Edit History
D. F. LovettA look at how truth exists on the internet. Exploring Wikipedia, Google, dead internet theory, SEO, AI brand visibility and the rest of it.
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What's going on with Evan Spiegel's Wikipedia photo?
I started Edit History largely because of a frustration with the way Wikipedia is covered in the media. There is a tendency of journalists to write about Wikipedia without fully understanding it. And I mean both the negative and positive co...
Congrats to Pitchfork on the Wikipedia scandal of 2026
On Thursday, April 23rd, a friend sent me a Pitchfork article titled “Meet the Young Wikipedians Writing the Front Page of Music History.” I forgot to read it or respond but I did open it in a new tab on my phone with the intention of event...
Citogenesis, the AI slop loop and Street Sharks
I can’t remember when I first heard the word “citogenesis.” On Reddit, probably? While it sounds like a fancy, serious, scholarly word, citogenesis’s origin is Randall Munroe’s web comic xkcd. Here’s the word’s first appearance, from the xk...
The animosity between SEO and Wikipedia escalates
The first thing I wrote on Substack was an attempt to answer the question why is the Wikipedia page for “Search engine optimization” so bad? I ultimately didn’t reach a good answer, other than “yeah, it’s pretty bad and I guess I have to ed...
/r/alien is the best subreddit
About a year ago, I told a friend I was considering writing about /r/alien.
“Is that the subreddit for the movies or, like, real aliens?” he asked.
“Exactly,” I said.
An attempted history of /r/alien
I first subscribed to /r/alien...
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