“Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect: […] like a physician, who hath found out an infallible medicine, after the patient is dead.” —Jonathan Swift
“Hey, everyone, it’s ya girl Lizstagram here back with more dating tips. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighborhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.”
No problem at all. Full disclosure: I’m a longtime member of and frequent contributor to Wikipedia. I have a bias in this. I’ll say, however, that because we’re not a monolith, internal criticism of the project is varied, rampant, and welcomed. It’s no surprise when everyone is a volunteer and the entire draw of editing is “this thing sucks; make it better”. Criticism is so prolific that for the project’s 25th anniversary, the English Wikipedia’s official newsletter, The Signpost, published a dire, 6500-word warning about our trajectory.
We’re constantly looking for criticism so we can improve, and it’s why, if you can believe it, we love seeing new faces and articles published like “I tried to edit Wikipedia for a week; here’s how it burned my house down”. What we don’t value is criticism made in bad faith; there’s nothing to talk about when one side of the discussion wants to just sit around and Gish gallop all day for transparent political ends.
For those out of the loop, this user’s entire purpose on Lemmy is to spread negative coverage of Wikipedia, one of the few remaining strongholds against far-right disinformation.
And yes, that does include signal-boosting criticism from literally anyone who’s against the project, including Israeli courts, US House Republicans…
Effectively, their job is to stir up FUD.
Ah, yeah, I knew what you meant. I just thought it was funny imagining the serious tone of Blade Runner’s replicants pasted onto Reddit bots astroturfing for Burger King.
Quite an experience to live in fear, isn’t it? That’s what it is to be a corporate troll manipulating public opinion.
This blog post was plausibly written by AI. Look at the fabricated source on the 2020 study and at the wording.
I don’t think we know what the actual figure is because this blog post ostensibly fabricates this alleged 2020 study.
Edit: But of course this post is taking off anyway because Lemmy users are soooo much more discerning than those dumbass Reddit users.
The study is likely fabricated by this blog post from what I can find.
This person writes an entire-ass blog post titled after this alleged 2020 Computers in Human Behavior study and can’t even be fucked to link it, name its authors, or even say what the title is. I cannot find this paper anywhere. I looked through all twelve 2020 issues of Computers in Human Behavior and could not find this study. I searched keywords. Nothing.
What an obnoxious fucking dipshit and their useless, almost-entirely-unsourced* piece of shit screed. Based on the wording and the fabricated sourcing, I wouldn’t be surprised if this ragebait blog post was generated with an LLM.
* One source to a March 2017 Pew Research article the blog post claims is from 2018.
In an interview with Reuters, AFT President Randi Weingarten said that the site had already been degraded by extremists and trolls since Elon Musk’s 2022 takeover, before which the platform was known as Twitter. But the recent proliferation of nonconsensual images of women and children in bikinis or underwear generated by X’s artificial intelligence chatbot, Grok, had made the site unusable, she said.
And here’s your “you helped enable this; don’t expect a pat on the back” trophy.
Sometimes I have rare nights when I feel good about myself and the future, so my maladaptive brain has a failsafe to make sure I’m never happy. “Everything is gone forever once you die. Your life has functionally already ended, yet it never began. Every second is of infinite and infinitesimal importance.”
Thanks, brain. Can’t even argue with that one. And you know it’s not helpful either. You’ve just had it beaten into you that it’s dangerous to hope. You’re just doing your job, but I wish you’d find a different one.
That’s not what this double negation cancels to, though. The cancellation of “I can’t believe it’s not butter” is “I must/I’m compelled to believe it is butter”. This is because you’re saying you lack the power to believe that it is ~B, where B is the set of butter. Thus, because you’re addressing that it exists (i.e. you have to believe it’s something), you not only believe it is in set B but are powerless to do otherwise. ∎
See also: /r/isitbutter
I did actually know that one! Illinois EnergyProf on YouTube recently made what I think is a really good introduction to the topic. I just liked the surrealist image of a human body separating out U-235 from radiation-poisoned flesh.
a) This article is predominantly about the food insecurity of people 65 and older, but I don’t expect you’ve read it. The data you’re presenting shows that demographic either stayed the same among men or went more blue among women and that women 65+ predominantly voted Harris. It’d be a 100/0 split in a sane world, but welcome to America.
b) Navigator Research is some dogshit no-name pollster that explicitly exists for activism. I don’t care what their numbers from 5000 voters are even if I assume seniors do more broadly lean Trump than Harris.
c) Both of those points are completely irrelevant to your ageist bullshit hoping seniors starve to death; collective punishment is disgusting to wish upon people, let alone when we’re talking a nearly 50/50 split.
Check and see if any therapists or reading tutors in your area are taking new clients. Just as long as you fuck off somewhere else.
What the fuck is the matter with you? Seek help.
You enrich uranium through centrifugation.
I enrich uranium through bioaccumulation.
We are not the same.
We need one of these for every field.
The appellate court rejected those claims, ruling that her incarceration and criminal charges were not relevant to the determination of damages for injuries suffered years earlier.
I hope they considered my amicus brief: “She’s probably a deranged psychopath, but what she did sounds kinda based tbh.”
I know all about seahorse mating rituals thanks to my copy of What to Expect if You’re a Male Seahorse Expecting… Which is a Thing.
Technically the numerical code still gives you a precise search key to find other people discussing the same issue.
… You know, as would be useful for a serious operating system where online support doesn’t mean trawling the bowels of Reddit praying somebody’s had the same issue and found a reproducible solution.