Many of the most interesting people are a bit shy and introverted, are already happy alone, dislike crowded places and shallow conversations, don't like to promote themselves to get attention, have a lot to share, but are also very selective about who they spend their time with.

If the vast majority of women in tech feel alienated, demeaned, gaslit, disempowered, etc., can we begin to agree that the norms of how to treat people in tech are discriminatory to women? hackernoon.com/gender-bias-in…

As part of our collaboration with 29 research universities to coordinate research data services across campus, we’re excited to share a new inventory of research data services at 120 #highered institutions in the US and Canada. sr.ithaka.org/publications/t…

When I posted the 1st set of Apple supplier charts last wk, many quickly said "see, decoupling." But organizing the same dataset by "firm identity" shows just the opposite (2nd set). This is what I mean when I asked what we care about "made In China" or "made BY Chinese firms"

We like to pretend we're a DIY society--that we can get by without a safety net. But that illusion ignores the unpaid and underpaid work women do to hold it together. And it ignores the way care links our fates. A hole in one part of the web of care will quickly unravel the rest

This week a group of influential Chinese AI policy scholars released their recommended draft version of 🇨🇳's proposed AI Law. The text is a window into key policy debates, and a potential preview of where Chinese AI governance is heading. Quick 🧵 fxcxw.org.cn/dyna/content.p…

Just talked to someone from a listed Chinese software co (not on any list, not in a sensitive industry) who attended Nvidia GTC. 10 out of 14 of their Chinese colleagues were denied visas to the U.S. They applied under business visit and showed their invitation letters from

Finally, finally, finally - China's cyberspace regulator finalizes rules relaxing requirements on exporting data from China. cac.gov.cn/2024-03/22/c_1…

This is a truly stunning essay

"As I finished my PhD thesis, I realized that the thesis had actually narrowed my intellectual lens to the point where I had become, if anything, a little stupider than when I began." James C. Scott, 2024 Intellectual Diary of an Iconoclast

Some really interesting papers on China's digital impact on North Africa, Latin America and the Belt-Road countries here: tandfonline.com/toc/utis20/40/2

7/ A quote of his that encapsulated Steve: "The purpose of policy history is not merely to trace where we have come from and why, but to show us the paths not traveled, the tools discarded and forgotten but still useful, so that we can make use of them in the here and now."

Let’s focus next summits on realistic current risks like concentration of power, biases,… (versus existential risks), be more inclusive of all AI actors, especially open-source, smaller companies and academia, and practical! politico.eu/article/rishi-…

Drawing New Directions for Research Data Services, by Chelsea McCracken, Ruby MacDougall (Ruby MacDougall) / Ithaka S+R sr.ithaka.org/blog/drawing-n…

OpenAI has warned developers in China it will begin blocking their access to its tools and software from July Chinese firms like Zhipu announced incentives for switching bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Qwen 72B beats Llama 70B Yi beats Cohere LLMs from China are making big strides

Chinese AI firm iFlyTek says its LLMs are trained completely on Huawei platform At the unveiling of its latest Xinghuo 4 model, iFlyTek chairman Liu Qingfeng said the company is determined to train LLMs on ‘self-developed, controllable’ infrastructure scmp.com/tech/big-tech/…

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China-EU cross-border data flow exchange mechanism officially established and first meeting held via video. Presided over by Wang Jingtao, CAC, deputy director, and Sabine Weyand, EU’s Director-General for Trade. Also included MOFA, MOFCOM, MIIT, NDA. cac.gov.cn/2024-08/27/c_1…

Congrats to AJR! 🌟 They are brilliant. But I don't agree with their idealized portrayal of institutions in Western development It is historically inaccurate, if not ideologized Thus, not only do they struggle to explain China, they also can't explain why Western economies