James Grimmelmann

@jtlg.bsky.social

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I’m a professor at Cornell Tech and Cornell Law School.

One of "a number of very informative people." -WSJ

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James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 16h

“Ha, ha,” he said, “I’ll try again.
This time I’ll get it right.”
But what I got was in between
Bituminous and anthracite.

Achilles Micawber @achillesthe2nd.bsky.social · 2d

Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?

James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 20h

There are four types of guys online. No exceptions.

Still of the lead cast from Ghostbusters (2016)

James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 21h

My home university's setup is fine (I think) and most of the time my devices' setup works fine wherever I go. It's just that occasionally, when I'm at some *other* university, their eduroam demands I add a certificate, and then doesn't recognize my credentials.

I'll report it to their IT desk.

James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 1d

I'm always a little puzzled when a university's eduroam doesn't work with my credentials but they also have no-questions-asked guest Internet access. It's like, setting up eduroam takes a non-trivial amount of IT effort, so why bother?

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Federalist Society Pitchbot @fedsocpitchbot.bsky.social · 1d

Staying in the Fight: Life Rafts, Hospitals, and Other Legitimate Military Targets

by Tom Cotton

James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 1d

So the MTA is turning the F train into an M train and the M train into an F train on weekdays.

I guess you could call it "mass trans-it."

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 1d

Hands Reaching Up From Hell, Wat Rong Khun Temple, by Chalermchai Kositpipat, 1997

James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 2d

Our kids understand that authority figures regularly make bullshit demands, and are used to playing along while being unbothered by whatever the bullshit is.

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James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 2d

Bad content drives out good.

www.wired.com/story/ai-slo...

AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone

Reddit is considered one of the most human spaces left on the internet, but mods and users are overwhelmed with slop posts in the most popular subreddits.

www.wired.com

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Achilles Micawber @achillesthe2nd.bsky.social · 2d

Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?

James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 2d

This sounds more like a resistable force / movable object paradox.

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Alexios Mantzarlis @mantzarlis.com · 2d

I spoke to the immensely knowledgeable @jtlg.bsky.social about the legal ramifications of this memo.

Yes, the US can do pretty much what it wants about H1-Bs. But actions like these are "blatant viewpoint discrimination to coerce the media in ways that would never be allowed domestically."

James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 2d

The 1636 Forum's special edition on Harvard's cuts to entering PhD cohorts is especially good. It presents a granular model of the budget effects and walks through a lot of the trade-offs involved.

news.1636forum.com/p/special-ed...

Special Edition: Harvard’s New PhD Cuts Save Less Than You Think, But Carry Real Academic Risk

We estimate $89 million in savings over many years, and only under a worst-case scenario. The academic risks are real either way.

news.1636forum.com

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Foone @foone.bsky.social · 3d

here's the solution to the "video games can't be about dark/sexual topics" problem: books! you know how books can have all kinds of horrible things in them?

we bring back that early-CRPG thing where games came with a book and the video game tells you to read stuff out of the book at certain times

James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 3d

I guess my confusion is that I don't think of respondeat superior as being about worker protections at all; yes, it's about assigning responsibility in hierarchical relationships, but the analogy stops there. So maybe both the question and your answer have some shared context I'm missing.

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Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com · 3d

It would unquestionably be a better world if we could assume that the group making the call about Horses had seen and could discuss Un Chien Andalou and The Exterminating Angel, at the very least

James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 3d

Do we think that she knows what an “insurable interest” is and why it is legally significant?

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 4d

The co-founder of Kalshi says: " The long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion."

James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 3d

If someone asks a question like that, I think you need to start by figuring out what faulty assumption or assumptions they are working from.

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 4d

The co-founder of Kalshi says: " The long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion."

James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 4d

Kavanaugh, stop.

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 4d

Gen Z internet is having a meltdown this week. One group is raging over a cute photo of someone's living room, another is mad that pop girlies weren't on Pitchfork's best of 2025 lists. Both meltdowns are linked to something I'm calling "offline shock."
www.garbageday.email/p/the-cozy-l...

James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 4d

I would say that the received wisdom in ConLaw is egregiously mistaken in much more fundamental ways.

Marty Lederman @martylederman.bsky.social · 4d

The received wisdom in ConLaw that's most egregiously mistaken: that Scalia got it right in ih his Morrison v. Olson dissent. He was right that the statute there was deeply flawed, but wrong in opining that it was unconstitutional and, more broadly, about the effect of the Executive Vesting Clause.

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Marty Lederman @martylederman.bsky.social · 4d

James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 4d

Neurodivergence implies the existence of neurogradient and neurocurl.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 4d

RESULT: James Solomon will be the next mayor of Jersey City.

Solomon, running on a more progressive lane with WFP support, has easily defeated the establishment candidate Jim McGreevey, the former governor who resigned in scandal two decades ago.

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Sean Marotta @smmarotta.bsky.social · 5d

Ah, Lisa Blatt. Listening to her argue an NLRB case.

JUDGE: "If you say to an associate, 'if you're not happy here, you can quit,' that sure sounds like the associate doesn't have a future at Williams & Connolly."

BLATT: "I say that all the time!"

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 6d

I enjoyed this TikTok about procedural generation and AI in video games mainly for the line "there's so much to explore and nothing to find"
www.tiktok.com/@nobody.impo...