[davidjay]

Well, this'll give the 5G death-ray lamp-post nutters something else to rage about. Expect street lights to be sawn down near you soon.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/ ... rveillance

To be honest I don't much like the idea of them.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Don't know if anyone else has been following the Professor Jason Arday story, but he's resigned from his professorship after Cambridge announced they were investigating him. The Guardian deserve a lot of credit here, because they found him to be (aside from the plagiarism allegations) to be a bullshitter.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/n ... ason-arday

The Guardian's instincts must have been to go full in behind Arday, because the people who'd led the public assault on him were deeply unpleasant people. Jolyon Maugham, Zack Polanski and a bunch of Labour MPs did exactly that, and now have egg on their face. But as the article by Lanre Bakare makes clear, so much was at stake here, academically and politically. Forcing a quick resignation is the best thing that could have happened.

[The Weeping Angel]

I have been following this case; being on Bluesky does have its advantages from time to time. Anyway, here is part of his resignation statement.



Or maybe he failed them by being a serial liar.

[Watchman]

Needless to say, Goodwin is absolutely creaming himself

[Tubby Isaacs]

Feed people leg stump half volleys like this and they put them away for boundaries.

At least this was resolved before there was much more egg on faces. Clive Lewis, John McDonnell and all the rest won’t care about the woman whose work was plagiarised while Arday got his Cambridge earner.

[Oboogie]

The Guardian's instincts must have been to go full in behind Arday, because the people who'd led the public assault on him were deeply unpleasant people. Jolyon Maugham, Zack Polanski and a bunch of Labour MPs did exactly that, and now have egg on their face.

A clear example of what James O'Brien calls footballafication: "a black academic must be the good guy/victim so we must all support him unequivocally to demonstrate what good allies we are".
The lesson is a clear and simple one, not all thieves and bullshitters are white.

[Boiler]

My niece had the work she'd done for her doctorate plagiarised. Needless to say, she's still pretty sore about it even now.