An End-of-Year Assortment from Stephen Harrison

Here are 20+ Tweets, Links, and Images From the Year.

Dec 30, 2022

We’ve almost survived 2022—or as the cool kids definitely called it, twenty-twenty do.

Below is an assortment of 20+ tweets, links, and images that capture some of the themes of this newsletter for the past year.

Jimmy Wales @jimmy_wales

Not for sale.

Jon Levine @LevineJonathan

I wonder how much Wikipedia would cost? @elonmusk

Stephen Harrison @harrisonstephen

“Editing Wikipedia from a bomb shelter is difficult.” —My Ukrainian source being Ukrainian

slate.comHow the Russian Invasion of Ukraine Is Playing Out on English, Ukrainian, and Russian WikipediaTo understand, we have to begin with the 17-year edit war over “Kyiv” vs. “Kiev.”

Violet Fox @violetbfox

I've now changed about 150 articles in #Wikipedia to replace or remove the wording "wheelchair bound," (and gotten a few thanks for it, which is nice!), but this one editor keeps reverting my edit on one article, saying "wheelchair bound" is correct, and wow is that irritating.

screenshot from Wikipedia, showing me (Skvader) editing the line "Randon is now blind and has been wheelchair-bound since the early 2010s." to "Randon is now blind and has used a wheelchair since the early 2010s." Another editor, Denisaronan, reverts my edit, saying "Original is correct."

Renee Hobbs @reneehobbs

Propaganda in a digital era includes efforts by malicious trolls whose strategy can be both powerful and predictable #mindovermedia

A Top Five of Sorts

A few of the favorite stories I wrote this year for Slate.

How Kindle Novelists are Using AI Tools to Write Fiction

Josh Dzieza, The Verge

“Authors paste what they’ve written into a soothing sunset-colored interface, select some words, and have the AI rewrite them in an ominous tone, or with more inner conflict, or propose a plot twist, or generate descriptions in every sense plus metaphor.”

An AIs’s interpretation of my forthcoming novel, available for preorder on Inkshares.

Eric Wall @ercwl

have you realized yet that the only skill worth working on is how to prompt the ai?

In Writing the Revolution, Heather Ford looks critically at how the Wikipedia article about the 2011 Egyptian Revolution evolved over the course of a decade, both shaping and being shaped by the Revolution as it happened. Read my Goodreads book review.

An AI-generated version of my headshot (via Lensa)

depths of wikipedia @depthsofwiki

loving the big red banner that says CATHOLIC as if you might have forgotten

Tiffany C. Li @tiffanycli

People often make fun of the U.S. for overvaluing free speech at the cost of other civil liberties. But look at how hard people in other nations must fight for the right to protest and to speak freely, even against the government. If we don’t have this, we have nothing.

If you think someone in your life would enjoy this newsletter, please feel free to forward this email to them or invite them to subscribe. And be on the lookout for my new writing—both journalism and fiction—in the new year.

Best,
Stephen

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