[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Three universities have disputed claims by a Cambridge professor at the heart of a plagiarism row that he holds academic positions with them, the Daily Mail can reveal.
Professor Jason Arday became a poster boy for diversity as the university's youngest ever black professor, but is facing questions about both his academic record and a series of dazzling anecdotes from his past.
Now, three universities in Britain and the US have contradicted details of the 41-year-old's professional background which are listed on the website of Jesus College, where he is a fellow.
…Critics have accused Professor Arday of copying significant chunks of his PhD thesis from earlier research published by another student, leading him last week to admit to a series of errors in his work.
He has insisted he is not a 'fantasist' after doubts were raised about his seemingly sensational list of personal achievements, which included running 600 miles in six days and raising millions of pounds for charity.
As far as I can tell, the only true thing about him is the pronoun he claims.
BREAKING: Jason Arday Resigns from Cambridge: Star Professor Hade Made Shocking Claims About Pigs’ Heads, Stalker and Racist Death Threats, With No Evidence To Support Themhttps://t.co/JkKHeczeRQ I report for @FreeBeacon: In a recording obtained by the Free Beacon of a speech… pic.twitter.com/mSgFBiQSY9
#4
Time to crawl up Juicy Smolett's and die. Say hello to Claudia Gay while in.there
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There was a time when confidence games were a crime.
[AI] confidence game crimes
A **confidence game**, also known as a **con** or **scam**, is a non-violent fraud where the perpetrator obtains money or property by **gaining the victim's trust** and exploiting it through psychological manipulation rather than force. Legally, these acts are prosecuted as **theft by deception**, **fraud**, or **obtaining property by false pretenses**, with **Illinois** notably having a specific statute titled "confidence game."
Key characteristics and legal contexts include:
* **Mechanism**: The core element is the **abuse of confidence**; the victim voluntarily hands over assets based on fabricated relationships or scenarios, distinguishing cons from robbery or simple theft.
* **Common Examples**: Schemes include the **Spanish Prisoner** (modern advance-fee fraud), **romance scams**, **phishing**, **three-card monte**, and the **pigeon drop**.
* **Legal Consequences**: In the U.S., these are criminal offenses involving **moral turpitude**; federal cases often involve **wire or mail fraud** charges carrying up to **20 years in prison**.
* **Reporting Challenges**: Victims often fail to report crimes due to **shame** or because the con includes a minor crime (e.g., tax evasion) that compromises the victim, a tactic known as **"cooling-out the mark."**
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he was "Professor of the Sociology of Education" so a lot of what he said probably sounded like the same kind of BS that all the postmodernists spout
his other achievements in his bio are so extreme that any normal person would laugh, e.g. 30 marathons in 35 days, didn't talk until he was 12, didn't read until he was 18
Simon and Shuster was supposed to put out a biog next week. Heh.
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The damage to actual minority academicians and scientists is the real shame here. Notwithstanding the idea that you should never generalize, doubts about the legitimate skills of minority-advantaged POC in science, medicine, engineering are all now enhanced. For better or worse, when it really matters, choices are affected by this kind of revelation. Those genuine minority scholars et al are the real victims of this fraud, and the universities reputation for color-blindness in graduate quality are greatly damaged.
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"Now that I've got your attention, here's the real deal." [Summoned! My Sokalled Life in the Halls of Cacodeme]
"And how about a sequel?"
[Psychin' the Reich: My Knife in the Far Right]
And so forth.
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"To the boobyhatch!"
Scratch one Arday.
"A genetic match? Churchill? I say!"
Cue the ward of the state's
Refutation of hate:
"First, a body acknowledgement..."
"Heyyyyy!"
"Wait, pay no attention to this dressing gown, top hat, cigar, and half empty bottle of whisky...uh... okay, it's me."
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[Regnum] A mother bear and her cubs caused a stir in the town of Ivdel in the Sverdlovsk region. The Telegram channel "112" reported this on August 6.
A mother bear and her cubs came from the forest into the city. However, she was spooked by the large number of cars, people, and lights. She eventually raced through the streets, startling passersby, before dashing back into the thicket. No one was injured, the 112 emergency services reported.
Earlier, residents of the village of Mikhaylovka near Ufa spotted a brown bear with a cub on the street. Later, two cubs were seen near the French Dvor residential complex.
[Epoch Times] China’s COVID-19 positivity rate has exceeded 20 percent for the first time this year, which experts say will likely lead to a high epidemic level. Meanwhile, Chinese doctors and residents posted on social media and told The Epoch Times that hospitals have been packed with patients, creating a shortage of medicine for COVID-19.
The Chinese communist regime’s official data releases are not considered reliable, given its record of underreporting data deemed unfavorable by authorities, including COVID-19 cases and the outbreak scale since 2020, but they can reveal certain trends.
A doctor from Shandong Province in eastern China posted on Chinese social media platform Weibo on July 31: "The hospital emergency room is packed—there’s no room left on the floor for patients to lie down. Many of the patients are in serious condition."
The doctor posed the question whether the situation is due to a surge in COVID-19 or other respiratory diseases.
A COVID-19 patient in Zhejiang Province told The Epoch Times on Aug. 4 that when he visited the emergency room at the Zhejiang University School of Medicine on July 26, it was overcrowded with COVID-19 patients and it took hours to see a doctor.
"There were just so many people. The waiting completely drained my energy," he said.
He said the doctor advised him: "There are many people testing positive for COVID-19 lately, so it’s best to limit going out. If you were to contract a co-infection with Influenza A or B, the consequences could be severe."
The report also warned that the nationwide travel peak in August may exacerbate the COVID-19 epidemic.
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"The hospital emergency room is packed—there’s no room left on the floor for patients to lie down. Many of the patients are in serious condition."
Reminds me of the Admitting lobby at MD Anderson.
Rows and rows of couches with accompanying 'waste' cans, the air filled with a miasma of breath and body odors from the treated chemo patients.
percentage of all patients who tested + for Covid was ~2%
percentage of Emergency patients testing + for Covid was ~0.2%
percentage of hospitalizations testing + for covid was ~0.%
percentage of deaths where patient tested + for covid ~0.1%
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0.2% for hospitalization
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[Reuters] Aug 6 (Reuters) - A New Mexico state court ordered Meta (META.O), opens new tab on Thursday to pay $567 million into a teen mental health fund and change how its platforms function for young users after finding the company is to blame for harming children's wellbeing.
Judge Bryan Biedscheid in Santa Fe ruled the company had created a public nuisance in New Mexico, siding with Attorney General Raúl Torrez, a Democrat. Torrez had accused the social media company of designing products to addict young users and failing to protect children from sexual exploitation on its platforms.
The ruling comes five months after a New Mexico jury in an earlier phase of the case ordered Meta to pay $375 million after finding it violated consumer protection law by misrepresenting the safety of Facebook and Instagram for young users.
The case was being closely watched amid a growing wave of litigation accusing social media companies of harming young users. While many lawsuits have been brought by children and families over alleged injuries to individuals, states, municipalities and school districts have also pursued lawsuits seeking broad changes to the industry.
More than 40 states and over 1,300 school districts have filed public nuisance lawsuits against social media companies, seeking damages as well as court orders requiring changes to products and practices.
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Cut their access off and lets see them really lose their shit!
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When they deliberately target 13-17yo kids, especially girls, and do everything they can to keep them engaged despite proof it does serious mental health issues... fuck them. Bankrupt their asses and take everything from them.
Text taken from the Telegram channel of @Russian_OSINT
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.
[ColonelCassad] Large-Scale YouTube Purge and Hunt for Influence Networks in Q2 2026
The Google Trust & Safety team published a new bulletin on combating coordinated influence operations for April, May, and June 2026. YouTube was the main target, but restrictions also affected Blogger, Google News, Discover, and the Google Ads advertising platform.
1. China led the way in the number of channels taken down. Google blocked 9,186 YouTube channels, 22 domains, and 2 Blogger blogs. The main topics were the foreign policy of the US and China, criticism of the 🇵🇭Philippines, and the promotion of Beijing's interests.
2. Russia ranks second. Google shut down 2,083 YouTube channels and 1 domain. The resources promoted support for the actions of 🇷🇺Russia, criticized 🇺🇦Ukraine, NATO, and the West, as well as government circles in 🇦🇲Armenia and 🇲🇩Moldova.
3. India demonstrated high activity in the domestic political sphere. 1,778 YouTube channels that promoted and criticized local political parties were removed.
4. Azerbaijan used 981 YouTube channels to promote the country's official position, criticize 🇦🇲Armenia, and domestic opponents. All of them were removed.
5. The United States was noted for the removal of 277 YouTube channels. The identified networks focused on partisan confrontation within the country, criticism of the US government, and the foreign policy of Israel.
6. Iran has lost 13 YouTube channels, 2 domains, 2 Ads accounts, and 2 Blogger blogs. The materials were aimed at supporting 🇮🇷Iran while criticizing Israel and the USA.
It's important to understand that YouTube freedom fighters in Russia ardently support such purges. For the sake of educational videos, of course.
[Reuters] Microsoft (MSFT.O) launched its largest India data center in Hyderabad on Thursday and has signed up Adani Group and HDFC Bank among early users as it races rivals for the country's fast-growing AI market.
The India South Central facility brings Microsoft's cloud regions in India to four, adding to existing centers in Pune, Chennai and Mumbai, and cementing its position as the country's largest cloud-computing provider,
The Windows maker has committed about $20.5 billion to expand its India opreations, betting on a market of more than 1 billion internet users and one of the world's deepest pools of tech talent.
[Reuters] Work to build Google's planned Indian data centre hub is in full swing, with a hillside above the site stripped to red earth and terraced into steps, but mounting opposition from environmentalists is creating hurdles for the U.S. tech giant's $15 billion project.
The southern state of Andhra Pradesh, governed by an ally of Prime Minister Narendra Modi who has hailed the project as historic and transformational, has denied allegations that the project was fast-tracked without weighing risks to water supplies and wildlife.
But the growing opposition could become an early test for Google's (GOOGL.O) biggest-ever India investment, which is facing several legal challenges over its impact on water supplies and proximity to a wildlife sanctuary that is home to leopards and pangolins.
In recent weeks, activists and children have marched in Visakhapatnam city, holding banners saying "We cannot drink DATA" and painting handcuffs on the Google logo, social media posts show.
On Sunday, Reuters attended a public gathering where activists chalked out plans for holding door-to-door awareness campaigns and beach protests in coming days.
"Development should not be at the cost of livelihood of the people," Raja Rama Mohan Roy, founder of non-profit Green Visakha said at the event where he presented statistics on Visakhapatnam's stressed water supply and demand.
The government says the city receives 410 million litres of water a day from its reservoirs and rivers, against a requirement of 480 million. Rationing of water supplies is common in the city with a population of 2.5 million people.
Rapid data centre buildouts are facing pushback around the world for using huge quantities of water to cool servers and of electricity. The potential impact is even more pronounced in a developing nation like India. In the U.S., opponents held 142 protests across 42 states in July raising similar concerns.
STATE DEFENDS, OPEN TO REDRESSAL
The state's top court on Monday asked the government to defend against allegations levelled by activist group Jal Biradari (Water Community), which says the project will strain water availability by putting stress on a nearby reservoir.
The Andhra Pradesh High Court will next hear the public interest litigation on August 24.
The state in its statement to Reuters called activists' concerns about the project incorrect and misleading, but added it is open to feedback.
"Such protests are their democratic right. In case any of these claims are legitimate, government is committed to engage and provide factual clarifications and suitable redressal," it said.
Google in a statement to Reuters said its project will be developed in line with applicable laws and it will implement "advanced air cooling to protect vital local water resources".
Work was well underway when Reuters visited on Monday, earthmovers still working the exposed ground.
The tech giant has partnered with Indian billionaire Gautam Adani’s group which will build the marquee project which is seen creating up to 188,000 jobs. Adani did not respond to queries.
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[Regnum] The wreckage of sunken Nazi ships from World War II has surfaced in the shallow Danube River in Serbia. This was announced on August 6 by Branislav Ginić, head of the river port's captaincy.
The sunken ships belonged to a Nazi river flotilla that German troops sank during their retreat from the Red Army in 1944.
Due to sunken ships on the section of the Danube near Prahovo and the Djerdap 2 hydroelectric power station, the width of the shipping channel was reduced by half: from 180 to 90 m.
Ginic noted that the exposed debris does not impede vessel traffic. He explained that shipping on the Danube in Bulgaria and Romania has virtually ceased, so only a few shallow-draft vessels are entering Serbian waters.
"The debris that has surfaced has been marked and is visible. The exact number of places where it has emerged from the water has not been calculated. As for the recovery of the vessels, that is the responsibility of the Ministry of Construction, Transport, and Infrastructure," the head of the ministry told RIA Novosti.
On August 2, Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić warned of a threat to navigation on the Danube due to a water shortage. He stated that the consequences could impact the operation of the country's only oil refinery in Pancevo.
On August 2, Hungary's only nuclear power plant, the Paks Nuclear Power Plant, was shut down for the first time in 44 years due to low water levels in the Danube River. Experts estimate that restarting the plant could take up to a week after the required water level is restored, as a stable supply of coolant is required to fully restart the units.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
The Chinese communist regime’s official data releases are not considered reliable, given its record of underreporting data deemed unfavorable by authorities, including COVID-19 cases and the outbreak scale since 2020, but they can reveal certain trends.
