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"Supreme Court" and "Hate Speech" were trending on Twitter yesterday after the courtroom exchanges in the Court of Justice KM Joseph and Justice BV Nagarathna were widely discussed on social media.

It was reported that when Solicitor General Tushar Mehta pointed out the instances of alleged hate speech against Brahmins by DMK leader, Justice KM Joseph smiled and Solicitor General retorted by saying that it is not a matter to be laughed at.

Yesterday evening, the Wikipedia page of Justice KM Joseph was edited to add the sentence, Justice KM Joseph is a judge of the Supreme Court of India "nick named as smiling Judge for smiling at genocide call against Hindu Brahmins on the court floor".

The screenshot of the edited page was then shared on social media. The additions were then removed through multiple edits and the editing of the page has now been restricted by imposing a "semi-protection" status to prevent "disruption or vandalism from new or unregistered users".

Justice Joseph had also remarked that "action has an equal reaction" and that "people will react", when instances of the raising of slogans of "Sar Tan Se Juda" in different parts of the Country by members of the minority community and a clip of hate speech during a PFI rally in Kerala were pointed out before the Bench by the Solicitor General and the Counsel for an intervenor.

The Apex Court was considering an intervention application by Hindu front for Justice-Trust, an NGO from Uttar Pradesh. The application said, "Some recent instances of hate speeches, utterances and statements made against Hindus and Hindu religion by members of Muslim and Christian community are being placed on record in a summarized form".

In its application, the NGO has pointed out eight instances of beheading calls by members of the Muslim community (Sar Tan se Juda) and that "after such call actual incidents of beheading have taken place". The NGO has also pointed out other instances of hate speech directed against the Hindu community as a whole and against Brahmins.

The remarks of Justice Joseph resulted in a storm on social media with may expressing shock at the oral observations made by the highest court.

"Hate speech cant be pardoned because it is said by someone famous Great thread, where Indias Solicitor General Tushar Mehta shows examples of hate speech to Justice Joseph" tweeted Amit Malviya, the head of BJP's IT Cell.

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Aaron Rodgers is well known for his outbursts against the Chicago Bears after defeating the team in recent years. However, the quarterback is on the wrong end of a similar situation with the Detroit Lions after stumbling against the team twice in 2022.

The safety credited with changing the shape of the game, Kerby Joseph, has received plenty of praise from the anti-Rodgers camp.

The safety has received so much praise for his work that the Lions player is listed on Wikipedia as "the father of Aaron Rodgers." Here's how the page put it via Good Morning Football and Wikipedia:

Will the Detroit Lions win more games than the Packers in 2023?

One could argue that the Detroit Lions alone tanked the quarterback's season. Had he even gone .500 against the team, the Packers would have reached the playoffs and today's offseason drama may not have taken place. Instead, the Lions demolished the team's offense in 2022, winning by a combined score of 3525.

In the first matchup of 2022, the No. 12 threw for one touchdown and three interceptions as the team dropped their fifth game in a row. Then, between the first matchup and the second matchup, he looked more like himself, throwing for 11 touchdowns and four interceptions.

Heading into the game against Detroit, the team looked as dominant as ever. That said, at the same time, the Lions were riding their own late-season win streak. Despite missing the playoffs earlier that day due to outcomes in other games, they came to Green Bay ready to throw down.

The four-time MVP turned back into the version of himself from the first matchup in the second half, and threw a late interception that closed the game.

Assuming the deal with the New York Jets goes through, the last image of the quarterback in the minds of Packers fans would essentially be the interception.

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Wikipedia describes Lions safety as Aaron Rodgers father after forcing three interceptions against 4x MVP - Sportskeeda

All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopedia by Simon Garfield

Published in February 2023

The only time that I ever worked outside higher education was when I worked for Encyclopdia Britannica. If you are interested, that story is detailed in a blog post I wrote in 2010.

My professional connection to Britannica is why I couldnt wait to read Simon Garfields new book, All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopedia.

I recommend All the Knowledge in the World to even those who never worked for an encyclopedia company. Anyone fascinated by the origins, evolution and the ultimate mortality of print encyclopedias will love this book. Wikipedia enthusiasts, from casual consumers to dedicated contributors, will also gain much from reading the book.

While I am confident that my experience working for Britannica makes me biased, I have long believed that those of us in higher education can learn much from the story of encyclopedias.

When I went to work for Britannica, the brand currency of the company was incredibly strong. The first print edition of the Encyclopdia Britannica was published in 1768. Near the end of the 20th century, when I joined the company, Britannica felt solid, consequential and permanent as our oldest and most established of universities.

Today, wellyou know the story. The last print edition of Encyclopdia Britannica came out in 2010. Purchasing complete used print encyclopedia sets is possible for very little money.

One of the questions that Garfield asks in All the Knowledge in the World is how the print encyclopedia became extinct so rapidly. How could a product with so much cultural heft and brand legitimacy become obsolete so quickly?

Certainly, digitization was one element in the death of the print encyclopedia. Microsofts CD-ROM Encarta, built on the old Funk & Wagnalls encyclopedia after Britannica refused to license its content, was creating competitive pressure for Britannica. But it was not until Wikipedia was launched in 2001 that the print encyclopedia was doomed to extinction.

All the Knowledge in the World is excellent at telling the long historical story of all encyclopedias, including those that predated Britannica. The book does a great job of detailing the 20th-century history of Britannica and the full story of Wikipedias creation, challenges and impact.

What is mostly absent from Garfields narrative is the inside story of how Britannica attempted to pivot to the digital age. Someone should write a book about how the company split itself into two divisions, one for Encyclopdia Britannica and one for Britannica.com. At the height of the first dot-com bubble, Britannica opened up all its content for free online in 1999. The site promptly crashed from demand that Britannicas servers couldnt handle.

In 2020, Britannica.com released maybe the worst Super Bowl ad of all time. (You can watch it here.)

What ultimately killed Britannica was not the transition from analog to digital. Or the internet. A free, ad-supported Britannica.com might have done really well. The reason why the cultural and brand value, not to mention monetary value, of Britannica today is a shadow of its former self is because of Wikipedia.

It turned out that a user-written and edited online encyclopedia is superior to a professionally written and edited online encyclopedia.

At the time of Wikipedias launch, nobody working at Britannica believed that that site would ever be a threat. How could it? Britannica had been investing in quality for well over 200 years.

Back in 2012, when The New York Times declared the Year of the MOOC, some within higher ed wondered if universities were having their own Wikipedia moment.

Having had a front-row seat to both the decline of the print encyclopedia and the birth of the massive open online course, I had my doubts.

But just because MOOCs failed to do to residential postsecondary education what Wikipedia did to the print encyclopedia does not mean that our campus-based universities are immune from existential threats.

So far, programs like UT Austins new $10,000 online master of science in artificial intelligence (MSAI) seem to be strengthening the residential-first institutions in which they are emerging.

What high-quality, low-cost scaled online degree programs will mean for the broader residential and online university ecosystem remains an open question.

If the history of the print encyclopedia tells us in higher education anything, it is that we should resist the urge to assume that we can fully predict our future.

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I dont know about you, but Ive always been addicted to those shows that have you guessing the price of an object. Im horrible at the guesswork, mind you, but its absurdly fun to estimate how much lighter somebodys pockets will be when they have their sights set on something particularly pretty which is why we have a little equation ready for your Wednesday bike news lineup.

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A 1993 Moto Guzzi Daytona 1000 was originally shipped to Athens with a purported 10 miles on the odometer and all the standard parts that a dealer would assemble to sell the completed machine on the showroom floor after uncrating it (via RideApart).

The bikes original Moto Guzzi warranty card comes included in the crate, as well as a pre-delivery checklist intended for dealers to check off, a bill of sale, and a manufacturers certificate of origin.

The bike, unridden for 30 years, was later auctioned off at Bring A Trailer auctions.

Whats your best guess on what the winning bid paid out to have this gal?

If you guessed upwards of $30k USD, youre headed in the right direction; were told that the new owner of this 1993 Moto Guzzi Daytona 1000 paid out a comfy $31,500 USD, putting the heritage racing machine in the firing range of more than a few commentators who believe the pricepoint to have been too much.

Considering the Daytona 1000 sports a rich racing pedigree from a brand whose untimely financial struggles ended up stunting the Daytonas successes on track, the find is both rare and valuable to those who know what theyre looking for (via Wikipedia).

What do you think? Was this 1993 Moto Guzzi Daytona 1000 worth her $31,500 USD final bid?

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Guess the Guzzi: How Much Did This 1993 Daytona 1000 Bring In? - webBikeWorld

This whole social-media mogul thing started with Annie Rauwerda being captivated by a Wikipedia entry about cow tippingthe purported activity of sneaking up on any unsuspecting or sleeping upright cow and pushing it over for entertainment, according to the internets massive user-curated encyclopedia.

What actually grabbed her were the entrys photos and captions: Cows routinely lie down to sleep, the caption reads, under a photo of a slumbering bovine.

Another: A healthy cow lying on her side is not immobilized; she can rise whenever she chooses, it proclaims under a picture of a cow lying down with her head raised.

Rauwerda mines the weirdest, most absurd, and oddly fascinating Wikipedia entries for her project Depths of Wikipedia, a group of social media accounts on Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter. Her nearly two million followers include singers John Mayer and Troye Sivan and actors Olivia Wilde and Jesse Eisenberg.

Rauwerda, who grew up in Grand Rapids, Mich., and is a member of Cascade Fellowship Christian Reformed Church, says her curiosity and sense of wonder was cultivated at home, at church, and as a student at Grand Rapids Christian Schools.

In Christian school, I was always interested in morality, in right and wrong, but I never felt indoctrinated, she said. Starting in middle school I was interested in what Greek word was used (in a certain Bible passage). The teachers were focused on getting students like me to think for themselves.

After graduating high school, Rauwerda took a gap year in Chicago through Americorps, tutoring young students in math and science. In 2019 she started a neuroscience degree at the University of Michigan, where she contributed a page to a friends zine project during the pandemics quarantine period in April 2020. My page was all these weird Wikipedia things, she said.

She began to post oddities from Wikipedia on her Instagram page, which got a major boost when internet celebrity and influencer Caroline Calloway posted some of the content on her stories. It snowballed from there, Rauwerda said.

With more than 55 million Wikipedia entries, the 23-year-old has her work cut out for her as she tries to curate the strangest and most obscure articles. The first thing to blow my mind was an entry about sexually active popes, she said. Other topics shes highlighted include exploding trousers, water pie, chess on a really big board, and a recipe for toast sandwiches, which calls for two pieces of bread with toast in the middle. Her hilarious captions make the entries even funnier.

Since graduating from Michigan in the spring of 2022, Rauwerda has laid aside neuroscience for now and is making a living from gigs related to Depths of Wikipedia. She has a full schedule of live stand-up shows booked (Eisenberg joined her on stage at a sold-out New York City show, and she has given workshops on editing Wikipedia pages.)

Its fun to be curious, Rauwerda said. I always think about the New York Times slogan All the News Thats Fit to Print. Theres no way thats all the news that's fit to print, because the world is full of all these crazy stories. There is so much wonder out there.

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Excavating Wikipedia for Fun and Profit - The Banner