RationalWikiMar 4
@davidgerard #RationalWiki has been getting hammered either by #DDoS or #AI scraper attacks since at least March 3.
MegatronicThronBanksFeb 4

#libertarian #bullshit #leopards #faces #rationalwiki #georgecarlin #reality

Libertarians and Libertarianism

I was a little worried, but it turns out with no need. Rationalwiki came through where it counted.

"One of the more pretentious political self-descriptions is “Libertarian.” People think it puts them above the fray. It sounds fashionable, and to the uninitiated, faintly dangerous. Actually, it’s just one more bullshit political philosophy."

—George Carlin

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Libertarianism

Show threadBongolianJan 25

@BohemianPeasant It was also #fascism in Trump's first term, but fewer people said it.

#RationalWiki #trump
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Fascism#Paxton

RationalWikiJan 14

Just how enshittified is #Google search?

#RationalWiki is just one of many smaller sites that have been downgraded by Google or even totally messed up by Google's search indexing.

#enshittification #SEO

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/RationalWiki:Technical_support#Google_non-indexing_RW_.28again.29

BongolianNov 29

The nugget of truth behind the "27 Club" urban legend

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/27_Club

Johanna Hepp et al.: The price of fame? Mortality risk among famous singers

https://jech.bmj.com/content/early/2025/11/19/jech-2025-224589

#music #death #RationalWiki

RationalWikiNov 23

#RationalWiki is now back and functioning without any significant outages for 3 days. 503 errors were apparently caused by an actor (or actors) on #Alibaba Cloud doing scraping for #AI, and also affected other sites that were unprotected and unable to handle the #DDoS load.

#CloudComputing #scraping

BongolianNov 19

After a multi-day outage caused by #AI #botnets, #RationalWiki is back online, and is apparently stable, though Javascript is now required for browsing.
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Main_Page

AI propagandists want people to believe that generative AI is a golden hammer, but outward appearances make it appear more like an ordinary sledge hammer.
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Golden_hammer

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MegatronicThronBanksNov 17

#rationalwiki

RationalWiki is still screwed.

https://scienceforums.net/topic/140073-has-rationalwiki-been-taken-down/

Rick Moen 🇺🇸 🇳🇴 🇬🇧Nov 2

@RationalWiki , as a longtime admirer of RationalWiki , I'll just mention in case this hasn't been noticed that the Vanish cache layer currently cannot reach the back end engine (site therefore being down). Best wishes for site recovery, good folks.

#skepticism
#CriticalThinking
#RationalWiki

BongolianOct 22

"On the Trail of the Jackalope: How a Legend Captured the World's Imagination and Helped Us Cure #Cancer", as cited in the #RationalWiki page on the #HPV vaccine.

@jakalopes
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/HPV_vaccine

HPV vaccine

The HPV vaccine (or HPV shot) is a vaccine that immunizes against various forms of human papillomavirus (HPV), depending on which vaccine you get. There are three vaccines currently in existence: a nonavalent shot, a quadrivalent shot, and a bivalent shot.[2] The vaccine is relatively recent; the first shot became available in the United States in 2006.[3] The shot is so pivotal to human health that it is currently on the World Health Organization's list of essential medicines.[4] Additionally, HPV vaccines are recommended as part of routine vaccinations in all countries by the World Health Organization.[5] HPV vaccines were accessible in over 100 countries as of 2019.[6]

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