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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“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

@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

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

Which I should respond to this week