rip, I don't think I ever spoke with him but it seemed like he got misrepresented a bit. Yea I read the RW article, and it reads like a hatchet job by someone with a personal grudge. Lomaxs' public claim that Larson that wasn't a pedophile, the claim that seemed to evoke the furor of the wikisphere ...

Techdirt gives WMF "VP of Global Advocacy" Rebecca MacKinnon a podcast entry to spew the usual nuance-free Wikipedia propaganda https://www.techdirt.com/2024/04/16/techdirt-podcast-episode-387-abolishing-section-230-would-abolish-wikipedia/ Was waiting for her to falsely imply that Wikipedia is the...

The Mt Gox collapse was way more interesting to me. There's a gazillion indictment stories related to it and it was the largest crypto exchange and the first crypto exchange when it collapsed. There's still news about it. The top exchanges have been a string of criminal collapses and failures practi...

Most people have no clue who bankman-fried is or what "cryptocurrency" exactly is. I guarantee no one in my family has any idea for example. Nevermind my mom texted me the bankman story unprompted so its like the only crypto story she knows now. News was bombarded with stories after his sentencing ...

Another issue of complete inclusionism is proving existence and if something is unique. Like if someone names a grain of sand they found. How could that be further tracked for the Encyclopedia? There would have to be a way to standardize the naming of types of objects that have never been named befo...

It's utterly cracked.... https://twitter.com/lsanger/status/1770426026331443478 Sanger has been wrecking his standing as The Hidden King of Wikipedia if you just read his Twitter account. At this point, I would not be surprised if he goes completely off the bend and becomes an Insane Street Preache...

unbridled inclusionism is unsustainable The main issues are naming and storage size if one were to let it literally anything that exists. But there could be ways to deal with it, like requiring a username be appended to any page that is created. But that also removes consensus about what is true or...

you can be banned from Wikipedia for "any reason", including "no reason at all". I thought he sued because of defamation, ie that he had not broken terms of service before the ban but was advertised as having done such. Correct me if I'm wrong. Also, can you link the result of the lawsuit? I was al...

If "good economy" means GDP, I think the economy is doing excellent. If it means "people feel good about their finances", of course it's not a good economy. My guess is due to housing, transportation, and healthcare costs. Those prices have been unreasonably high my entire life. Does either party ha...

but for anyone to argue this 5% GDP quarter or whatever is a relatively bad economy is insane from my point of view. then i suppose im insane :shrug: must be nice to earn enough to make it in this e x c e l l e n t economy that only an insane person would say is bad. smell you. i fail to understand...