🚨 WE URGE ALL USERS TO UPDATE THEIR KEYBOARD APPS IMMEDIATELY 🚨

🆕 New Citizen Lab report finds vulnerabilities in the security of cloud-based #pinyin #keyboard apps from vendors Baidu, Honor, iFlytek, OPPO, Samsung, Tencent, Vivo, and Xiaomi that could be exploited to reveal

The FTC just banned noncompete agreements.

This is a big deal.

Noncompetes trap workers in their jobs and prevent them from using their skills to earn higher pay.

It's estimated that the ban could increase wages by $300 billion a year and impact nearly 30 million Americans.

The #LyceumProject on Aristotelian AI ethics in Athens on June 20th, is now open to all for registration, free of charge. Speakers include Alondra Nelson, yuval shany, Constantinos Daskalakis, Josiah Ober, fotini christia, Brendan McCord 🤔, ECRs, and Prime Minister GR.

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Aid to Ukraine is critical, but it’s unacceptable that this legislation comes at the expense of oversight on military aid to Israel following bombings of civilians and aid workers that President Biden has called “indiscriminate” and “over the top.” americanprogress.org/press/statemen…

A statement by our faculty at Columbia and Barnard. More to come. I am behind every word.

SUPER happy to share this paper, many years after Kate Khanna , @greermellon and I started this work using my diss data! In it, we argue that 'intermediate educational transitions' are an important, understudied aspect of higher ed inequality. 1/4 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

Congratulations to the 2024-2025 Members of Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) School of Social Science! ias.edu/sites/default/…

👏 Congratulations to Julia Ticona (Julia Ticona), Member in the School of Social Science, on receiving a #NEHGrant from NEH for the research project 'Imagining AI in organized labor', co-directed with Caitlin Petre (@cbpetre) of Rutgers School of Communication and Information: ias.edu/news/julia-tic…

.Patrick Gaspard:

“This is just the beginning… Success breeds success. And VW workers will pass that torch to thousands more nonunion auto workers who have launched campaigns.”

.President Biden on Columbine, 25 years later: “Since Columbine, over 400 school shootings have exposed over 370,000 students to the horrors of gun violence….Students across the country now learn how to duck and cover before they learn how to read and write. This violence must end.”

This special issues emerges from recent collaborative work at Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) and is free to read.

As a former Columbia Law School Human Rights Fellow, I join 49 of my distinguished human rights & social justice honorees in repudiating our titles and withdraw our consent for @Columbia to display our names, images, and work until student-led demands are met:

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Tough-minded editorial in ⁦Columbia Daily Spectator⁩ — very critical of administration— represents the views of the majority of the student newspaper’s staff and is worth your read columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2024/0…

The student journalists Bwog and Columbia Daily Spectator are doing a fantastic job covering the wrought and at times chaotic and even violent situation on and near their campus.
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So very proud of you, Dr Jones! Congratulations! You EARNED tenure with hard work and brilliance ✨💫

Congrats to the VW auto workers in Tennessee who just made history. Congrats to Shawn Fain & entire national/regional leadership. 73% is an overwhelming vote. Congratulations to POTUS for his powerful support of all workers having the right to organize. whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/…

Bravo Dean jelani cobb!

Today was the largest mass arrest of students on the #Columbia campus since 1968.

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