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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 · 1h
Do we think that she knows what an “insurable interest” is and why it is legally significant?
moreperfectunion.bsky.social More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 5h
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."

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James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 1h
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.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 5h
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."

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James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 5h
Kavanaugh, stop.

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 5h
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...

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James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 10h
I would say that the received wisdom in ConLaw is egregiously mistaken in much more fundamental ways.
martylederman.bsky.social Marty Lederman @martylederman.bsky.social · 10h
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 · 10h
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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James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 13h
Neurodivergence implies the existence of neurogradient and neurocurl.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 23h
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.

Reposted by James Grimmelmann, Rebecca Tushnet

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Sean Marotta @smmarotta.bsky.social · 1d
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 · 3d
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...
#worldbuilding #writing #videogames #ai
TikTok video by Felix Nolan
www.tiktok.com

Reposted by Rebecca Tushnet

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James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 3d
Today’s trade dress not-so-hypothetical
A stuffie labeled “chocolate” in the Nutella typeface

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James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 3d
Mad Anthony Lil Wayne

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James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 3d
Private ordering embraces a particularly stringent version of the harm principle.
NOTICE: Any behavior that endangers or interferes with another patron's safety or pleasure is strictly forbidden.

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 4d
People assume my partner "does computers" for a job b/c I do. He has a job title that's confusing, but I tell people that he mostly "does spreadsheets."

This profile of him from the student newspaper is a great way to get to know a few neat things about him.

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
On the Origin of James Poolner | Magazine | The Harvard Crimson
To students, however, Poolner is Harvard’s Program Coordinator for the Integrative Biology and Neuroscience Concentrations, a position he has officially held since 2000. Perhaps most famously, he is a...
www.thecrimson.com

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James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 5d
I have a new Jotwell review of Tejas N. Narechania & Scott Shenker's _How to Save the Internet_, a really nice law/CS collaboration on Internet architecture policy.

article: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
review: cyber.jotwell.com/the-edge-of-...
The Edge of Tomorrow - Technology Law
Tejas N. Narechania & Scott Shenker, How to Save the Internet, __ Berkeley Tech. L.J. __ (forthcoming), available at SSRN (Mar. 18, 2025).James GrimmelmannEvery time I teach Internet Law, I start by l...
cyber.jotwell.com

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James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 5d
Revisiting my taxonomy of personality types in the first Trump administration, I'm struck that:
(a) The douchebags have driven out the snowflakes and drones
(b) The ethnonationalist ideologues have driven out the globalist ones.

3d.laboratorium.net/2017-09-09-i...
Ideologues and Grifters, Douchebags and Snowflakes: A Theory of the Trump Administration
I’ve read a lot of confused takes trying trying to make sense of the Trump administration through a traditional left-right lens. I’m sure you have, too. They use words like “pivot” and “establishment”...
3d.laboratorium.net

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Lizzie Kodpuak née Acid Lich (Gröbnerpilled era) @acidlich.bsky.social · 5d
The Z in dragon ball Z stands for the integers

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James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 5d
And no one seems to know that this is heaven
They say we only know it by and by
That someday all will be revealed
Well, here it is

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James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 6d
Invisible Monsters (1999)

Reposted by James Grimmelmann, Rebecca Tushnet, Richard Moorhead

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michael veale @michae.lv · 7d
On AI’s ‘mediocrity trap’ — experiments indicates that while AI helps the less skilled make something passable, the highly skilled don’t use it to produce something better than they could have; they produce something ok, but lose motivation to make it great. www.jin-li.org/uploads/1/1/...
Page 10-11 of the linked PDF

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andy™ @andylevy.net · 7d
i’m not sure how but this is real antipolygraph.org/blog/2025/10...
a photo of DHS acting Chief Security Officer whose name is Iwona B. Horyn

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James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 8d
I generally go with things that are so big as to be inescapable (Barbenheimer), old enough to be universally known (The Matrix), or things that I I know most of them won’t get without some Googling and I’m fine with that (Little Shop of Horrors)

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James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 8d
Bad content drives out good.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet — And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
www.bloomberg.com

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James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 8d
I listened to The Division Bell again for the first time in many years, and for better and for worse, it sounds exactly like you'd expect from an album recorded on an opulent 1911 houseboat converted into a state-of-the-art studio: meticulous arrangements, impeccable production, god-awful prosody.

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Francis Wilkinson @franciswilkinson.bsky.social · 8d
John Roberts has secured his place in history alongside Al Capone and Bernard Madoff. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/o...
Opinion | Why Trump Won’t Face Prosecution This Time Around
www.nytimes.com

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James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 8d
Andrew Odlyzko in 2020, and newly relevant again today: “An Undertaking of Great Advantage, But Nobody to Know What It Is” was “apocryphal, but … only a slight embellishment of some documented cases.”

www-users.cse.umn.edu/~odlyzko/doc...
www-users.cse.umn.edu

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James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 8d
Every law professor ever.

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James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 9d
See if you can spot the control questions and answer them “correctly.”

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James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 9d
It’s hard for me to see how the organization can make the agreement confidential as against someone who declines to sign it and doesn’t already have an NDA in place with them.