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We all knew this, but now there's an open admission.

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[-] 201dberg@lemmygrad.ml 33 points 1 year ago

Makes sense. Wiki recently removed the article about the Alley of Angels memorial dedicated to children in Donetsk murdered by Ukrainian fascists. If anyone hadn't heard about that. The west is framing that memorial as a Russian plant to justify the war.

[-] Cassilda@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 1 year ago

Ugh, just went to the Talk page of the Alley of Angels article (the actual page has been changed to a redirect). It's very depressing.

[-] Shinhoshi@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Here’s a link to the Alley of Angels page that won’t redirect you

[-] CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 1 year ago
[-] Shinhoshi@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 year ago

I saw that but it’s a stub

[-] Rasm635u@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 year ago
[-] Shinhoshi@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Of course it is, I was saying that you don’t actually get redirected so you can click to the talk page, view version history, etc.

[-] Rasm635u@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 year ago

I don't understand

[-] ledlecreeper27@lemmygrad.ml 29 points 1 year ago
[-] ImOnADiet@lemmygrad.ml 29 points 1 year ago

why did it have to be with Greenwald, that chud is such a liability I can't actually use this against libs now they'll dismiss him out of hand ughhh

[-] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 1 year ago

yeah that's the worst part about that interview

[-] nephs@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well, shit. The one nonprofit I trusted. :(

Where should my annual $3 charity budget go, now?!

But also, didn't Greenwald go for a too long of a walk into conspiracyland?

[-] HiddenLayer5@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 1 year ago

Where should my annual $3 charity budget go, now?!

Linux foundation, GNU/FSF, Software Freedom Conservancy, Lemmy development fund, Lemmygrad server fund! Just to name a few!

[-] Shrike502@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 1 year ago

Linux foundation

Don't they have some wacky takes regarding the Ukraine conflict and overall work with the Yankee MoD?

[-] HiddenLayer5@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not sure, wouldn't surprise me though. My bad if this is true. I mostly just use Linux (and GNU software) and don't really keep up with what the devs are doing.

[-] redtea@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 1 year ago

Plus Prolewiki to name another.

[-] HiddenLayer5@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Yes! Can't believe I forgot about that!

[-] ImOnADiet@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 1 year ago

But also, didn’t Greenwald go for a too long of a walk into conspiracyland?

Yes, but leftists have long suspected the feds have had presence there, I'm sure someone has some article that can show evidence

We do have prolewiki.org if you've never been to that before, you could consider giving them some of that if you like it

[-] CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 1 year ago

Where should my annual $3 charity budget go, now?!

but more seriously regardless, wikipedia makes a ton of money from public grants and for their role helping the NSA and other federal agencies. I don't understand why they keep asking random people for money when they really, really don't need it. My theory is that because Jimmy Wales is a weird Ayn Rand libertarian, he wants to make it seem as if his model of an "encyclopedia the common man can edit" works.

[-] Shrike502@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 1 year ago

Jimmy Wales is a weird Ayn Rand libertarian

Pretty sure Ayn Rand lived off of welfare while advocating against it, so it fits

[-] HiddenLayer5@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 1 year ago
[-] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 1 year ago
[-] bloubz@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 year ago

It stopped in November 22 though. Do you know why?

[-] HiddenLayer5@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Not sure unfortunately. Hoping it's just a server/internal issue and it comes back up.

[-] AlbigensianGhoul@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Even if they didn't, Wikipedia is generally really bad at history or politics. A lot of the editors are very prolific maths/physics people who read a book and then decide to add some silly factoid to a page, and nobody ever checks the sources to validate. Or worse, they'll use "journalistic" websites like Live Science as sources or no citations at all. Meanwhile the maths sections are just fantastic.

For example, a while back the 1905 revolution had as leaders only "Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin" and there's hardly any mention of the general strike that led to it. Stalin single-handedly commandeered the Potemkin with his big spoon I guess.

[-] davel@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Guys is it normal that Katherine Maher was CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation, and subsequently joined The Atlantic Council, and currently serves on the US Department of State's Foreign Affairs Policy Board?

[-] Mzuark@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 year ago

I figured it out when I saw the NAFO page.

[-] Elon_Musk@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Virgil Griffith shows up in the strangest places

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