Rima Basu

It was clear in 2008, it was clear in 2020, and it should be clear again that growing an endowment is not about putting an institution in better shape to weather financial storms, it’s just hoarding.

Academics ignore procedure and mandates all the time. They fudge due dates, ignore deadlines, pretend to forget rules. And so when I see them complying in advance with non-laws, it tells me something really gross about them.

There are far too many grifting ~DEI practictioners~ out there who charge thousands of dollars so you can sit through that one Diversity Day episode of The Office in real time. It’s very bad

But if your reaction to that kind of thing is “Resegregating public society is good, actually,” you’re worse

Really enjoyed @rimabasu.bsky.social 's paper "The Importance of Forgetting" today! Such great writing, compelling examples, and clear argumentation. I'm not fully convinced regarding ought-implies-can worries for a duty to forget, but I want to read more on this issue. #phunphilosophyphridays

It’s like when the abortion decision was leaked you’d think they’d use that time to plan a response, but nope.

Every line just gets worse and worse

If we just hang out and talk philosophy you’ll see it’s fun and worthwhile and something to look forward to.

I find this a lot in people’s explanations of why public philosophy is important eg “the public is stupid and need us to teach them cRiTiCaL tHiNkInG” is so deeply insulting. Stop talking down, you’re not as smart as you think you are. Can’t we think *together* instead or just provide *space*???

Academics in Jan: So happy to have sent off those papers before classes started!

Those same academics later in Jan: How am I getting so many referee requests! It’s only January!

cool how Judith Butler said the gender critical movement is ideologically incapable of offering resistance to the coming fascism and got pilloried for using big words, and now official GC organisations are releasing statements of support for Trump's first acts as returning president

i'm not dogging on AOC for this at all but it's insane that we're in a position now where a government official straight up saying "nazis are bad and i will fight them" is like, shocking and notable because none of the rest of them will say it

Sorry I didn’t respond sooner. The cat was drinking water so I couldn’t move.

How ‘I Saw the TV Glow’ Made the Perfect Teen Angst Movie Soundtrack “Teenage angst is a very earnest, potentially even embarrassing space to occupy exactly because of how sincere it is; that feels not unrelated to my queerness.”

we're all rightfully stressed about The News; on a dif note — been thinking a lot about the lack of awards recognition for I Saw The TV Glow despite its long tail of influence. sharing this profile I did of the film's music, talking to Jane Schoenbrun, Frances Quinlan of Hop Along, and Sloppy Jane

The tuba meme, where a schoolgirl has her head pressed against the wall by another girl wielding a tuba, pushing it right up to her face, suggesting and intense, unavoidable onslaught of sensory information Girl against wall:Me trying to do a basic ask I've managed Jo do every day Without incident for many years Girl with tuba: EVery organisation on Earth Tuba: AI

Daily life in 2025.

#AI #Tech #JustLetMeBe #FFS

I will just say that in every country I've ever lived in, it is an explicit goal for many families to send their kids to university in the u.s.

u.s. public universities are very, very good. the private ones are ok too

Huge W for us

What if there’s a public health emergency? Or a drug recall? We won’t hear from agencies we pay for, which Congress created to protect the public, because the Trump White House needs time to conduct a political purge.

why are "brave truth tellers" always so eager to say something sexist or racist instead of something like "would a clove of garlic taste good in one of those green smoothies"

Here’s a very good dog for your feed.

This is how I feel when people ask me about my papers.

Live your life so that when you die, some joyless schmuck is annoyed that his entire social media feed is a wall of people's posts talking about how much you and your work meant to them

I like to remind people that Ruby Bridges is a vivacious 70 years old, not some doddering relic of a distant past.

They knew they were lying about shoplifting for 2+ years and still kept stuff locked up...play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

I know no fear except the fear of accidentally calling the president “Dad”

Prompt and publish

Every day I am saddened to be left off another Bluesky list and not having a warship named after me despite neither being a dancer that likes to photograph rocks or an ex-president.

I’m sorry to tell you that we are in fact talking about you behind your back.

Rebuilding the area of Los Angeles destroyed by global warming-induced wildfires is expected to cost a minimum of $250 BILLION and rising due to the need to remove vast amounts of toxic waste.

If you think 'net zero costs too much', I have some terrible news for you.

NYTimes was the most credulous, calling 2012 “the year of the MOOC”

Soon the major companies (edX, Coursera) were bankrupt, bought out, and/or never made money.

In subsequent realignments, arts + humanities paid the price for universities’ bad investments. The end.

www.nytimes.com/2012/11/04/e...