iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Anybody who’s still advocating putting these tools anywhere near a school is not doing so despite the cognitive collapse they cause, but because of it. dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

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Using 30 months of panel data on 26,811 Chinese students in grades 7-12, we study how generative Al affects homework productivity and learning. The data combine monthly closed-book exams, high-school and college entrance exams, and homework scores and completion time across nine subjects. We exploit staggered Al adoption in a difference-in-differences design. Al adoption raises homework scores by 18% and reduces completion time by 30%, but lowers monthly exam scores by 20% within six months.
High-stakes entrance-exam scores fall by 18 and 24%, with the full penalty emerging only after about two years. The losses are largest in social science subjects, followed by STEM and languages, and are especially large for junior students, high-achieving students, and boys. The learning losses are concentrated among roughly 80% of Al users whose behavior is consistent with homework outsourcing, as indicated by exceptionally short homework completion time coupled with high homework scores. Al users who maintain similar homework completion time as non-Al users experience small learning losses.

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21st Century Schizoid Tran @grayathena.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

just keeps happening

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🎃 Zack o' Lantern 🎃 @zackdavisson.com · 03/07/2026

An 1861 Japanese woodblock print about the American Revolution. In this historically factual scene, famous American power soldier Benjamin Franklin hoists a 650lb canon to blast the British under the direction of the military genius General John Adams. archive.wul.waseda.ac.jp/kosho/bunko1...

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Harris Doshay @hdoshay.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Looks like the phrenology of Chinese officials paper got published in the leading political science journal. This is clearly very healthy for the state of the discipline.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 31/05/2026

This is a thoughtful and honest-feeling essay about how weird and hard things are in the classroom rn and it has great points about service and doesn’t end with this. A lot of people have these moments of despair and it’s generous to think through them in public. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

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Opinion | This Semester Shook My Faith as a Professor

AI has taken something fundamental from the business of teaching and learning.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

“I am the son of the guy whose secret police force used to terrorize you, please install me or my friends, for democracy” is an amazing pitch from the shah’s son

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A T Beaune 唐博訥 @atbeaune.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

🇹🇼 Tens of thousands of political documents from Taiwan’s years of one-party rule have been fully declassified by its top intelligence agency. All pre-1992 records have been transferred to the National Archives for public view with no redactions. focustaiwan.tw/politics/202...

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Taiwan's Martial Law-era archives fully declassified - Focus Taiwan

Taiwan's top intelligence agency said Monday that it has completely declassified tens of thousands of political archives it possessed from the Martial Law period and transferred them to the National A...

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Harris Doshay @hdoshay.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Last year, I reviewed around 120 papers for UCSD's Young Scholars' Conference. This year? Over 300 applications, and the influence of AI is so apparent. So many trash, AI-generated cover letters and AI generated abstracts (maybe even AI-generated research questions) make this such a slog.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/01/2026

masked, unidentified goons who assault and murder with impunity. a literal gestapo.

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

One of Trump’s most consistent traits—right up there with racism and greed—is his admiration for dictators. He “fell in love” with Kim, defends MBS for murder, and praises Orbán and Putin at every turn. Yet when he claims to oppose Maduro on humanitarian grounds, the press politely plays along.

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Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Sarah Rogers, the State Department official who hectored Europeans about free speech, is seen here with a far-right German AfD deputy, Markus Frohnmaier, whom two Kremlin documents obtained by @spiegel.de described as "a parliamentarian under our absolute control." spiegel.de/politik/ausl...

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 13/12/2025

>Recites pro Hitler speech entirely from memory >does a random martial art move >refuses to elaborate >leaves Just the kinda guy we want running the panopticon

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.

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Darius Longarino 龙大瑞 @dariuslongarino.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

❗Canadian man received a spousal visa to China through same-sex marriage w/ Chinese citizen (they married in Canada). Chinese consular officer said if operating in jurisdiction that recognizes same-sex marriage, same-sex couples have right to apply. He explains on RedNote: xhslink.com/o/966FLBxxhWc

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我希望这能帮助到某人，并澄清这个主题 - 小红书

3 亿人的生活经验，都在小红书

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Senator Kelly is correct. Plus a Public Service Announcement: KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1. The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal: "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

One of the most upsetting articles I've read in a long time www.theargumentmag.com/p/when-grade... UCSD report senate.ucsd.edu/media/740347... We are failing a generation of kids.

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When grades stop meaning anything

The UC San Diego math scandal is a warning

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China Law Translate / Jeremy Daum @chinalawtranslate.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

There is very real convergence between the US and China right now, and it has nothing to do with Mahmdani or "socialism". It has everything to do with nationalism and a US president who openly admires the authoritarian strength he believes China represents. wsjchina.cmail19.com/t/d-e-gjipjl...

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Eldritch Racasner 🎃🕷️ @velodus.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

A 34-year-old as a politician: My god he's like a baby. It's like they just elected an infant to be their mayor. A 34-year-old as an athlete: You have to admire the bravery of him attempting that dunk, knowing full well the grim reaper is right behind him.

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Zeyi Yang 杨泽毅 @zeyiyang.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Lmao, Chinese online sellers are already making replicas of the stolen treasures from Louvre. No one moves faster than them.

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Scott Gregory @xiaoshuoing.com · 14/10/2025

U of Arizona East Asian Studies is hiring a tenure-track Chinese Language Program director! I'm happy to answer any questions about it, the department, Tucson, etc. Please circulate widely:

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Assistant Professor, Chinese (TE)

The area of expertise is open, and we are particularly interested in candidates with successful experiences in grant application or grant supported pr...

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Victor Shih @vicshih.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

We @ChinaDataLab and @UCIGCC launch med the China Policy Document Navigator, a first-of-its-kind database giving researchers curated access to thousands of hard-to-find Chinese policy documents. Learn how to use it and register here: chinadatalab.ucsd.edu/viz-blog/chi...

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China’s Science & Technology Ecosystem, Made Searchable - China Data Lab

Viz Blog

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Victor Shih @vicshih.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

How do promotion prospects drive patterns of repression in China? @baggottcarter, Jonghyuk Lee, and I find that the most promising officials hesitate to use repression for fear of backlash riots, except for in separatist regions www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

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Who Represses? Career Incentives and the Geography of Repression in China | The Journal of Politics: Vol 0, No ja

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Joanna Schwartz @jcschwartzprof.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Justice Kavanaugh: “If the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.”

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China Law Translate / Jeremy Daum @chinalawtranslate.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Most of the restrictions mentioned in this article are in 2021's Internet Religious Information Services regs. www.chinalawtranslate.com/en/internet-... What is new in the Code of Conduct is that it impacts online conduct of registered clergy in their personal, as well as professional capacity.⏬

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

“.. I can’t remember anyone ever telling me we can’t say anything critical about a civilian like this. He was not in our chain of command or anything,” the officer said. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Incredible parallels in this Berinsky & @gabelenz.bsky.social paper. Politicians didn't stand up to Joe McCarthy in large part because they incorrectly inferred McCarthy/ism was extremely popular. Not standing up to McCarthy was a kind of 1950s Popularism gated academic.oup.com/poq/article/...

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Alex Wang @greenlawchina.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

This type of ideological sanctioning has long gone on in Chinese universities where teachers are reported to Party officials for saying things unacceptable to CCP orthodoxy.

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Christian Göbel @christiangoebel.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

A very moving and informative essay with insights on how and why individuals (in China) consult LLMs for medical advice, and how Chinese companies employ LLMs in healthcare already now.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

'we want foreign companies to invest in the united states'

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Weirong Guo @weirongguo.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Excited to share that a chapter from my dissertation on political avoidance among migrants has just been published in Social Forces. doi.org/10.1093/sf/s.... I’ve had the honor of receiving tremendously helpful feedback from many people and engaging with the work of many scholars I deeply admire.

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Echoes of silence: how student migrants navigate political taboos across borders

Abstract. People migrate from authoritarian to democratic regimes seeking greater freedom of expression, yet many continue to avoid politics in their host

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Victor Shih @vicshih.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

New @21CenturyChina note showing Trump tariffs decreasing real income of Americans in all but 3 states. Alaska, Pennsylvania and Indiana will see a yr or more of income growth wiped out. Removing tariffs will give most Americans 500-1k boost in real income chinadatalab.ucsd.edu/viz-blog/tar...

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Tariffs and Wages: The Cost of Trump’s Trade War - China Data Lab

Viz Blog

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

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Paul Nadeau @pauljnadeau.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Look unlike China we're not running camps I mean unlike China we're not dramatically raising military spending I mean unlike China we're not pressuring private companies to follow a political agenda I mean unlike China we don't have a cult of personality around our paramount leader I mean unlike Chi

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Paul Nadeau @pauljnadeau.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Someone should ask China hawks what they think about economic coercion in bilateral relations with smaller neighbors to force a political outcome

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Michael Berry (白睿文) @bairuiwen.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Chinese Exclusion 2.0?: An Online Teach-In on Visa Revocations and What it Means for Chinese Students and the U.S. @chowleen.bsky.social @jackchin.bsky.social @kaiserkuo.bsky.social; Mae Ngai, (Columbia); Thomas Kellogg, (Georgetown Law) www.international.ucla.edu/ccs/event/17...

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Chinese Exclusion 2.0?: An Online Teach-In on Visa Revocations and What it Means for Chinese Students and the U.S.

Webinar

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China Law Translate / Jeremy Daum @chinalawtranslate.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Little patience for people who for years pushed a 5th column narrative that all Chinese are required to spy and are readily co-opted to harass their peers; but now say "I didn't mean the good ones." It's the China Watcher version of "I didn't vote to deport moms.

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

̶G̶i̶v̶e̶ ̶m̶e̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶r̶ ̶t̶i̶r̶e̶d̶,̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶r̶ ̶p̶o̶o̶r̶,̶ ̶Y̶o̶u̶r̶ ̶h̶u̶d̶d̶l̶e̶d̶ ̶m̶a̶s̶s̶e̶s̶ ̶y̶e̶a̶r̶n̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶b̶r̶e̶a̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶f̶r̶e̶e̶,̶ ̶T̶h̶e̶ ̶w̶r̶e̶t̶c̶h̶e̶d̶ ̶r̶e̶f̶u̶s̶e̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶r̶ ̶t̶e̶e̶m̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶s̶h̶o̶r̶e̶.̶ ̶S̶e̶n̶d̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶s̶e̶,̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶h̶o̶m̶e̶l̶e̶s̶s̶,̶ ̶t̶e̶m̶p̶e̶s̶t̶-̶t̶o̶s̶t̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶m̶e̶,̶ ̶I̶ ̶l̶i̶f̶t̶ ̶m̶y̶ ̶l̶a̶m̶p̶ ̶b̶e̶s̶i̶d̶e̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶g̶o̶l̶d̶e̶n̶ ̶d̶o̶o̶r̶!̶

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