*clears throat* *taps mic* criticizing the adult women who knowingly attach themselves to Trump - whether for his approval, proximity to fascist power, party status, or simply the joy of being evil - is not misogyny, no matter how much vicarious embarrassment it gives you to watch them do it

I lose more and more respect for Sarah Paulson with each new Ryan Murphy project

The thing about feeling bad for Natalie what’s her face because she *might* have been raised that way is that we all know so many people who were raised that way and escaped. A lot of them much younger Talk to any queer teenager from a conservative town. They figured it out.

If you’re still doing evil by age 35 that’s either a MASSIVE skill issue or you’re actually evil. Both are risible.

Rhetorically speaking, it benefits GenAI companies for this obfuscating generic terminology. The gun lobby does the same thing with words like "assault rifle" and "automatic weapon"--terms that have general purpose use but no domain-specific reference.

Bruno Dias@brunodias.dev · 3d ago

I am becoming incredibly exhausted of this pattern: many people: "AI sucks!" Very Smart Person: ah but have you considered (distinct application of ML or statistical modeling that has no real relationship to what the tech industry is marketing as, and people broadly perceive as, "AI")

I love that Reacher is seemingly a show about the worlds most jacked medium woke autistic guy stumbling upon Regional Watergates

The media is so complicit in this too of course: > Arday's claim that he finished his challenge despite having suffered a hairline fracture to his leg would be widely mocked in the press in the last weeks of his life. Some outlets characterised the injury as a "broken leg", which is different 8/

Remember Cofnas used AI to fabricate so-called evidence and whatever else: 6/

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 7d ago

🤮 Sadly, I watched it, and Cofnas here says: > Well, I asked ChatGPT to tell me how many institutions had formal ties to Jason Arday and it came up with 42. Play at exact spot: youtu.be/9ZDTBqb8Juo?... Nonsense upon nonsense "research" by this proud eugenicist. 🤮

Before I go on, I want to just interject that none of the claims were that unbelievable for London especially nor weird, what was "weird" (read unhingedly racist) was the media decided to trust eugenicists and racial realists, who have a clear agenda to lie and distort, over his actual words. 2/

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 5d ago

You read a time off a broken clock BECAUSE it's a broken clock and not a broken speedometer. A person who is a motivated reasoner about race is not a person to take lightly as a good source on anything a Black person does. This is literally one of the many reasons we cite sources, report CoIs, etc.

> Claims made by Jason Arday, who was the subject of a relentless media campaign over many aspects of his work and life and who was found dead on Friday, appear to be true[.] Particularly mocked was Arday's claim that he ran 30 marathons in 35 days. But [it seems he] completed the challenge. 1/

Middle East Eye (Unofficial)@middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 4d ago

Jason Arday's marathon challenge and football claims found to be true after his death - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/jason-ardays-marathon-challenge-and-football-claims-found-be-true-after-his-death

I mean my mother would berate me for being too disabled to be able to do certain things and just said “If you don’t figure it out how will you survive as an adult” The answer is not easily when you have no support system

Angela Collier@acollierastro.bsky.social · 6d ago

no one called it 'cutting off family' when these same parents threw their gay kids out of the house. wild how that works.

no one called it 'cutting off family' when these same parents threw their gay kids out of the house. wild how that works.

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 7d ago

lol come the fuck on

Now these same parents are wondering why "move in with my kids" is not working out as a retirement plan after all. It's not like this came out of nowhere, as the OPs and replies all indicate. You can't write about no-contact trends without talking about an entire generation's approach to parenting.

Dr Arday’s death was the direct result of media harassment – we’re demanding a public inquiry to prevent this from ever happening again: https://goodlaw.social/j0y2

Warnings about Jason Arday’s mental health were ignored by the press

Dr Arday’s death was the direct result of media harassment – we’re demanding a public inquiry to prevent this from ever happening again

goodlaw.social

I always assume when TV expressly says none of the fictional characters are supposed to represent real people that it has to be a lie If they have to remind you that fiction is fiction They doth protest too much

The Reacher books are written by a short British man The books are a subtle satire of American masculinity He's literally confirmed by the author named Reacher because he can reach the high shelves Americans don't know when they're being mocked so of course they don't notice

Funny to me that there are white professors at elite British universities out here straight up plagerizing and making up data yet they aren’t scrutinized. The idea that he was over-promoted when white ppl have been over-promoted as a standard reeks of racism The differences are astounding

@jamesbev.bsky.social · last wk.

The shocking racism of Cambridge University in over-promoting him for their own ends and then throwing him under the bus, just appalling.

when academics and PhDs self-righteously tell themselves he "deserved to face consequences" for his choices, in the days after his death, they send a very clear signal about what they consider acceptable: this kind of manhunt, which at the least added overwhelming pressure on him

Zoe Deku : ♐︎♌︎♏︎@zoedeku.bsky.social · last wk.

This goes into fine detail about precisely which outlets led the charge. It wasn't just The Times and the Telegraph, but also the Guardian and the Independent, who were far more vocal than The Sun, Express, or even GB News. Worth bearing in mind when the "Public Interest" violins start up

I don't think it would be "rushing to judgement" to see the press hounding people - especially people of colour- has been going on for a long time. Really spineless response from the Prime Minister here that utterly fails to recognise the moment to tackle the press. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Jason Arday death 'tragedy on so many levels' says PM

Andy Burnham says the former Cambridge professor's death is a "really sad, sad and sorry state of affairs".

bbc.co.uk

White professor ‘ MattGPT ‘ whose most recent book contained fabricated quotations, non-existent source references, & left ChatGPT URLs accidentally embedded in footnotes is sad about Jason Arday’s death but still wants Arday & all black academia held to higher standards than his own writing .

It's me, a Telegraph columnist, taking a break screaming bloody murder about fairness in the women's sports I wouldn't be caught dead watching to wax lyrical about academic integrity in sociology, a field I consider to be fake, at institutions I consider to be communist indoctrination centers.

Burnham should care about this more. This story is about more than the British media being their racist selves, but also about discourse on Twitter driving media coverage in a multi-day manhunt which couldn't ever end well. You also can't separate this story from Twitter riling up racist pogroms.

Zack Polanski@zackpolanski.bsky.social · last wk.

I don't think it would be "rushing to judgement" to see the press hounding people - especially people of colour- has been going on for a long time. Really spineless response from the Prime Minister here that utterly fails to recognise the moment to tackle the press. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Absolutely vile framing from the @nytimes.com. Why doesn’t this leave behind hard questions for the media that hounded him? Or the global right-wing that gleefully turned a local matter into an international incident?

www.ft.com/content/ae7f... Or even another Cambridge professor!

Cambridge professor remains in post despite plagiarism

History academic published an article containing large parts of essays copied from one of his students

ft.com

'No, it isn't. The allegations which came from someone calling themselves a "race realist" triggered several investigations across two universities and multiple journals. There was no need for any scrutiny until those had been completed. because no one knows if it's even true

Terry Watkins@gerrygow.bsky.social · last wk.

The alternative to this is people lying with impunity, with the media knowingly covering it up. It's an awful story. And the media will get a lot of the blame. But those who perpetuated the lies and shielded Arday from facing up to them deserve more of it.

Absolutely enormous respect to whoever understood that the necessary follow-up to “what if Reacher faced a larger man” is “what if Reacher held a tiny kitten”

Saeed Jones@theferocity.bsky.social · last wk.

This season on #Reacher…

We knew about drug use at a young age because it was thought that maybe kids should be warned not to pick up used needles We were fine and even found some used needles which we immediately informed an adult about Why parents are so opposed to giving their children basic safety info is beyond me

isabella zavarise@isabellazavarise.bsky.social · last wk.

Zhou says he supports the motion because as a father this issue is deeply personal to him. He says his young son saw someone using drugs in the park and asked him what he was doing and he couldn't answer. He says he's received more than 7,000 signatures (assuming he's talking about his petition).

The Tates filmed and published videos showing them beating women into submission so they could be sexually trafficked which is why a bunch of men are convinced they are somehow innocent

AFP News Agency@en.afp.com · last wk.

🇺🇸 Supporters of Tate brothers rally in Miami ahead of bail hearing Supporters of Andrew and Tristan Tate gathered outside a Federal Detention Centre in Miami ahead of the brothers' bail hearing, doing push-ups, chanting and holding banners calling for their release.

Thinking about Jason Arday and how unnecessary it is to have big public controversies about unproven allegations of plagiarism This is a situation that can be investigated quietly and only have consequences if proven true.

there are 2 types of scientists trying to to use CRISPR The normal scientists who understand the implications genetic manipulation and who are researching animals and still go forward with all due care (you will almost never hear about these people) The freaks who want to make uber athletes