John Mark Ockerbloom3d ago

From LB: "In ten days last month, the Wikimedia Foundation fired the longtime lead developer of MediaWiki and disbanded the team whose entire job was to listen to volunteers. Most of the people they fired were union organizers. Wikipedia’s editors are now threatening to strike....

The Foundation has spent twenty years telling donors it is not like other tech companies. The union drive is the moment when that claim either becomes true or admits it was always marketing." https://medium.com/@jakeorlowitz/wikipedia-is-doing-the-capitalist-thing-56a393232943

Big Tech’s Anti-Labor Playbook Has Come for Wikipedia

TLDR: In ten days last month, the Wikimedia Foundation fired the longtime lead developer of MediaWiki and disbanded the team whose entire…

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Show threadHacker 3d ago
@JMarkOckerbloom Wtf, why is everyone trying to screw others up?
Show threadobscurestar
@Fedihacker @JMarkOckerbloom Because we're irreparably damaged the environment while breeding like roaches and the next century is going to see mass extinctions so the more of us they can kill before then, the less work their AI murderbots will have to do in a decade or two.
May 26 at 9:06pmWeb
Show threadRatsnake3d ago
@obscurestar @Fedihacker @JMarkOckerbloom oooh, some nice eugenics talk there, mate
Show threadMisuse Case2d ago
@ratsnakegames @obscurestar @Fedihacker @JMarkOckerbloom He may say “we” have been breeding too much but he doesn’t really mean himself, or his friends, or most people with the same color skin as him.