I was curious to see what Encyclopædia Brittanica had to say about it.
The “key people” they list in the infobox are Elvis Costello and David Byrne.
The lead image is Devo.
Make of that what you will.
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- Mon Jan 29, 2024 4:12 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Presenting the history: cultural bias on music pages
- Replies: 45
- Views: 1717
- Thu Nov 30, 2023 6:33 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Is Larry Sanger a racist?
- Replies: 51
- Views: 10114
Re: Is Larry Sanger a racist?
Nah, NASCAR’s probably too woke for Larry now. They don’t even let you fly confederate flags there anymore!
- Wed Nov 29, 2023 6:45 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Is Larry Sanger a racist?
- Replies: 51
- Views: 10114
Re: Is Larry Sanger a racist?
My guess is that if you asked Larry “hey man, these images seem pretty racist, why did you post them?”… well, he’d block you, because he has a thin skin and doesn’t tolerate being questioned. But assuming he did answer, I’d guess it would sound more like “I wanted to show the kind of garbage that th...
- Tue Nov 28, 2023 11:57 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Scorpions13256 wants out
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3869
Re: Scorpions13256 wants out
does its best to keep various ethnic/gender/sexual minorities happy (and often fails, though they do try). Politicians are lying... Hey, did we ever decide what to do about the c-word thing? I guess I've forgotten now that Eric Corbett doesn't hang out here anymore. You could retire it in his honor...
- Tue Nov 28, 2023 10:11 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: WP Sado-Masochism Festival — It's 2023 Arbcom Election Time!
- Replies: 158
- Views: 101873
Re: WP Sado-Masochism Festival — It's 2023 Arbcom Election Time!
- Tue Nov 21, 2023 6:35 pm
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Rebecca Watson on Wikipedia not sucking
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3389
Re: Rebecca Watson on Wikipedia not sucking
Great video. I enjoyed the homeopathy video as well. (And Paper Anvils would be a great name for a band.) So this site and WR do indeed deserve credit for identifying toxic editors and power structures on Wikipedia, but it’s worth noting that some of the most prominent Wikipedia critics on WR and he...
- Sun Oct 22, 2023 11:27 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Elon Musk offers 1 billion USD if Wikipedia changes its name to Dickipedia
- Replies: 34
- Views: 3005
Re: Elon Musk offers 1 billion USD if Wikipedia changes its name to Dickipedia
Why bother paying, why not just name his next kid that? It’s not like it’d be much stupider than the other names he’s come up with.
- Sat Oct 07, 2023 1:48 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Kiva
- Replies: 4
- Views: 415
Re: Kiva
An aside from that article: In 2019 Kiva announced that they were “excited to announce the launch of Africa’s first blockchain and decentralized identity platform.”
They shuttered that in 2022.
They shuttered that in 2022.
- Sat Oct 07, 2023 1:40 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Kiva
- Replies: 4
- Views: 415
Kiva
I came across an interesting article about the microfinance non-profit Kiva. Many of the concerns raised by the microlenders seemed to parallel critiques of WMF trends, such as the tendency to use the money they raise for increasing employee rolls rather than supporting the core mission. This quote ...
- Sun Sep 03, 2023 9:05 pm
- Forum: Technology
- Topic: AI moderation
- Replies: 36
- Views: 4322
Re: AI moderation
I wonder if anyone is designing a tool to detect and tag sealioning.
- Mon Aug 28, 2023 5:23 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: BrownHairedGirl
- Replies: 711
- Views: 148264
- Thu Aug 17, 2023 6:30 pm
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Emails Show Hunter Biden Hired Specialists to Quietly Airbrush Wikipedia
- Replies: 10
- Views: 947
Re: Emails Show Hunter Biden Hired Specialists to Quietly Airbrush Wikipedia
Why would you pay to have someone influence your Wiki bio when you can have a rabidly partisan POV pusher like Andrevan https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Hunter_Biden&curid=21140283&diff=1170797368&oldid=1170793590,do it for you for free? I was going to quip “well, because Hunter’s a ...
- Tue Aug 15, 2023 9:33 pm
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: Elon buys Twitter for $44 billion
- Replies: 615
- Views: 930642
Re: Elon buys Twitter for $44 billion
Washington Post: Elon Musk’s X is throttling traffic to websites he dislikes The company formerly known as Twitter on Tuesday slowed the speed with which users could access links to the New York Times, Facebook and other news organizations and online competitors, a move that appeared targeted at com...
- Mon Aug 14, 2023 8:52 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Minor-attracted person
- Replies: 197
- Views: 11903
Re: Minor-attracted person
Belgium apparently has a super-powerful "right to be forgotten" law, which not only compels google to de-index the newspaper articles from search, but for the newspaper articles themselves to be deleted from the newspapers websites (hence why the above newspaper links are archived). Huh. I wonder i...
- Fri Aug 11, 2023 12:27 pm
- Forum: Non-Wikimedia Wiki Sites
- Topic: Justapedia
- Replies: 96
- Views: 29740
Re: Justapedia
It seems that, like many other forks, Justapedia does not import from Wikipedia the list of people who created and edited the article: you are supposed to refer to the article history on Wikipedia. Thus, whenever an article is deleted on Wikipedia but kept on Justapedia, attribution disappears entir...
- Thu Jul 27, 2023 10:42 pm
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: Elon buys Twitter for $44 billion
- Replies: 615
- Views: 930642
Re: Elon buys Twitter for $44 billion
The Xeet thing is a hoax, but Elon seemed to suggest a tweet would be henceforth referred to as an X, which seems even dumber than a xeet.
- Tue Jul 25, 2023 5:02 pm
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: Elon buys Twitter for $44 billion
- Replies: 615
- Views: 930642
- Tue Jul 25, 2023 12:18 am
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: Elon buys Twitter for $44 billion
- Replies: 615
- Views: 930642
Re: Elon buys Twitter for $44 billion
Named his kid X something too.The Garbage Scow wrote: ↑Mon Jul 24, 2023 6:52 pmMusk has had a bizarre obsession with the letter X for over 20 years, including trying to rebrand PayPal to X.com in 2000.
He is a very odd man.
- Thu Jun 01, 2023 3:26 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Understanding why I was blocked indefinitely
- Replies: 50
- Views: 2232
Re: Understanding why I was blocked indefinitely
On this site and on Wikipedia I used to sometimes offer advice to people who felt they’d been blocked unfairly. If I were doing so today I would suggest you: - acknowledge the concerns that led to the block (apologies aren’t necessary, just say you understand why the block occurred), and - explain h...
- Thu May 25, 2023 2:18 am
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: Elon buys Twitter for $44 billion
- Replies: 615
- Views: 930642
- Sat May 20, 2023 4:48 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Addressing 100%-Negatively Written Company Article And Got Banned
- Replies: 199
- Views: 6135
Re: Addressing 100%-Negatively Written Company Article And Got Banned
Mason, is rumored to be "a Wikipedia administrator and bureaucrat since 2011/2012 and even ran for the Arbitration Committee under the name 28bytes." The rumors are correct! I will leave it to the OP to decide for himself whether that makes me more or less likely to know what I’m talking about. Mos...
- Thu May 18, 2023 4:21 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Addressing 100%-Negatively Written Company Article And Got Banned
- Replies: 199
- Views: 6135
Re: Addressing 100%-Negatively Written Company Article And Got Banned
There are lots of points being discussed here, but one that I think needs to be highlighted is that if your lawyer thought sending a cease-and-desist letter to Wikipedia would help you achieve your goals regarding the article, they have committed legal malpractice and you should fire them. There are...
- Mon Apr 03, 2023 4:14 pm
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: Elon buys Twitter for $44 billion
- Replies: 615
- Views: 930642
Re: Elon buys Twitter for $44 billion
Can anyone contribute “helpful context” to a tweet? Could I add context to DeSantis’s “Soros-backed” Twitter rant that assures readers that he is only pointing out the connection to educate readers into possible sources of political bias and not, say, to fire up the sort of folks who like to fire up...
- Wed Mar 01, 2023 9:02 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: News from RFA
- Replies: 1034
- Views: 519218
Re: News from RFA
If you put in a ton of hours at a job or task, ask for added responsibilities, and are told “no thanks,” it’s perfectly rational to move on to something else. Doubly so if they’re not paying you. Nothing wrong with trying to fix whatever deficiencies are pointed out and trying again later (it’s what...
- Fri Feb 24, 2023 8:40 pm
- Forum: Non-Wikimedia Wiki Sites
- Topic: Justapedia
- Replies: 96
- Views: 29740
Re: Justapedia
John Venn is trefoiling in his grave.
- Sun Feb 19, 2023 2:13 am
- Forum: Technology
- Topic: Using ChatGPT to write WP articles
- Replies: 133
- Views: 26057
Re: Using ChatGPT to write WP articles
Bing (Yes, Bing) Just Made Search Interesting Again They've integrated the technology behind ChatGPT into their search engine. I heard about this yesterday listening to NPR in my car and now the New York Times has a story. I haven't tried it yet. If this does cause Microsoft's search engine to beco...
- Mon Feb 13, 2023 8:13 pm
- Forum: Technology
- Topic: Using ChatGPT to write WP articles
- Replies: 133
- Views: 26057
Re: Using ChatGPT to write WP articles
Well, this in interesting. It got confused as to who the VP was in 2020 since Biden was referred to as “Vice President Biden” during the debates. I tried to gently steer it away from that Alternative Fact, but the AI wasn’t having it. Q: What other vice presidents were active during this time? A: Th...
- Mon Feb 13, 2023 6:41 pm
- Forum: Technology
- Topic: Using ChatGPT to write WP articles
- Replies: 133
- Views: 26057
Re: Using ChatGPT to write WP articles
I decided to give it a try. It gave lengthy, plausible-sounding answers to most of the questions I threw it at, but it was pretty terse here: Q: Can animals safely view screensavers? A: No, it is not safe for animals to view screens I hit “refresh” and it changed its mind. A2: There is no scientific...
- Fri Feb 10, 2023 8:02 pm
- Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
- Topic: Joe West, Umpire and Litigation-Threatener
- Replies: 6
- Views: 465
Re: Joe West, Umpire and Litigation-Threatener
Wikipedia:Don't overlook legal threats (T-H-L) exists (and ought to be heeded more often), but it’s “just an essay,” so sometimes people are satisfied when the big litigious jerk gets blocked without checking whether the big litigious jerk has a point.
- Wed Jan 18, 2023 8:08 pm
- Forum: Technology
- Topic: Vector 2022 skin
- Replies: 121
- Views: 18421
- Mon Dec 19, 2022 2:51 am
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: Elon buys Twitter for $44 billion
- Replies: 615
- Views: 930642
Re: Elon buys Twitter for $44 billion
It is as if he is trying to destroy Twitter. Additionally, any attempts to bypass restrictions on external links to the above prohibited social media platforms through technical or non-technical means (e.g. URL cloaking, plaintext obfuscation) is in violation of this policy. This includes, but is n...
- Mon Dec 19, 2022 12:09 am
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: Elon buys Twitter for $44 billion
- Replies: 615
- Views: 930642
Re: Elon buys Twitter for $44 billion
The drama continues at a feverish pace. It is as if he is trying to destroy Twitter. https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport/status/1604531265419591681 Surely banning Instagram and Linktree links will piss off a lot of people who haven't been watching this shitshow. I’ll have to admit, I did not have Tw...
- Tue Dec 06, 2022 11:47 pm
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: Elon buys Twitter for $44 billion
- Replies: 615
- Views: 930642
- Wed Nov 30, 2022 6:46 pm
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: Elon buys Twitter for $44 billion
- Replies: 615
- Views: 930642
Re: Elon buys Twitter for $44 billion
I've been waiting for the news to figure this out. Musk’s Twitter Risks Being EU Outlaw After Staff Exodus Funny sentence If it doesn’t comply, regulators can issue strongly worded demands and fines equivalent to as much as 6% of Twitter’s annual revenue. No revenue loophole? Well, he was making ba...
- Mon Nov 14, 2022 4:30 pm
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: Elon buys Twitter for $44 billion
- Replies: 615
- Views: 930642
Re: Elon buys Twitter for $44 billion
A fake tweet sparked panic at Eli Lilly and may have cost Twitter millions “For $8, they’re potentially losing out on millions of dollars in ad revenue,” said Amy O’Connor, a former senior communications official at Eli Lilly who now works at a trade association. “What’s the benefit to a company … ...
- Mon Nov 07, 2022 1:20 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: News from RFA
- Replies: 1034
- Views: 519218
Re: News from RFA
In a bit of good news (in my opinion, anyway, as I think it's a good change), the RfC to put RfAs on hold after the timer ends was closed as successful . I wasn't the candidate and even I found it frustrating that SFR's RfA had extra hours tacked on at the end due to the random dice roll of crat av...
- Thu Nov 03, 2022 6:54 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Athaenara - Schadenfreude and Outrage
- Replies: 762
- Views: 129246
Re: Athaenara - Schadenfreude and Outrage
Perhaps someone with more legal expertise can explain how TNT using the checkuser tool in this case could be illegal, considering that if some other uninvolved checkuser ran the exact same checks it presumably would not be.
I can’t imagine any law would incorporate WP:INVOLVED by reference.
I can’t imagine any law would incorporate WP:INVOLVED by reference.
- Sat Oct 22, 2022 7:53 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Athaenara - Schadenfreude and Outrage
- Replies: 762
- Views: 129246
Re: Athaenara - Schadenfreude and Outrage
What?Dennis Brown wrote: ↑Sat Oct 22, 2022 6:12 pmAnd yes, this extremism does make the whole LGBTQ community look very bad, and reduces sympathy from those in the middle.
- Thu Oct 20, 2022 11:52 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Athaenara - Schadenfreude and Outrage
- Replies: 762
- Views: 129246
Re: Athaenara - Schadenfreude and Outrage
I contend this reblocking was born of rage and fury in TheresNoTime's noggin. Something I understand all too well. "Not on my fucking watch you don't!" Yeah. That’s pretty much where I sit. I’ve read this giant sprawling nightmare of a thread and keep going back to this comment. I can completely ge...
- Thu Oct 13, 2022 4:26 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Athaenara - Schadenfreude and Outrage
- Replies: 762
- Views: 129246
Re: Athaenara - Schadenfreude and Outrage
Someone walks into a building and says “there are too many ***** people in here.”
Among those escorting them out of the building are several ***** people.
And somehow people’s reaction is something other than “well, what did you think would happen?”
Crazy times.
Among those escorting them out of the building are several ***** people.
And somehow people’s reaction is something other than “well, what did you think would happen?”
Crazy times.
- Tue Oct 11, 2022 6:25 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Athaenara - Schadenfreude and Outrage
- Replies: 762
- Views: 129246
Re: Athaenara - Schadenfreude and Outrage
They’re now analyzing her past RfA opposes in the arbitration thread, and based on that, it looks like she got irritated that no one particularly noticed or cared that she consistently opposed transgender RfA candidates, so she decided to shout “pay attention to me!” in the most obnoxious way possib...
- Tue Oct 11, 2022 2:04 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Athaenara - Schadenfreude and Outrage
- Replies: 762
- Views: 129246
- Tue Oct 11, 2022 1:09 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Athaenara - Schadenfreude and Outrage
- Replies: 762
- Views: 129246
Re: Athaenara - Schadenfreude and Outrage
If there’s not a rule specifying an indefinite block for anyone whining about “cancel culture” after saying something hateful, there ought to be.
- Tue Oct 11, 2022 12:31 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Athaenara - Schadenfreude and Outrage
- Replies: 762
- Views: 129246
Re: Athaenara - Schadenfreude and Outrage
That said, people aren't mad at her for the rationale of her vote, they're mad at her for making a transphobic personal attack. Surely describing someone as Republican or even "far-right" is not as bad as describing them as "males masquerading as females". This is the point. She didn't simply say "...
- Wed Oct 05, 2022 8:35 pm
- Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
- Topic: William Shatner
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2418
Re: William Shatner
I am glad to see that this is just Wikipedia shenanigans and not the usual reason a 90-something-year-old appears in a subject line.
He is only 5 years younger than Queen Elizabeth, after all.
He is only 5 years younger than Queen Elizabeth, after all.
- Mon Oct 03, 2022 4:31 pm
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Is This the Beginning of the End of the Internet?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2244
Re: Is This the Beginning of the End of the Internet?
It is a lot of the more regional US news sites. I can't remember any specific ones off the top of my head though. Ah, ok, thanks. That makes sense. I'd be unlikely to have noticed that. An (admittedly old) article about it that I found interesting: https://www.smartinsights.com/digital-marketing-st...
- Wed Sep 21, 2022 8:57 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: News from RFA
- Replies: 1034
- Views: 519218
Re: News from RFA
I assume it's merely a reference to this RFC from 2015: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:2015_administrator_election_reform/Phase_II/RfC#C1:_Expand_discretionary_range_to_65% in which, by consensus, the RfA discretionary range was expanded from the previous 70-75% to 65-75%. Correct. Do you ...
- Wed Sep 21, 2022 7:08 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: News from RFA
- Replies: 1034
- Views: 519218
Re: News from RFA
Correct.Arishok wrote: ↑Wed Sep 21, 2022 3:52 pmI assume it's merely a reference to this RFC from 2015:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia ... ange_to_65%
in which, by consensus, the RfA discretionary range was expanded from the previous 70-75% to 65-75%.
- Fri Aug 19, 2022 2:30 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: No Nazis (except the nice ones)
- Replies: 73
- Views: 7241
Re: No Nazis (except the nice ones)
Yesterday, Michael Hayden, the former Director of the CIA, said that Republicans are the most "nihilistic, dangerous, and contemptible" political force in the world. In the world. It’s almost like they tried to violently overthrow the world’s most powerful democracy or something. The intersectional...
- Wed Aug 10, 2022 12:11 am
- Forum: Blog Posts
- Topic: The Nicholas Alahverdian Story
- Replies: 1586
- Views: 494950
Re: The Nicholas Alahverdian Story
Helluva comma placement.