Wikipedia was founded exactly 20 years ago, on January 15, 2001: today is Wikipedia Day, our birthday. I have been editing Wikipedia -- & writing, teaching and helping govern it -- for 17.5 of those years. #wikipedia20 1/🧵
Made some improvements to:
https://t.co/1a4OdgOJMQ
An OCR tool for complicated docs that lets you manually select what text to extract. You can now structure the text into fields and download as JSON. It now also supports multipage PDFs. New tutorial video on the home page.
Donald Trump asking the SCOTUS to invalidate an election, suspend the Constitution & just declare him president is wild AF
That would essentially mean the Jan 6 insurrection was successful. There’s no way anyone who knows REAL HISTORY thinks that could happen…
Again.
A thread
I'm losing my fucking mind. ChatGPT just let me boot up a modem, dial into a hallucinated BBS, enter a hallucinated chat room, and chat with a hallucinated person named Lisa.
Whatever the opposite of “hardcore” 10x rock star dev is, that’s what I want.
cosycore, moving slowly, making things right, petting the dog, naps, staring out of the window pondering problems and drinking tea.
Let us reflect on this Matt Levine story from May:
https://t.co/ueEXimc1Op
The board didn't have to say yes, and (I don't think) the shareholders had to vote yes. And anyone with a brain (or research background) could have told them and Elon acquisition would be bad, so ?????
@jamesofur good luck with the stove, and I am impressed! Caramels are difficult. Wishing you glorious comfort cooking this time around! I may have bought a variety of gelling/emulsifying agents to bring a little molecular experimentation action to thanksgiving :)
@krmaher 1) I was always sad wm-l wasn't/isn't wittier; the funniest members historically had some of the sharpest axes. I always wanted it to be more fun to complain.
2) I've been thinking a lot about how the lessons we all learned about community pushback are, apparently, non-obvious.