James Grimmelmann
@jtlg.bsky.social
I’m a professor at Cornell Tech and Cornell Law School.
One of "a number of very informative people." -WSJ
One of "a number of very informative people." -WSJ
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...
(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
November 28, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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...
(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...
Invisible Monsters (1999)
November 28, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Invisible Monsters (1999)
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)
November 25, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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)
Every law professor ever.
November 25, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Every law professor ever.
See if you can spot the control questions and answer them “correctly.”
November 24, 2025 at 9:01 PM
See if you can spot the control questions and answer them “correctly.”
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.
November 24, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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.
Exactly. There are companies that I think blur this line much much more than Valve does here.
November 23, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Exactly. There are companies that I think blur this line much much more than Valve does here.
I think the idea of this prong the reverse: *players* invest based on an expectation of profit based on *Valve’s* efforts. (If I were pushing back on the argument I would say that the expectation isn’t reasonable in this gaming context.)
November 23, 2025 at 3:43 PM
I think the idea of this prong the reverse: *players* invest based on an expectation of profit based on *Valve’s* efforts. (If I were pushing back on the argument I would say that the expectation isn’t reasonable in this gaming context.)