Here's a short and incomplete summary of the lead-up to Anima Anandkumar's cancellation list. Focusing mostly on the time since she started to go after Pedro Domingos since it's most recent and illustrative. 1/n There is too much to cover and many of the original conversations have been deleted. I was able to recover a few through archive.org and a couple from earlier screenshots, which is why the styling of the screenshots is a bit random. 2/n