain life.”

"Flesh and blood alone cannot halt the advance of iron and steel. To stop the tanks, we need people to place blocks on the road and throw sand into the gears." At @dissentmag.bsky.social, @yangyangcheng.bsky.social writes on authoritarianism and resistance.

🧵 The summer of 2025 has been AI's "cruel summer"—wrongful deaths, dangerous therapy chatbots, medical misinformation, facial recognition failures. These aren't isolated glitches but predictable harms from systems deployed without adequate oversight. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I touched a Labubu for the first time😼

Extraordinary piece from @yangyangcheng.bsky.social.

Leave kitty alone! From a book in my collection: Little Lost Kitten, illustrated by Feodor Rojankovsky. 1951.

The AAUP calls on Texas A&M & Texas State to reverse the ideological firings of faculty members. We condemn the removal of the dean of the College of Arts & Sciences & the chair of the English department at Texas A&M for supporting the academic freedom of an instructor as a draconian abuse of power.

Today at the Blog, it's last call 🚨🚨 Submissions for the first-ever Association of Law & Political Economy Conference are due Monday, Sept. 15 ⏰ Don’t miss your chance to be part of this landmark event. For updates, make sure to follow: @a-lpe.bsky.social lpeproject.org/blog/cfp-rem...

I'm looking for stories about how AI is killing creative work, and I'd love to hear from you—artists, writers, illustrators, actors, designers, editors, voice actors and narrators—if your job or practice has been hit. This is going to be a big one. [email protected]

A lot to say about this, but one thing is that the Professor in question was a lecturer, and thus did not have tenure. The destruction of academic freedom is inextricably linked to the loss of worker protection in the university.

In my father's poli sci classroom in 1970s Taiwan, he would always call out the 'spy students' in the back: "Take good notes! Spicy bit!" The class would titter. Even the report-maker would look a bit abashed. In this A&M student's righteous "Dear Leader" invocation, there was no shame felt at all.

So grateful to write for @dissentmag.bsky.social's Fall 2025 issue "Authoritarianism and Resistance." I drafted the piece in June with the new school year in mind, as an immigrant scholar severed from her homeland: What can we teach the young about how to exist and persist at this historic juncture?

Many thanks to @nickserpe.bsky.social and @dissentmag.bsky.social team for the space, support, and sharp edits. Read the Fall 2025 issue on authoritarianism and resistance, ft. several writers and scholars I've long admired and more, and subscribe if you can! www.dissentmagazine.org/issue/fall-2...

CEO’s love ai because they see themselves in the tech that regurgitates sentence shaped utterances.

The belief that poverty and homelessness are about "individual choices" didn't arise on its own. It was manufactured through decades of messaging designed to protect the policies and interests that create mass precarity. As this new poll shows, that propaganda campaign has been wildly successful.

Very, very worth reading

Please find some time to read this entire essay.

We are living through tumultuous and frightening times. It is a moment we were born into, and are destined to meet. This is moving, impassioned letter from someone who has found the resolve to face it.

What a beautiful piece. And this is what I always emphasize to my own students, and in fact said (in other words) today: “One cannot choose the time one is born into, but one can choose what to do with the time one has.”

The singular @yangyangcheng.bsky.social "A campus cannot insulate the young from the horrors of this world; what it can do is equip them with courage, camaraderie, and critical thinking. Let fear keep us honest. Let uncertainty manifest possibility." www.dissentmagazine.org/article/to-o...

This powerful essay by @yangyangchen is in the special section on Authoritarian and Resistance

So grateful to write for @dissentmag.bsky.social's Fall 2025 issue "Authoritarianism and Resistance." I drafted the piece in June with the new school year in mind, as an immigrant scholar severed from her homeland: What can we teach the young about how to exist and persist at this historic juncture?

Our fall issue, Authoritarianism and Resistance, is out now! Featuring @patrickiber.bsky.social @sarahjones.bsky.social @apagliar.bsky.social @yangyangcheng.bsky.social @viririos.bsky.social @humbertobeck.bsky.social @petizagavarrete.bsky.social www.dissentmagazine.org/issue/fall-2...

As Labor Day approaches, we urge all AAUP members & chapters to join the national actions organized by @aft.org & the MayDayStrong coalition. Their website provides a directory & instructions for locating nearby actions. maydaystrong.org See you on the streets! #DefendHigherEd #WorkersDeserve

New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!

What makes a language "modern"? How do technologies reflect power and shape our relations with the written word? So glad to discuss these and more with @tsmullaney.bsky.social for 开门见山 | Gateway to Global China, a @madeinchinajournal.com podcast, starting with a legendary typewriter lost and found:

🧵 In the wake of numerous reports of interactions with AI chatbots that resulted in deadly consequences, the Center for Democracy & Technology's Dr. Michal Luria says AI firms should stop designing products that pretend to be human.

The Japanese editions of BETRAYING BIG BROTHER: The Feminist Awakening in China just arrived! My book has now been translated into Italian, Korean, Portuguese and Japanese. The New York Public Library named Betraying Big Brother one of its “essential reads on feminism”: bookshop.org/p/books/betr...

What makes a language "modern"? How do technologies reflect power and shape our relations with the written word? So glad to discuss these and more with @tsmullaney.bsky.social for 开门见山 | Gateway to Global China, a @madeinchinajournal.com podcast, starting with a legendary typewriter lost and found:

This @yangyangcheng.bsky.social interview with @tsmullaney.bsky.social is hands-down the single best thing I've read this week!

this is such a cool story

Decades after it was assumed lost, the first Chinese typewriter with a keyboard reappeared in a NY basement. For Ep.3 of 开门见山|Gateway to Global China, @yangyangcheng.bsky.social talks with historian @tsmullaney.bsky.social about the legendary MingKwai and the century-long effort to type in Chinese.

Michelle King on two accessible new books on Taiwan that, fittingly, treat its history as of great interest for its own sake lareviewofbooks.org/article/one-... ...read the essay along w/this lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-de... & this lareviewofbooks.org/article/move... work well as a Taiwan trilogy

AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.

So grateful to do this Q&A with @williamthomas.bsky.social @aip.bsky.social on being a Chinese scientist in the US and the importance of history to my work, esp. in this moment. Read the full interview, also ft. @mcnees.bsky.social, in AIP's History Newsletter: aip.brightspotcdn.com/89/11/30815e...

So grateful to do this Q&A with @williamthomas.bsky.social @aip.bsky.social on being a Chinese scientist in the US and the importance of history to my work, esp. in this moment. Read the full interview, also ft. @mcnees.bsky.social, in AIP's History Newsletter: aip.brightspotcdn.com/89/11/30815e...

Many thanks to Bob and @yangyangcheng.bsky.social for discussing why they value physics history. Unexpectedly, for both, their interest was sparked by the ongoing presence of the Manhattan Project around them, in Oak Ridge and Chicago, respectively. aip.brightspotcdn.com/89/11/30815e...

I went to this deranged little place and came back with 🎥 proof🎈

In case you missed this yesterday from me on saving the last big animal surviving by itself wild in the Yangtze River. #China CLICK ON LINK to read www.bbc.com/news/article...

I am very happy to share my newest solo-authored peer-reviewed article: “Can Taiwan survive partisanship? Evidence from two survey experiments” available to read for free at @jjps.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...