DON’T BET ON IT: Is Mark Cuban FINALLY Figuring Out His Side Is Nuts?
August 17, 2026
THE LEGAL PROFESSION HAS A DIVERSITY PROBLEM:
But you still see progressives talking about how law firms are a “conservative” stronghold. https://t.co/W94L9qgm4E
— David Bernstein (@ProfDBernstein) August 16, 2026
JULIE BURCHILL: The True Tragedy of the Death of Jason Arday.
This wild merry-go-round of fantasy came to a screeching halt last month when the American academic Nathan Cofnas, who had been sacked from Cambridge due to his unpalatable views on race, accused Arday of plagiarism. The thread was pulled, the lies unravelled, and Arday soon resigned from his post, unable to withstand “an unrelenting level of public scrutiny and personal attack.” This week, he committed suicide.
We live in an age of Magical Thinking. Men identify as women and annoying people identify as neuro-divergent; what’s not to say that both Arday and those white saviours who hired him — while all of them knowing the reality — felt that feelings trump facts every time and that if he identified as a person of super-human talents and achievements, that was who he should be accepted as?
The trouble with this way of thinking is that eventually the facts catch up with the feelings, and there can only be one winner. So what started as a “Silly Season” story has ended as a true tragedy. It’s also the prompt for yet another round of the Culture Wars, with the left blaming the press for interrogating him and the right blaming academia for believing him. Meanwhile, the family of Jason Arday — the persons who knew him and loved him for what he was, not what he pretended to be — mourn him and prepare to bury him. So in the end, no one won.
Noam Blum of Tablet tweets, “Academics are big mad that the media wrote a bunch of true things about someone they were too conformist to spot as a fraud. Their anger is just a manifestation of shame and projection.”
As for British journalists, well:
Elite class fails to understand that it has already destroyed its own status. https://t.co/22qoKG23yJ
— Eric S. Raymond (@esrtweet) August 17, 2026
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NOT EVEN A GENTLEMAN’S C: Harvard Professor Faces Backlash for Allegedly Using AI to Draft Anti-Trump Op-Ed.
A Harvard professor is facing scrutiny after critics alleged that a Financial Times opinion piece he authored criticizing President Trump was largely produced with artificial intelligence, with some online commentators dismissing it as “slop.”
The column, written by Ricardo Hausmann, a former Venezuelan government minister and Harvard Kennedy School academic, was published Thursday and has since been updated with an editor’s note from the FT.
“It has come to our attention that AI was used to condense a longer draft of this column prior to submission to the FT and our own editorial involvement,” the note at the top of the article states.
“The FT editorial code of conduct specifically prohibits the use of AI in the writing process,” the statement adds.
The disclosure followed a wave of criticism on social media, where readers flagged the op-ed — which took aim at Trump’s tariffs — for prose they described as awkward and unnaturally polished.
“Gotta be the worst AI slop I’ve seen in a major publication,” one user wrote on X.
But did it contain any references to Madagascar?
HMM: The best states for swingers revealed — with a few surprising Southern states taking the top 3 spots. “Florida topped the list, boasting 148 swingers clubs — the most in the country. The state has a bustling swingers community on Reddit, according to LoveHoney. Texas and Georgia round out the top three. The Lone Star State has the second-highest number of swingers clubs, while Georgia has club availability, high search interest and Reddit activity.”
Or course, it’s not really a measure of swinging as such: “The list analyzed each US state using nine factors, including Google search interest for swinging-related terms, the number of swingers clubs, swinger-related Reddit activity, bars and hotels per capita, and the percentage of married residents in each state. Each state was given a ranking out of 10. The list doesn’t tell you how many swingers are in each state, but rather looks at public data that indicates a state’s level of interest and openness to the practice.”
I LIKE THE CUT OF HIS JIB:
Javier Milei: “I thought being on the left was a mental problem. The empirical evidence is so overwhelming that it never worked anywhere, and they refused to accept it.”
“But what I discovered is that being on the left is a disease of the soul. The left is built on envy,… pic.twitter.com/K4PHXZBbmG
— Documenting Saylor (@saylordocs) August 16, 2026
GO SOUTH, YOUNG MAN:
JUST IN: Mississippi 4th graders rank No. 1 in U.S. for reading & math score improvement since 2013, after ranking 49th in reading & 50th in math that year.
— Polymarket (@Polymarket) August 16, 2026
ON SUNDAYS I PUT A PROMO POST FOR (MOSTLY) INDIE AUTHORS ON MY BLOG: Book Promo And Vignettes By Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike.
There’s also a fun vignette challenge.
QUICK-FRIED TO A CRACKLY CRUNCH: Fifth Circuit Completely Roasts Biden DOE’s Stove and Oven Efficiency Rules: The court voids the rules after determining that Biden’s Energy Department improperly tried to fast-track the measure as a “direct final rule”, which is usually reserved for noncontroversial matters.
SOMEHOW I DON’T THINK THE GOOD DOCTORS CARE (I BET SHE STILL LIKES DR. FAUCI): Oprah washes her hands of Dr. Phil, Dr. Oz over their pro-Trump politics: ‘Not one thing to do with me’.
THE FORMER TWC EDITOR STILL CALLS IT LIKE SHE SEES IT: My Week In Review: Leftism Killed Jason Arday, Just As It Has Corrupted Us All. Jason Arday, Rod Liddle, and a fortnight that exposed who the real gatekeepers of ‘acceptable’ opinion are.
AS KAMALA PROVED, IT TAKES MORE THAN MONEY – IT TAKES A MESSAGE: Trump Is Opening the Financial Floodgates to Keep Republicans in Office.
RO KHANNA THINKS A LOT OF STUPID S[TUFF]: Democrat Ro Khanna Thinks That Racist America Needs a ‘Multi-Racial New Deal’.
BECAUSE IT DOESN’T FIT THE NARRATIVE: The Quiet Manufacturing Boom.
IF IT WERE ONLY IN NEW ZEALAND: Indigenous Knowledge, Public Money, and Bad Science.
NO. NOT EVEN CLOSE: Was This July Really the “Hottest Month in History”?
WHY DON’T WE BUILD NUCLEAR REACTORS LIKE CARS? Imagine building a car from scratch. A parable for zero-carbon energy.
IT’S ALL THROUGH THE ESTABLISHMENT: It’s not just Fauci.
HE’S RIGHT YOU KNOW? There’s no creature more pathetic than a doomer.
But one wonders how many of them are real doomers, or you know… enemy agents.
