Wayback Machine won't archive my Twitter/X Sandusky Case Update

 I have a Twitter/X blue check, so I can write posts as articles. I'm using this feature to post updates on the the Jerry Sandusky case which I've been absorbed in for what's getting to be very close to a decade now. My latest is on Sara Ganim writing for Playboy:

Sara Ganim Now Writing for Playboy

I was very critical of her, especially her Playboy author page saying that she is writing a media ethics text for the Society of Professional Journalists. When I  was going over the links, I couldn't get this author page to load. When I finally got it to load, it wouldn't save in the Wayback Machine. I finally did get it to save. Ganim had written two articles and the byline on one was not a link. I archived it and saw that it had two earlier saves that DID have a link. Now this might not mean anything, but I wanted to archive my X article post and its thread. The Wayback Machine wouldn't let me responding with:

Sorry

We’re currently facing some limitations when it comes to archiving this site. We apologize for any inconvenience this might cause and appreciate your understanding. Please email us at "info@archive.org" if you would like to discuss this more. 

So I'm going to post some screen caps here and perhaps archive this post to the Wayback Machine.

Amazon Cracks Down on Snarky Reviews

Before Jennifer Granholm was announced as Secretary of Energy, I was perusing the comments of my now banner post at my big time blog gig over at Climate Scepticism. Ron Clutz made a comment about green energy scams and I replied with a comment abut how our former Michigan governor got scammed into going on stage and awarding a $9 million tax credit to a convicted fraudster named Richard Short. I'd remembered going through her book at the library and not finding anything about it so I wanted to mention it in my comment. I went to Amazon to see if the book had the index in the Look Inside part just to sort of double check. I was surprised to see the kindle version was only $1.99 (still a couple of orders of magnitude more than its worth) so I bought it with thoughts of writing a review. BTW after her new appointment it has gone up to $9.99.

I've Accumulated Two More Prominent Twitter Blocks

I've accumulated a couple more prominent Twitter blocks. The first is Jerry Taylor. He was an environmental skeptic for the Cato Institute, who sort of switched sides after something of a falling out over advice he used (probably from Pat Michaels) in a debate with Joe Romm. He's now the president of a centrist think tank called the Niskanen Center. Here's a couple links to connect Pat Michaels and Joe Romm.

He's not terribly prominent with 9000 followers, but he does get cited a lot. He's not a 100% renewables zealot, but he does buy into a lot of the renewable hype. He's not anti-nuclear, but also not a big proponent. He does think it should play a roll and castigates anti-nukers. His tweets generally don't get a lot of responses, so I've made a lot of (mostly polite) responses to his climate and energy tweets. In his profile, he says he blocks trolls and in my profile, I refer to myself as a "Fact Mongering Nuclear Troll", along with two other pejorative descriptions.

Amazon Ups requirements for Customer Reviews

I just finished Alex Epstein's The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels, and I was going to write an Amazon review. When I clicked the "write a review" button, they hit me with a red box that said I didn't meet the minimum eligibility requirements.

My first thoughts on seeing this were that I'd probably made some transgression that they were cracking down on. I spend a lot of time on Amazon reviews, reading, writing and commenting, and I do like to push the limits of what I can do. I clicked to their guidelines page and found that they've added some new requirements:

Twitter Block Update

I've been blocked by a few more people on Twitter. A couple of them appear to have done it preemptively. First, there's Katharine Hayhoe, who is getting something of a reputation as a Twitter blocker. I don't remember ever tweeting to her. And now I've found out that Twitter has a nifty advanced search. It's a little tricky to find. First you search for anything. Then hit the "Search Filters Show" button. Then hit "Advanced Search".  There's all kinds of search options. I found I made no tweets to Katharine Hayhoe, but did make some that mention her account.

The other preemptive block was anti-nuclear zealot Helen Caldicott. I made no tweets to or mentioning her. I tweet quite a bit about nuclear power, so she clearly took preemptive action.

I've got a couple blocks due to my interest in the Penn State Paterno/Sandusky case. PZ Myers blocked me for tweeting to him about it. He still lets me comment on his blog, Pharyngula, on other topics. The other block is a motor mouth named Steve Shives. I have another blog called Canman Canned Facts where I blog about the Penn State scandal. 

I just got blocked by Sarah Myhre for tweeting to her that I thought she was hysterical. I had no intention of being misogynistic, but that is the only word I could think of to describe her. She is hyper-emotional, almost beyond parody. She's apparently blocking quite a few other twitterers. Judith Curry has a new post up with some stunning quotes from Myhre. She's also tweeted about it.

PS:  Here's a link to Twitter's advance search. It even works when you're not logged in, so you can search for tweets from people who've blocked you.


List of Links:

https://twitter.com/KHayhoe

https://twitter.com/DrHCaldicott

https://twitter.com/pzmyers

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/

https://twitter.com/steve_shives

https://canmancannedfacts.blogspot.com/

https://twitter.com/SarahEMyhre

https://judithcurry.com/2018/12/12/cliff-mass-victim-of-academic-political-bullying/

https://twitter.com/curryja/status/1072959865952370692

https://twitter.com/search-advanced

Willard Cuts Me Off at And Then There's Physics

[Update: Willard won't let me link to this post. BUILD A GATE!]
[Update: Just in case it's not clear, my first two comments were not deleted. My other comment would better be described as "snipped" rather than "not posted", so I FIFY.]

Anders's gatekeeper, Willard, has cut off a subtopic that I brought up in a post about consensus. He also says his next post will be on this very topic, which is CAGW. I'm looking forward to it.

This is the comment I posted:

The big, obvious, elephantine, taboo question, whenever someone is talking about “climate” and “consensus”, is:

Is this a consensus about whether AGW is happening (real or whatever) or is this a consensus about whether it is dangerous?

This is a very important distinction, and everything I ever read from konsensus types is always a big load of BS, blather meant to avoid, conflate or confuse this distinction!

Never Mind -- Well Maybe Not Never

In my last post, I wrote about a comment of mine that I thought might have been spoofed. After publishing it, I've had my mind jogged by something that reminded me of a comment that I do remember making. I was commenting on this post at the blog, And Then There's Physics, where I found a comment of mine that contained only a cryptic moderation note in brackets. I could not remember making a comment there and I found seeing my avatar, name and Gravatar link to be disconcerting. I tried to think of any comment I might of made there and came up blank. I even sent a note to WordPress on one of their contact pages.

Well looking through my browsing history, I came upon a link I remembered using in a comment. I now pretty much remember the whole comment and I do think I posted it in this spot. In this comment, I berated alarmists for not debating. I included the YouTube video of Gavin Schmidt running from Roy Spencer on John Stossel's show. I also had a link to a story about the head of Leonardo DeCaprio's foundation backing out of a debate with Alex Epstien. The cryptic moderation note ([Peddling --Willard]) even makes sense. Willard is probably a moderator and is accusing me of peddling something -- links that show debate being suppressed. I will have to say that having this comment cut is worth having a Canned Comments post.

I started a WordPress forum called "Comment Spoofing" and will put a link to this post on it. If I could find the WordPress contact page I used (I can't), I'd retract the claims I made in the message I sent them.