It is not enough that Arday is dead, brought to suicide by a sui generis press campaign against an academic accused of plagiarism. It is necessary that the campaign continue after his death, that his loved ones find no peace nor solitude.
The disproportionate and bullying commentary and coverage of Jason Arday’s mistakes has been obviously dangerous for days. Yes it was a legitimate story, and in various ways a troubling one. But the relentless coverage, the vitriol and bile. The clip of a man talking about us needing more love in the world endlessly mocked. Compare it to the way others who embellished and invented life stories or floated seemingly naive ideas are forgiven. Obviously employers have duties of care. But spare us the pity of those who weaponised his story for social media clicks without a thought.
"All tawdry, poorly written, poorly argued stuff... the sort of content you get from GB News, or a bellicose radio phone-in, or a tabloid on a tear."
Nesrine Malik explains what's gone wrong with the Spectator:
https://t.co/XB02zebX0p
Samuel Leeds getting very loud about how much he would destroy Gary Stevenson in a debate - he was pretty quiet when I raised the veteran with mental health issues that killed himself after getting into serious debt for Samuel’s course.
Christopher Nolan on AI:
“I’ve never seen a more rapid wholesale dismissal of a supposedly foundational jump in technology in my lifetime. So much energy has been expended on bringing in AI, but if you look at that generation’s reaction, they’re utterly rejecting it. [My children’s] judgment of AI slop has been immediate and harsh. They see it for what it is very quickly – and it’s much easier for them to identify it, because it grew out of an online world they know really well. And while that doesn’t mean that every aspect of the technology is useless or meaningless, in film-making it’s hitting at exactly the wrong time. After years of driving towards heavily virtual environments, we’re seeing a renewed interest in more tactile, more real forms of storytelling.”
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