David GerardMay 26

> This is the standard tech playbook. Fire the engineers who know how the system works, fire the ones organizing labor, hope nothing catastrophic breaks before you can ship something splashy. Twitter did it. Meta did it. Salesforce did it. Google did it. We have all seen this movie.

this time it's Wikipedia

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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@davidgerard
I haven't found another post on it yet to link instead, but jsyk the post is written in part using an LLM
Coming out of the AI Closet

For a while now, I’ve been quietly using AI in my writing. A lot.

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Show threadMaddieM4May 27
@vantiss @davidgerard here I was, giving benefit of the doubt to a substacker 🤦‍♀️
Show threadDavid GerardMay 31
@MaddieM4 @vantiss this post is from Jake talking to multiple Wikimedia staff and was also sent to me by multiple WIkimedia staff (because we both know them). It is the source document. If you find an alternate writeup saying the same things, it will be based on this one.
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@davidgerard @MaddieM4
yeah, I've come to realize that this is the only post of this sort in it because he is the source here

it's a real shame he chooses to run it through an LLM x.x