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View More NewsLast week’s death of Jason Arday—the youngest black professor in the University of Cambridge’s history—who was accused of widespread plagiarism, has created a firestorm of reactions. Some say Arday was targeted by racially motivated reactionaries who unfairly used him to dunk on diversity, equality, and inclusion. Cambridge Chancellor Chris Smith called the media investigations into Arday a “racist feeding frenzy,” and Simon Woolley, principal of Homerton College at Cambridge, said Arday had been subjected to a “vicious witch hunt,” reports the BBC. Others have gone a step further, calling for a crackdown on press freedoms. “Freedom of the press should…
from the what-about-the-rights-of-the-poor-surveillance-tech-ceos dept Flock’s ALPR (automated license plate reader) tech spread from HOAs to police departments at an alarming rate of speed. What was once a toy for the over-privileged soon became the go-to source of license plate images. Flock became the Ring of ALPRs, to mix a metaphor. And that’s when the bad news began to roll in. Everything happened pretty much all at once. Cops were revealed to be using this tech to track people who simply wanted to seek legal abortion options in other states. Federal officers were revealed to be leaning heavily on local law…
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I first came across French writer Jean Raspail’s infamous novel The Camp of the Saints while I was reading Douglas Murray’s The Strange Death of Europe back in 2017. Raspail’s novel imagines the invasion of Europe by large groups of unsanitary and ravenous migrants from the Global South led by a coprophage (“shit-eater”). Despite his own firmly anti-immigration views, Murray declines to defend the book’s inflammatory contents, but he is nonetheless struck by Raspail’s descriptions of Western passivity in the face of an unsustainable wave of immigration. The book’s overt racism notwithstanding, it has attracted some attention in recent years…
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Cybersecurity firm Rapid7 unveiled a new cryptocurrency phishing campaign known as Operation Asterix, targeting roughly 885,000 phone numbers from several countries to steal cryptocurrency…
from the extremely-unsurprising dept Back in 2014 you might remember there was a giant, two-year, manufactured news cycle where Republicans pretended to be outraged…
The approved plan reallocates 546.9 million OP from user airdrops to a Foundation-controlled Strategic Ecosystem Fund. Read the full article here
US spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) recorded $517.2 million in net inflows on Wednesday, their largest single-day investment since May 4, pushing August net…
While macro pain and Iran war uncertainty drag Bitcoin below $79K, fixed-income market outflows could trigger a medium-term Bitcoin rebound. Read the full article…
A7A5, the Russia-linked stablecoin built to move money around banking restrictions, says faster trade settlement, yield and regional crypto infrastructure could keep it relevant…
Strategy executive chairman Michael Saylor said he raised the possibility of selling Bitcoin during Strategy’s recent earnings call to protect the asset’s long-term interests.“We…
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) based in Lyon, France, is a highly regarded branch of the World Health Organisation. Its assessments…
The US CLARITY Act, which aims to provide the US crypto industry with more regulatory clarity, could have a positive ripple effect beyond the…
Investors are mispricing risk for perpetual preferred stocks, like Bitcoin treasury company Strategy’s Variable Rate Series A Perpetual Stretch Preferred Stock (STRC), according to…
Bitcoin treasury company Strategy announced on Friday that it will repurchase $1.5 billion in 0% convertible notes, due in 2029, retiring about half of…
This Week in 2016 The Fight Over Copyrighting Klingon Heats Up, And Gets More Ridiculous Judge Says Copyright Case Against Star Trek Fan Film…