
2025-09-20 16:31:13
Mass killings
Was looking through Wikipedia's list of mass killings in America (#guns #GunViolence #Shooting
Mass killings
Was looking through Wikipedia's list of mass killings in America (#guns #GunViolence #Shooting
Do I know any Wikipedians who can review a draft of an article and see if it's ready to be approved for publication? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Morris_Hayes
I know it's hopelessly naive of me (and it's going to go over like a lead balloon on here), but I often think that AI can kind of reset the scales on Brandolini's law.
You see some of this dynamic with Grok already, where despite Musk's best efforts, the poor bot just keeps outputting consensus reality.
What's more, the hardcore X crowd is more than happy to ask Grok to fact check any single tweet. There is real appetite for a quick, automated fact checker.
Being autistic, I have to keep telling myself, "Yes, being gender-fluid is valid, and Norway lets me be who I am," just to really accept myself. 🏳️⚧️🇳🇴
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_fluidity
Today we saw a white-eared opossum and that's how I learned that Argentinians call them "comadreja" - literally weasel.
The evolutionary biologist in me is extremely amused by that, their shared ancestry is that both opossum and weasels are mammals, but that's it. And they definitely look like their ancestry stops there. 😅
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-eared_opossum
authoritarian politics, Thomas Mann
... An excellent, powerful exhibition on democracy and despotism through the life and writing of local lad Thomas Mann, roughly 1890s to 1950s (now two Nobel references in one thread).
Rich set of contemporary and current images (Pegida, AfD etc), lots of visitor engagement. Folk were taking this in slowly, giving me time for some online translation.
➡️ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Mann
I rarely leave my neighborhood these days, so when the opportunity came last weekend to visit a town about 80 km from my home, I took a little detour to visit and take photos of the town’s only national historical marker.
(Those who have been following me long enough know that documenting historical markers in #Wikidata and
@… hey, thanks for the follow! I saw you follow the Chinafake wiki on tumblr and on here as well, so I assume you know me :P
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