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   Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Thursday, 26-Dec-2024 04:55:11 JST Charlie Stross

   This Musky effusion FINALLY motivated me to get off my arse and donate to wikipedia.

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     jwz (jwz@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 26-Dec-2024 05:18:55 JST jwz

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     @cstross "If he's against it, I should be for it" is certainly a supportable position to take, but I've read a few articles like this one claiming that the Wikimedia Foundation is already swimming in cash and (in Mozilla fashion) almost none of it gets spent on making the encyclopedia better, so I don't know what to make of that: https://slate.com/technology/2022/12/wikipedia-wikimedia-foundation-donate.html

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     Diplo Dino (diplodocus@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 26-Dec-2024 08:12:05 JST Diplo Dino

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     @jwz @cstross I also consider this. I have donated to WP before and support them still. If you’re interested in spending some time on WP, become an editor! It is fascinating and there is a lot of great opportunities to execute the vision of an idealized WP unto the world 🙂

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     jwz (jwz@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 26-Dec-2024 16:53:44 JST jwz

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     • Hugo Labrande

     @hlabrande @Diplodocus @cstross That is good work and I wish you luck with that, but my few experiences trying to edit Wikipedia meant dealing with people who were so amazingly toxic that it's a definite "no thanks, never again" for me.

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     Hugo Labrande (hlabrande@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 26-Dec-2024 16:53:45 JST Hugo Labrande

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     • Diplo Dino

     @Diplodocus @jwz @cstross I honestly am more and more of that outlook - it'd be great if WMF could just run off of their endowment's returns forever but ultimately it means nothing if we let assholes or worse run the place. Imagine the money Musk could spend training people to get elected as admins after a few years. So my 2025 resolution is to spend more time on there arguing and holding the fort

     Bob Jonkman repeated this.
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     jwz (jwz@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 26-Dec-2024 17:00:33 JST jwz

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     • Local Agency

     @laprice Mozilla has "too much" money. What's my conspiracy theory ulterior motive for saying this?

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     Local Agency (laprice@beige.party)'s status on Thursday, 26-Dec-2024 17:00:34 JST Local Agency

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     @jwz @cstross
     If you read several inflammatory articles about how people who are doing a thing you like have "too much" money in reserve and are not spending it.

     Consider what motivates such an article and whether you are target of an attempt to create a negative view of an organization that you currently have a positive view of.

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     ottominati (ottominati@mstdn.party)'s status on Thursday, 26-Dec-2024 17:40:59 JST ottominati

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     @cstross That and the internet archive https://archive.org/

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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Thursday, 26-Dec-2024 17:40:59 JST Charlie Stross

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     • ottominati

     @ottominati The IA pirates my work. Not happy about that.

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     jwz (jwz@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 26-Dec-2024 17:42:52 JST jwz

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     • a1bert

     @a1bert No shit Sherlock

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     a1bert@cztwitter.cz's status on Thursday, 26-Dec-2024 17:42:54 JST a1bert

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     • jwz

     @jwz @cstross

     The article from 2022

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     Karsten Johansson (ksaj@infosec.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 26-Dec-2024 21:45:07 JST Karsten Johansson

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     @cstross He's meddling in everything he get get around these days. What an asshole.

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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Thursday, 26-Dec-2024 21:45:07 JST Charlie Stross

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     @ksaj

     Musk is an object lesson in the perils of losing all sense of proportion—he got insanely, ridiculously rich overnight but retained the value framework of a middle class fifty-something twitter-obsessed edgelord from the dot-com era.

     Musk is like if Hitler in 1941 was obsessed with painting his W40K Space Marines miniatures instead of running an empire, but had bad hand/eye coordination so paid minions to do it for him and was a seething ball of spite and resentment as a result.

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     Karsten Johansson (ksaj@infosec.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 26-Dec-2024 21:53:50 JST Karsten Johansson

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     @cstross He's definitely gotten that whole "buy all the expensive toys and dominate the play park" thing down.

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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Thursday, 26-Dec-2024 21:53:50 JST Charlie Stross

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     @ksaj "He who dies with the most toys, wins" redux.

     Only Musk has drunk the TESCREAL kool-aid and genuinely expects to live forever or be resurrected in mind uploading heaven.

     He's going to be so disappointed when he finds out he's worm food—

     —No wait, he won't find out, he'll be dead.

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     Antiqueight (antiqueight@mastodon.ie)'s status on Thursday, 26-Dec-2024 23:22:08 JST Antiqueight

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     • knirirr

     @knirirr @cstross creating an account helps with those.

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     knirirr (knirirr@mamot.fr)'s status on Thursday, 26-Dec-2024 23:22:10 JST knirirr

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     @cstross I was thinking similarly. I've been trying to ignore the nag messages (donating doesn't help, I've done so before) but Musk's opposition makes it very tempting.

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     Antiqueight (antiqueight@mastodon.ie)'s status on Sunday, 29-Dec-2024 07:08:44 JST Antiqueight

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     • knirirr

     @knirirr I am sorry to hear that - it's not been my experience. I'm willing to help if you ever need.

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     knirirr (knirirr@mamot.fr)'s status on Sunday, 29-Dec-2024 07:08:45 JST knirirr

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     • Antiqueight

     @Antiqueight @cstross I do have one, which I occasionally use to edit or create articles, usually resulting in unreasonable deletion or reversion (which is why I stopped donating).