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- Sat Oct 11, 2014 5:51 pm
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Appeal for Andrew "Weev" Auernheimer
- Replies: 52
- Views: 2274
Re: Appeal for Andrew "Weev" Auernheimer
Back in the news, badder than ever. http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--iSowZf59--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/nj67o1k89tg62jyycwhf.jpg For that he deserves to be transferred to one of the secret camps in Siberia where the North Koreans log birch trees for IKEA, where he will cu...
- Sat Oct 11, 2014 5:35 pm
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Drop to your knees before Wikipedia
- Replies: 42
- Views: 1644
Re: Drop to your knees before Wikipedia
The thing's a ripoff of the Barmalei Fountain of Stalingrad and any number of "Atlas holding the earth" statues.
http://slavs.org.ua/img/photo/stalingrad.1947/03.jpg
http://slavs.org.ua/img/photo/stalingrad.1947/03.jpg
- Mon Sep 22, 2014 3:17 am
- Forum: Blog Posts
- Topic: Wikipedia -- keeping it free. Just pay us our salaries.
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3552
Re: Wikipedia -- keeping it free. Just pay us our salaries.
In a weird way, having the former volunteers join the Wikimedia Foundation for a paycheck reminds me of how ex-military officers would wind up working for military contractors after their time in service was done. That was a scam, and so is this.
- Sun Sep 21, 2014 6:43 am
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Hinc lucem et pocula sacra
- Replies: 8
- Views: 979
Re: Hinc lucem et pocula sacra
"Money, not knowledge, is power." Motto, Alfred E. Neuman University
- Sun Sep 21, 2014 5:38 am
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: Burning Man is NOT a magical thing......
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1057
Re: Burning Man is NOT a magical thing......
For the first time, the Burning Man organizers have publicly admitted that not all of their participating "communities" clean up the Black Rock playa as pristinely as journalists keep claiming . They just published a map of the "moop areas" from the 2014 meeting. "MOOP" is official BM jargon meanin...
- Thu Sep 18, 2014 6:30 am
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Bad heraldry
- Replies: 9
- Views: 616
Re: Bad heraldry
Several of the interesting individuals who habituate in Wikipedia's heraldry collective are the sort that believe that they know better than official sources. Thus, they are perfectly willing to replace the officially accepted coat of arms of some entity with what they believe to be the correct coa...
- Mon Sep 15, 2014 9:47 am
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: Today's hot Reddit item
- Replies: 94
- Views: 6700
Re: Today's hot Reddit item
"Reddit is a failed state---The "front page of the internet" is run by warlords" Imagine you live in a nice little community. You have barbecues with the folks next door and discuss your mutual interests. You feel safe walking the streets at night. You trust the local police, who are selected from ...
- Sun Sep 14, 2014 10:47 pm
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: Internet misogyny (Sarkeesian/Reddit/etc)
- Replies: 68
- Views: 2426
Re: Internet misogyny (Sarkeesian/Reddit/etc)
What does a "gaming vlogger" do? Moreover, what does a "feminist gaming vlogger" do? 1) Critique video games using online videos 2) Critique video games using online videos and feminist theory It would be hilarious, and if done right not adhere to either 'side' in this controversy, if someone did a...
- Wed Sep 10, 2014 2:27 am
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: Nick Denton, unintentional comedian
- Replies: 1
- Views: 297
Re: Nick Denton, unintentional comedian
Denton's a shitbiscuit, but that goes without saying. Give the social media millionaires a year in a Siberian gulag, one year for every thousand dollars they are worth. By the end they will be begging for their nine grams and three square arshins. And that will end the endless prattle about "disrupt...
- Wed Sep 10, 2014 2:20 am
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: Today's hot Reddit item
- Replies: 94
- Views: 6700
Re: Today's hot Reddit item
"Can investors throw money at Reddit without losing their souls?"
Better questions:
Do investors in social media have souls?
If there are souls, does contact with Reddit ruin yours?
Better questions:
Do investors in social media have souls?
If there are souls, does contact with Reddit ruin yours?
- Wed Sep 10, 2014 1:37 am
- Forum: Jimboland
- Topic: Alabama's gifts to the world
- Replies: 6
- Views: 515
Re: Alabama's gifts to the world
Rimshot offstage.thekohser wrote:I didn't know Larry Sanger was from Alabama!
- Tue Sep 09, 2014 12:38 am
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: Today's hot Reddit item
- Replies: 94
- Views: 6700
Re: Today's hot Reddit item
Reddit hits peak irony by Andrew Leonard. But that’s giving investors too much credit. The pathetic truth is that the success of The Fappening at driving traffic numbers so huge that Reddit’s CEO was embarrassed to admit them publicly just offers more validation for Reddit’s upwardly mobile market ...
- Wed Sep 03, 2014 5:41 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Your example of plagiarism onto WP for this week
- Replies: 2
- Views: 296
Re: Your example of plagiarism onto WP for this week
That's crappy of them......next they will be scraping material from old Thordarson transformer guides.
- Sat Aug 30, 2014 5:29 am
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: Today's hot Reddit item
- Replies: 94
- Views: 6700
Re: Today's hot Reddit item
Here's a thread that has been white-hot today, warning, there is much disturbing material here: [SERIOUS] [NSFW] Men who have been raped by a woman, what happened? Numerous stories of being molested by female family members, friends or babysitters, spun for maximum impact. What is the point of havi...
- Wed Aug 27, 2014 5:16 am
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: Today's hot Reddit item
- Replies: 94
- Views: 6700
Re: Today's hot Reddit item
http://www.ign.com/boards/threads/woman-discovers-husband-is-an-internet-troll-threatens-divorce.454160479/ That's quite a disgusting, and not unusual, story. Like Brutsch, a remarkable percentage of hardened forum trolls turn out not to be angry 14-year-old boys in basements, but men with careers ...
- Tue Aug 26, 2014 10:00 pm
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: Today's hot Reddit item
- Replies: 94
- Views: 6700
Re: Today's hot Reddit item
I've still not seen the point of reddit, I simply can't fathom what its purpose is to the site owners. I've not looked too hard but what are they selling and how? Officially it's a "social news" site, where people vote news links and news material they find appeasing to them, but of course most of ...
- Fri Aug 22, 2014 6:18 am
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: Internet anti-Semite troll actually Jewish, uses sockpuppets
- Replies: 7
- Views: 519
Internet anti-Semite troll actually Jewish, uses sockpuppets
Must be read to be believed: Like many other news websites, Common Dreams has been plagued by inflammatory anti-Semitic comments following its stories. But on Common Dreams these posts have been so frequent and intense they have driven away donors from a nonprofit dependent on reader generosity. A C...
- Thu Aug 21, 2014 6:42 pm
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Editathons of note
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1145
Re: Editathons of note
The Internet only cares about The Wire.Why no mention in Wikipedia of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s years living in Baltimore’s Bolton Hill?
- Sun Aug 17, 2014 3:46 am
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: Today's hot Reddit item
- Replies: 94
- Views: 6700
Re: Today's hot Reddit item
When exactly did we become Reddit Review ? We should write up about CGP Grey, one of Reddit's cheerleaders. He's just a dork on YouTube, making educational cartoons with stick figures. You want to hit the real power within Reddit, go after: 5days, Acidtwist, Dacvak, Deimorz, Sporkicide, ajacksified...
- Sat Aug 16, 2014 12:33 pm
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: Today's hot Reddit item
- Replies: 94
- Views: 6700
Re: Today's hot Reddit item
Blame me, I came here from Reddit with a sack full of info on insane redditors, their mad vendettas, and other pastimes of the basement-dwelling Masters of the Internet.greybeard wrote:When exactly did we become Reddit Review?
- Sat Aug 16, 2014 6:16 am
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Wikipedian robot plans to hitchhike across Canada
- Replies: 70
- Views: 3068
Re: Wikipedian robot plans to hitchhike across Canada
It would have been better if it was not only a hitchhiking robot, but also did impressions of Christopher Hitchens after he lost his mind and backed Iraq War II: Electric Boogaloo.
- Thu Aug 14, 2014 11:02 pm
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: Privacy is lost and anonimity is going to go the same way
- Replies: 13
- Views: 524
Re: Privacy is lost and anonimity is going to go the same wa
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/16/arrested-over-facebook-po_n_683160.html In the vast majority of the incidents detailed in that Huffington Post article, I am quite pleased and thankful that Facebook activity helped to bring certain miscreants to justice. The "bong baby" was idiotic. One of ...
- Thu Aug 14, 2014 11:00 pm
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: Privacy is lost and anonimity is going to go the same way
- Replies: 13
- Views: 524
Re: Privacy is lost and anonimity is going to go the same wa
FCIPH made me laugh so hard I blew milk out my nose. https://web.archive.org/web/20140326141534/http://www.fatchicksinpartyhats.com/ Were you ever on portal of evil? https://encyclopediadramatica.es/Portal_of_Evil Yes, I remember PoE, and cranks.net and the Kooks Museum (which linked me to Stormfro...
- Thu Aug 14, 2014 7:29 pm
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Is the bible as unreliable as Wikipedia?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 319
Re: Is the bible as unreliable as Wikipedia?
Political and religious squabbles, those start you will not. :axemurderer: Just laying down some truth....BTW, the Skeptics Bible guy, Steve Wells, has a book out titled Drunk With Blood and it's a listing of all the murders in the Bible from Genesis to Revelations and the Apocrypha. Spoiler: God k...
- Thu Aug 14, 2014 6:19 pm
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: Privacy is lost and anonimity is going to go the same way
- Replies: 13
- Views: 524
Re: Privacy is lost and anonimity is going to go the same wa
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/16/arrested-over-facebook-po_n_683160.html In the vast majority of the incidents detailed in that Huffington Post article, I am quite pleased and thankful that Facebook activity helped to bring certain miscreants to justice. The "bong baby" was idiotic. One of ...
- Thu Aug 14, 2014 5:35 pm
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: Privacy is lost and anonimity is going to go the same way
- Replies: 13
- Views: 524
Re: Privacy is lost and anonimity is going to go the same wa
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/16/arrested-over-facebook-po_n_683160.html In the vast majority of the incidents detailed in that Huffington Post article, I am quite pleased and thankful that Facebook activity helped to bring certain miscreants to justice. The "bong baby" was idiotic. One of ...
- Thu Aug 14, 2014 5:08 pm
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Is the bible as unreliable as Wikipedia?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 319
Re: Is the bible as unreliable as Wikipedia?
The Skeptics Annotated Bible, which will prove to anyone how contradictory the holy book really is.
- Thu Aug 14, 2014 4:20 am
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: Zelda Williams daughter of late Robin Williams quit Twitter
- Replies: 6
- Views: 338
Re: Zelda Williams daughter of late Robin Williams quit Twit
Reportedly, Robin Williams complained to a friend shortly before his death that he was effectively broke because his two ex-wives had taken him to the cleaners with alimony. That's the kind of thing that men's rights activists would make hay with. However, reading the article about his daughter it ...
- Wed Aug 13, 2014 3:27 pm
- Forum: Jimboland
- Topic: Ciaran O'Riordan
- Replies: 13
- Views: 879
Re: Ciaran O'Riordan
In August?....but I've been feeling too much Love and Fellowship and Goodwill and Forgiveness and Christmas Spirit.....
- Wed Aug 13, 2014 4:30 am
- Forum: Jimboland
- Topic: Ciaran O'Riordan
- Replies: 13
- Views: 879
Re: Ciaran O'Riordan
Yes, but at Slashdot he posted anonymously. How did our resident tube genius get from "Anonymous Coward" to "Gronky?" Eh wot? He used this account , and it could easily be his real name (I'm not going to bother checking this though). I thought he was talking about this troll: by Anonymous Coward on...
- Wed Aug 13, 2014 4:07 am
- Forum: Jimboland
- Topic: Ciaran O'Riordan
- Replies: 13
- Views: 879
Re: Ciaran O'Riordan
This guy: Quote: Well, this article he wrote is nonsense. I know nothing else about the guy. He just takes every controversy and paints it as an unsolvable failure of the iron-fisted Wikimedia Foundation. I hope he edits Wikipedia better than he writes blog entries. turns out to be Ciaran O'Riordan...
- Wed Aug 13, 2014 2:42 am
- Forum: Jimboland
- Topic: Ciaran O'Riordan
- Replies: 13
- Views: 879
Ciaran O'Riordan
This guy: Quote: Well, this article he wrote is nonsense. I know nothing else about the guy. He just takes every controversy and paints it as an unsolvable failure of the iron-fisted Wikimedia Foundation. I hope he edits Wikipedia better than he writes blog entries. turns out to be Ciaran O'Riordan...
- Wed Aug 13, 2014 2:28 am
- Forum: Blog Posts
- Topic: Wikimania 2014
- Replies: 51
- Views: 3310
Re: Wikimania 2014
This was a balanced article which got the vibe of that conference; nice work Mr. Kolbe. Wikimania 2014 was probably the last big hurrah for Wikipedia, the next one in Mexico City will have to have a panel on why Wikipedia is beginning to ossify, and Jimbo will only show up through teleconferencing. ...
- Tue Aug 12, 2014 5:00 pm
- Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
- Topic: TV Producer Sandy Frank Thinks He'll Get his BLP Taken Down
- Replies: 12
- Views: 730
Re: TV Producer Sandy Frank Thinks He'll Get his BLP Taken D
That's fitting, because every Japanese show Sandy Frank imported, dubbed, and made into a movie failed as well.EricBarbour wrote:Got it. Look at the article history, since 2006 Mr. Frank has had his "minions" try to remove or change items in the article, and they seem to have failed every time.
- Tue Aug 12, 2014 5:47 am
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: "Arrogance Is Good: In Defense of Silicon Valley"
- Replies: 1
- Views: 154
Re: "Arrogance Is Good: In Defense of Silicon Valley"
This is the whole Technolibertarianism/"California Ideology" thing swinging round to bite its proponents in the ass, again.
- Mon Aug 11, 2014 9:48 pm
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: The Dark Net
- Replies: 16
- Views: 894
Re: The Dark Net
Reviewed today in the Sunday Times , Amazon . Has anyone looked at this? Hasn't been released yet. I'll preorder a copy. Most likely, it's full of info about hackerish activities, and little or nothing about WP; or perhaps there is a whole chapter about WP problems. Need to see it. I wouldn't expec...
- Mon Aug 11, 2014 6:11 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Wikimania 2014
- Replies: 410
- Views: 14375
Re: Wikimania 2014
This music starts playing in the background:Randy from Boise wrote:Exxxxxxxxxcellent question. I noticed that.Triptych wrote:Is Sue Gardner still on the WMF payroll then?
Mr. Kohs, you have your research project for the week...
RfB
- Mon Aug 11, 2014 3:56 am
- Forum: Jimboland
- Topic: Jimbo: not perfect, but improving all the time
- Replies: 3
- Views: 288
Re: Jimbo: not perfect, but improving all the time
"BBC Newsbeat didn't even bother posting it to their YouTube channel...."
Didn't want to get a call from the Queen: "Stop wasting bandwidth and server space!"
Didn't want to get a call from the Queen: "Stop wasting bandwidth and server space!"
- Mon Aug 11, 2014 12:19 am
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: The Guardian view on Wikipedia
- Replies: 26
- Views: 1002
Re: The Guardian view on Wikipedia
Erik Möller: Wikipedia can be read on mobile for free in developing world http://cydeweys.com/pics/Erik_Moller.jpg You can just call me "Uncle Erik" The Wikimedia Foundation’s Erik Moller problem : http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/05/08/erik-moller-wmf/ Let Erik show you his library http://upload....
- Sun Aug 10, 2014 5:06 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Wikimania 2014
- Replies: 410
- Views: 14375
Re: Wikimania 2014
Midsize Jake wrote:Peter Damian wrote:Aren't you all ashamed?
- Sun Aug 10, 2014 8:00 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Wikimania 2014
- Replies: 410
- Views: 14375
Re: Wikimania 2014
Which one is the monkey?Randy from Boise wrote:
RfB
- Fri Aug 08, 2014 10:46 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Harmelodix talk page attempt to plead with Kww against block
- Replies: 11
- Views: 820
Re: Harmelodix talk page attempt to plead with Kww against b
Only way out: a beatboxing contest with Biz Markie as judge.
- Wed Aug 06, 2014 3:20 am
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: One of the most bizarre hacker websites ever seen
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1010
Re: One of the most bizarre hacker websites ever seen
Take, for example, Richard Cardo. He was a security guy for one of the bigger hardware outfits and he was obsessed with the JonBenét Ramsey murder case and he fingered Brad "PLA" Carter as a key suspect, mainly because Brad and some of his friends had flooded the Boulder News Forum in Colorado with...
- Tue Aug 05, 2014 6:53 am
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: One of the most bizarre hacker websites ever seen
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1010
Re: One of the most bizarre hacker websites ever seen
Some of it might be a joke "Might" be? There are people who take even the goofiest things in hackerland seriously. Take, for example, Richard Cardo. He was a security guy for one of the bigger hardware outfits and he was obsessed with the JonBenét Ramsey murder case and he fingered Brad "PLA" Carte...
- Tue Aug 05, 2014 6:11 am
- Forum: Jimboland
- Topic: The memes, they are vanishing
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1055
Re: The memes, they are vanishing
The memes are vanishing because Jimbo's importance is vanishing; he hasn't come up with new stuff, so the cameras have gone elsewhere.
- Tue Aug 05, 2014 3:59 am
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: One of the most bizarre hacker websites ever seen
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1010
Re: One of the most bizarre hacker websites ever seen
Some of it might be a joke; Brad Carter of the Phone Losers of America (who is on the fringe of the phreaking/hacker culture) had to deal with a lot of trolling weirdos (Phonewinnerz.com, Jason Heckathorne, Curtis Lee "Superhacker" Jones, etc.) especially in the first fifteen years of existing.
- Sun Aug 03, 2014 11:16 am
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Right to be forgotten: WP chief enters censorship row
- Replies: 96
- Views: 7283
Re: Jimmy Wales: Digital champion of free speech (The Guardi
Mancunium is on this stuff all the time.thekohser wrote:Suggest a merge or delete of this thread, as Mancunium was already on this hours before Kiefer.
Merge if you wish.
- Sat Aug 02, 2014 3:22 am
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Hackers manage to attack the WP article on Alabama town
- Replies: 7
- Views: 356
Re: Hackers manage to attack the WP article on Alabama town
This is what Wikipedia will look like when they run out of contributors/volunteer editors and the WMF misses locking every page.
That day is coming.
That day is coming.
- Sat Aug 02, 2014 2:30 am
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: PandoDaily: Reason Magazine has Holocaust-denying past
- Replies: 10
- Views: 695
Re: PandoDaily: Reason Magazine has Holocaust-denying past
Wonder if Jimbo reads Yarvin, and takes him seriously. No, scratch that, if anyone we've seen in the Wikipedia orbit lately was prone to following Yarvin, it would possibly be Wil Sinclair. Plus, ADHD people usually make horrible leaders. Wikipedia, Reddit and 2.0 in general seem to prove that over...
- Sat Aug 02, 2014 1:55 am
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: PandoDaily: Reason Magazine has Holocaust-denying past
- Replies: 10
- Views: 695
Re: PandoDaily: Reason Magazine has Holocaust-denying past
Corey Pein wrote about it in Baffler magazine's blog this May. And he wrote at length about "Moldbug" . One of the most dangerous crackpot bloggers I've ever run across. Dangerous, because he's popular in the Valley, despite being unknown elsewhere. And now good buddies with Thiel. Which is probabl...