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Tiffany C. Li
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Law professor and writer. Expert on tech, privacy, AI, and sarcasm.

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tiffanycli.bsky.social
These people are cartoon villains. No subtlety at all. May as well have top hats and twirly mustaches.
anaphoristand.bsky.social brian pillion @anaphoristand.bsky.social · 10h
This is some genuinely psycho shit...
Pam Bondi loves dogs. Always had them, one after another. She got involved with dog shelters and dog rescue, and once pulled off to the side of a busy road and got out of her car to chase down a stray. Another dog she helped was a Saint Bernard named Master Tank. She adopted him from a shelter after he was lost during Hurricane Katrina in 2005, not long after her own Saint Bernard had died. The story has been told but bears repeating. Master Tank belonged to Steve and Dorreen Couture and their grandson, who was 4, recovering from the murder-suicide of his parents and losing his dog during the storm. Bondi said the dog was a “walking skeleton” and “dying from heartworms” when she adopted him. The Coutures eventually tracked down Master Tank, but instead of giving him back, Bondi hired a lawyer, who accused the Coutures of abusing the dog, which Bondi had renamed Noah. “She lied,” Dorreen told a Palm Beach Post columnist years later. “My little grandson begged her to take the dog home, and she refused. She thought she would just wear us down. That we were unstable people and would just quit.” The case was settled out of court, with Bondi securing visitation rights, but she never did visit. She got another dog.
February 11, 2026 at 11:52 PM
tiffanycli.bsky.social
We’re in the timeline where “99 Luftballoons” was apparently an almost literal prophecy
February 11, 2026 at 11:45 PM
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karnythia.bsky.social
Colon cancer numbers are rising in the US, UK, Canada, China, Australia, India, South Korea, the EU, Brazil, South Africa etc., the exception is in women in Nordic states who are more likely to eat a diet high in fiber because of berries. Eat beans, berries and other high fiber foods. Limit booze
almasuono.bsky.social ALMA SUONO BA.,CN. @almasuono.bsky.social · 11h
So many Americans are dying from colon cancer and thats terrifying to me.
February 11, 2026 at 11:22 PM
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dell.bsky.social
NEW: CBP signs a new deal with Clearview AI to access its scraped image database for "tactical targeting," including efforts to “disrupt, degrade, and dismantle” networks of people labeled security threats.
CBP Signs Clearview AI Deal to Use Face Recognition for ‘Tactical Targeting’
US Border Patrol intelligence units will gain access to a face recognition tool built on billions of images scraped from the internet.
www.wired.com
February 11, 2026 at 4:37 PM
tiffanycli.bsky.social
People are being released from ICE detention into the freezing cold, in the dead of winter, without coats or a way to call home. But a group of volunteers has stepped in to meet people at the gates, bring them home, and provide ongoing resources.

Support their gofundme here: gofund.me/8c1009a40
Donate to Haven Watch MN – Support at the gate, care beyond it, organized by Haven Watch
Haven Watch was created to help individuals released from ICE detenti… Haven Watch needs your support for Haven Watch MN – Support at the gate, care beyond it
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February 11, 2026 at 5:41 PM
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erictopol.bsky.social
A success story for a physician with Alzheimer's which, in spite of the obstacles outlined, is a precursor for our enhanced ability to prevent the disease in the future
gift link
www.wsj.com/opinion/i-ca...
February 4, 2026 at 2:06 PM
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pbump.com
So the feds ARE NOT considering an mRNA vaccine for the flu, which could save countless lives, but ARE backing research into whether horse dewormer can cure cancer, because the right views vaccines as elite and ivermectin as populist.

Cool.
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
FDA won’t review Moderna application for first mRNA-based flu vaccine
The decision, which shocked company officials, comes as the FDA says it will take a stricter approach to federal vaccine approvals.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 11, 2026 at 2:24 AM
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clarajeffery.bsky.social
This is literally what CURRENT LAW requires. It’s in the Constitution! www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
February 10, 2026 at 3:18 AM
tiffanycli.bsky.social
This makes sense if you assume the court is a basketball court and Dems just keep passing the ball to the opposing team
schumer.senate.gov Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 2d
Our DHS reform demands are exceedingly reasonable.

We're asking ICE to do nothing more than follow the standards that the vast majority of law enforcement agencies already follow.

Republicans, the ball is in your court. The clock is ticking.
February 10, 2026 at 8:22 AM
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wolvendamien.bsky.social
*my biggest and most exhausted sigh*

"As AI Enters the Operating Room, Reports Arise of Botched Surgeries and Misidentified Body Parts"
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Screenshot of text reading At least 10 people were injured between late 2021 and November 2025, according to the reports. Most allegedly involved errors in which the TruDi Navigation System misinformed surgeons about the location of their instruments while they were using them inside patients’ heads during operations. Cerebrospinal fluid reportedly leaked from one patient’s nose. In another reported case, a surgeon mistakenly punctured the base of a patient’s skull. In two other cases, patients each allegedly suffered strokes after a major artery was accidentally injured. Screenshot of text reading In May 2023, Dean was using TruDi in another sinuplasty operation when patient Donna Fernihough’s carotid artery allegedly “blew.” Blood “was spraying all over” – even landing on an Acclarent representative who was observing the surgery, according to a lawsuit Fernihough filed in U.S. District Court in Fort Worth against Acclarent and several manufacturers. One of Fernihough’s carotid arteries was damaged. She suffered a stroke the day of the surgery, according to her suit. Acclarent “knew or should have known that the purported artificial intelligence caused or exacerbated the tendency of the integrated navigation system product to be inconsistent, inaccurate, and unreliable,” the suit alleges. Screenshot of text reading The FDA requires clinical trials for new drugs, but medical devices face different screening. Most AI-enabled devices coming to market aren’t required to be tested on patients, according to FDA rules. Instead, makers satisfy FDA rules by citing previously authorized devices that had no AI-related capabilities, says Dr. Alexander Everhart, an instructor at Washington University’s medical school in St. Louis and an expert on medical device regulation.
February 10, 2026 at 2:55 AM
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hypervisible.blacksky.app
“No matter how Ring and other surveillance tech companies may downplay it, there’s no world in which finding lost dogs is the final end-use for this technology.”
Opinion | Ring is using lost dogs to make the surveillance state adorable
The same technology the Amazon-owned company uses to find lost dogs could easily be turned against their owners.
www.ms.now
February 9, 2026 at 11:00 PM
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jvagle.me
Always remember that If they build the camps, they will fill the camps.
reichlinmelnick.bsky.social Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2d
In the last month ICE has bought warehouses in:

- Hagerstown, MD: $102 million
- Surprise, AZ: $70 million
- Hamburg, PA: $87 million
- Tremont, PA: $120 million
- San Antonio, TX: $82 million
- El Paso, TX: $123 million
- Social Circle, GA: price unknown

This is unprecedented.
February 10, 2026 at 12:24 AM
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jeremylittau.com
New research just dropped, as the kids say. My partner @medialawprof.bsky.social and took a look at how states are trying to stop people from using AI to lie. We settled on A) it probably won’t work, B) is very probably unconstitutional, and C) tech companies need to prioritize tools to help users.
The Right To Lie With AI? First Amendment Challenges For State Efforts To Curb False Political Speech Using Deepfakes And Synthetic Media – Colorado Technology Law Journal
ctlj.colorado.edu
February 10, 2026 at 12:15 AM
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jessielosch.bsky.social
“When Gustavo had a fever, the medical staff told her he was old enough for his body to fight it off without medication, so she sat up with him all night, draping him in cold compresses.”

This entire country is draped in shame.

www.propublica.org/article/life...
The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center
ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...
www.propublica.org
February 10, 2026 at 12:51 AM
tiffanycli.bsky.social
Ashley Padilla from SNL. Mom’s confessions skit.
February 10, 2026 at 2:07 AM
tiffanycli.bsky.social
Does anyone remember that moment in the 2010s when the vape companies tried to squeeze their way into tech policy
February 10, 2026 at 12:19 AM
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jkosseff.bsky.social
In 2022, I wrote a book about the history of anonymous speech because I was worried that we eventually would lose the ability to be anonymous online. I did not predict how quickly it would happen. www.theverge.com/tech/875309/...
Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
Age verification for all.
www.theverge.com
February 9, 2026 at 9:14 PM
tiffanycli.bsky.social
Venturing out to meet some other woman’s husband for a FB Marketplace deal is the modern version of hunting to provide for your family
February 9, 2026 at 8:54 PM
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jonathancohn.bsky.social
"TikTok’s Terms of Service now explicitly include tracking of location and citizenship status (among other identity markers, such as sex)." newrepublic.com/article/2059...
How TikTok 2.0 Became a Weapon for ICE
In just one week, the company has gone from being Gen Z’s preferred social media platform to a tool for spying on Americans and the suppression of information.
newrepublic.com
February 9, 2026 at 1:02 PM
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mskellymhayes.bsky.social
Please don't accuse people in knitted hats of only wearing their supposed politics if all you're doing is posting, which is basically just another way of wearing your politics. It's a silly thing to attack people over in any case. Using fashion to signal support for ongoing acts of rebellion is good
February 9, 2026 at 2:56 PM
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sarasilverstein.bsky.social
One way concentration camps become zones where law doesn't apply is by neglecting policies & standards that would protect health & provide healthcare. You deny laws & norms & dehumanize your victim.
Read "Illness and Inhumanity in Stalin’s Gulag" by Alexopoulos
www.texastribune.org/2026/02/07/i...
Two tuberculosis cases detected at Camp East Montana ICE facility
Eighteen cases of COVID-19 were also identified. U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar on Friday visited the 5,000-bed tent facility on the Fort Bliss Army base and said she saw many "chronic issues."
www.texastribune.org
February 8, 2026 at 2:32 PM
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gregpak.net
Shut down all of these concentration camps and provide everyone inside with medical care and US citizenship as reparations, if they want it.
sarasilverstein.bsky.social Sara Silverstein @sarasilverstein.bsky.social · 3d
One way concentration camps become zones where law doesn't apply is by neglecting policies & standards that would protect health & provide healthcare. You deny laws & norms & dehumanize your victim.
Read "Illness and Inhumanity in Stalin’s Gulag" by Alexopoulos
www.texastribune.org/2026/02/07/i...
Two tuberculosis cases detected at Camp East Montana ICE facility
Eighteen cases of COVID-19 were also identified. U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar on Friday visited the 5,000-bed tent facility on the Fort Bliss Army base and said she saw many "chronic issues."
www.texastribune.org
February 9, 2026 at 5:12 PM
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hypervisible.blacksky.app
“Researchers from Johns Hopkins, Georgetown and Yale universities recently found that 60 FDA-authorized medical devices using AI were linked to 182 product recalls, according to a research letter published in the JAMA Health Forum in August.”
As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts
Medical device makers have been rushing to add AI to their products. While proponents say the new technology will revolutionize medicine, regulators are receiving a rising number of claims of patient ...
www.reuters.com
February 9, 2026 at 12:42 PM
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davidcolarusso.com
2/ TL;DR: I built a bunch of highly-modular online simulations you can use with your students. They cover automation bias,¹ the false positive paradox,² competing definitions of fairness,³ disparate impact resulting from machine bias,⁴ and the value of due process.⁵
A clean web interface: a central card shows a quoted sentence, the legal proposition beneath it, and a cited case. A bold red “Not Supported” bar with a confidence meter stretches across the middle. At the bottom, three large action buttons—Allow, Reject, Skip—signal rapid decisions. Side panels show a countdown timer, progress (0/200), and a rival clerk pulling ahead, emphasizing speed and competition. A clean, explorable dashboard showing how a “95% accurate” bail tool can still mislead: sliders on the left set real-world rates and policy cutoffs, while bold metric cards highlight low sensitivity and weak predictive value. Overlapping bell curves visualize who returns vs. who doesn’t, a dotted line marks the detention threshold, and rows of colored dots make unjust detention immediately visible despite impressive headline accuracy. A policy simulator dashboard with sliders on the left to tweak behavior and norms, score cards across the top summarizing cost, equity, and friction, and a stacked bar chart showing how burdens fall unevenly across groups. A prominent “Run Simulation”button invites experimentation, while a dark footer—The Socratic Chamber—signals reflective, analysis beneath the numbers. A clean, interactive dashboard showing due process as a two-stage filter. Sliders on the left adjust crime rate, arrest threshold (probable cause), and trial threshold (beyond reasonable doubt). On the right, rows of colored dots track people through population → arrest → trial, splitting into innocent vs. guilty, released vs. arrested, acquitted vs. convicted. Bell-curve charts visualize shifting proof standards, while a societal cost meter** tallies the tradeoffs between wrongful arrest, wrongful conviction, and unpunished crime.
February 9, 2026 at 1:45 PM
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propublica.org
2/ “I miss my school and my friends I feel bad since when I came here to this Place, because I have been here too long.”

From 9-year-old Susej F, detained for 50+ days
The first page of a child’s handwritten letter, written in different colors of pencil. Transcript: “Hello, my name is Susej F and I’am 9 years old. I’am from Venezuela. I have been 50 days in Dilley Immigration Processing Center. And I want to go to my Country. But I miss my school and my friends I feel bad since when I came here to this Place, because I have been here too long. I have been 2 years and 6 months in united states, and I was happy with my friends in The school but now I need to leave. I miss my family in my country so now I want To go to Venezuela. But my mom do not want to leave because she wants a better future for me.” The second page of a child’s handwritten letter, written in pencil on notebook paper. Transcript: “Seen how people like me, immigrants are been treated changes my perspective about the U.S. My mom and I came to The U.S looking for a good and safe place to live, and my mom was looking for a Good job.”
February 9, 2026 at 12:25 PM