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Sad Story

Not a screenshot of despair. But only because it s not a screenshot.

Quote #75514

Although I never submitted to it, I made several appearances in the now-defunct quote database on bash.org (QDB). I m dealing with a broken keyboard now, and went to dig hard to find this classic in the Wayback machine. I thought I would put it back on the web: It was, in fact, horrble.

How taboo shapes knowledge production on Wikipedia

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Pronunciation

Had a discussion about how to pronounce the name of Google s chatbot. Turns out, we were all wrong.

What makes online groups vulnerable to governance capture?

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Why do people participate in similar online communities?

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What do people do when they edit Wikipedia through Tor?

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Dialogue

Me: Do you want your coffee in a Japanese or Western style tea cup? M: Yunomi. Me: Apparently not as well as you think I do!

Effects of Algorithmic Flagging on Fairness: Quasi-experimental Evidence from Wikipedia

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Thug Life

My current playlist is this diorama of Lulu the Piggy channeling Tupac Shakur in a toy vending machine in the basement of New World Mall in Flushing Chinatown.

Being a bread torus

A concerned nutritional epidemiologist in Tokyo realizes that if you are what you eat, that means It s a similar situation in Seoul, albeit with less oil and more confidence.