While musk is a baffoon and this message is comically stupid. Musk and the techno fascists/accelerationist contingent turning their gaze towards Wikimedia and Wikipedia betrays their actual intent. Ending our ability to know what is real, What is true, and facts. - ThreadSky

brainnotonyet.bsky.social • 496 days ago

While musk is a baffoon and this message is comically stupid. Musk and the techno fascists/accelerationist contingent turning their gaze towards Wikimedia and Wikipedia betrays their actual intent. Ending our ability to know what is real, What is true, and facts.

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erinampersand.bsky.social•496 days ago

Dude, my eBooks are a sliver of a fraction of a percent of the size of Wikipedia, and I'm still charged an extra ten cents or so of my profits to pay for download fees.

If Wikipedia is "scamming" us, they're slacking compared to other places.

ellinst.bsky.social•496 days ago

That's it. Any source of verifiable information has to be undermined and neutralized. "Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two makes four. If that is granted, all else follows," as a guy who knew something about totalitarianism said.

tamidon.bsky.social•496 days ago

Got me to donate again

timsull.bsky.social•496 days ago

Is it because they know they are facts but want to delude other people or is it because they don’t know what facts are…

keeptheskyblue.bsky.social•496 days ago

Musk is starting to piss me off in ways that previously only Trump could manage.

carlbergstrom.com•496 days ago

Precisely.

brainnotonyet.bsky.social•496 days ago

Yeah people really aren't grasping what's going on here.

benhammerhead.bsky.social•496 days ago

they don’t see is why.
The shift from nations, govts & economies to on-line nations & all that goes with it, BUT ONLY accessible thru gate-keeper platforms. That’s not only a Musk vision, it’s a Zuck vision too.
That PayPal universe, tech bros ~want~ ‘Ready Player One’ wealth, power & control.

amongotheritems.org•496 days ago

and musk obviously doesn't understand or care about data centers, uptime, or reliability

burnt79.bsky.social•496 days ago

From the guy who shows scam ads, charges $10 from his fanboys, fires a major part of the team and *still* struggles to keep his nice little hatepool financially afloat. 🤦
As it can be supposed that he's not *that* dumb, his intentions are very clear.

wagatwe.com•496 days ago

THIS

weirdmelbs.bsky.social•496 days ago

“So much money” 🙄

coolforcats9.bsky.social•496 days ago

Exactly. And I don’t want anyone messing with my research on Roy Scheider’s fabulous film career.

kalbzayn.bsky.social•496 days ago

It's also pretty amazingly ironic coming for a guy running a website into the ground and constantly running around trying to find new ways to charge users another dollar or two.

wergend.bsky.social•496 days ago

"Why does it need so much money when you can fit it's entirely onto a mobile phone?" Asks slot machine with $200bn

clrthrn.bsky.social•496 days ago

I know Wikipedia is not perfect but it's the most reliable source of info on the web where one person cannot control the narrative. It's everything Musk hates and wants to destroy.

johncastiglione.bsky.social•496 days ago

I often wonder if there is, like, a fail safe for wikipedia....like, to download it and re-establish it if the wikimedia foundation fails or goes away.

burneraccount.bsky.social•496 days ago

burneraccount.bsky.social•496 days ago

PS Vijay Prashad criticizes her for reflexively equating communists with Nazis. They are not the same.

brainnotonyet.bsky.social•496 days ago

Weaponized unreality and fascism go hand in hand.

josepho.bsky.social•496 days ago

Internet shitposter: The internet was a mistake.
Elon: Yeah, it was, wasn't it.

herrstephen.bsky.social•496 days ago

Long Stink is absolutely *not* an "inquiring mind" in the sense that phrase is intended.

The absolute chudmuffin.

nacoli.bsky.social•496 days ago

Do you know about Eric Sadin? Would recommend the readings strongly !!

givesnofuck.com•496 days ago

Wikimedia should just fire everyone who knows what they are doing, stop paying rent, break how the site functions, perform an insanely stupid rebrand to B, and lose 80% of its value.

syntheticroot.gay•496 days ago

It is not immediately obvious to me if they could destroy wikipedia on the short term. I don't think they can, but I'm not certain on that. But on the long term, yeah. Hopefully Wikipedia has plans to survive if they are directly assaulted. I hope they can.

sagebiel.bsky.social•496 days ago

@charles-ex.bsky.social

aintyouspecial.bsky.social•496 days ago

we should always take seriously the damage apartheid clyde is capable of, but always mock and belittle the loser himself

mindcrime.bsky.social•496 days ago

Well it's apparent that Elon clicked on a Wikipedia link, but was immediately upset that the website asked for money?

7amkickoff.com•496 days ago

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.”

Hannah Arendt

7amkickoff.com•496 days ago

https://hac.bard.edu/amor-mundi/the-destruction-of-truth-2020-10-29

theodoric.bsky.social•496 days ago

Welp, looks like it’s time to donate to the Wikipedia Foundation again.

alexis8.bsky.social•496 days ago

And destroying the public school system to make sure ignorance helps them win.

panthermodern.bsky.social•496 days ago

Hehehe have you seen "Conservapedia"? 😂😬

synbio1.bsky.social•496 days ago

I had a hard time figuring out which like button was the real one for this post but I got there and it was worth it

kristenobacter.bsky.social•496 days ago

Probably now would be a good time to give Jimmy at Wikipedia a few bucks

louiselocock.bsky.social•496 days ago

I remember when people used to caution against believing everything you read on Wikipedia. That was before ChatGPT blew fact out of the water.

brainnotonyet.bsky.social•496 days ago

I wrote this two months ago now, but it, unfortunately, is still more than relevant.

spectralthrum.bsky.social•496 days ago

For some reason, I'm thinking about the sci-fi show Continuum, where there's an actual Global Corporate Congress that runs the world - I'm guessing Musk et al watched that and went "Damn, these are some good points."

mashamasha.bsky.social•496 days ago

Wow. Thank you for bringing our attention to this. Just donated. We cannot let him, or someone like him, destroy Wikipedia too.

moderndiscourse.bsky.social•496 days ago

Weird… because I can fit all of Twitter on my phone. So why tf would you pay 44 fucking billion for it?

…see how that response works both ways? lol

maraleia.bsky.social•496 days ago

I just want him to lose everything.

evvry.bsky.social•496 days ago

I argued with far right conservatives who told me that Wikipedia was liberal propaganda.

That’s how far our shared reality has split.

msignorile.bsky.social•496 days ago

This is so true.

ostrichson.bsky.social•496 days ago

Yeah... I made a few jokes about this but it's a scary thought. I remember going from "There's no way he'll really buy Twitter" to "Surely he won't intentionally burn it to the ground" to "My kingdom for a bluesky invite." And there really is no real alternative to Wiki. It must be protected.

speterdavis.com•496 days ago

I bet my hat it'll escalate to litigation threats. That's how he got the ADL to back off. It's how you squash companies with your capital. If they can be purchased, buy them. If they can't, sue them into rubble. Doesn't matter if it's frivolous, just keep hitting them.

kalli.bsky.social•496 days ago

Since anything Wiki says is backed by sources, does he actually have grounds for a suit, or is that what you mean by “frivolous?” Paging @wophugus.bsky.social: are public defenders only for criminal cases or do civil suit lawyers also work pro bono? Would any judge even bother to hear the case?

speterdavis.com•496 days ago

I'm just throwing out speculations without really venturing to guess what he would sue about specifically, it's just what I'd expect given his rather predictable behavior. And it's the threat of litigation more than going through with it - I don't think he really had a solid case against ADL either

ostrichson.bsky.social•496 days ago

My only hope is that people actually care enough about Wiki to fight back on this.

brainnotonyet.bsky.social•496 days ago

It will be the internet archive next. They Are triangulating.

ostrichson.bsky.social•496 days ago

My only hope is that their ineptitude (because Musk and his cohorts are a fascinating combination of calculated evil and diarrhea brain) will be their own downfall but we must stay vigilant. The internet already sucks. We cannot let it get worse.

leet.party•496 days ago

https://youtu.be/rimtaSgGz_4?si=-8o2eG5_iyWNZ8HB

ostrichson.bsky.social•496 days ago

This was very informative, thank you.

brainnotonyet.bsky.social•496 days ago

The right-wing brain rot is very real. We have been very lucky these fascists this time are absolutely stupid as shit.

msignorile.bsky.social•496 days ago

Oh my. That trajectory. Same

helenlawson2007.bsky.social•496 days ago

Sociopaths tend to want to have power over everything in their lives.

handofgod137.bsky.social•496 days ago

I started contributing towards Wikipedia shortly after Musk started vandalising the other place. I'm sure this isn't coincidence.

e2dot7182818284.bsky.social•495 days ago

I note that among crypto-broz, hating on wikipedia isn't uncommon

cdmatthew.bsky.social•496 days ago

You’ve probably read this before, but the little talk by Neil Postman (in 1998!!) linked below was prescient, and aligns well with your thoughts. “Five Things We Need to Know About Technological Change”:

https://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/classes/188/materials/postman.pdf

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