Larry Sanger: Wikipedia's QAnon Cultist Co-Founder

[Mason]

Happy to contribute to a WO legal defense fund if Larry sics Lin or Sidney on the management.

[Giraffe Stapler]

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

[Vigilant]

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 Fetishist

[Moral Hazard]

Larry Sanger now ranks below Jimmy Wales/Jimbo Wales, imho, based on their personal fetishes:

Q-Anon < Tits and ass

[Vigilant]

Countdown to Larry getting COVID at a Pro-Trump rally.

Pick a date! Closest one to the announcement of COVID positive announcement wins!

I've got 10-17-2020, the Loma Prieta earthquake anniversary.

Does he go to those? I pictured him as more of a stay-at-home Proud Boy. An around-the-house Rittenhouse, if you will.

I picture him as one of those people wearing a "Fuck your Feelings!" tShirts while screaming like a love struck teen at a concert.

Speaking of Rittenhouse...

This might be the most ill-timed decision in the history of the US.

[The Garbage Scow]

Speaking of Rittenhouse...

This might be the most ill-timed decision in the history of the US.

What kind of loser goes to the bar with his MOM?

[tarantino]

Speaking of Rittenhouse...

This might be the most ill-timed decision in the history of the US.

What kind of loser goes to the bar with his MOM?

He seventeen. In Wisconsin if you're under 21, you can legally drink in a bar if you're with a parent.

[Randy from Boise]

Speaking of Rittenhouse...

This might be the most ill-timed decision in the history of the US.

What kind of loser goes to the bar with his MOM?

He seventeen. In Wisconsin if you're under 21, you can legally drink in a bar if you're with a parent.

They get 'em started young. Bars are one of their biggest industries, behind cheese and ahead of the Packers.

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[Mason]

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!

[tarantino]

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!

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/

[Vigilant]

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.

[Giraffe Stapler]

Larry 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
10:38 AM · Jan 15, 2021·Twitter Web App

[Vigilant]

Larry 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
10:38 AM · Jan 15, 2021·Twitter Web App

More and more like Ottava Rima every day.

[Poetlister]

Larry 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
10:38 AM · Jan 15, 2021·Twitter Web App

You'd think that a QAnon supporter would be more concerned about pizza restaurants.

[Midsize Jake]

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."

[Giraffe Stapler]

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."

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.

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.

[Zoloft]

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.

[Mason]

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.

I thought he was expecting everyone to do all this for him for free? (You know, from each according to his abilities, etc.)

[Moral Hazard]

Yesterday, 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/

Soon to be disbarred, Lin Wood (T-H-L) would flourish as a WMF Community Liaison.

[Vigilant]

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.

Ya don't say...

How much money does Sanger have? Asking for a friend.

[Vigilant]

Yesterday, 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/

Soon to be disbarred, Lin Wood (T-H-L) would flourish as a WMF Community Liaison.

Surely, he's Trust & Safety material!

[The Garbage Scow]

Speaking of Rittenhouse...

This might be the most ill-timed decision in the history of the US.

What kind of loser goes to the bar with his MOM?

He seventeen. In Wisconsin if you're under 21, you can legally drink in a bar if you're with a parent.

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...

[Moral Hazard]

"My mom is my best friend" is volunteered by many kids raised by helicopter parents.

[Poetlister]

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.

I thought he was expecting everyone to do all this for him for free? (You know, from each according to his abilities, etc.)

I think that you're confusing different political philosophies here. Larry is surely a free marketeer.

[Moral Hazard]

Larry 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.

It would not surprise me in the slightest if it turned out Sanger was a full on furry.

No, no, dear reader.
We are not mentioning fans of the Brad Pitt tank-movie Fury (film) (T-H-L) or of Nicky Fury (T-H-L) (and the howling commandos (T-H-L) or the agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (T-H-L)).

[Randy from Boise]

I think that you're confusing different political philosophies here. Larry is surely a free marketeer.

......... in that he wants volunteers to launch his project for free so that he can market it.

t

[Poetlister]

I think that you're confusing different political philosophies here. Larry is surely a free marketeer.

......... in that he wants volunteers to launch his project for free so that he can market it.

t

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.

[Giraffe Stapler]

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.

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.

[tarantino]

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.

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.

"Colleen Huber, NMD is a Naturopathic Medical Doctor and Naturopathic Oncologist (FNORI), writing on topics of
masks, COVID-19, cancer and nutrition." She recently wrote a peer-reviewed (?) article, Data that disprove a COVID-19 pandemic.

[Beeblebrox]

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.

The 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.

link

[Vigilant]

Dr. Colleen Huber is now on Parler.
Parler is an excellent alternative, where free speech is valued.
https://parler.com/profile/ColleenHuberNMD/posts

She's a quack who kills people with bad advice.
Her insanity is on full display on parler.

[Poetlister]

The 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.

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.

[Giraffe Stapler]

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?

[Beeblebrox]

well that's just sad.

[Randy from Boise]

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?

No, when the Right does it it is "deficiency signalling."

t

[The Garbage Scow]

Well now he's just having a temper tantrum.

[Midsize Jake]

Well now he's just having a temper tantrum.

He's probably just feeling a little impatient, waiting for March 4th and Donald Trump's triumphal return to power.

[Osborne]

Well now he's just having a temper tantrum.

Isn't he always?

[Mason]

Larry Sanger is owning the libs on Twitter - he blocked @POTUS.

Oh shit, Biden’s going to be so pissed!

[Poetlister]

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.

[Midsize Jake]

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.

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.

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.

[Poetlister]

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.

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.

[Nemo]

More Larry being Larry.

https://twitter.com/lsanger/status/1233922545159745538

Picasso always did suck. Sorry, but it’s true.

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.

Pardon me for not reading the whole thread - but I don't understand what disliking Picasso art has to do with QAnon.

(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).

[tarantino]

I think a couple of Larry threads got merged under one title that's not quite appropriate for every post.

[Midsize Jake]

Pardon me for not reading the whole thread - but I don't understand what disliking Picasso art has to do with QAnon.

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.

[Giraffe Stapler]

First, they came for our guns. Then they came for our bibles.

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?

Skip several intervening posts about the bible being outlawed and/or censored...

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.

[Vigilant]

That's weapons grade cray cray right there.

[The Garbage Scow]

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.

[Mason]

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.

[Beeblebrox]

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.