ABOUT JIMMY WALES

[tarantino]

Jimmy has a new website, https://jimmy.cafe, that's currently a work in progress. His new bio (which has spread all over the internet) is a bit over the top.

Leading technology futurist and Wikipedia and WT.Social Founder Jimmy Wales is one of the most sought after visionaries in business and technology. Wikipedia is the 5th Most Popular Website in the WORLD, moving towards the goal of free access for all to the sum of human knowledge. WT.Social is a groundbreaking, collaboratively editable social networking platform that will change the way we digest news. When audiences meet Wales, outspoken and defiant in his protection of transformative ideas, they understand why he is compared to historic greats like Gutenberg. Hailed as “thoughtful and visionary,” “inspiring,” and “absolutely WONDERFUL,” event planners cite Wales’ optimism for the future and masterful ability to speak on issues ranging from censorship, Artificial Intelligence, automation, the media, and disruption, as elements that make him a standout speaker.

[Smiley]

When audiences meet Wales, outspoken and defiant in his protection of transformative ideas, they understand why he is compared to historic greats like Gutenberg.

Steve?

[Smiley]

You'd think an historically great highly sought-after leading visionary technology futurist would know what a spellchecker was.

[Vigilant]

Good lord,

He's about to start trying to grift hard.

He's got stay away from fora that allow comments...




Aaaaaannnnnnd
https://www.jimmy.cafe/
throws a security risk over a self signed certificate!

Because of course it does.

LMAO!

Oh god, this is glorious!

pop site:jimmy.cafe into google and awaaaaay we go!


seminar

self belief

Fucking wow.




@tarantino, your jimmy.cafe is a busted link

[Hemiauchenia]

Fucking hilarious, this puffery is probably the worst I have ever seen, even undisclosed COI editors puffing up their clients on Wikipedia never go this far.

[tarantino]

Good lord,

He's about to start trying to grift hard.

He's got stay away from fora that allow comments...




Aaaaaannnnnnd
https://www.jimmy.cafe/
throws a security risk over a self signed certificate!

Because of course it does.

LMAO!

Oh god, this is glorious!

pop site:jimmy.cafe into google and awaaaaay we go!


seminar

self belief

Fucking wow.




@tarantino, your jimmy.cafe is a busted link

Link fixed.

He's using Bitnami, which "provides pre-packaged images for automated setup of popular server software on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux platforms." Seminar and self belief look like they're placeholders that come with his package. Searching for ""have you ever got a feeling about yourself that you can do much better" gives 56,000 results of people using it.

[Vigilant]

lol

OK, I was up late last night and stepped on my dick there.



However, I'm not sure if this is better for him or worse for him.

Why does a "Leading technology futurist" use a cookie cutter site maker and why does "one of the most sought after visionaries in business and technology" not have the web guy fill in the form pages with actual content before sending the site live?


It's pretty funny stuff either way.

[The Garbage Scow]

Citation needed

[Smiley]

Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead

Firefox detected a potential security threat and did not continue to www.jimmy.cafe. If you visit this site, attackers could try to steal information like your passwords, emails, or credit card details.

The Thomas Midgley Jr. of the internet.

[Smiley]

Fucking hilarious, this puffery is probably the worst I have ever seen, even undisclosed COI editors puffing up their clients on Wikipedia never go this far.

This is exactly what his Wikipedia entry would be like if he thought he could get away with it.

[Vigilant]

Fucking hilarious, this puffery is probably the worst I have ever seen, even undisclosed COI editors puffing up their clients on Wikipedia never go this far.

This is exactly what his Wikipedia entry would be like if he thought he could get away with it.

Perhaps this is finally a paying gig for one of Jimmy's minions!

[Giraffe Stapler]

Jimmy has a new website, https://jimmy.cafe, that's currently a work in progress. His new bio (which has spread all over the internet) is a bit over the top.

I'm skeptical. This seems like a weird thing for Jimbo to do. That's a strange choice of domain. Dot cafe? Perhaps the work of a Jimbo fanboy? Or someone hoping to get Jimbo to buy the domain?

[Smiley]

I'm skeptical. This seems like a weird thing for Jimbo to do. That's a strange choice of domain. Dot cafe? Perhaps the work of a Jimbo fanboy? Or someone hoping to get Jimbo to buy the domain?

Don't know about the site, but the bio is real.

https://web.archive.org/web/20180829084 ... immy-wales

[Vigilant]

whois jimmy.cafe

Domain Name: jimmy.cafe
Registry Domain ID: 89ab81de9a9b492f8aab59ddedd2905b-DONUTS
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.gandi.net
Registrar URL: https://www.gandi.net
Updated Date: 2021-05-18T22:54:31Z
Creation Date: 2020-06-17T09:44:23Z
Registry Expiry Date: 2022-06-17T09:44:23Z
Registrar: Gandi SAS
Registrar IANA ID: 81
Registrar Abuse Contact Email: abuse@support.gandi.net
Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +33.170377661
Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited

What? No mention of The People's Smooth Operator?
Does someone on his "team" not know how to spell "wikia"?
How long will wt.social aka wikitribune stay on the screen? It's numbers are shit.

[Midsize Jake]

Creation Date: 2020-06-17T09:44:23Z
Registry Expiry Date: 2022-06-17T09:44:23Z

So, he went with the two-year registration deal, not just one year. That means he's in it for the long haul, right...?

I can see why he chose GANDI for this — they just started running a discount promotion of 85% off for the first six months. Smart!

[Vigilant]

Creation Date: 2020-06-17T09:44:23Z
Registry Expiry Date: 2022-06-17T09:44:23Z

So, he went with the two-year registration deal, not just one year. That means he's in it for the long haul, right...?

I can see why he chose GANDI for this — they just started running a discount promotion of 85% off for the first six months. Smart!

This whole venture stinks to high heaven of 'lowest bidder'.

[tarantino]

He's also using AWS.

http://18.133.70.8/

[Vigilant]

He's also using AWS.

http://18.133.70.8/

At least it's more likely to have solid uptime than his any of his previous adventures.

[DanMurphy]

I like that after he compares himself to Johannes Gutenberg the closest thing we get to a specific testimonial is from unnamed event planners.

[Giraffe Stapler]

I really think you guys are barking up the wrong tree here. Jimbo hasn't even updated his "official" site (jimmywales.com) since 2012. If he's going to start a new site, it won't be on .cafe.

[Jim]

I like that after he compares himself to Johannes Gutenberg the closest thing we get to a specific testimonial is from unnamed event planners.

Wales is comparable to Gutenberg in much the same way that Mehmet Oz is comparable to Hippocrates.

[tarantino]

I like that after he compares himself to Johannes Gutenberg the closest thing we get to a specific testimonial is from unnamed event planners.

Wales is comparable to Gutenberg in much the same way that Mehmet Oz is comparable to Hippocrates.

Dr. Oz is considering running for Senator in Pennsylvania.

[Smiley]

The site appears to have been taken down shortly after someone alerted Jimbo to the matter.

No comment yet. He's being curiously tight-lipped on this one.

Wayback Machine

[Midsize Jake]

The site appears to have been taken down shortly after someone alerted Jimbo to the matter.

Oh well... at least it lasted a couple of days longer than most of his internet startup ventures.

I was just checking the domain name pricing, though, and whoever did this must have spent a semi-decent amount of money on it. "Jimmy" is a very common name, so that increases the valuations — "jimmy.tv" is valued at $999 on GoDaddy, for example. (Apparently, "Johnny" is even more desirable, with "Johnny.co" going for a whopping $50,000.)

More to the point, ICANN approved ".wales" as a top-level domain back in 2014. I just checked, and while "jimmy.wales" is taken (probably by Jimbo), "jimbo.wales" is not — anyone could go off and buy it for just $30 a year. So anyone trying to joe-job Jimbo should have bought that domain, no...? "Jimmy.cafe" probably would've cost them more than that — three times as much wouldn't surprise me.

Anyway, if I had to guess who was behind this (assuming it's not Jimbo), I'd have to say it was probably the Hindu nationalists. It just seems like something they would do.

[Vigilant]

The funniest thing about this to me is that it was entirely plausible that jimmy.cafe was Jimbo's next failed venture.

Shitty domain, muddled messaging, smells like a grift, poor website design...

Six of one, half dozen of another.

Like a corollary to Poe's_law (T-H-L)

[Smiley]

Hi - that's a (nonfunctioning at the moment) redesign of my personal website which I haven't put live. The text there was copied by the designer from various sources. The part you object to appears to be marketing text from my speaking agent, see: https://www.harrywalker.com/speakers/jimmy-wales . You are right in sensing that I wouldn't put that text on my personal website - it's only a placeholder for whenever I get around to editing it. The design of the page is what that's all about.

Jimbo Wales (T-C-L), 14 November 2021

[Vigilant]

Through the looking glass...

[Smiley]

This Cloudy person appears to be a rather puckish fellow.

[Giraffe Stapler]

Wow. Just wow. The inexplicable choice of domain, the terrible copy, and the cut-and-paste design lead me to believe that this couldn't possibly be a serious site by someone who tries to portray himself as some kind of internet heavyweight. I owe everyone here an apology. I am sorry.

[Vigilant]

I have been tank slapped here.