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by Strelnikov
Mon Jan 06, 2025 4:27 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: More non-Wikipedia crap from The Blog: 5505 Lindo Paseo update
Replies: 4
Views: 15787

Re: More non-Wikipedia crap from The Blog: 5505 Lindo Paseo update

Still get the impression that all this SDSU fraternity-house business (and various other things you passed to me) connect to real-estate related corruption being "quietly" practiced by SDSU management. Which easily explains why you're on shitlists and no one returns your calls. Still think you shou...
by Strelnikov
Sat Jan 04, 2025 3:52 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Using Google Gemini AI Gems to exclude Wikipedia and Wikipedia-influenced sources entirely from information queries
Replies: 9
Views: 25157

Re: Using Google Gemini AI Gems to exclude Wikipedia and Wikipedia-influenced sources entirely from information queries

One ought to ignore the sources that influence Wikipedia - at least those providing Wikipedia's political/social content, which Wikipedia launders as public consensus. The sources for en.Wikipedia range from old editions of the Encyclopedia Britannica and a Catholic encyclopedia from the late 19th ...
by Strelnikov
Fri Jan 03, 2025 2:37 am
Forum: Wikipedians
Topic: Molly White is running a blog bitching about NFTs and crypto
Replies: 87
Views: 76397

Re: Molly White is running a blog bitching about NFTs and crypto

Crypto is re-living all the lowlights of US financial capitalism before the Great Depression. Worse: they're inventing NEW ways to screw money out of people that were impossible before. Once again, this two-hour video is invaluable. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g He mentions the "Axie ...
by Strelnikov
Fri Jan 03, 2025 2:08 am
Forum: Dark Corners -- a place for odd and deviant subjects (WP related or not)
Topic: The "San Francisco Sux" thread
Replies: 5
Views: 19109

Re: The "San Francisco Sux" thread

Bike lanes serve no purpose. https://www.sheldonbrown.com/physically-separated-bike-lanes.html Look at a map of Amsterdam; bikes and cars are on entirely different circuits of roads that do not cross thanks to car bridges. The half-assed mess of bike lanes in America are a sloppy compromise for kee...
by Strelnikov
Thu Jan 02, 2025 9:41 pm
Forum: Content Issues
Topic: Crap or questionable articles
Replies: 563
Views: 473344

Re: Crap or questionable articles

Yet another extremely repetitive article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asif_Kapadia Again, if this is paid edited, he should ask for a refund. This IP address is "interesting". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/94.170.106.115 I got this from an IP checker: Hostname: 94-170-106-11...
by Strelnikov
Tue Dec 31, 2024 8:47 pm
Forum: Dark Corners -- a place for odd and deviant subjects (WP related or not)
Topic: Re: Scientology Thread
Replies: 25
Views: 86915

Re: Scientology Thread

Fishman's case is discussed on Wikipedia Yet another article written by David Gerard, Smee/Cirt, Antaeus, and some very dodgy sockpuppet accounts. Place your bets on who this is. It's not Gerard's friend Tony Sidaway? (I just realized I had posted/talked about Lonesome Squirrel back in 2018, becaus...
by Strelnikov
Tue Dec 31, 2024 1:55 am
Forum: Content Issues
Topic: Articles Wikipedia should have--but doesn't.
Replies: 231
Views: 244604

Re: Articles Wikipedia should have--but doesn't.

This is up there with the 1980s notorious person "Robt. T. Calhoun" who was mentioned in Ivan Stang's High Weirdness by Mail and who has fallen off the map entirely. Stang claimed Calhoun was "obnoxious" and had "associates" and that they fled the country some time before the book hit the printers ...
by Strelnikov
Mon Dec 30, 2024 9:15 pm
Forum: Wikipedians
Topic: Molly White is running a blog bitching about NFTs and crypto
Replies: 87
Views: 76397

Re: Molly White is running a blog bitching about NFTs and crypto

If she's such a "great crypto skeptic", why has she failed to notice the rise of $GOAT , and the insane babbling AI chatbot that made millions off it? She's way behind the curve when WIRED magazine scoops her silly blog. https://www.wired.com/story/truth-terminal-goatse-crypto-millionaire/ https://...
by Strelnikov
Mon Dec 30, 2024 5:43 am
Forum: Dark Corners -- a place for odd and deviant subjects (WP related or not)
Topic: Re: Scientology Thread
Replies: 25
Views: 86915

Re: Scientology Thread

I finally found it; Lonesome Squirrel , the book written by Steven Fishman, ex-Scientologist: https://www.apologeticsindex.org/Lonesome%20Squirrel.pdf Fishman's case is discussed on Wikipedia , and his 600+ page book is a recounting of why he sued Scientology in the early 1990s. He was a quasi-true ...