Same.

I’m at the point now where I believe every possible thing he wants will be to the detriment of humanity.

He almost certainly does not want that

I think I’ll do the same

Please do not assign reverse altruism to horrible actions being done by horrible people.

I will join you

This news caused me to set up a recurring monthly donation, where I haven’t actually donated to Wikipedia historically.

I don’t think that’s where a lot of donors (especially but not exclusively conservative donors) want their money going, and I don’t think Wikipedia’s donation requests would lead people to understand that that’s where some of their money would be going.

Why are you trying to frame this as if wikipedia was lying on where their funding goes when your own source is their own transparency article?

Your donation goes towards running Wikipedia. There’s a blurb for pitching that, with a few details, but if you want everything, you gave to go to another page and read it? That all sounds exactly like what I’d expect from a banner ad seeking donations for a website

How do you think employees get paid?

I don’t think that’s where a lot of donors (especially but not exclusively conservative donors) want their money going

You don’t think people want to access Wikipedia safely and securely or guarantee an egalitarian sourcing of information?

I was certainly surprised when I saw the actual budget allocation.

“I didn’t know how a public-facing non-profit catalogue of information spent its money. Now I do. And I hate it.”

shrug

Why do people think their own personal ignorance is an indictment?

One can dream.

Will no one rid me of this turbulent apartheidist?

All under the guise of “free speech”. Which, as we all know, means speech that align with Elon’s currently held opinions.

Just sent them $50 as well. Thanks for reminding me, Musk!

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Got any links on how to do that?

I’d like to see how much of an uptick in these they’ve gotten lately. I’m gonna do this myself

I donated last night. The Christmas spirit moved me

You inspired me. Let’s keep it rolling.

He’s a vulture capitalist. Very good at finding ways to cannibalize a nice public thing for the benefit of a handful of private malicious actors.

That’s always going to make enemies. But so what? You’re a vulture. You can always pick up and leave today, then find another wounded animal to prey on tomorrow.

he’s not wrong about the concentration of power amongst editors

The classic problem of an open-edit document like Wikipedia is the manpower it takes to manage the project properly relative to the incentives to fuck with it by malicious actors. Elon’s answer to this problem is to monetize the sinking ship to the hilt and then use the excess revenues to buy the next new thing. The Jimmy Wales approach is to build out a network of trusted administrators and semi-trusted volunteers to play wack-a-mole on this one single project forever.

Originally, the theory of Wikipedia was that you’d have far more good actors than bad. Therefore, the bulk of the encyclopedia would accumulate useful information that went largely unmolested and didn’t need to be babysat by live humans. This… hasn’t proven to be the case. So the costs of the website continue to expand as the content base does.

Automation of spammers, scammers, and malicious actors has made the problem even more difficult. And I have no doubt that Elon’s own digital vandalism efforts have taken their toll as well. There’s simply too much economic incentive to fuck with the public’s understanding of the world for a project like Wikipedia to go ignored.

I’m afraid its days are ultimately numbered, precisely because too many people trust it.