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--Guy Macon

• "A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction into a battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull day." -- Calvin, of Calvin and Hobbes
  

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• "Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be -- or to be indistinguishable from -- self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time." --Neil Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
  

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• On the desperation of Jimmy's banners
  

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"The Revolution's main adversaries were the patriots and the people from Braveheart," said speaker Tim Capodice, who has edited hundreds of Wikipedia entries on subjects as diverse as Euclidian geometry and Ratfucking. "The patriots, being a rag-tag group of misfits, almost lost on several occasions. But after a string of military antics and a convoluted scheme involving chicken feathers and an inflatable woman, the British were eventually defeated despite a last-minute surge, by a score of 89–87."
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User:Guy Macon/On the Diameter of the Sewer cover in front of Greg L’s house
(Note: needs a "in popular culture" section.) --Guy Macon

— hike395 (talk) 22:39, 20 July 2026 (UTC)

FINALLY someone who speaks my language!

One day we will have a Blorgkish Wikipedia... --Guy Macon (talk) 02:53, 21 July 2026 (UTC)

I speak Blorgkish but with a Gralpbish accent. Hyperbolick (talk) 08:41, 21 July 2026 (UTC)

WP:BLORGKVAR --Guy Macon (talk) 11:02, 21 July 2026 (UTC)

• The Entire Population of Earth Staring at Their Phones Before Bed Every Single Night Since 2010 --Totally legit source. Trust me, bro.

--Guy Macon (talk) 17:20, 1 August 2026 (UTC)

“We found that reading an email from your boss with the subject line ‘Quick chat?’ induces the exact same level of panic and insomnia in ‘Night Shift’ amber mode as it does in full, retina-searing high definition.” Thank God I retired before that became a thing. As it was, I had to live with getting to work in the morning and hearing my boss say, "I couldn't sleep last night, so I was thinking ..." Donald Albury 17:33, 1 August 2026 (UTC)

• The Wikimedia Foundation Hired the Union Busters Its Own Encyclopedia Warned About --Medium

Key Quote: "For two months the Foundation assured everyone who would listen that it respected the right to organize and intended to negotiate in good faith. Then it was revealed it had hired the most notorious union-avoidance firm in the United States. Those two facts deserve to sit side by side, in the sunlight, which is what encyclopedias are for."

--Guy Macon (talk) 23:15, 3 August 2026 (UTC)

Thank you for your intervention. There's an important distinction between acupuncture and a vinyl album.

When you apply a needle, the disc becomes sound. Certes (talk) 09:00, 10 August 2026 (UTC)

Sound vs. unsound... (Smile). I often make a sound when someone sticks me with a needle... Another difference, with acupuncture the result is the same if you stick the needles in the wrong place and even stays the same if there is no needle at all. With a phonograph record, operating it with no needle changes the output quite a bit. --Guy Macon (talk) 01:14, 11 August 2026 (UTC)

I'd be happy to be convinced otherwise, but the wordiness and style raised my suspicions, and I kept seeing strongly AI-indicative constructions and the general feel of non-cohesive rhetoric that AI frequently produces. By the time I was about halfway through the article I decided to put it into GPTZero and it came back 100% AI. Here's what pinged my radar:

• three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics... ...The genre those employers produce deserves its own taxonomy - the Twain quote isn't about a taxonomy of lies? This is a weird hook into an AI-like bullet pointed rhetorical structure. But humans do this too sometimes so read on.
• Every entry on that page cuts twice... [STATEMENT] [STATEMENT] - more bullet point rhetoric.
• The conditional tense is the tell. This is the sentence that moved me from "huh" to outright suspicion. AI loves to pick out a "salient" point and start a paragraph by telling you about its insight.
• ...conceded the point twice over... more truthy grouping.
• That gets the law backwards twice. Another "vague grouping" rhetorical structure poorly connected with the content of the paragraph (what are the two instances referred to, and what law is "backwards" in each one?). This is the point where I thought "I'm pretty sure this is AI, let's try GPTZero as a second test". It gave me 100% AI for the entire article as well as for individual subsections tested by themselves.

If the author is really above suspicion of posting AI content I'd love to know that so I can recalibrate my recognition heuristics. -- LWG ^{talk (VOPOV)} 15:55, 20 August 2026 (UTC)

Unsure based on the AN/I if you are aware of this, sorry if you are, but you can mute pings from other editors in Special:Preferences. CMD (talk) 00:26, 22 August 2026 (UTC)

Yes. I am fully aware of that, but thanks!

The problem is that it is an all-or-nothing tool. I want notifications when VPP suddenly goes off on a page I am not watching and starts attacking me. I don't want a ping every time they reply to me in a discussion I am participating in on a page that I am watching. I put in a request that notification muting have more granularity, but the WMF is too busy with things like Wikipedia:Village pump (WMF)#AI-generated edit suggestions to be bothered with small quality-of-life changes like that. --Guy Macon (talk) 09:21, 22 August 2026 (UTC)

https://catfishing.net/ is a once-a-day game, the object of which is to guess the title of a Wikipedia entry based on its categories. I found it to be rather fun to play. --Guy Macon (talk) 13:15, 11 September 2026 (UTC)

Thanks. I gave it a try, and I guessed right! --Tryptofish (talk) 20:34, 11 September 2026 (UTC)

The redirect Wikipedia:1AM has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2026 September 16 § Wikipedia:1AM until a consensus is reached. In solidarity, Gommeh ^{(talk 🎮 sign)} 15:39, 16 September 2026 (UTC)

...and the overwhelming consensus was to keep it. --Guy Macon (talk) 02:29, 21 September 2026 (UTC)

https://slop-sense.labtoagi.com/games/is-this-image-ai/

Can you tell a real photo from AI? Click on the above to test your skills.

As the timer ticks down, you’ll be furiously searching for extra fingers, mangled text, or things that "that just don't look right".

Feel free to post and tell me how you did. (I did embarrassingly poorly). --Guy Macon (talk) 02:40, 21 September 2026 (UTC)

Ok, so, no, I cannot tell AI from photo. :/ guninvalid (talk) 07:47, 21 September 2026 (UTC)

Alas, the trick doesn't show up in the table of contents or view history tab. Both of which handle it in different ways.

Sometimes you look at "features" of the software that runs Wikipedia and ask yourself "what were they thinking?".

--Guy Macon (talk) 20:12, 21 September 2026 (UTC)

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Bludgeoning on Talk Linux. Note that this does not imply any wrongdoing on your part; only that you may have been involved in the events being discussed and that your input would be valuable. Guy Macon (talk) 23:58, 23 September 2026 (UTC)