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- What the Arday Coverage Established: A First Claim-Level Audit, Including the Results That Cut Against My Own Thesis
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- What the Institutions Were Buying: A Demand-Side Account of the Jason Arday Appointments
- Who Is Cheap to Threaten: Legal Deterrence and the Selection of Publishers
- ‘Jason Arday: The Most Extreme Academic Plagiarism Case in Modern History | Nathan Cofnas’
- The Vanishing Author: First-Person Density in Luke Ford’s Archive, 2007 to 2026
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- Luke Ford and the E-Personality: Twenty-Nine Years of Disinhibition, Self-Regulation, and the Price of Friction
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- Steven Taylor, James Joyner and the E-Personality: Aboujaoude’s Virtually You Tested on Twenty Years of Outside the Beltway
- Amy Wax and the E-Personality: A Claim-Level Analysis, 1996-2026
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- Nathan Cofnas and the E-Personality: The Auditor, the Performer, and the Cambridge Investigation
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Category Archives: Marc Gafni
Marc Gafni Vs. The Dark Side Of The Internet
This is a must-read blog post. He writes: The national enquirer which regularly engages in character assassination of the most vile kind, which deals out deathly doses of unlove, is read by millions of good Americans, standing at the counter … Continue reading
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Tagged american apple pie, angelina jolie, la weekly, marc gafni, national enquirer, tabloid reporter
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Dance Me To The End Of Love
Joe emails: I promised myself no more Gafni postings, but this one has a punch line almost as good as the shake my shakti one. OK, I admit, I have a Gafni addiction. If I could taste fullness for a … Continue reading
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Tagged background noise, dancing master, emptiness, erotic dance, power violence, punch line
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Is Marc Gafni A Rabbi?
His favorite self-description these days is "spiritual artist." He writes on MarcGafni.com: I received Ordination many years ago from a well-regarded Orthodox institution in New York. Contrary to some rumors, that Ordination was never revoked. I retain a letter on … Continue reading
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Tagged chief rabbinate, marc gafni, orthodox institution, private exchange, rabbinic ordination, spiritual artist
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My Dialogue With Marc Gafni About Reputation Online
The videos of our dialogue are here and here and here and here and here. The book (The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet) underlying our discussion is here. Here’s a selective transcript of what I … Continue reading
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Tagged internet vigilantes, marc gafni, roman coliseum, satire 3, subway rider, vigilante group
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Fascist Hides Out As Spiritual Guide
From the New York Times: In Serbia, more details about Mr. Karadzic’s life as a fugitive emerged on Wednesday, with local media saying he had a mistress, regularly visited a local pub called the Madhouse and invented an imaginary family … Continue reading
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Tagged cbs news, marc gafni, mr karadzic, rabbinical council of america, spiritual artist, spiritual artists
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Reclaiming Your Reputation Online: A Dialogue With Rabbi Mordecai Gafni
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My Dialogue With Marc Gafni III
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My Dialogue With Marc Gafni II
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Luke Ford & Marc Gafni In Dialogue About Hate Speech Online
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