Downloaded 10,000 citations from recent English Wikipedia Good Article candidates and their non-English same-topic counterparts.

Only 61% fetchable, between 404s, paywalls, botwalls, etc. Not great.

This is what a prize-winning pumpkin, weighing 2,389 pounds looks like!

#today #pumpkin #PumpkinsOfMastodon

RE: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/117429502412235079

Please tell me the #CRA makes (or would have made) the fridge company liable for this.

It’s decorative #carryshitolympics season, mfers

RE: https://mas.to/@carnage4life/117419314419730347

So where is the Wikipedia article on this phenomenon

Another day, another vastly wealthy company creating more work for open source maintainers without paying maintainers.

https://www.anthropic.com/research/launching-opt-in-vuln-finding-service-for-open-source

I am tiring of explaining to Wikipedians that WMF is in the grips of a brutal, near-textbook* innovator's dilemma. Changes to leadership and unionization may be good, but they won't fix that core fact.

* textbook requires getting undercut on price, which isn't the case here because free

RE: https://mastodon.social/@RadishTM/117389096036905019

I have never really been all that interested in Lego Batmobiles but ... I sort of want this duck.

RE: https://fediscience.org/@hausfath/117389249403802251

Good thread that pushes some of my assumptions. Don't love the implications (we really, really need to start cutting more actively into carbon, not just decreasing growth) but better than the alternatives.

RE: https://tech.intersects.art/@roadside/117389274744549625

I'm not an advocate for a court packing, I just want a

TIL that "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa", which I've been intrigued by for a while, is 985 pages. 😬

RE: https://tech.intersects.art/@pomological/117374339514810361

hawt

I like this framing of LLMs as "intelligence amplification". For Wikimedians and Wikipedia, the question is where are humans involved: still subject to the healthiest and best of our community constraints? Or does that migrate fully to big model providers? https://backofmind.substack.com/p/because-i-say-so-thats-why

Historic England’s public domain photos are now offline, after the company it used to provide them online (with DRM) failed:

"A public body spent six figures locking pictures, then cancelled the only stable identifier... HIAS Principle 5 was 'a national overview should continue to be delivered online through the Heritage Gateway.' Principle 6 was that knowledge 'should not be at risk of loss, fragmentation… or system obsolescence.' They managed both in a fortnight."

https://www.sarsen.org/2026/09/historic-englands-photos-didnt-vanish.html?m=1

New post: What a Harness Can Promise That a Prompt Can't

https://lu.is/2026/09/harness-versus-prompt/

#llm #wikipedia #harness #openknowledge

Today in Tubi ad targeting is weird: political ads for a state-level office in Michigan?

Yesterday: the first-ever time I've seen an ad for... legal AI?

RE: https://aoir.social/@kdriscoll/117316079613715987

This, uh, may be appealing to some of my followers. By which I mean most of you.

Secret Panel HERE 🐻 https://patreon.com/mrlovenstein/posts/silly-mood-89564928

How does this person think “cojones” is pronounced

RE: https://social.noleron.com/@clackups/117298816047913460

This is a super-cool hack.