I think about this point by Adorno so often of late.

We have just witnessed an incredible A/B test showing how plagiarism allegations at Cambridge University play out depending on how racialized the subject of the allegations are and it says nothing good about our society or the state of "race relations". O'Reilly is still in post.

Plagiarising professor stays in post and threatens student journalists

More than twelve pages of an article published under O’Reilly's name had been lifted almost word for word from two essays by one of his students

varsity.co.uk

Jason Arday has been found dead. The obsessive media focus on this one man - as if it was one of the biggest scandals in history - was disproportionate beyond belief. Push notifications, top headlines, constant investigations. And now he is dead.

So if your response to someone possibly committing plagiarism is to hound, humiliate, and harass them until they kill themselves, you're a far, FAR worse person than any plagiarizer. Hope this helps.

🚨Publication Day Alert!! 🚨 I’m pleased to share my chapter, “Striking Kinopoetics” in the newly-released volume, “Narrated Belonging.” I extend and modify some conceptual/theoretical terrain I begin to chart in my book and approach proletarian migrant fiction from a movement-oriented perspective.

Vonnegut, “The Sirens of Titan.”

Eighteen years ago today, Mahmoud Darwish, Palestine’s national poet, passed away. Through his poetry, he gave voice to exile, identity, memory, and belonging, becoming one of the most influential figures in modern Arabic literature. Read his biography on #PalQuest: www.palquest.org/en/biography...

Mahmoud Darwish - Poets (1941 - 2008)

Biography - Mahmoud Darwish was born on 13 March 1941 in the village of Birwa (Acre district) to Salim Darwish and Huriyya al-Biqa‘i. He was the second child in...

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New place opening on the canal in Vienna. If they don’t serve natty ice or four loko then this Florida Man ain’t interested.

I personally wouldn't find it "humiliating" if the US were to withdraw our military from around Iran & lift sanctions. I do find it humiliating that we massacred 120 schoolchildren & no one in the US political system cares or will do anything about it.

What is politically committed literature? Lea Ypi writes for Tribune on the role of the writer in reviving the lost promise of emancipation.

The Meaning of Commitment

Universal literature is endangered in a world where modern notions of freedom and equality have lost their power. Its crisis mirrors that of the left.

tribunemag.co.uk

We’ll be watching each and every one of your posts.

Finally say the film everyone’s talking about and my sophisticated take is going to blow the lid off of all of the takes. Get ready. Meh.

Nieman Lab@niemanlab.org · 2w ago

Eight Pulitzer Prize awardees — 5 winners and 3 finalists — acknowledged using AI in their reporting process this year. www.niemanlab.org/2026/08/a-re...

You have to tell Waffles you think her new haircut is pretty

Both Losurdo and Rockhill completely take Deleuze’s quote about the obvious failures of revolutions completely out of context, choosing to ignore what he’s responding to. Not surprising, given that it’s a pattern with both of them. But I want to register my annoyance.

When autumn rolls around I’m in desperate need of a tacky sweater with my dog’s face stitched into it.

A writer just claimed on social media that using AI to write is no different than “using glasses to see,” and critiques of AI are “ableist.” Disability is a concept invented by capitalism to discipline & standardize the labor force thru the uniformity of industrial work. AI is a technology 1/2

I got a free bookshelf today and honestly it fits my apartment perfectly. I need to share it with the world.

Okay I am willing to concede that there are MAYBE two. But multiple? Be serious.

InfoWars@realinfowars.bsky.social · 3w ago

What if someone told you there's MORE than one horse? Have you ever considered that?

People think my job is professor. My job... it's just email.

Ken's Beach Job - Ryan Gosling in Barbie Movie

Alt: Blond white man in a pink t-shirt in front of a pink background says "My job...it's just beach"

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"Death of the author" is a literary theory that emphasizes the personal interaction and connection to an artistic work over the concept of an authorial ultimate meaning. "Separate the art from the artist" is a catchphrase to mumble to yourself so you can justify buying more Harry Potter shit.

That drum solo part in Phil Collins’s “In the Air Tonight”

Hank Green@hankgreen.bsky.social · 3w ago

Aside from the Big Bang, what is the most important thing that has ever happened?

Really interesting tidbits in this latest NYT focus group

Totally love what Damon did with his portrayal of Leopold Bloom. Definitely made the character his own.

I'm pleased to share this new paper, "The myth of 'catch-up' development". The paper assesses trends in core-periphery inequality since 1960, and draws several main conclusions: 🧵https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13563467.2026.2659076

The myth of catch-up development: trends in core–periphery inequality from 1960 to 2023

The conventional narrative in international development holds that poorer countries are “catching up” with richer countries through the process of capitalist growth. This paper assesses this claim ...

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The Odyssey lacks cyclops dong. Manage your expectations accordingly.

Dog endures “historic heat wave.”

Face down ass up that’s the way we like to HYUCK

classics profs today: [silently, to self: it's good they're taking an interest in Homer. it's enough that they're taking an interest in Homer. build on the interest. don't waste the opportunity] [aloud:] well heh the notion we have of "character" now is actually a modern [silently] stop stop