Zitat von: eLender am 02. August 2026, 22:53:30Dabei ist das ein Universaltalent; wer das anzweifelt, ist rassistisch und rechts.
ZitatCambridge professor claimed he was on TV show... decades before he was bornhttps://archive.is/pERwq
Academic in plagiarism row said he featured in Seven Up, a series that followed the lives of a set of children from 1964
ZitatThe youngest black professor in Cambridge University's history told an audience of his peers that the playbook in question had helped bring down some of the biggest names in US academia. Conservative "activists" were trawling through the work of black academics, looking for anything to use against them: inconsistencies, citation errors, passages in their work that were similar to existing papers.https://www.theguardian.com/education/ng-interactive/2026/aug/01/playbooks-plagiarism-pigs-head-new-claims-surrounding-cambridge-professor-jason-arday
Once an error was identified, rightwing media outlets and conservative politicians joined the pile-on – heaping pressure on universities to cut ties.
Claudine Gay, the first black woman to become president of Harvard, was only in the post for seven months before she was forced out over plagiarism allegations. Others said they felt like "sitting ducks" as their work was pulled apart. Some academics have killed themselves after being hounded out of their positions.
ZitatThen last week a row erupted concerning Arday's academic work. The Telegraph reported that analysis had found more than 100 passages in his PhD were similar to another thesis by Paula Zwozdiak-Myers, a student at Brunel University in London, published six years earlier.
ZitatBut the accusations of plagiarism are only one element of the Arday story.
In March 2023, the sociologist's arrival at Cambridge made headlines around the world. Not only was he the youngest black professor in the university's history, but his backstory made that feat all the more impressive. His story is to be detailed in a memoir for Simon & Schuster this autumn.
At the age of three, the south Londoner was diagnosed with autism and global developmental delay. He was unable to speak until he was 11 and could not read or write until 18. Despite that, he forged an impressive academic career, mostly focusing on race and education, with stints at Roehampton, Glasgow and Durham universities.
From 17, Arday began completing charity challenges to raise money for various causes. They were often endurance challenges, which began when he was taking a BTec course in sport and development at Merton college in Morden, south London.
Jason Arday posing for a photo
Jason Arday claimed to have run 600 miles in six days. Photograph: Christian Sinibaldi/The Guardian
He has claimed in media interviews to have raised £5m for charities over a 20-year period (sometimes this figure has risen to £5.5m). He has done this, he says, by running 30 marathons in 35 days – a feat he has spoken about in media interviews and in his book. He also claimed at public events to have run 600 miles in six days.
As his critics online have pointed out, £5m raised for charity would be a staggering amount for someone who is not already famous. In 2012, Arday said he hoped to raise £250,000 by the time he was 50.
Zitat von: RPGNo1 am 02. August 2026, 17:21:12Die Linken finden jetzt also, dass Islamisten nur eine Untergruppe der Konservativen sind
ZitatPantisanos Antwort: »Ja, weil ich unter konservativen Kräften auch alle religiösen Gruppen dazuzähle, die alle ein Problem mit uns haben – und Islamisten gehören da dazu.« Das ist eine bemerkenswerte Umdeutung. Der Queer-Beauftragte sieht Islamisten also schlicht als Untergruppe der Konservativen?
Zitat von: Daggi am 02. August 2026, 21:40:07Jessie Marsson heißt eigentlich Frank Herbert Büntert. Fetter Kunde in unserem Wiki:
ZitatDie Linken finden jetzt also, dass Islamisten nur eine Untergruppe der Konservativen sind
Warum fällt es manchen in der linken und queeren Community so schwer, klar zu benennen, welche Gefahr von radikalen Muslimen ausgeht?
Aber natürlich ist es viel leichter, gegen die CDU auszukeilen, als sich mit den Gründen für muslimischen Extremismus oder der weitverbreiteten Homophobie in vielen migrantischen Milieus zu beschäftigen. Wer sich auf dieses Feld wagt, dem sind Shitstorm und Rassismusvorwürfe gewiss.
Dabei ist Islamismus eine angsteinflößende Ideologie. Extremismusforscher Peter R. Neumann warnt, die größte Terrorbedrohung gehe derzeit vom Islamismus aus. 2024 führte der Generalbundesanwalt 125 neue Verfahren im Bereich islamistischer Terrorismus – gegenüber fünf rechtsextremen und acht linksextremen Verfahren. Zudem stufte das Bundeskriminalamt 410 Islamisten als Gefährder ein, aber nur 65 Rechtsextreme und 17 Linksextreme.
ZitatAnd yet...the world remains much the same. In lots of sci-fi books, as soon as artificial superintelligence arrives, it bootstraps itself to even more godlike intelligence in an explosive "singularity" that rapidly transforms the entire physical universe. Lots of people, especially "AI safety" and "effective altruist" types, expected things to play out basically the same way in reality. But looking around, not much has changed since we entered the intelligence explosion. There's a huge data center boom, and most people use AI on a daily basis, but we still live basically the same lives — driving to work or taking the train, sitting in front of a computer, scrolling on our phones, collecting a paycheck. People are staying in their jobs longer, but employment hasn't been disrupted in a significant way:https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/what-will-more-intelligence-actually