James Grimmelmann

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

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Awkward to have spent almost a decade studying Twitter, writing a book about Twitter, and then becoming outspoken about why I believe it is ethical to abandon ship, to then have other scholars of the same thing over there tweeting away and tagging me in things with the presumption I should engage.

Counterpoint: the arts will continue, because people will always be creative. There will be artists and arts institutions who are visible because they take money from anyone, and artists and institutions who are outsiders for reasons of principle, and life will go on, much as always.

This is from a @financialtimes.com piece on the decision of the Hays book festival to cut ties with their primary sponsor, an asset manager. If this is the purity tests that activists are going to insist on for arts funding, the arts are doomed.

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honored & excited to head up NUSL CLIC! law.northeastern.edu/roberts-name...

Roberts Named Faculty Director of Center for Law, Information and Creativity - School of Law -law.northeastern.edu Professor Alexandra Roberts, a leading authority on intellectual property and social media, has been named faculty director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Law, Information and Creativity (CLIC), whi...

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The more general point, popping out of that thread, is that I never cease to be amazed by tenured R1 faculty who seem to think that the best solution to the problems or downsides of their jobs is convert it to some sort of piece-work system where everything would be directly measured & remunerated.

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I'm in Haaretz today fleshing out an idea which I've seen bandied about over the past few weeks, namely: we shouldn't be debating "Zionism vs. Anti-Zionism". That's a dead-end; the terms are too vague and fraught, and tie us in unnecessary knots. What we should unite around is being "anti-Kahanist".

Opinion | Forget being anti-Zionists. Let's be anti-Kahanistswww.haaretz.com ***

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Three days after it was revealed that this guy's license was wrongly listed as suspended due to a clerical error, none of the publications listed here (NYT, WP, NYP, USA Today, BBC, CNN, Fox, MSNBC) have issued corrections or updates. reason.com/2024/06/03/t...

The viral story about a defendant driving with a suspended license was fake newsreason.com Corey Harris' case should never have been a national news story to begin with.

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Samuel Alito returned home from a grueling day at SCOTUS to find his tenant-in-common and wife, Martha Ann, was flying the ISIS flag. “I entreat you remove that black banner, which is hateful to me,” said Sam. “I shan’t. Betty down the block has refused me a cup of sugar,” she replied feistily.

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Trump and his supporters are not angry that the Manhattan trial was “rigged.” They’re angry that it wasn’t. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Donald Trump is a convicted felon.

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It sure would be comical if Samuel Alito had recently published an opinion in which he expressed strong feelings about flags and wrote that passersby viewing a flag flying over a building would naturally assume the flag conveys some message on the owner's behalf www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21p...

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Cultural Critique, a journal published by the U. Minn. Press, has rejected a submission by an Israeli author "based on the journal's commitment to BDS guidelines." While BDS guidelines nominally say they target "institutions, not individuals", this has never been true in practice, and so too here.

www.israelhayom.com

What flag will Sam Alito fly next? Wrong answers only. I’ll start.

OpenAI: with the power of AI we can create the worst nonprofit governance of all time Harvard: hold my beer www.thecrimson.com/article/2024...

Harvard Corporation Rejects FAS Effort to Let 13 Pro-Palestine Student Protesters Graduate | News | The Harvard Crimsonwww.thecrimson.com Harvard Corporation Rejects FAS Effort to Let 13 Pro-Palestine Student Protesters Graduate | News | The Harvard Crimson

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HAL calmly informing dave that andrew johnson graduated 11 times over several decades before opening the ship's airlocks.

I didn’t know half this stuff

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I didn’t know half this stuff

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Does ScarJo have a case against OpenAI? Legal experts walked us through the possible arguments — and say the law is on her side: www.cnn.com/2024/05/22/t... feat. @jtlg.bsky.social @tiffanycli.bsky.social

Why OpenAI should fear a Scarlett Johansson lawsuit | CNN Businesswww.cnn.com Could Scarlett Johansson sue OpenAI for creating a voice assistant that sounds like the actor’s performance in the 2013 film “Her,” about a man who falls in love with an artificial intelligence?

It’s the second-system effect.

The second has higher stakes in every way -- it's got to be "bigger and better," and you're expected to "do something new" and not just expand your first book. That's daunting, especially if you're like a few* academics who have imposter syndrome, terrified of being a one hit wonder. * most /4

I wonder whether this unnamed dean knows that eagles eat other birds.

When I suggested that this may lead to "non-star" faculty disengaging or leaving, they were nonplussed. One said he'd let them walk if it meant keeping the "stars." He proudly said: "I'm going to feed my eagles." Which I found very weird, but anyway.

I’m serving on a Cornell committee to draft an expressive activity policy that protects free expression, the right to protest, and the university's mission. news.cornell.edu/stories/2024...

Committee to recommend final expressive activity policy | Cornell Chroniclenews.cornell.edu The committee of faculty members, students and staff has begun a review of the university’s interim expressive activity policy and will recommend a final policy early in the fall semester.

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Marty McFly: I traveled back to 2004 in this Cybertruck Doc Brown: What happened to it? MM: No they're all like that … DB: What's 2024 like? MM: You know Clippy? DB: The paperclip? MM: Everything has one now DB: They made them useful? MM: No they lie now … DB: You need my help to go back? MM: Back?

I WOULD LIKE EVERY APP TO STOP INTRODUCING ME TO ITS NEW AI PET / FEATURE / COMPANION NO I WOULD NOT LIKE TO USE YOUR AI I JUST WANT TO KEEP WORKING KTHXBAI

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It was of course guaranteed that this was going to happen. One option would be to just re-conceive the project as a piece of bad conceptual art titled “Content Moderation is Inevitable.”

Dublin-New York portal to close until ‘later this week’ after bid to blur lewd images failswww.irishtimes.com Newly installed tourist attraction has drawn large crowds to Dublin’s North Earl Street but some have posted offensive images

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/5 Anyway I guess the Uplifting Message is give telehealth a try if going to a doc is a challenge (been seeing my CBT therapist by telehealth since COVID) because they may work, and never assume it’s too late to get a bit better with a med tweak from a fresh look.

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NB: the other people in a negotiation or confrontation are also strategic actors with agency who have thought about the next moves in the game. www.nytimes.com/live/2024/04...

Live Updates: Protesters Take Over Building on Columbia Campuswww.nytimes.com The protest expanded after university officials suspended students who had refused to leave a pro-Palestinian encampment. The university encouraged people not to come to campus on Tuesday.

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Principles for university governance of protests: 1) *actual* threats to the safety of other university members, which is not the same as "chants and posters that arguably evoke and approve of violence elsewhere in the world," can't be tolerated. 2) *actual* impairment of the safety of other 1/

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Listen, I’m not asking for a Nobel Prize here, but if there’s one thing we can all agree on in this broken world, it’s that a deckbuilding card game with a heavy storytelling element based around the Mountain Goats discography could be really cool

Today is the GenLaw DC workshop on Evaluating Generative AI Systems: the Good, the Bad, and the Hype dc-workshop.genlaw.org I’ll be liveblogging all day! 3d.laboratorium.net/2024-04-15-g...

Evaluating Generative AI Systemsdc-workshop.genlaw.org

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Dilemmas in Digital Abuse is published under my name; Cybercrime Scenarios is co-authored with Samuel Won. Both are open-access materials that you may use/assign/adapt for free under a @creativecommons.bsky.social license! Or buy paperbacks on Lulu: lulu.com/search?contr...