Harvind Samra

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[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

40 out of 86 Brown students scored a perfect 100 on their midterm. Then the professor moved the final in person, and 22 of those perfect scorers never showed up again.

He'd suspected AI cheating from the start. The take-home midterm was deliberately harder than usual, yet the class averaged 96 when the historical range is 65 to 80. Some answers contained odd phrasing that matched what ChatGPT produced when he ran the questions through it himself.

Roberto Serrano has taught economics at Brown for 34 years. He filed no accusations. He announced the final would be in person, count for half the grade, and that if the two distributions didn't match, the final alone would determine grades.

Then the exodus. 27 students never showed up. 22 of them had perfect midterms. Of the 59 who did show, 19 failed. Several signed the exam and turned it in blank. The average fell from 96 to 48, the lowest in the course's history.

He never needed a plagiarism detector. The cheaters identified themselves by walking away. A grade distribution became a confession.

Here's the part nobody's sitting with. Serrano proved it. He sent the distributions to Brown's dean and provost. The provost never responded. The academic committee's reply amounted to calling it "a wake-up call." The students who bailed before the final walked away clean.

Every university in America is now grading two populations, students and students plus ChatGPT, on one curve. The honest kids in Serrano's class watched a 96 average get set by machines, then sat a real final against it. The cheaters lost nothing. That's the incentive structure now, and it grades itself.

[Emmanuel Macron @EmmanuelMacron]

Un but de plus pour Kylian Mbappé. Contre le racisme cette fois. Tout mon soutien. Quand les mots salissent, nos valeurs répondent : dignité, respect, fraternité. @KMbappe 👏

[Kylian Mbappé @KMbappe]

Madame Celeste Amarilla,
Vous êtes une femme méprisable et indigne de sa fonction.
Vous ne représentez pas le Paraguay, ce pays qui a transpiré la passion et l’honneur tout au long de la compétition. Par votre inconscience et votre racisme décomplexé, le monde entier a déjà oublié le parcours et l’effort historique que vos joueurs ont réalisés durant cette coupe du monde pour laisser place à une dame incompétente donnant la pire image possible de son pays.
Je ne laisserai jamais aux gens comme elle, la liberté de laisser propager leur haine et leur racisme à travers le monde.

[Nick Bryant @NickBryantNY]

What a dark day for FIFA. What next? A word in the ear of the ref? VAR teams siding with the US on margin calls? Something like this was always on the cards. The ridiculous FIFA peace prize awarded by the unctuous Infantino felt like the appetizer.

[ESPN FC @ESPNFC]

Belgium's full statement on Folarin Balogun's red card being overturned (via @belreddevils)

[Chris Vannini @ChrisVannini]

A suspiciously favorable administrative decision means we're a real soccer country now.

[Pablo Torre 👀 @PabloTorre]

Big win for birthright citizenship

[fakelogic @fakelogic]

What’s comical is the # of times the media has critiqued how Dubs fans feel. Instead of deeper research & analysis on the ownership/FO that actually has power, we always eventually get a condescending rebuke.

Bro, we have a generational superstar & want to capitalize. Let us be.

[Aaron Parnas @AaronParnas]

This image is from today. A Black woman sits on the DC metro as masked white nationalists prepare to march on our nation's capital.

This is America's 250th anniversary. REUTERS/Cheney Orr

[Paritosh Bhide @paritosh_bhide]

Cabo Verde killing themselves for Africa against the most racist nayshun on the planet is some incredible script writing by the football gods man. I love this fucking sport so much.

[Harvind Samra @HarvindSamra]

@AndyKHLiu Careful....Nick Friedell might scold you for daring to be critical of the FO.

[Samantha Power @SamanthaJPower]

Starting in early 2025, Elon Musk and the Trump administration began terminating USAID's programs and firing its staff — with Musk himself boasting about "feeding it into the woodchipper." One year ago today, USAID was officially dissolved, its remaining programs haphazardly folded into the State Department. Amid all the lies and misinformation that have followed, some facts about what has actually been lost:

• USAID saved more than 3 million lives a year at a cost of less than $10/month per American. That is what was destroyed. On purpose.
• According to Boston University's Global Impact Counter — which tracked deaths attributable to the cuts until it stopped operations in February 2026 — an estimated 781,000 people died preventable deaths in the first year, including 518,000 children.
• Global child mortality (the number of children who die before their fifth birthday) rose in 2025 for the first time in 35+ years — by 200,000 additional deaths.
• USAID's 50-country disease surveillance network — the system that cut outbreak response times from 2 weeks to 48 hours — is gone. We are now watching an unprecedented Ebola outbreak unfold in real time — with the highest first-month caseload and death rate in modern history.
• Programs reaching 93 million women and children were cut 92%. TB programs cut 56%. Water and sanitation cut 86%. Over 2,000 health facilities permanently closed.
• 25 million fewer people received humanitarian assistance in 2025. The overall humanitarian budget was slashed 74% — from $14.1 billion to $3.7 billion.
• 363 million people face acute hunger in 2026. The famine early-warning system that would have seen it coming went dark for five months.
• $1.7 billion in democracy and governance funding (election monitoring, anti-corruption work, support for independent media and civil society) was terminated.
• 360+ independent media outlets lost funding. Hundreds of legal clinics closed.
• Far from saving money, the Trump administration itself has already said the dismantlement will cost taxpayers at least $19.2 billion in cancellation fees, severance, and penalties. That's more than half of USAID's annual budget — spent on destruction and closeout, not support for vulnerable people.
• American farmers, universities, and businesses are among the casualties too. USAID partnered with more than 3,500 U.S. companies and maintained 17 university-based research labs. Its work with U.S.-based contractors and the private sector generated hundreds of thousands of American jobs and multiplied the return on every dollar spent. Those markets and partnerships are gone.

[Harvind Samra @HarvindSamra]

@TommyGunnNBA Also tired of Friedell constantly chiding fans for daring to question the front office's competency.

[ESPN FC @ESPNFC]

-His first-ever World Cup
-Managed the team to winning the group
-Down to 10 men for 30 minutes in first knockout stage game and not only survived by added to lead
-Managed the team to their second-ever knockout win

Mauricio Pochettino has changed the lives of the USMNT 🫡

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Birthright citizen scores for the US men’s team at the World Cup (again!) the same week the US Supreme Court affirms birthright citizenship… has a nice ring to it.

Cry more, MAGA!

[K @Damocleansword]

Clarence Thomas really wrote a 91-page dissent against a constitutional amendment that first ensured black people and thereafter immigrants born here, are American citizens.

Grand Coon of the Federal Republic.

[Harvind Samra @HarvindSamra]

@jjmaples55 Cleveland? San Antonio?

[David French @DavidAFrench]

Trump's pardons will be the capstone on his corruption. He's going to prove the anti-federalists right. An unchecked pardon power is a grave mistake that an unscrupulous president can use to wreck the rule of law.

[kuno @kunoo]

Crypto explained in 24 seconds.

[Harvind Samra @HarvindSamra]

@samesfandiari This is the problem with letting 3rd-place teams qualify...teams in groups that play later know what they need to achieve to advance w.r.t other 3rd-place teams who have finished their group play.