Larry Sanger: Wikipedia's QAnon Cultist Co-Founder
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Happy to contribute to a WO legal defense fund if Larry sics Lin or Sidney on the management.
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I would like to suggest that we combine a couple of the recent suggestions and title it
Larry Sanger: Wikipedia's Co-Founder and Q-Tip Enthusiast
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Giraffe Stapler wrote: ↑Thu Jan 07, 2021 3:59 pmI would like to suggest that we combine a couple of the recent suggestions and title it
Larry Sanger: Wikipedia's Co-Founder and Q-Tip Enthusiast Fetishist
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Larry Sanger now ranks below Jimmy Wales/Jimbo Wales, imho, based on their personal fetishes:
Q-Anon < Tits and ass
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Speaking of Rittenhouse...Vigilant wrote: ↑Tue Oct 06, 2020 6:01 pmI picture him as one of those people wearing a "Fuck your Feelings!" tShirts while screaming like a love struck teen at a concert.
This might be the most ill-timed decision in the history of the US.
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He seventeen. In Wisconsin if you're under 21, you can legally drink in a bar if you're with a parent.
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They get 'em started young. Bars are one of their biggest industries, behind cheese and ahead of the Packers.tarantino wrote: ↑Fri Jan 15, 2021 3:50 amHe seventeen. In Wisconsin if you're under 21, you can legally drink in a bar if you're with a parent.
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Cool that you can illegally bring guns across state lines, kill a few people, then just go back home and go bar-hopping with your mom. Thanks, MyPillow guy!
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Ricky Schroder also contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars towards the $2,000,000 cash bail, according to Rittenhouse's nutjob attorney Lin Wood.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ ... ay-2m-bond
Edit to add: Yesterday Lin Wood was booted out of a Delaware court by Judge Karnitz, who described the attorney’s participation in litigation to overturn Joe Biden’s electoral victory as “a toxic stew of mendacity, prevarication, and surprising incompetence.”
https://abovethelaw.com/2021/01/citing- ... page-suit/
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I am constantly amazed that more perpetrators like Rittenhouse aren't killed by the deceased's loved ones.
If he had killed a child of mine, I would hunt him for sport, make the end last several days and fashion his skin into a favorite hat.
If he had killed a child of mine, I would hunt him for sport, make the end last several days and fashion his skin into a favorite hat.
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Larry Sanger weighs in on child abuse:
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Let me put this strongly.
It is ABUSE to let kids make accounts without teaching them how to autogenerate and save passwords with a password manager.
Teach them how. Learn yourself, first, if you must, parents and teachers.
Do this. It's important. #passwords #passwordmanager
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More and more like Ottava Rima every day.Giraffe Stapler wrote: ↑Fri Jan 15, 2021 5:46 pmLarry Sanger weighs in on child abuse:Larry Sanger
@lsanger
Let me put this strongly.
It is ABUSE to let kids make accounts without teaching them how to autogenerate and save passwords with a password manager.
Teach them how. Learn yourself, first, if you must, parents and teachers.
Do this. It's important. #passwords #passwordmanager
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You'd think that a QAnon supporter would be more concerned about pizza restaurants.Giraffe Stapler wrote: ↑Fri Jan 15, 2021 5:46 pmLarry Sanger weighs in on child abuse:Larry Sanger
@lsanger
Let me put this strongly.
It is ABUSE to let kids make accounts without teaching them how to autogenerate and save passwords with a password manager.
Teach them how. Learn yourself, first, if you must, parents and teachers.
Do this. It's important. #passwords #passwordmanager
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There's never a bad time to remind people that QAnon supporters, who claim to be in it "for the children," have consistently made it more difficult for real organizations fighting child abuse by stealing their social-media hashtags, most notably #SaveTheChildren — and creating confusion among those very same children, as well as people trying to find reliable places to report child abuse. (This applies whether or not the children in question know how to create strong passwords.)
Meanwhile...
I don't mean to give the impression that we should just start analyzing every tweet Larry Sanger makes, but in some ways the one before that one is more interesting: In effect, he seems to be saying that Twitter will essentially go away, and be replaced by a "decentralized" system of private and semi-private microblogs based on the near-ancient RSS protocol, apparently using standard blogware platforms like WordPress. Forget all those additional features that Twitter provides, such as, oh I dunno, trends, not to mention simplicity. This is the future!
This could also indicate that Dr. Sanger is about to abandon Twitter himself, or maybe he just assumes Twitter will soon ban him for being a "conservative."
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I don't mean to give the impression that we should just start analyzing every tweet Larry Sanger makes, but in some ways the one before that one is more interesting: In effect, he seems to be saying that Twitter will essentially go away, and be replaced by a "decentralized" system of private and semi-private microblogs based on the near-ancient RSS protocol, apparently using standard blogware platforms like WordPress. Forget all those additional features that Twitter provides, such as, oh I dunno, trends, not to mention simplicity. This is the future!
This could also indicate that Dr. Sanger is about to abandon Twitter himself, or maybe he just assumes Twitter will soon ban him for being a "conservative."
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I look in on Sanger's Twitter offerings every couple of days. Sanger has been talking about using RSS to replace Twitter for months now. I haven't seen anyone take the time to explain to him why this isn't a good idea, so he just keeps bringing it up. My suspicion is that anyone who sees it and knows enough about it can't be bothered to explain the obvious to someone who probably won't understand anyway. Also, Sanger regularly blocks anyone who disagrees with him, so maybe someone already tried and got blocked for their trouble.Midsize Jake wrote: ↑Fri Jan 15, 2021 9:55 pmI don't mean to give the impression that we should just start analyzing every tweet Larry Sanger makes, but in some ways the one before that one is more interesting: In effect, he seems to be saying that Twitter will essentially go away, and be replaced by a "decentralized" system of private and semi-private microblogs based on the near-ancient RSS protocol, apparently using standard blogware platforms like WordPress. Forget all those additional features that Twitter provides, such as, oh I dunno, trends, not to mention simplicity. This is the future!
This could also indicate that Dr. Sanger is about to abandon Twitter himself, or maybe he just assumes Twitter will soon ban him for being a "conservative."
I assume that Sanger is just latching on to something that he knew a little bit about from years ago. It worked for blogs, so why can't it work for micro-blogs? Sanger seems to be aggressively ignorant, which makes him a really bad choice to run any kind of tech project like, say. a decentralized encyclopedia.
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He's going to get bilked by some ruthless developer who will 'develop' and sell him some sort of framework which will mimic a feed, and probably mine the data of anyone who's stupid enough to join on.
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I thought he was expecting everyone to do all this for him for free? (You know, from each according to his abilities, etc.)
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Soon to be disbarred, Lin Wood (T-H-L) would flourish as a WMF Community Liaison.tarantino wrote: ↑Fri Jan 15, 2021 4:58 amYesterday, Lin Wood (T-H-L) was booted out of a Delaware court by Judge Karnitz, who described the attorney’s participation in litigation to overturn Joe Biden’s electoral victory as “a toxic stew of mendacity, prevarication, and surprising incompetence.”
https://abovethelaw.com/2021/01/citing- ... page-suit/
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Ya don't say...
How much money does Sanger have? Asking for a friend.
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Surely, he's Trust & Safety material!Moral Hazard wrote: ↑Sat Jan 16, 2021 12:55 amSoon to be disbarred, Lin Wood (T-H-L) would flourish as a WMF Community Liaison.tarantino wrote: ↑Fri Jan 15, 2021 4:58 amYesterday, Lin Wood (T-H-L) was booted out of a Delaware court by Judge Karnitz, who described the attorney’s participation in litigation to overturn Joe Biden’s electoral victory as “a toxic stew of mendacity, prevarication, and surprising incompetence.”
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When I was 17 I wouldn't have been caught dead with my mom in a bar, even if it meant I could drink. This is a strange kid...tarantino wrote: ↑Fri Jan 15, 2021 3:50 amHe seventeen. In Wisconsin if you're under 21, you can legally drink in a bar if you're with a parent.
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"My mom is my best friend" is volunteered by many kids raised by helicopter parents.
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I think that you're confusing different political philosophies here. Larry is surely a free marketeer.
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No, no, dear reader.Vigilant wrote: ↑Tue Sep 15, 2020 3:34 amIt would not surprise me in the slightest if it turned out Sanger was a full on furry.tarantino wrote: ↑Tue Sep 15, 2020 2:28 amLarry ironically retweeted a furry, whose furaffinity profile says he's "A snow rabbit who is a femboy police officer. The Sheriff of the Boystown Police Department or BPD for short. He can be dominant or submissive depending on the other person. Loves EDM music, and wearing cute clothes and justice."
See the furry's Facebook profile for some NSFW furry art.
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......... in that he wants volunteers to launch his project for free so that he can market it.Poetlister wrote: ↑Sat Jan 16, 2021 11:14 amI think that you're confusing different political philosophies here. Larry is surely a free marketeer.
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Indeed, he relies in the principle that has led to so many successful businesses (including of course the WMF): There's one born every minute.Randy from Boise wrote: ↑Sat Feb 13, 2021 5:55 pm......... in that he wants volunteers to launch his project for free so that he can market it.Poetlister wrote: ↑Sat Jan 16, 2021 11:14 amI think that you're confusing different political philosophies here. Larry is surely a free marketeer.
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Unfortunately the tweet to which he was responding has been deleted and the account suspended, but I'm quite sure it was some crazy theory about COVID and whichever shady group secretly controls the world.
Larry Sanger wrote:Seems like a very convenient way to dispose of old folks. If so, look for the set of disposable people to grow larger and larger, and for more shockingly arbitrary reasons.
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"Colleen Huber, NMD is a Naturopathic Medical Doctor and Naturopathic Oncologist (FNORI), writing on topics ofGiraffe Stapler wrote: ↑Sun Feb 21, 2021 6:45 pmUnfortunately the tweet to which he was responding has been deleted and the account suspended, but I'm quite sure it was some crazy theory about COVID and whichever shady group secretly controls the world.Larry Sanger wrote:Seems like a very convenient way to dispose of old folks. If so, look for the set of disposable people to grow larger and larger, and for more shockingly arbitrary reasons.
masks, COVID-19, cancer and nutrition." She recently wrote a peer-reviewed (?) article, Data that disprove a COVID-19 pandemic.
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being peer reviewed doesn't count for much when your peers are all quacks.
Overall, we rate Primary Doctor Medical Journal (PDMJ) right biased and a quackery level pseudoscience website based on the publication of misleading and false information related to the Coronavirus.
linkThe website 100% lacks transparency as they do not name owners, editors, peer-reviewers, or location as their domain is registered privately. However, all supposed peer-reviewed studies are written by Colleen Huber who is not an actual medical doctor, but rather a Naturopath who takes anti-vaccination positions as well as advocating for natural cancer cures, which does not have supportive evidence for effectiveness.
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She's a quack who kills people with bad advice.Dr. Colleen Huber is now on Parler.
Parler is an excellent alternative, where free speech is valued.
https://parler.com/profile/ColleenHuberNMD/posts
Her insanity is on full display on parler.
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Obviously, this site is rubbish. However, even respectable publications don't normally identify peer-reviewers. Someone once told me he'd been one of the reviewers of one of my papers, but that's unusual.Beeblebrox wrote: ↑Sun Feb 21, 2021 9:04 pmThe website 100% lacks transparency as they do not name owners, editors, peer-reviewers, or location as their domain is registered privately. However, all supposed peer-reviewed studies are written by Colleen Huber who is not an actual medical doctor, but rather a Naturopath who takes anti-vaccination positions as well as advocating for natural cancer cures, which does not have supportive evidence for effectiveness.
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Larry Sanger is owning the libs on Twitter - he blocked @POTUS. If you think this was because Sanger was following the account during the Trump administration and didn't like seeing tweets from Joe Biden, you're wrong. Twitter dropped all of the account's followers when Biden took over the account. So Sanger is blocking an account he doesn't follow for the symbolic value. Of course, if you do that, you have to let everyone know by posting about it on Twitter. I think that's called "virtue signalling", isn't it?
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well that's just sad.
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No, when the Right does it it is "deficiency signalling."Giraffe Stapler wrote: ↑Tue Feb 23, 2021 7:45 pmLarry Sanger is owning the libs on Twitter - he blocked @POTUS. If you think this was because Sanger was following the account during the Trump administration and didn't like seeing tweets from Joe Biden, you're wrong. Twitter dropped all of the account's followers when Biden took over the account. So Sanger is blocking an account he doesn't follow for the symbolic value. Of course, if you do that, you have to let everyone know by posting about it on Twitter. I think that's called "virtue signalling", isn't it?
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Well now he's just having a temper tantrum.
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He's probably just feeling a little impatient, waiting for March 4th and Donald Trump's triumphal return to power.
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Isn't he always?
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Oh shit, Biden’s going to be so pissed!Giraffe Stapler wrote: ↑Tue Feb 23, 2021 7:45 pmLarry Sanger is owning the libs on Twitter - he blocked @POTUS.
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I have a suggestion. Jimbo's opponents managed to get Larry Sanger named as joint founder of Wikipedia to try to take Jimbo down a peg. What if we can get other people, such as Tim Shell, Ben Kovitz and Jeremy Rosenfeld, also recognised? That would be one in the eye for both Jimbo and Larry.
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I'm not saying it would be a bad thing, but none of those guys are particularly interested in self-promotion — Kovitz least of all, which is unfortunate (in this regard) because of those three, he's probably the most deserving of "co-founder" status for having been the "idea man" as well as doing lots of early development work on the software.Poetlister wrote: ↑Wed Feb 24, 2021 12:45 pmWhat if we can get other people, such as Tim Shell, Ben Kovitz and Jeremy Rosenfeld, also recognised? That would be one in the eye for both Jimbo and Larry.
To make matters worse, Google tells us there's now a second, much-younger Ben Kovitz out there, apparently a grad student at Indiana University, who by the looks of things actually is quite interested in self-promotion. So, assuming the older Ben Kovitz would even be the least bit cooperative, anyone pursuing this idea would have to ensure that reporters and interviewers have the right guy to begin with.
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Given almost any name, it's not hard to find someone else with that name. I don't know if this Jeremy Rosenfeld, who does seem to be into self-promotion, is a different person but I bet this one is.Midsize Jake wrote: ↑Wed Feb 24, 2021 7:21 pmTo make matters worse, Google tells us there's now a second, much-younger Ben Kovitz out there, apparently a grad student at Indiana University, who by the looks of things actually is quite interested in self-promotion. So, assuming the older Ben Kovitz would even be the least bit cooperative, anyone pursuing this idea would have to ensure that reporters and interviewers have the right guy to begin with.
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Pardon me for not reading the whole thread - but I don't understand what disliking Picasso art has to do with QAnon.tarantino wrote: ↑Tue Mar 03, 2020 4:41 pmMore Larry being Larry.
https://twitter.com/lsanger/status/1233922545159745538lsanger wrote:Picasso always did suck. Sorry, but it’s true.lsanger wrote:I notice almost 30 people liked the original comment but only one retweeted. People “know” you’re supposed to like this awful dreck and will be regarded as philistine if you don’t signal that you do.
(Isn't QAnon a conspiracy theory related to allegations of pedophilia against politicians and "elites"? Unless Picasso, despite being dead, is somehow being linked to the conspiracy?)
As far as Jimbo, wasn't/isn't he a fan of Ayn Rand? (I've never been bored enough to read anything by Rand, beyond just pointing out some of the ideological outdatedness, falsehoods, and oxymorons).
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I think a couple of Larry threads got merged under one title that's not quite appropriate for every post.
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Re: Larry Sanger: Wikipedia's QAnon Cultist Co-Founder
Well, that's precisely why you have to read the entire thread, Mr. Nemo!
This thread didn't start out being about QAnon, in fact it was split from here — and not everyone agreed with my (somewhat unilateral) decision to put the term "QAnon" in the thread title. I did that because I assumed that when people saw Sanger's Twitter feed, they might enter "Larry Sanger QAnon" into Google to see if there was any non-Twitter-based information about why the heck a co-founder of Wikipedia was spouting off child-endangering, family-destroying conspiracist bullshit-fuckery. (And hey, we're now the #3 result!)
So, we basically have a tacit understanding among us that this thread is to be used for any of the more egregious examples of Sanger's recent descent into madness, Q-related or not, which might well include his idea that Pablo Picasso, one of the greatest artists of the 20th century, "sucks."
I'll admit that I've always preferred the surrealists myself, and maybe even the impressionists, to the cubists. But to use terms like that to describe Picasso is the sure sign of a philistine, not "failing to like" his work. And since all QAnon cultists are philistines by definition (since they like Trump, the ultimate philistine), one could at least make the argument that it's relevant, at least to some extent.
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Re: Larry Sanger: Wikipedia's QAnon Cultist Co-Founder
First, they came for our guns. Then they came for our bibles.
Skip several intervening posts about the bible being outlawed and/or censored...Maybe the Bible won't be cancelled after Dr. Seuss and "When Harry Became Sally." Progressives mock the idea. OK; I have a question:
Why not?
Now, I'm not saying I *definitely* think all this is on the way. I don't know. But it is a straightforward extrapolation from recent trends to what we seem likely to see within, say, five years. I hope I'm wrong...but I don't think I am.
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Re: Larry Sanger: Wikipedia's QAnon Cultist Co-Founder
That's weapons grade cray cray right there.
Hello, John. John, hello. You're the one soul I would come up here to collect myself.
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Re: Larry Sanger: Wikipedia's QAnon Cultist Co-Founder
It's sometimes hard for me to tell the difference between Larry's Twitter and that of some Russian trollbot posting Right-Wing Republican talking points.
What happened is nothing like what he's talking about. A private company decided to discontinue publishing some books, nobody "came for their books" and nobody is "banning" books.
What happened is nothing like what he's talking about. A private company decided to discontinue publishing some books, nobody "came for their books" and nobody is "banning" books.
Re: Larry Sanger: Wikipedia's QAnon Cultist Co-Founder
It’s all just projection with these people.
If you see one tweet “Liberals are stealing extra condiments from Chick-Fil-A!” it’s a pretty safe guess what they’ve got stuffed in their glove box.
If you see one tweet “Liberals are stealing extra condiments from Chick-Fil-A!” it’s a pretty safe guess what they’ve got stuffed in their glove box.
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Re: Larry Sanger: Wikipedia's QAnon Cultist Co-Founder
The current Seuss/Potato Head "scandal" is some of the dumbest crybaby shit I've ever seen. This comic nails it: link
Some brands make some changes to their products in order to change with the times and fake conservatives (because real conservatives should believe a business can do whatever the hell it wants) get outraged. If they hadn't made a big announcement about this nobody would've even noticed that six poorly-selling children's books went out of print. If they are so outraged by cancel culture, they need to call Colin Kaepernick up and offer him a big fat apology and a job.
Some brands make some changes to their products in order to change with the times and fake conservatives (because real conservatives should believe a business can do whatever the hell it wants) get outraged. If they hadn't made a big announcement about this nobody would've even noticed that six poorly-selling children's books went out of print. If they are so outraged by cancel culture, they need to call Colin Kaepernick up and offer him a big fat apology and a job.
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