Nine Theses on Wikipedia: A Special Feature
I submit these nine theses to Wikipedia’s community and to the world. I do this, as Martin Luther said when he posted his famous 95 theses, “Out of love for the truth and the desire to elucidate it.” A quarter of a century ago, Jimmy Wales’ company Bomis hired me to start a free encyclopedia. The first draft, from which we learned much, was Nupedia—it made slow progress. So, a year later, on January 2, 2001, when a friend told me about wikis, I immediately began imagining a wiki encyclopedia.
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The Encyclosphere Is Greater than Wikipedia
1. Online information is carefully managed Wikipedia is just one encyclopedia, a ridiculously biased one. The collection of all the encyclopedias—that is what I mean by “the encyclosphere”—is more wide-ranging, fairer, and much
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More movie reviews
Below, you’ll find not just reviews. You’ll find links to around 20 free movies (or they were free when I watched them) on YouTube. Previous reviews: 1 – 2 Rubric: A few more
10 minutesHow Wikipedia Smears Conservatives
Wikipedia continues to affirm its commitment to neutrality. This has become a running joke. Maybe the most persuasive way to show that Wikipedia is filled with bias is just to cite a lot
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People Who Need to Stop
Now with a bonus list of people who should not stop! People Who Should Not Stop
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A dialogue with a chatbot
The following is a dialogue I recently had with a chatbot which shall remain nameless. I was curious about the extent to which the chatbot was aware of itself, and if it would
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Another Bunch of Old Movies, Reviewed
Here are twenty more free movies, reviewed. My habit is to watch mostly older movies for 30 to 60 minutes at a stretch after dinner. One gets through a lot of old black-and-white
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Free Information of the Third Kind
The Generative AI Threat to Freedom, and How You Can Help to Stop It LarrySanger.org has relaunched with a new design I made all by myself. As I am now long gone from
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Several Bible Study Tools and Tricks
There are a lot of great free Bible study resources online. Since I am about to start a new two-year (but in-depth) Bible study on April 2, I thought I would give you
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(Currently) Free Movies I Enjoyed
Here are some movies I found on YouTube, which are currently free, and which I enjoyed (well, most of them). Merry Christmas! The Most Dangerous Game (1932). 3. IMDb: 7.1. Early Hollywood thriller/horror
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Against Cannibalism
UPDATED; first published August 25, 2019. For further evidence of a rising interest in cannibalism, see this Twitter thread. I’m going to go out on a limb and declare that eating people is
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Support the Knowledge Standards Foundation:
/larrysanger- I invited my X peeps to ask me questions and then "like" the various questions, and I would upload the answers in video form. Here it is! Christian identity – 1:10 "Call no man teacher" – 9:25 Role of government – 15:45 Authority & resistance – 19:15 Wikipedia labor – 24:20 Net value of Wikipedia […]
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- While I was raised Christian, I lost my faith in my teens, as so many do. But my life has been a truth-seeking quest, and I ended up earning a Ph.D. in philosophy (as I was starting Wikipedia). My reasons for disbelief fell away one by one; eventually I read the Bible, finally, for good […]