James Grimmelmann

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love the colours on this badge, they’re staying 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

it's 2026 and the cool S is still not in unicode

I wish I knew the right combination of words to convince people who don't yet realize it that knowing and being friends with lots of trans people makes your life immeasurably better. I know we're dealing with fear and bigotry here tho so; right words would likely have to be some kind of magic spell.

If you live in Massachusetts, you’re required to.

Bad content drives out good.

🎶 And February was so long that it lasted into March 🎶

A Kardashian Type II civilization is able to convert all of its sun's available energy into social-media content.

Like all of antitrust, it's absurdly complicated, but a first cut is that (a)State AGs have explicit standing to sue to enforce federal antitrust laws, 15 USC § 15c(a)(1), and
(b) state antitrust laws are not preempted by federal ones, California v. ARC America Corp., 490 U.S. 93 (1989).

The reductio ad absurdum of an absolutist view of the First Amendment.

Nice job grabbing $2.8 billion in free money.

Cover of "Theory of Recursive Functions and Effective Computability" by Hartley Rogers, Jr.

Read theory.

Two questions sparked by the ongoing AI-abetted death of writing:

(1) How long will it be until some jurisdiction routinely enacts laws in the form of vertical videos?

(2) What interpretive methodology should apply to laws promulgated in this way?

China's Seedance unleashes dispute on how far AI can go in fiction | AJU PRESS SEOUL, February 25 (AJP) -The release of Seedance 2.0, an AI-powered video generator developed by ByteDance, has triggered a fresh wave of copyright disputes between technology firms and the global en...

I'm quoted.

www.ajupress.com/view/2026022...

would PURPORT to empower

How A.I.-Generated Videos Are Distorting Your Child’s YouTube Feed

Bad content drives out good.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/u...

Hungry for Affirmation, Vulnerable to Scams: As a Writer, I Know the Feeling

Bad content drives out good.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/b...

Faculty have essentially two choices: (1) learn in painstaking detail how resources flow through your institution and how budgets work or (2) complain as you are cut to the bone and then broken. You’d be shocked at how many administrators and faculty do not understand their budget model.

No, this is wrong, the AI is bullshitting you. “Joan is professor of physics” is a corruption of “Joan is Professor of Physics” (her official job title, with no article).

Record sales?

Don't let the door hit you on the way out for the second time.

if I launched an AI startup it'd definitely be called Clever Hans and we'd have a horse mascot

The Pitt is very effective in showing why it is important that medical professionals have memorized lots of things and also have the capacity to remember a lot of new information arriving very quickly.

Responses to this story in Simpsons memes, a thread: