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

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.

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

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...

guy on bluesky: please buy NYT i beg of you NYT opinion writer, literally the next day: i saw a Texan Czech/Vietnamese fusion food and it made me so angry i'm now supporting fascism

all i have to say about this is that any time the vietnamese get their hands on a cuisine, it tends to get better. they already alley ooped on the french, for gods' sake

for years i have losing my mind about that episode of ReplyAll where they were like "are our phones listening to us? through the microphone that is built in to the device? it turns out: no! we asked tech companies and they said they're not. and obviously they would never lie to us"

When you see this bad boy you just know you won't be reading the article.

One of the weirdest things about growing up with a language but losing it except that you can understand it when hearing it is that I learned this today but I also must’ve already knew it because I’ve been doing it this whole time.

Children of Time is a kindle monthly deal this month!

betas: *make plans* God: *laughs* LinkedIn Alpha: *makes plans* God: “Oh sh—“

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When academics get sick: "Thank goodness I didn't get sick during term, because there are no substitute instructors. Better that I get sick on my holiday time". #AcademiaIsBroken #AcademicSky

More epistemic for the rest of us

They used to say there was no such thing as gay kids. That it was a choice that could be beaten or tortured out of them through conversion therapy

She is speed

Viewing referee reports in Editorial Manager:

One note: it’s missing Levi Ackerman at 5’3”

Imagine waiting only 6-9 months for reviews 😭

Instead of having playoffs, the college football championship should be between the best college team and the worst NFL team. If the college team wins, they get to become an NFL franchise, and the NFL team has to become a university.

We actually do have a serious campus free speech problem

If I had a nickel for every sci-fi book I’ve read in the past year that featured spider-like aliens I’d have two nickels. There’s not a lot of nickels, but it’s still more than I’d expect.

My son Elijah died from pediatric brain cancer in 2017, right after I met Obama at the WH and he pledged to support the cancer moonshot. These evil, soulless people are ok with kids dying from cancer, and they deserve to be haunted until the end of their days. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Scientists rediscover Hume

If you see anyone talking about how the Amazon strike could disrupt the flow of packages: