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recent bookmarks from jmVatican flag SVG on Wikimedia Commons was incorrect for 5 years, and widely copied2023-03-23T11:37:03+00:00
https://www.reddit.com/r/vexillology/comments/11yw4z4/from_20172022_the_vatican_flag_svg_on_wikimedia/
jmIn 2017 a Wikimedia Commons user changed the inside of the tiara to red because that's how it appears on the Vatican Coat of Arms. But this assumption turned out to be faulty, because the official flag spec sheet uses different colors than the Coat of Arms. The mistake was quickly noticed by an anonymous IP who wrote an extensive and well-researched explanation of the error on the file's talk page. Unfortunately, nobody read it, and the mistake lived on for 5 years before another user noticed it and reverted the file.
]]>wikipedia wikimedia commons vatican flags oopshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:224c18ce802e/The "Tragedy of the Commons" was invented by a white supremacist based on a false history, and it's toxic bullshit / Boing Boing2019-03-11T14:38:12+00:00
https://boingboing.net/2019/03/07/scientific-fraud.html
jmHardin's paper starts with a history of the English Commons -- publicly held lands that were collectively owned and managed -- and the claim that commons routinely fell prey to the selfish human impulse to overgraze your livestock on public land (and that even non-selfish people would overgraze their animals because they knew that their more-selfish neighbors would do so even if they didn't).
But this isn't what actually happened to the Commons: they were stable and well-managed until other factors (e.g. rich people trying to acquire even more land) destabilized them.
Hardin wasn't just inventing false histories out of a vacuum. He was, personally, a nasty piece of work: a white supremacist and eugenicist, and the Tragedy of the Commons paper is shot through with this vile ideology, arguing that poor people should not be given charity lest they breed beyond their means (Hardin also campaigned against food aid). Hardin was a director of the Federation for American Immigration Reform and the white nationalist Social Contract Press, and co-founded anti-immigrant groups like Californians for Population Stabilization and The Environmental Fund.
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https://opensource.googleblog.com/2017/09/introducing-abseil-new-common-libraries.html
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