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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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NEWS IN BRIEF 'No Way To Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens Yesterday 9:00AM | Alerts
September 10, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Text: another Supreme Court news day Image: sad Kermit the frog doll
September 8, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Why is this meme always relevant
Never Let Me Go book cover Meme: Alex Blechman @AlexBlechman Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus 5:49 p.m. • 08 Nov. 21 • Twitter Web App
August 29, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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We Lived Happily during the War Ilya Kaminsky, 1977 And when they bombed other people's houses, we protested but not enough, we opposed them but not enough. I was in my bed, around my bed America was falling: invisible house by invisible house by invisible house. I took a chair outside and watched the sun. In the sixth month of a disastrous reign in the house of money in the street of money in the city of money in the country of money, our great country of money, we (forgive us) lived happily during the war.
August 18, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Another day, another tragic act of gun violence that will spur absolutely no policy change whatsoever
No Way To Prevent This, Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens — O the ONION
July 29, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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You know these actors must have off-the-charts charisma and chemistry because why else am I rooting for actual robber barons in the year 2025
Bertha and George from Gilded Age. Man and woman in turn of century period costume looking at each other passionately
July 25, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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My baby is obsessed with this black & white IKEA tray, and whenever she stares at it in wonder, my husband and I say she’s watching her favorite series, “The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Tray” @marthawells.com
Black and white tray depicting two abstract fuzzy bird-like characters
July 18, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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Professional ethics matter.
Remember professional ethics. When political leaders set a negative example, professional commitments to just practice become more important. It is hard to subvert a rule-of-law state without lawyers, or to hold show trials without judges. Authoritarians need obedient civil servants, and concentration camp directors seek businessmen interested in cheap labor. #ONTYRANNY
July 14, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Thinking about the “Lie to me” scene from Buffy frequently these days
Buffy and giles converse. Buffy: Does it ever get easy? Giles: You mean life? B: Yeah. Does it get easy? G: What do you want me to say? B: Lie to me. G: Yes, it's terribly Simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after. B: Liar.
July 12, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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New draft from me, “Privacy and Disinformation,” on why privacy law, not speech or economic regulation, is the best path forward for fighting social media disinformation.

Read the draft here (and later finalized in UC Law Journal): papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Table of contents
June 25, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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Google search: is it ok to be happy in 2025
June 21, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Also note that the color of your swimsuit matters for visibility in emergencies www.cnn.com/2024/06/07/h...
Swimwear safety chart showing different colors of suits vs visibility in water
June 20, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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I live in the American Gardens building on West 81st street. My name is Patrick Bateman. I'm 27 years old. I believe in taking care of myself, and a balanced diet and a rigorous exercise routine. In the morning, if my face is a little puffy, I'll put on an ice pack while doing my stomach crunches. I can do a thousand now. After I remove the ice pack, I use a deep pore cleanser lotion. In the shower, luse a water activated gel cleanser. Then a honey almond body scrub. And on the face, an exfoliating gel scrub. Then apply an herb mint facial mask, which I leave on for 10 minutes while I prepare the rest of my routine. I always use an aftershave lotion with little or no alcohol, because alcohol dries your face out and makes you look older. Then moisturizer, then an anti-aging eye balm followed by a final moisturizing protective lotion. There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me. Only an entity, something illusory. And though I can hide my cold gaze, and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our life styles are probably comparable, I simply am not there.
June 15, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Sailor Moon’s uniform is red, white, and blue. Coincidence? I think not.
Sailor Moon
June 13, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Congratulate people for being one of today’s lucky 10,000!

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Comic Box 1: I TRYNOT TO MAKE FUN OF PEOPLE FOR ADMITTING THEY DON'T KNOW THINGS. BECAUSE FOR EACH THING "EVERYONE KNOWS" BY THE TIME THEY'RE ADULTS, EVERY DAY THERE ARE, ON AVERAGE, 10,000 PEOPLE IN THE US HEARING ABOUT IT FOR THE FIRST TIME. RACTION WHO HAVE = 0° EARD OF IT AT BIRTH FRACTION WHO HAVE = 100% HEARD OF IT BY 30 US BIRTH RATE = 4,000,000/year NUMBER HEARING ABOUT FOR THE = 10,000 day FIRST TIME IF I MAKE FUN OF PEOPLE, I TRAIN THEM NOT TO TELL ME WHEN THEY HAVE THOSE MOMENTS. AND I MISS OUT ON THE FUN. Box 2: 2 stick figures talk. "DIET COKE AND MENTOS THING"? WHAT'S THAT? OH MAN! COME ON, WERE GOING TO THE GROCERY STORE. WHY? YOURE ONE OF TODAY'S LUCKY 10,000.
April 27, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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My IP law students when it’s almost final exam time
jack & @jack• •1d delete all IP law • 3.9K t7 4.2K © 20K Elon Musk v @elonmusk l agree 7:40 PM • 4/11/25 • 257K Views ill 7.3M只 企 Follow
April 14, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Ok but
Alex Blechman @AlexBlechman • • • Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus 5:49 PM • Nov 8, 2021 • Twitter Web App
April 2, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Under Trump’s leadership, America is bringing the whole world together 🥰
.: Reuters My News China, Japan, South Korea will jointly respond to US tariffs, Chinese state media says By Reuters March 31, 2025 8:17 AM PDT • Updated 5 hours ago Trump Administration The New Hork Times LIVE Updates Just Now Major Moves Menaced by Trump, Canada Prepares to Join E.U. Military Industry Buildup Canadas draft deal to participate in Europe's defense industry will bring contracts to Canadian manufacturers and help lessen dependence on the United States.
March 31, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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I have this one saved
birdsrightsactivist @ProBirdRights I am feel uncomfortable when we are not about me? 6:17 PM - 16 Aug 2013 12.2K RETWEETS 14.3K LIKES
March 30, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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There is arguably no right more rooted in American history and tradition than the right to hand out political pamphlets
THE FEDERALIST PAPERS A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS WRITTEN IN FAVOUR OF THE NEW CONSTITUTION AS AGREED UPON BY THE FEDERAL CONVENTION SEPTEMBER 17, 1787 HAMILTON, MADISON, JAY PRESENTED BY COVENTRY HOUSE PUBLISHING COMMON SENSE ADDRESSED TO THE INHABITANTS OF AMERICA WRITTEN BY AN ENGLISHMAN JANUARY 10, 1776 THOMAS PAINE PRESENTED BY COVENTRY HOUSE PUBLISHING
March 12, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Look forward to publishing “State Constitutional Rights to Privacy” in the Georgia Law Review!
STATE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS TO PRIVACY Tiffany C. Li* Abstract This article examines state constitutional rights to privacy, presenting a comprehensive survey of all states that have explicit rights to privacy enumerated in their constitutions. Understanding state constitutional rights to privacy is particularly critical now, in the wake of the 2022 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, which significantly restricted the scope of federal constitutional privacy rights. As states have the authority to independently interpret their constitutions, state constitutional law may provide a path forward for privacy. In lieu of relying on federal rights protection, individuals may now need to turn to state constitutional rights to privacy. While only eleven states have explicit rights to privacy enshrined in their constitutions, these rights can be powerful. This article examines the right to privacy in these eleven states (Alaska, Arizona, California, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Louisiana, Montana, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Washington). Understanding the role of explicit rights to privacy in state constitutions is important, because the lack of federal constitutional analogue may allow state courts to interpret their privacy clauses as encompassing a more expansive set of privacy rights than what the U.S. Constitution provides. Federal constitutional protection of privacy may be diminishing, but many states have long-established precedent protecting the right to privacy in forms that are not reliant on lockstep federal interpretation of privacy rights. This article contributes to both privacy law scholarship and state constitutional law scholarship. There has not been a scholarly survey of state constitutional privacy rights since 1992, and this article is the first to include New Hampshire, which added an explicit privacy right into its constitution in 2018. In addition to analyzing the development of each state's explicit priv…
March 5, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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Oh yeah, that’ll do it. A densely worded Notepad list in tiny font. This will reach the heartland.
Twitter screenshot. I cannot overemphasize how small the font is and how difficult it is to read The Democrats & @Th...• 23h Here's what Democrats did in February: WHAT DEMOCRATS DID IN FEBRUARY • Every House Democrat voted against Trump's budget that slashes Medicaid • House Democrats introduced the Taxpayer Data Protection Act to permanently protect the American people's data from Elon Musk and Trump • Democratic attorneys general filed a lawsuit to stop Elon Musk from accessing Americans' data • Arizona Democrats passed legislation to provide funding for free school lunches in the state • Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer unveiled her $3 billion road funding plan to improve the state's roads, bridges, and transit • Democrat Ken Jenkins won a special election for Westchester County Executive, soundly defeating his Trump-backed opponent • Every single Senate Democrat voted against confirming Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence • The DNC filed a brief with the Ninth Circuit to counter Republican attempts to outlaw most mail and early • Senator Jon Ossoff successfully pushed the White House to restore HBCU scholarships • Governor Josh Shapiro successfully took legal action to restore Pennsylvania's funding after the Trump administration freeze • Democrat Sean Faircloth won the special election for Maine's House District 24, strengthening the Democratic legislative majority in Maine • Senator Mark Warner and Senate Democrats forced the Trump administration to back down on the hiring freeze for some federal employees • Every single Senate Democrat voted against confirming Kash Patel as FBI director • Democratic attorneys general sued the Trump administration for defunding medical and public health research • Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signed Karina's Law to protect survivors of domestic violence and ensure their abusers won't have easy access to firearms • The DNC won a massive case in Wisconsin, which will allow the state to continue to provide mobi…
March 1, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Every time I read a new health policy update from the Trump Administration:
Cat reading paper meme. Text: I should buy more masks
February 28, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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Democracy dies in darkness :(

www.npr.org/2025/02/26/n...
npr • DONATE The 'Washington Post' in crisis Jeff Bezos' revamp of 'Washington Post' opinions leads editor to quit FEBRUARY 26, 2025 • 3:06 PM ET David Folkenflik The Washington Post's billionaire owner, Jeff Bezos, announced a sweeping new libertarian vision for the paper's opinion sections on Wednesday, just four months after his decision to kill a presidential endorsement of Kamala Harris triggered hundreds of thousands of subscribers to cancel. "We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets," Bezos wrote in a memo to staffers announcing the changes. "We'll cover other topics too of course, but viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others."
February 26, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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I have a new satire piece out in @mcsweeneys.net: “Let’s Bring Back Traditional Values (No, Not Those Ones)” www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/let...
MCSWEENEY'S Daily humor almost every day since 1998. LET'S BRING BACK TRADITIONAL VALUES (NO, NOT THOSE ONES) by TIFFANY C. LI Now that we've elected a president who promises to make America great again, it's time to bring back our traditional American values, including: • Strict gender roles for men and women • Christianity (white Jesus only; ignore any passages about the weak or poor) • Classical architecture • Growing our own vegetables (after farms collapse without undocumented workers)
February 25, 2025 at 6:41 PM