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16hr ago
Oh damn, I forgot all about him. You don't hear so much about him ever since BLM fell off.
The lies ballooned to such levels (running marathons with a fractured leg?) that the only possible reason nobody queried him is that he was indeed a pure DEI hire and nobody expected him to actually be able to do anything.
I speculate what happened was that, before becoming somewhat famous, he told Alice a relatively mild version of one lie ("I had a cancer scare a few weeks before my PhD viva, it was pretty stressful"), a mild version of a different lie to Bob ("I injured myself running a marathon"), a mild version of yet another lie to Carol ("I was actually non-verbal for the first few years of primary school") and so on. Each of these lies sounds plausible enough in isolation, although Alice, Bob or Carol would probably raise an eyebrow if they were aware of all of the lies. Having gotten away with it (successfully curried sympathy), he tells an embellished version of each lie to Dave, Ewan and Frederick, none of whom are aware of any of the lies told to the others. On and on it goes, Arday upping the ante each time, until eventually the lies have become so heavily embroidered that telling someone just one of them causes people to raise an eyebrow, at which point they start comparing notes and realising how preposterous the whole edifice is.
He's also obviously someone not bright enough to realise that being a Baron von Munchausen is no longer compatible with being a public figure. If he'd lived a couple of hundred years ago when there were no TV cameras and most people were illiterate, he could have happily told his tall tales as long as he pleased. If the listener noticed discrepancies or inconsistencies with earlier tales, they would probably have just shrugged them off or assumed that they (the listener) were remembering the details of the earlier tale wrong. But nowadays, any tall tale told via the Internet is there forever, as is any told verbally during a television appearance. Under these circumstances, being honest is the only viable option: you will eventually be caught in a lie and face the consequences. (Unless you're Donald Trump.)
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18hr ago
Mindy Kaling's brother is apparently one such?
He may have faked being black, but he certainly wasn't a white male.
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19hr ago
He gave me 70% on my essay, with no feedback, which sounds good except that my average score for the year was 75% and this was my lowest mark of the term and actually dragged my average down. I asked for a meeting with him to ask him to explain why he had given me the mark and provide feedback. At Roehampton marking is blind so he didn't know whose essay it was when he marked it but in the meeting he implied that I was racist and that the only reason I wasn’t happy with 70% was due to my white privilege.
That is appalling. He should have been sacked on the spot.
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21hr ago
IIRC Dudley New-Right does actually have children, which puts him head and shoulders above most of the people he's mocking in this post. But I take your point.
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21hr ago
Well, if you're the kind of talented person who would naturally thrive in a legitimate meritocracy, any policy designed to make it easier for untalented people to thrive must intuitively feel like an effort to undercut your own status, even if it isn't presented like that.
Oh I know, I don't care about the resignation letter specifically. But I am curious about the general case. There have been quite a number of literary competitions embroiled in scandals recently when it turns out the winning entries were AI-generated. Ought that to be considered plagiarism?
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23hr ago
Incredible story. Out of curiosity, what made your aunt suspect she was malingering?
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1d ago
If you haven't already, I think you will really enjoy reading this article: https://newrightpoast.substack.com/p/the-four-commandments-of-reddit
First, how sure are we that he is actually black, given that he lied about everything else?
Freddie deBoer refers to this phenomenon (white people passing themselves off as non-white to advance their careers) as Dolezalism, and calls it an entirely expected byproduct of the incentive structures in academia, activist NGOs and so on. (When someone pointed out how his argument applied to – uhh, another thing that people can pass themselves off as, he closed the comments on the article. Never change, Freddie.)
He cited many examples of Dolezals, and the thing I found fascinating was that all of them were women. (And by "women" I mean "female people".) I have literally never heard of a white male academic attempting to pass himself off as black, Hispanic or similar. I vaguely recall Johnny Depp claiming to have partial Native American ancestry, and there's a Wikipedia page called "Indigenous identity fraud in Canada and the United States" in which male examples outnumber female. But a white man passing himself off as black is unheard of, to the best of my knowledge.
But yeah – if this was a story about Jacinta Arday being accused of plagiarism, I'm sure Cofnas would be going full forensic accounting, purloining her bank statements in an effort to determine if she'd purchased a tanning bed or had been to Istanbul to undergo a Brazilian butt lift.
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1d ago
As an aside – this whole affair started with an accusation of plagiarism. Does passing off AI-generated text as your own writing also qualify?
Plagiarism, as I understand it, means taking a piece of text (or music, art etc.) that somebody else created and attempting to pass it off as your own original work. What if the "somebody else" is a computer? Is that still plagiarism?
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1d ago
I couldn't believe my eyes when I learned that Sabrina Rubin Erdely, who wrote "A Rape on Campus", was in the same journalism class as one Stephen Glass.
What the hell was that professor teaching?
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1d ago
Don't forget Liberty measles!
Using ChatGPT certainly sounds very on-brand for Arday, and there was a quote in the Daily Mail article that certainly gave me a whiff of it.
I've never used Pangram, but Freddie deBoer recently got into a back-and-forth with the founder in which he argued that it's extremely easy to produce false positives and mutually contradictory results. His argument seemed convincing enough to me that I'd take any Pangram result with a pinch of salt.
Well, yes, I'm not terribly concerned about my hypothetical future child staring at his laptop for hours because he's hard at work studying for his Leaving Cert.
I am concerned about him spending so much of his formative years consuming short-form brainrot and meaningless slop that his literacy, ability to socialise with his peers, executive function etc. are permanently compromised.
The purpose of the lock box is to prevent my fiancée and I doing things which look more like the latter than the former, so we can set a good example for our hypothetical future children. Endless scrolling on Instagram is an example of the latter. Neither of us claim that it's an edifying way to spend our time. It doesn't even make us feel happier in the short-term (never mind in the long-term), which is almost the textbook definition of an addiction.
Your final paragraph is dead on. I like how the Henry Nowak murder made "don't think you have, mate" the default way to mock and belittle anything a British police officer says. So too should it be here.
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1d ago
Shortly after the invasion of Ukraine, my dad mentioned the capital of Kiev, then stopped and corrected himself: "sorry, I should have said Kyiv."
This was a conversation we were having in his kitchen. There was no one outside of the family in attendance. I don't know who he was doing this performative virtue signalling for. Very embarrassing for a man of his advancing years.
Bahaha, not at all what I intended but I loved those "do you have Battletoads?" memes.
The entire Dave Chappelle routine linked in the header is hilarious, but the punchline will have you doubled over laughing.
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1d ago
In their begrudging defense, at least they didn't arrest Grove. Can't fathom why it took them four months to determine no law had been broken though.
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1d ago
I am familiar with that meaning, but "pack of cigarettes" is too laborious.
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1d ago
"We now have a situation where the right is demonstrably 100% correct and the left is 100% wrong, so really there's no way to have a sensible discussion."
I call these anti-scissor statements.
I've heard this several times before. His sister also has a Substack and she once posted an utterly sophomoric article about how gender-affirming care is safe and effective, and she'd know because her own
sondaughterchild has been subjected to it. Upon reading said article, an awful lot clicked into place.More options
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