Jamie BoydOct 27
John Siracusa
Ice cold https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/hi-its-me-wikipedia-and-i-am-ready-for-your-apology
Hi, It’s Me, Wikipedia, and I Am Ready for Your Apology

Our 9th most-read article of 2025. - - -“Wikipedia, the constantly changing knowledge base created by a global free-for-all of anonymous users, no...

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Show threadJohn SiracusaOct 27

“How are my competitors doing, the ones you all insisted students use instead of me? That’s right, they were supposed to go to the American Journal of Social Sciences, Powered by OpenAI. Or museums, like the Smithsonian’s Charlie Kirk Shrine to American Greatness. I guess they can still count on credible journalism, once they get past the paywall for Palantir Presents: The Washington Post, so they read the Pulitzer-Bezos Prize–winning work of Bari Weiss and Grok.”

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/hi-its-me-wikipedia-and-i-am-ready-for-your-apology

Hi, It’s Me, Wikipedia, and I Am Ready for Your Apology

Our 9th most-read article of 2025. - - -“Wikipedia, the constantly changing knowledge base created by a global free-for-all of anonymous users, no...

McSweeney's Internet Tendency
Show threadJeff HobbsOct 27
@siracusa absolutely savage. Tom Ellison is a delight.
Show threadJordan WarshavskyOct 27

@siracusa "[Techno-Feudailist Infocide]"...savage, just savage.

How long before the WH declares McSweeney's enemy agitprop, and mobilize the 82nd Airborne to drop-in and reclaim the server rack space so they can launch a new sh*t-coin?

Show threadtootbruteOct 27

@siracusa

In 2004, you saw some college guy using me and thought, “What a lazy cheater.”

Now you’d think, “At least he’s not asking Gemini.”

In a few years, you’ll say, “Wow, look, a human being who can read.”

Ah Wikipedia I love you

Show threadAccordionBruceOct 28

@tootbrute @siracusa
Should link to this in their promotional emails

Which I should respond to this week

Show threadCalum Andrew MorrellOct 28
@siracusa * citation required
Show threadJessamynOct 28

@siracusa Meanwhile Jimmy Wales does an AMA and sounds like the most reasonable tech guy.

https://old.reddit.com/r/wikipedia/comments/1oiekcc/im_jimmy_wales_founder_of_wikipedia_and_author_of/

Show threadKenOct 28
@siracusa Reminds me of the Anthropomorphized Brushed Metal pieces @gruber used to do :)
Show threadLynne of FlowersOct 28
@siracusa linking to the actual Wikipedia donation page at the end was a classy move