“This is not the first time Musk has gone after the site. In December, he posted on X, “Stop donating to Wokepedia.” And that wasn’t even his first bad Wikipedia pun. “I will give them a billion dollars if they change their name to Dickipedia,” he wrote, in an October, 2023, post. It seemed to be an ego thing at first. Musk objected to being described on his page as an “early investor” in Tesla, rather than as a founder, which is how he prefers to be identified, and seemed frustrated that he couldn’t just buy the site. But lately Musk’s beef has merged with a general conviction on the right that Wikipedia—which, like all encyclopedias, is a tertiary source that relies on original reporting and research done by other media and scholars—is biased against conservatives.”
I should donate to Wikipedia
I should donate to Wikipedia
I should donate to Wikipedia
I donate to Wikipedia
Me too!
last year was my first time; looking forward to doing it every year now
Not sure that I’ll be donating every year, but I also donated for the first time in 2024. Every little bit counts and when I can find the extra money, I’ll send it their way. Also, friendly reminder, it’s possible to download the entire contents of Wikipedia with less than 100GB. It’s just 16GB if compressed.
I can carry around Wikipedia on a thumb drive? What about with pictures?
I should donate to Wikipedia
They’re just mad that reality has a left-wing bias.
There are right-wing US conservatives who are freaking out that other countries are boycotting Musk/Tesla, and calling it some left-wing psyOps.
Like Musk literally did the Hitler salute TWICE. The second time was in case you were mistaken.
republicans also thing that all the protests all over the world are paid for by democrats lol.
They’re mostly just mad that it tells the objective reality instead of parroting their lies.
One thing I love in Wikipedia, is even pages whose interpretation I disagree with (and yes, Wikipedia absolutely has interpretation), tend to have enough detail that I can learn interesting things and get a feel for what we do know and what we don’t. Especially if I stumble upon some adjacent pages that have a very different take!
Shit like this is why I donate to Wikipedia.
Fuck off and die, nazi scum.
‘which is how he prefers to be identified’ … hmnnn - so he CHOOSES to IDENTIFY as one thing and doesn’t like it when people don’t allow him to use his preferred identificaiton?
I also choose to identify as the founder of Tesla.
Donate to wikipedia.
Just donated. You should too.
I love donating to Wikipedia because there’s so few FREE things anymore, and it’s one that benefits every single person on the planet.
Have been donating to them yearly for a few years after they started their donation campaign. I forget how much I donate, but I’m considering raising my yearly donation now xD
I appreciate you.
Just donated to Wikipedia. Will do every time this fuckers brings it up
The fascists want to shut down any information source that can prove they are lying.
History is written by the victors.
“Hmm 🤔, I’m rich, that should make me a victor, ergo…”
Donate. How many times a day do you use Wikipedia? It would be shit if it became another Fandom style wiki. With an ad every 3rd word.
We use Wikipedia a lot, mostly to understand references from another country or culture, the rest to answer the question: “Who the hell is s/he…” The latter enquiries are often interesting, but rarely resolve the real issue, which is “… and why is s/he famous?” At any rate, we send a goodly annual donation, because without Wikipedia, we’d be even more out of touch than we already are!
Fascists always have problems with publicly available knowledge.
Started a monthly 3 dollar donation when baby Nazi started shit talking Wikipedia some months ago.
Me too - they need it now more than ever when Trump and Musk starts focusing on Wikipedia.
Conservativism is rooted in vibes and feelings, and false narratives to support those feelings. This is why they hate knowledge and people who attain it.
It’s a disease of the mind, it’s like they would rather be animal than human
You can download Wikipedia and other stuff for offline access here.
Facts don’t care about your feelings, Elon.
I miss the times when people like this was seen as mentally ill.
