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DanMurphy

Rufo is a fever swamp-radiated dolt.

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I probably listen to an hour of NPR a day. It's the same middle-of-the-road, soft, bending over backwards to see "all sides" warm milk it has always been (for instance: Their constant consideration of whether the woke panic people "have a point."). The NPR CEO has minimal input on editorial decision...

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Was doing some googling on Robert Fisk (T-H-L).

Not exactly a "worst" sentence, but this from the lede is AMAZING.

The term fisking (meaning a line-by-line rebuttal) was coined to describe his method

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I was initially confused as I thought this was about Netanyahu's other son Yair Netanyahu , who is definitely a public figure and has enough long-term coverage to pass WP:GNG. Never heard of Avener either. Yair is a nasty, nasty piece of work and in a case of extreme horseshoe theory often uses ant...

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What Travis Lee Bailey has become is very sad. In completely unrelated news, Travis Lee Bailey looks and sounds pretty rough these days. kbBQn249tiY https://youtu.be/kbBQn249tiY A wannabe spy got a job at Utah government agency to find and send documents to Russia See his reddit account for more sa...

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Is as trite and trivial as we've come to expect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_of_the_Boys_(1989_TV_series),One of the Boys is an American sitcom created by Blake Hunter and Martin Cohan that aired six episodes on NBC from April 15 to May 20, 1989. It is one of only a few American primetime prog...

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I'm having a fun little moment thinking of a Mormon elders meeting and a confusing discussion of "meatpuppets."

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Bumping. As pointed out elsewhere Mohsen Salek was banned by the WMF yesterday.

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Salek probably deserves his own thread in a public area. This from 2019 is useful. viewtopic.php?f=6&t=12387&hilit=salek&start=50

Edit: Done, and these posts are now part of that new topic. --Zoloft

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tarantino wrote: ↑
Sat Mar 30, 2024 3:08 am
Speaking of legacy admins, Swatjester (T-C-L) has come storming back and inserting himself all over the place, after being mostly absent for the last twelve years.

Dan Rosenthal, finally far enough removed from his employment by the Wikimedia Foundation, to return to his main account. So it goes.

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Reading the headline and nothing else two words come to mind: Does it?

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Too many.

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A lot of those details are wrong and/or outdated, like you'd expect from ChatGPT, but overall not too bad. Some on the list I'd disagree with and it seems biased towards old drama, but most of the names would absolutely end up on Top 10 lists in their respective eras. I'm surprised Corbett or a few...

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Smoke 'em if you got 'em.

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What's really amazing about this is I am a pretty heavy twitter user, currently logged in, have a reasonably high follower account (25,000 or so) and can't read Musk's tweet because I, like pretty much everyone who uses the site daily, is now rate limited (his definition of "reading" tweets appears ...

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AndyTheGrump wrote: ↑
Tue May 23, 2023 11:40 pm
I'm fairly certain he's dead, Dan.

Francis Albert lives!

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If I may, the fact of the matter is "Wales loses editing rights for being a raging asshole ten years too late" is the heart of the matter (not suggesting this as a headline.) This was always inevitable, but it's amazing that it's taken this long.

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Not a sentence, but I couldn't think of where else to put it. (two first paragraphs.) The chupacabra or chupacabras (Spanish pronunciation: [tʃupaˈkaβɾas], literally 'goat-sucker'; from Spanish: chupar, 'to suck', and cabras, 'goats') is a legendary creature in the folklore of parts of the Americas,...

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My God. Arbcom. You magnificent morons.

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Would it shock anyone to learn that decision making in Pakistan is chaotic, rife with rivalry and backstabbing, and rarely strategic?

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Jeebus.

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So. Much. Brain. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3AAdministrators%27_noticeboard&diff=1134851977&oldid=1134850468,Damage . @Infrogmation per the oversight policy, "Suppression is a tool of first resort in removing...identities of pseudonymous or anonymous individuals who have no...

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"This proved to be the beginning of a partnership which was prolific and continuous through the 1980s, together they co-wrote for Adams and a long list of recordings for other artists, including Kiss, Tina Turner, Joe Cocker, Johnny Hallyday, Bonnie Raitt, Rod Stewart, Bonnie Tyler, Loverboy, Carly ...

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WMF, never change. A response authored by eight Foundation staff members from the Abstract Wikipedia team (published simultaneously with the Fellows' evaluation) rejects these recommendations... Vrandečić's team then goes on to reject the evaluation's core recommendations, presenting the expansive s...

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Spend money on subject matter experts with the appropriate language skills? To address a content scandal and the political persecution of their volunteers? Are they crazy?! The WMF only has $270mln in assets. Can't even buy a cup of coffee with that nowadays. Adding: It really is a perfect example o...

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Didn't see this posted here. If I missed it, apologies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2023-01-01/News_and_notes,By Andreas . It looks as if a bunch of admins were working for the Saudis, though they don't come out and say that. Somewhat interesting to me how this "invest...

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Sandstein has always been an idiot. The very notion that two unedited and unreviewed stream of consciousness whatevers published on substack and twitter at the direction of twitter's new owner should have their own entry in a so-called encyclopedia is beyond absurd - whatever the content might be. P...

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Ah, Jim Hoft. Takes me back it does. For those who don't know, just type "Dumbest man on the internet" into google are whatever search engine you prefer.

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Cheong (or whatever his real name is) is only known for being a very online nazi-fluffer, misogynist and death-by-virus proponent. He lives near Kuala Lumpur. If Wales gets drawn into this it will make my day and prove that the internet is a flat circle. A big, flat, stupid circle.

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Not mine. I never gave it to them.

Look at the big brain on Dan.

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The word salad from, what, 4 board members and the Flounder there is quite something. Condensed: "You're our cow. We need to milk you. For the little girl in Africa. Why do you hate charity?"

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I am fairly active on Twitter. Some people who have engineering experience at these types of websites are saying that serious outages are coming soon. Other people with experience are saying it can easily sail on for months with a little bit of luck and a skeleton crew. I have none of the requisite ...

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I thought the show had lost its way. Stale, coasting, just didn't have the same punch anymore.

But this is the type of content the fandom has been craving. The new showrunners are to be commended.

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Cause where else am I going to share this? https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1564397738799816706 The only thing close to interesting about this to me is that I checked to see how many crazies this had attracted to the wikipedia article about him. So far, not a one. It's probably a reminder t...

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Rich struggled throughout 1979 having hits with United Artists and Epic.

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Controlling the candidate pool before the ritual Festival of Democracy works a treat in soft-dictatorships (until, you know, it doesn't.)

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Wow. They instantly memory-holed the account, down to deleting the talk page. I don't know if there was anything juicy/interesting to find there. Neither did they. But they were determined to prevent people from finding out.

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The most interesting thing about this mess to me is that she is barely literate.

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At the top of the Brews ohare ban discussion. "The following analysis supporting the topic ban was provided by IRL professional academic philosopher Peter Damian." Who was just then off an idiotic 5 year ban of his own.

So it goes, so it goes.

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I believe the kids call this a self own and the adults call it epistemic closure.

I call it fan-fucking-tastic.

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https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ukraine%27s_Cultural_Diplomacy_Month,And now a word from our sponsors... Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month is an article writing contest focused on improving the coverage of Ukrainian culture on Wikipedia in different languages, organized by Wikimedia Ukraine in coo...

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Smiley wrote: ↑
Tue Feb 22, 2022 1:37 am
He's figured out who Dan Murphy really is... impressive.

Is there nothing these sleuth's can't figure out?

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Not even I expected the mandatory struggle session phase to arrive this soon.

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We Americans are https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/04/former-clerk-rewrites-supreme-court-wikipedia-bios-00005914,not a serious people . Those edits display a pattern: The page for Jackson, seen by many as a Supreme Court frontrunner, was tweaked to paint her in a more favorable light for a libe...

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Just globally locked by WMF legal. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special ... lAuth/Okip

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This should be a slam-dunk refusal, right? You publish a fake-history conspiracy story by a San-Fran-banned waste of skin who tried to scam their way into advanced privileges as an administrator, you get shown the door. Possibly even get banned from further applications for grants, I'd hope. This n...

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What they mean: (((Freeing technology from the control of the few))).

Larry. What a creep. I didn't see it soon enough. That's on me.

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I have an article on my watchlist of someone I think is a very very very bad human being. (Not famous, a propagandist I came across in my old life.) An edit to the infobox to the effect that she's a professional liar and dirtbag was made by an IP 5 days ago. And there it sits. Why do I bring this up...

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I (like many here) am interested in outré ideas and people. I had never heard of the brothers or their long ago Wikipedia spat. This was a type of pop cultural and mental illness spectacle that strikes me as very, very French. Except for the anti-vaccine stuff. That's just bog standard stupidity pre...

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