As a chair for academic misconduct at my uni, and having seen some of alleged problematic sections of writing, if this were an undergrad student they very likely would have gotten a sanction in my view. Standards differ at PhD level, but there was clearly something amiss here.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 10h ago

Prof Jason Arday has resigned from Cambridge after the University announced plans to investigate allegations of plagiarism www.theguardian.com/education/20...

The booing of what sounds like a foreign (and no doubt in the man's mind, 'Islamic') name, really speaks volumes about the mindset of some Trump supporters. Even when Trump is gone, this white Christian nationalist section of US society will still remain.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 11h ago

LOMBARDO: So I know the pastor spoke about Officer Abdelnabi-- TRUMP RALLY CROWD: *Boooooo* LOMBARDO: No. We're not booing him. He's the officer that passed away here recently

Gonna go out on a limb here and say racist cranks who write for extremist white nationalist websites like VDARE should not, in fact, be confirmed to top roles in the Department of Justice.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 13h ago

SCHIFF: You told my staff you stood by your article in white nationalist website VDARE where you wrote, 'Muslim immigrants & their kids seem prone to terrorism' C: I wrote that article in support of Trump's travel ban S: Do you stand by it? C: I stand by that article S: That's all I need to know

I would have framed this a bit more with "I know Trump loves shows of strength. Shows of bravery. Shows of owning the libs. So why not do what Donald Trump wants you to do and debate me. Try and beat me 5 times in a debate. I dare you."

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 16h ago

El-Sayed: "Mike, I'm gonna say it right now, I know you're gonna say no because you're a coward: Five debates, alright? ... By the time we're done, you are not gonna have safe quarter from people holding you accountable to what you've done for them here in Michigan. We will send you back to Florida"

1. The correct answer is 'No' or 'Absolutely not!' 2. I feel like a lot of interviewers treat Fetterman with kid gloves, partly because of the brain damage from his stroke. And I'm sorry but that cannot be used as an excuse if you are one of the most powerful people in the country.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 16h ago

BLITZER: If a Democratic Senate primary were held in Pennsylvania today, do you believe you would win? FETTERMAN: ... Like, today? BLITZER: Yeah FETTERMAN: Uh. Yeah.

Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...

Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...

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I would like to see more publishers do this to poison LLMs.

It’s Time to Poison AI | GN Mega Charts Update & LLM Countermeasures

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It's funny that Jeanine Pirro brought a box of evidence to WH to persuade Trump. He wants her to consciously *throw out* exculpatory facts and *knowingly* prosecute innocent people. So facts can't persuade him by definition. Me and @barbmcquade.bsky.social on this: newrepublic.com/article/2139...

Bragging that the candidate he endorsed won when Rogers was running unopposed.

TrumpReposter@trumpreposter.bsky.social · yesterday

In certain counties where she needs to be hitting 43-46%, where mail/early votes are coming in (which would favour her due to demo) she is below 40%. Still early, but gun to my head, I'd say El-Sayed is favoured to win right now.

Yashar Ali 🐘@yasharali.bsky.social · yesterday

UPDATE With 17% of the vote counted, Abdul El-Sayed leads Rep. Haley Stevens in Michigan’s Democratic U.S. Senate primary, 52.6% to 44.4%.

Sooooo.... Anyone in the UK mad like me and staying up for the Michigan Primary results?

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Such a car crash of a 23min interview. But you just know it's his bully ego that convinced himself that this would be a good idea.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · yesterday

Jake Tapper to Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio): "Hold on— I’m not done with the list of women that have accused you of violence."

*Trump with bloodied fists, leaning over the corpse of a child he's just beaten to death* *Cornyn and other GOP senators look on from the corner of the oval office* "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"

Dr. Steven Buckley@stevenjcbuckley.bsky.social · 2d ago

Then what is the point of you? Why even bother existing? These spineless, supine, feckless cowards just can't bring themselves to admit they are cucks who'd love to be ruled by a king/dictator.

Then what is the point of you? Why even bother existing? These spineless, supine, feckless cowards just can't bring themselves to admit they are cucks who'd love to be ruled by a king/dictator.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

Cornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"

He can't.

HuffPost@huffpost.com · 2d ago

“The issue is whether I can be trusted as a steward of Warner’s CNN,” the son of staunch Trump ally Larry Ellison wrote in a New York Times op-ed.

"A unique talent for finding the thing that was obviously true" Like how he wanted to have sex with 14 year old girls?

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 2d ago

What is being praised is "the maximum possible offence to all the right people".

"It was the quality of his writing that often got him out of trouble."

The i Paper @theipaper.com · 2d ago

Opinion: "Rod's first loyalty was not to a political tribe or to a social orthodoxy, but to his own curiosity," writes Simon Kelner trib.al/3bnRLOG

But for Kemi, it's not wanting to scrap the ECHR that is a red line....

Otto English@ottoenglish.bsky.social · 2d ago

Joshua Bonehill-Paine Self-styled "nationalist, fascist, theorist and supporter of white rights” who was jailed in 2015 for antisemitic online posts.... Selected as a Tory candidate.

L F G!

Mediaite@mediaite.com · 2d ago

CNN Data Guru Predicts Abdul El-Sayed Set to ‘Deliver the Biggest Blow’ Yet to Democratic Establishment

He's just spent the last 15mins ranting about this. I'm sure most Americans appreciate his laser-like focus on the issues that impact their lives.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

Trump: "There's a tape that's out there that I posted on Truth where you have people leaning over the side. The weakest part 'cause of the flexibility. You know it moves. It's very complicated. It moves. And the softest part has to be flexible. And that's the stuff you can cut."

Also Trump just now "Grass is like humans. It has a life" I despair....

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

Trump: "Any country with windmills is a loser"

"I know Europe better than anybody. Even the people running it." Fully delusional. Now saying the UK could "give away free energy if they opened up the north sea" oil fields

A truly schizophrenic government.

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 3d ago

Trump: Iran talks are going on now.

Nobody in the US government seems to know who is talking to who let alone what is being said. And Trump is posting negotiation/war declaration purely based on whatever the person he last spoke to told him.

Shipwreck@shipwreck75.bsky.social · 3d ago

U.S. officials said there are no new negotiations with Iran planned, despite President Trump's comments that talks would begin Monday. Officials said discussions continue through mediators involving U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff and the Iranian team.-CBS News

They have now since update the article with a bit of 'his critics said that' sort stuff. No mention how he once wrote he couldn't be a teacher as he'd want to shag the kids.

Dr. Steven Buckley@stevenjcbuckley.bsky.social · 3d ago

At no point in the BBC's eulogy of him do they even vaguely allude to the litany of disgusting and controversial things he said over the years. Just because someone dies doesn't mean we should ignore all the bad things they did. Do journalism, not hagiography. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

And a lot of journalistic content these days is simply the repackaging of press releases. (Multitude of reasons for this but I'm not gonna cram an entire one of lectures into a thread here.)

Josh Sternberg@joshsternberg.com · 3d ago

There are 7 PR people for every journalist in the US. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

when people talk about how anti-trans sports policies harm *all* girls this is exactly what they mean

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 3d ago

An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play

This is what "a witty provocateur" apparently says: "it is very easy to prove that the educational underachievement of British people of Caribbean descent or African Americans is nothing to do with institutional or structural racism"

The Times and Sunday Times@thetimes.com · 3d ago

Journalist who increased listener figures as editor of the Today programme and later became a witty provocateur at The Spectator and The Sunday Times dies aged 66