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Some pages updated/expanded on #HTYP:
- HTML entity (general info)
- HTML entities - partial list/guide
...because of trying to figure out how to represent
=as an entity (so as not to mess up a template) while documenting Semantic MediaWiki while trying to figure out how to properly implement a feature on #Issuepedia... -
Some pages updated/expanded on #HTYP:
- HTML entity (general info)
- HTML entities - partial list/guide
...because of trying to figure out how to represent
=as an entity (so as not to mess up a template) while documenting Semantic MediaWiki while trying to figure out how to properly implement a feature on #Issuepedia... -
@ruby That is... interesting.
Among the pieces of data I enter when I file a news story on #Issuepedia is the date -- so older stories get put further down the list, regardless of whether I notice how old they are (though of course it's difficult not to notice when you have to copy/paste it) -- and I almost never enter the "updated" date, because that would imply keeping up with future changes as well (which I'd do if I could automate it, but haven't reached that point yet).
...and looking at my page on on the ICE raids, I do see stories about a number of raids that seem to be current, and nothing from before January 23 (probably due to my long hiatus in doing any filing at all). So no apparent problems there.
What I did notice recently was a story about a bill to abolish OSHA (got yer dystopia right here...) -- and all the news articles pointed at his press release about it from 2021, when he first introduced it.
To be fair, it looks like he has repeated it every year since then (most recently December 2024), but the news was treating it like it just happened.
I'll be on the alert, now, for other such oddities...
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@ruby That is... interesting.
Among the pieces of data I enter when I file a news story on #Issuepedia is the date -- so older stories get put further down the list, regardless of whether I notice how old they are (though of course it's difficult not to notice when you have to copy/paste it) -- and I almost never enter the "updated" date, because that would imply keeping up with future changes as well (which I'd do if I could automate it, but haven't reached that point yet).
...and looking at my page on on the ICE raids, I do see stories about a number of raids that seem to be current, and nothing from before January 23 (probably due to my long hiatus in doing any filing at all). So no apparent problems there.
What I did notice recently was a story about a bill to abolish OSHA (got yer dystopia right here...) -- and all the news articles pointed at his press release about it from 2021, when he first introduced it.
To be fair, it looks like he has repeated it every year since then (most recently December 2024), but the news was treating it like it just happened.
I'll be on the alert, now, for other such oddities...
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Some new #Issuepedia pages (pol-, if that wasn't obvious):
- minors having to cross state lines for life-saving procedures - this is where the edit-rabbithole started
- The Shirley Exception
- origin of The Shirley Exception
- Leopards ate my face
- privilege blindness (short)
- personal exceptionalism (shorter)
- legendary freeloader
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@woozle I was just going to ping you into this thread.
Do your own research (DYOR) seems to me a sophistical retort as typically used. I was just checking to see if Issuepedia had a similar entry, though it doesn't seem to: https://issuepedia.org/mw/index.php?search=do+your+own+research&title=Special%3ASearch&go=Go
What DYOR does is:
- Deny the validity of reputable or accepted sources.
- Put all sources on equivalent footing.
- Impose an undue burden on the audience.
- Relieve the source from having to be dilligent, reliable, or credible themselves. "We report, you decide."
Trust is an essential component of any epistomological system. Each individual member cannot individually verify all facts independently. Trust is the extension of belief beyond, but not in opposition to, evidence.
The etymological root of trust is the PIE root *deru- "strong, firm, steadfast", which I find illuminating. https://www.etymonline.com/word/trust
This isn't to say that spot verification or presentation of refuting evidence is unnecessary or bad. Both are good practices. But there's a difference between "question everything" (implied: "at all times"), and "Be prepared to question everything."
Trust saves a phenomenal level of effort, at a small and controllable level of risk. Where trust is found to be unwarranted, it is withdrawn. Those promoting DYOR very often rely on absolutely untrustworthy sources.
#trust #epistemology #issuepedia #dyor #DoYourOwnResearch #sophistry
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@vortex_egg I'd forgotten I'd included that (hazard of writing a lot over time), and now am curious as to what's in it...
@woozle has also created/curated what I refer to (though apparently nobody else) as "The #Woozleplex", a set of wikis on what I see as a pretty tightly interrelated set of concerns.
#Issuepedia is probably most germain to the topic here:
https://issuepedia.org/Issuepedia:Mission