The new CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation worked at J.P. Morgan and Lehman Brothers. The Foundation has now fired a longtime lead developer and disbanded the team whose job was to listen to volunteers. Most of the people they fired were union organizers. Wikipedia’s editors are now threatening to strike. To stand in solidarity with them, sign the petition:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Workers_United_solidarity
For more, read on!
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I have to be an editor to sign. Stupid. I give Wiki money. Well, I used to. They were the last bastion of unenshittified attempts at truth telling.
I am so congenitally unsuited for a post-factual world. I wish someone would kill me--this world hurts my brain, constantly. Actually, I just have to wait a few years and I'll be very, very valuable. I genuinely know things; the next generation will have to rely on us old fucks to determine fact vs. fantasy.
John Carlos Baez
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