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Op ed by Cornell Professor James Grimmelmann @jtlg "Cornell Must Defend Its Values", on the university cowardly backing away from its support for Trans youth.
Powerful stuff, we love it when tenure armor is put to good use:
https://cornellsun.com/2025/02/08/grimmelmann-cornell-must-defend-its-values/
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Trump attacks universities' $$$$ grant overhead: IMMEDIATE LAWSUIT 🤯🤯
Trump targets universities' DEI programs and inclusive research: yawn 🥱🥱
📊 Post engagement
Recent posts · likes + reposts
Dec 9latest
19
Avg engagement / post
2–5
Typical post (engagement)
2%
Engagement vs followers
0/100
Spiky reach
Oct 2022
On Mastodon since
Half of recent posts land between 2 and 5 likes + reposts (median 2) — reach is spiky, driven by the occasional post that pops.
🔥 Top post: Op ed by Cornell Professor James Grimmelmann @jtlg "Cornell Must · 132 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
0.45 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 10 text · 2 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
2.6×
Follows 370 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
Recent posts
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Op ed by Cornell Professor James Grimmelmann @jtlg "Cornell Must Defend Its Values", on the university cowardly backing away from its support for Trans youth.
Powerful stuff, we love it when tenure armor is put to good use:
https://cornellsun.com/2025/02/08/grimmelmann-cornell-…
I'm studying how US undergrad CS majors choose careers.
If you teach or work with US based CS undergrads, I would be REALLY appreciative if you would encourage them to take this survey:
https://queensu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_czJcqzE8b…
listen to the end to hear me talk about bombing data centers :)
I recently gave one of the best talks of my career thus far, and thankfully it was recorded, so I figured I share that here!
Thoughts/ideas/questions welcome!
https://scs.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=0998d732-f40d-42b7-…
wow, turns out that being on a long term course of steroids while on the job market while the country implodes is really taking a lot out of me. not fun!
This still seems like a clear money over values thing, but as a colleague helpfully pointed out, the NIH overhead action is a single drastic action ripe for legal challenge, whereas the DEI stuff is more informal, harder to challenge immed…
Trump attacks universities' $$$$ grant overhead: IMMEDIATE LAWSUIT 🤯🤯
Trump targets universities' DEI programs and inclusive research: yawn 🥱🥱
hell y'all i'm in Paris for this "AI summit" thing.
if you are too, lmk, let's get a crossaint or something!
@sireesh @dawnnafus hey look my other fav technology! (military drones!!!)
🤖🔫That doesn’t stop the US Military from conceiving of the battlefield of the future as a domain for AI, and grant solicitation as a key site to enlist academic AI researchers in their warfighting agenda.
Questions + feedback welcome!
❓Grant solicitations walk a careful line, asserting that AI is inevitable and successful already, while at the same time expressing a deep uncertainty about its capabilities, reliability, or fundamental soundness.
💣 “Basic Research” funding isn’t so basic. While some academics like to pretend that they’re working on “pure science,” we show how grants for “Basic Research” are nonetheless targeted towards enhancing the warfighting capacity of the US.
Trump attacks universities' $$$$ grant overhead: IMMEDIATE LAWSUIT 🤯🤯
Trump targets universities' DEI programs and inclusive research: yawn 🥱🥱
hell y'all i'm in Paris for this "AI summit" thing.
if you are too, lmk, let's get a crossaint or something!
@sireesh @dawnnafus hey look my other fav technology! (military drones!!!)
🤖🔫That doesn’t stop the US Military from conceiving of the battlefield of the future as a domain for AI, and grant solicitation as a key site to enlist academic AI researchers in their warfighting agenda.
Questions + feedback welcome!
❓Grant solicitations walk a careful line, asserting that AI is inevitable and successful already, while at the same time expressing a deep uncertainty about its capabilities, reliability, or fundamental soundness.
💣 “Basic Research” funding isn’t so basic. While some academics like to pretend that they’re working on “pure science,” we show how grants for “Basic Research” are nonetheless targeted towards enhancing the warfighting capacity of the US.
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
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On Mastodon since
Oct 2022
Joined in the Twitter-exodus wave of late 2022 — part of the migration that made Mastodon a real destination.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 19 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.5× per week.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated75/100
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Credibility score
92%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 92% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Engagement (~2.0% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Mastodon.
- Verified account.
- Established account (3+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
forever trying to help computer people think more critically about computer
Post Doc at Cornell Tech, PhD from CMU, exNASA/MSR/IntelLabs
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