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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 · 18h
I wrote this up.

3d.laboratorium.net/2026-01-31-g...

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James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 20h
to *counterproductively* chilling any and all dissent

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James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 1d
*the Speedy Trial Act looks directly into the camera*

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Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social · 1d
The @nytimes.com coverage of France's Grok investigation casts it as part of a conflict between U.S. & European speech rules. That's true only if you buy Elon's version.

This is a case about CSAM and NCII. Those are crimes in France, and crimes in the U.S. There's no transatlantic divide here. 1/

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James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 1d
Oh, what I would give for a SCOTUSblog RSS feed that had only the news and none of the analysis.

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James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 1d
"actually-existing American fascism"—a good phrase in a good passage from @lioneltrolling.bsky.social

www.unpopularfront.news/p/magas-peop...
When you add in the presence of Thiel-backed firms like Anduril, you begin to get a picture of the Trump coalition’s material basis. It’s an alliance of this family-based regional scam capital and a reactionary fraction of the tech sector that focuses on defense and security. Then you add in ICE’s function as an employment program for the Trumpenproletarian mob and all the illiterate influencers and, voila, you have the class composition of actually-existing American fascism, which characteristically enough, is also a racket. It’s the mob from top to bottom.

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James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 1d
EVEN PUTTING THE TRAFFICKING AND SEXUAL ABUSE OF CHILDREN ASIDE, every single email in the Epstein files is a vivid illustration of how not to live.

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James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 1d
Moltbook = Eliza + Parry

change my mind

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James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 1d
Big if true: ⊥

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James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 1d
This is part 6,784,902 in the ongoing series, "In Which I Rant About How Lawyers and Law Professors Should Situate Their Subjects in Relation to Adjacent Bodies of Law, Rather Than Treating Them in Isolation"
jtlg.bsky.social James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 1d
Why is this an individual NDA, rather than a statement of rules applicable to all court employees? (I ask this with an IP professor’s eye toward the difference between trade secrets, employees’ duties of confidentially and loyalty, and NDAs that go beyond the two.)

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James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 1d
Why is this an individual NDA, rather than a statement of rules applicable to all court employees? (I ask this with an IP professor’s eye toward the difference between trade secrets, employees’ duties of confidentially and loyalty, and NDAs that go beyond the two.)

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James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 1d
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ZOOROPA Home Fine Art Print | the floppy guy
ZOOROPA on Home Fine Art Print – LET'S GO TO THE OVERGROUND! If you love AOL, U2, and dead media, I have reasonably good news
thefloppyguy.threadless.com

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James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 1d
Really feeling great (sarcastic) about Cornell’s willingness to pay $30 million to the extortionists currently running the Department of Education.
kjhealy.co Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 1d
You may recall the many stories the paper ran—clearly fed to them by the administration—saying Harvard was about to fully capitulate any second now.
Trump Drops Demand for Cash From Harvard After Stiff Resistance
www.nytimes.com

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James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 1d
Just for the record, Iron Lung—a YouTuber’s self-produced and self-distributed film based on an indie videogame—did more than twice as well at the box office as Melania, despite having a *total* budget roughly 10% the size of the bribe Amazon paid her.

www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/2026...
Domestic 2026 Weekend 5
www.boxofficemojo.com

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 1d
You may recall the many stories the paper ran—clearly fed to them by the administration—saying Harvard was about to fully capitulate any second now.
Trump Drops Demand for Cash From Harvard After Stiff Resistance
www.nytimes.com

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James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 1d
Like many of @joshtpm.bsky.social’s posts, this one has a core of insight but would be much better if it were half as long.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 1d
The Fight Is Upon Us: What The Right to Vote Looks Like on Trump’s Terrain of Violence talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-f...
The Fight Is Upon Us: What The Right to Vote Looks Like on Trump’s Terrain of Violence
Both the calendar and the events in Minneapolis have brought the midterm...
talkingpointsmemo.com

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Remap Radio @remapradio.bsky.social · 2d
A small indie group from New York, a mixture of creatives from China and the United States, need the U.S. government to believe they should stay here. A new piece about the intersection of today's immigration climate and video games from @patrickklepek.bsky.social: remapradio.com/articles/the...
The Future of These Game Developers Rests on a Visa Application
A small indie group from New York, a mixture of creatives from China and the United States, need the U.S. government to believe they should stay here.
remapradio.com

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Molleindustria - Wishlist FUTURE? NO THANKS! @molleindustria.org · 2d
Video game stocks crashed the other day after Google announced its "world-building" AI.

I admit I’m charmed by these dream-logic walking-sim slopsperiences but I doubt Gamers will be.

The main use case is likely streamers crowdsourcing meme prompts and making fun of them until the novelty wanes.

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James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 2d
Migraine le Fay

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James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 2d
The article does not say anything about what remedies the NDAs provide for breach, even though the remedies are what would actually distinguish the NDAs from longstanding secrecy rules, and it’s the remedies that raise serious questions about Roberts’s authority to do this.
kjhealy.co Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 2d
In November 2024, Roberts made all the SC clerks and staff sign NDAs. He’s learned a lot from the guy he works for.
How the Supreme Court Secretly Made Itself Even More Secretive
www.nytimes.com

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 2d
In November 2024, Roberts made all the SC clerks and staff sign NDAs. He’s learned a lot from the guy he works for.
How the Supreme Court Secretly Made Itself Even More Secretive
www.nytimes.com

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James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 2d
Bob and Ray fans will recognize this as the Great Lakes Paperclip Factory model.
itisgeorge.bsky.social George Dubya @itisgeorge.bsky.social · 3d
H2A recipients are bound to the employer who gave them the visa, so they can’t quit and work somewhere else if conditions suck. So you get a ton of exploitation. Here’s a really good explainer video by @sarahtaber.bsky.social on this. This is all very Persian Gulf.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdWr...
ICE Raids Are Only Half The Story
YouTube video by Farm to Taber
www.youtube.com

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George Dubya @itisgeorge.bsky.social · 3d
H2A recipients are bound to the employer who gave them the visa, so they can’t quit and work somewhere else if conditions suck. So you get a ton of exploitation. Here’s a really good explainer video by @sarahtaber.bsky.social on this. This is all very Persian Gulf.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdWr...
ICE Raids Are Only Half The Story
YouTube video by Farm to Taber
www.youtube.com

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George Dubya @itisgeorge.bsky.social · 3d
I’ve been going back and forth on this but this clinches it—I think these guys really want a Persian Gulf labor model in the US. It’s not a coherent philosophy—nothing ever is with these assholes—but I’ve worked on Gulf labor stuff and I’m seeing more and more of it here. Long thread 1/

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James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 3d
Exactly.

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James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 3d
Of course I’d disclose that!

(Even if they only flagged typos and didn’t write anything, they put effort into the article and it would be wrong to efface their labor.)

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James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 3d
The author takes credit and responsibility for the article’s words, not just its ideas and information. Any exceptions need to be disclosed.

You wouldn’t, I hope, pass off a manuscript to an RA to “improve the writing” without disclosing it.

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James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 3d
Westlaw, spellcheck, my spouse, and my friends do not write text that is included in my articles. If they did, I would disclose it, because the article would contain text that is not my work. Anything less would be academically dishonest.