Elon now hates Wikipedia, because he considers it "Woke"
Elon now hates Wikipedia, because he considers it "Woke"
I'd never given to Wikimedia before.
Now I have.
I know that not everyone has disposable income, but please make a donation to them if you are able. They're the best thing remaining on the internet.
Anyone with a cable subscription has enough to toss a couple of bucks a month to wikipedia.
Lol imagine donating to google.
Smh
Canceled discord nitro, setup monthly donations to Wikipedia
Fuck Elon, Wikipedia is one of the only good things left on the internet
Why doesn't Elon create his own Wikipedia if he complains so much?
I think it would be called Xwiki
Conservapedia exists, and it's every bit the wild ride you imagine.
Holy crap, just look at this thing: https://www.conservapedia.com/Conservapedia#Differences_with_Wikipedia
Conservapedia strives to keep its articles concise, informative, family-friendly, and true to the facts...
Then, in the same paragraph:
Conservapedia is clear that it seeks to give due credit to conservatism and Christianity.
Isn't that a blatant self-contradiction? Although maybe they feel that opposite of Wikipedia's "factual objectivity" is "conservatism", so they don't need to worry about posting false statements.
Reactionary drivel
It's like Infowars is a wiki
Elon Musk (born June 28, 1971, in South Africa) is an American businessman and inventor ranked as the wealthiest man in the world, who supports freedom of speech and opposed tyrannical lockdowns during COVID-19. Musk campaigns tirelessly for Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election,[2] such as holding a town hall in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania on Oct. 26, 2024, which was viewed by 5.9 million times on X.[3] One commentator dubbed Elon Musk the "African American of the Year" for 2022.[4]
Elon Musk (born June 28, 1971) is an American billionaire most people associate with the Tesla Motors company. Also a co-founder of PayPal, a CEO for SpaceX, and chairman of SolarCity. He supposedly is "socially liberal and fiscally conservative"[1] but endorsed hyperinflationist Andrew Yang in 2020 presidential election. He believes in a man-made global warming. Musk was born in South Africa, raised in Canada and resides in Los Angeles. His wealth is estimated at $14 billion.
Musk companies are thriving due to government subsidies. Tesla Motors and SolarCity have taken a huge financial hit in 2016. Both these companies are based on the green energy movement and are being punished by the markets due to extremely low oil prices. Musk lost a personal fortune upwards of $4 billion.
There's also Metapedia if that's too milquetoast for you.
Elon’s version of wiki is called the news :(
WiXi 🥴
Cause the thats phonetically sounds out pretty close to CWCki and im pretty sure Null would sick Kiwifarms onto Musk over it. I dont know anything about Null outside of someshit having to do with the Zoosadist shit a couple years ago. Not condoning Kiwifarms within this joke but I think they are chaotic asshole aligned at worst.
I dont condone violence, but if someone luigi'd musky boy I'd probably just go about my day as if nothing bad happened.
I absolutely condone violence, and while I shall only attempt to harm Elon Musk by not purchasing any of his companies' products, if I were to read on one of Lemmy's news communities that someone had, let's say, shotgunned all of Elon's entrails out, I'm pretty sure I would respond by laughing myself into a state of acute respiratory distress.
I'd give the person who killed him a fucking alibi.
I dont condone violence
Depends on the recipient. Oligarchs like Musk enact a widespread and constant barrage of violence against the entire planet. If some -absolute hero- were to kill him, the violence needed to kill him would barely qualify as rounding error compared to the violence that would be put to an end by doing so.
That's why so many people cheered when the UHC CEO was dropped - it's not a celebration of death or violence, or bloodlust, or even revenge; but relief at the sudden reduction of evil we were all gifted.
So... not condoning violence against people like Musk is supporting a much broader and more sinister type of violence.
Eh, institutions mostly don't go away because their leader shuffles of their mortal coil. And whoever ends up replacing them will be in the same situation as their predecessor. As in, UHC benefits from denying coverage, and that hasn't changed just because the CEO died.
That being said, Musk acts too publicly, which, while it ultimately makes him less efficient, also makes him more dangerous. At least until he pisses Trump of to a degree where Trump wants to get rid of him, which may have already happened.
We're in the funniest timeline, it's just that the joke is at our expense.
Would be interesting to watch the media spin that.
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As they say, reality has a left-leaning bias.
I’ve only donated once before, and that was like $25 a year ago. Thanks to this little fuckweasel, I’m now signed up to donate $10 per month in perpetuity. Eat shit, Musk.
Same. Streisand effect I guess.
Fuck this guy honestly.
Elon is a moron’s idea of an intellectual.
Explains why he's buddies with Trump. Lol.
It's far worse than that, he's a Libertarian Ayn Randian's idea of someone with merit.
An Objectivist founded Wikipedia in the first place. Musk has gone too far for even them - he's just a blatant fascist now.
Propagandist hates source of information that makes his job of lying to people harder.
Just donated.
Me too, been putting it off for a while, but the internet needs to be protected from this awful mf
Not only did I donate, I made sure I used Paypal as an intermediary. "Thats right, pay them my money you fuckin sponge."
There is nothing a guy in a coma hates worse than being woke.
Download Wikipedia. It doesn't take much storage space without pictures. Then when it gets taken down, sued, hacked, edited with misinformation etc you still have it. I was thinking this months ago and this now confirms their plans.
wp:Wikipedia:Database download
also,
rw:RationalWiki:Content dumps because of things like this: rw:Elon Musk
Put Elon Musk at the bottom of the ocean, the little bug eyed pervert freak
Like, yes, Wikipedia has a bias towards free, truthful, openly available information. But like, that's not a bad thing?
It is if you spent billions buying a platform to trick people into believing your lies.
Woah there buddy! You can't just go around giving things away for free. Someone needs to suffer, and someone needs to profit, or its [buzzword]ism.
It's terrible if your goal is to hide information.
Fuck Elon, nevertheless, it is important to see in what Wikimedia foundation are spending its donations on, just like Mozilla.
Some people hate that reality doesn’t confirm their prejudices and biases
I’ll admit I’ve always scrolled past the donation box, but this time I got 5 on it.
Fuck every single nazi cunt in this government
So… the whole government? lol
Sort of, yeah. The next four years will be what the Chinese proverb/insult refers to as interesting times.
Immediately donated after I saw this lol
Reality and its Liberal bias...
Thanks for the reminder. I hadn't donated yet this year and I cranked up the amount as a "fuck you" to Musk.
First of all leftists don't even use the word woke, Right-wingers do Maybe he should go after right-wingers 😉
Missing from this pile of opinions is anything resembling:
“I hate Wikipedia” — Elon Musk
Just when I ask what more can space karen possibly do or say this year thats more idiotic than all the other shit he has done or said, he gives us this polished gem of a turd.
I don't think conservatives donated anyways.
Elon isn't exactly what I would call a mentor anyway
Goddamn snowflake Democrats and their cancel culture!
Love how it’s the source of honest curated information but I can’t use it for homework 😤
Because directly citing Wikipedia isn't how you're supposed to use it in that sort of setting. What Wikipedia is best-suited for in actual research is being a first stop:
- Get some basic understanding of the subject via the lead section.
- Potentially get some idea on if this subject has plenty of information about it before choosing to write about it (e.g. if you're writing a high school or undergraduate essay, you probably want a topic that has a wealth of information about it, not to spend weeks trawling through archives trying to find whatever scraps you can).
- Edit: Because we try to make technical articles highly accessible, the way an article is written can also give you some idea if a subject is way out of your depth by seeing if you can even follow along with what it's saying. This is important because a) it makes writing easier and b) there's less risk of close paraphrasing when you understand a subject enough to put things into your own words.
- Find what's hopefully a wealth of decent sources that will introduce you properly to the subject.
- Give you leads for what to search for elsewhere by giving you some key pieces of information about the subject.
I would even say that professionally written encyclopedias like Britannica aren't really a good "end source" that you should be citing. You absolutely can use Wikipedia for homework, but you still need to have some basic understanding of how to evaluate the sources that Wikipedia uses. Essentially, we ideally give you a head-start, not a finish line.
I would even say that professionally written encyclopedias like Britannica aren't really a good "end source" that you should be citing.
Speaking as one of the old folks who went through school before the World Wide Web existed, you were never allowed to cite the old-style, printed and bound encyclopedias.
You shouldn't use any encyclopedia, wiki or otherwise. They're too surface level for the information you would want to include in any kind of report.
It's great to use for finding a bunch of sources you can cite, however.
Everyone is responding to you why you shouldn't be using Wikipedia anyways for homework, and I wholeheartedly agree that it's a great starting point but not a great finishing point, but I'll give you a hint as to how you can use it for your homework 😉.
Find your topic in Wikipedia and find a tidbit of information that you want to use on your paper or whatever. Wikipedia should have sources, so find the source of the thing you want to use.
That source now has the information you want to use and much more! That should be citable for your homework!
Yes you can. You need to cite the sources that the Wikipedia article cites, not just cite wikipedia.
I mean, would it make sense to cite an encyclopedia?
...those were like these big collections of books that had a bunch of random, useful information in it. Idk if those even included sources
Some include sources, some don't. You probably shouldn't use those that don't, but most high school teachers will probably accept Encyclopedia Britannica just based off of name value.
Didn't this dumbass offer to buy Wikipedia last year? Or was it earlier this year?
Time for some bright bulbs to turn this word against the goobers.
He's gurning like he's on some very good pills
What idiot would want to restrict Wiki (rhetorical question)? The amount I have learned from Wiki of the years is immeasurable. Start on a subject only to find yourself going down a Wiki hole on some fascinating but totally unrelated subject, and before you know it an hour has passed.
Really like the obscure political episodes from random countries around the world. Have learned more geography than I ever learned in school.
There's no need to donate to Wikipedia, they have plenty of money already.
Donating again just to be sure.
I mean, go for it, it's your money and it's certainly not going to cause any harm.