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antonim

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  • No, no, NOOoooOOOoo, it's not about the people, it's about the shareholders!

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  • That sounds about reasonable. But how many people upvoting the meme have such a modest result in mind?

  • No, no, NOOoooOOOoo, it's not about the people, it's about the shareholders!

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  • Every single time this meme is posted, it is pointed out that the number in the above part is delusionally low. And yet the meme is reposted again and again both on reddit and on Lemmy and god knows where else.

  • Both are beautiful.

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  • And apparently the word comes from latin “tenebra”.

    No, what source told you that? It's from Proto-Slavic tьma (darkness), which is a native word. Related to Latin tenebrae, yes, but through a common ancestor.

  • Well respected man

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  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_Cancer

    This essay is effectively a classic.

    Even if it's not necessarily a bad thing for Wikimedia Foundation to have so much income, just a few days ago it's been revealed they have made a contract with a union busting legal agency, since their workers are forming one. In other words, money that people donate for Wikipedia is spent on internal bullshit conflicts by the increasingly insular leadership.

  • Wikimedia Foundation refuses voluntary union recognition, hires union-busting law firm

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  • the employees are few

    WMF has 650 employees.

    What they're going to demand is preventing arbitrary layoffs, less bullying in the workspace, etc. Supposedly the Foundation is very toxic workplace. It's not (just) about the money.

  • Wikimedia Foundation refuses voluntary union recognition, hires union-busting law firm

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  • Don't abandon Wikipedia over this, if it's useful it's useful (though it shouldn't be overrated). Do reconsider donating to Wikimedia Foundation, since the money apparently can be spent even on union-busting.

  • Wikimedia Foundation refuses voluntary union recognition, hires union-busting law firm

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  • Relevant to mention: I've just posted a thread about users reporting that apparently WMF has hired a union-busting firm.

    https://lemmy.world/post/50205578

    It is publicly confirmed that WMF contracted the notorious union-busting law firm Littler Mendelson to fight Wiki Workers United.

    (I also posted it to this community but it got deleted by the autobot.)

    Edit: I just realised the OP link/article talks about this as well, ah 🤦‍♂️

    Also may be worth mentioning the later part of the article, talking about Abstract Wikipedia, a beta project regarding whose future a request for comments has been called. Many editors believe it is unviable and a waste of money and time: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/The_future_of_Abstract_Wikipedia

  • AI companies are anonymously buying and destroying millions of books through middleman services to avoid headlines about AI companies buying and destroying millions of books

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  • Mind providing the parts that you think are more relevant?

  • Seriously though what the fuck is wrong with this guy

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  • I'm not a lawyer, but producing and distributing malware sounds like it might be illegal. Or should, at least.

  • Wikimedia Will Not Voluntarily Recognize Union a Supermajority of Its Workers Want

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  • “We have heard a range of views from staff, including concerns from those who have felt pressured to support union efforts and those who are confused by the unionization process,” the foundation added in a frequently asked questions section. “We have also seen a misunderstanding around what the union can do for global staff and Wikimedia movement communities.”

    LMAO, fuck off with this bullshit. I noticed WMF spokepersons love this vocabulary, everyone except for them is "confused", if you disagree with WMF's actions it's just a "misunderstanding".

  • Don't Contribute Anything Relevant in Web Forums Like Reddit

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  • They are still counted on the downvoter's instance.

  • Seriously though what the fuck is wrong with this guy

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  • Btw what are the realistic chances the guy suffers some actual consequences for the bullshit he has done?

  • Be of upstanding character

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  • AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop

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  • Google (and/or the libraries that collaborate with Google Books) and Archive.org usually scan non-destructively. Some of Google's book scans still show the fingers holding the corners of the pages, some of them were taken mistakenly mid-flip, etc. So they clearly used whole, normally bound books.

  • Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered in-person final; scores fell 50%

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  • make it so you don’t need to cry because you can’t remember the fucking unit square and your masochist calc prof wants you to do trig operations without a calculator.

    The problem here is in the professor, not in limiting calculator usage as such.

  • Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered in-person final; scores fell 50%

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  • A half-wrong cheating tool can still be useful if you haven't done any studying at all.

  • Surely there's bound to be SOMETHING.

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  • Though let's be honest, most porn is just ugly and unappealing.

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  • I understand, but this is still coming off as "being the general after the battle". I.e. judging the mistakes done by scientists while the available knowledge was more limited. The shift towards portraying dinosaurs with feathers was triggered by, well, discovering dinosaur fossils with feathers. We made a discovery and corrected accordingly.

    Of course we should be aware of the limits of studying and reconstructing prehistorical species in general, I'd say most popular dino media downplays or ignores the difficulties and doubts in the endavour, presenting the conclusions as a given rather than as an educated guess, without showing the "behind the scenes". But the image of "scary, giant lizards" in popular perception has IMO been on the decline since Walking with Dinosaurs from 1999 - of course, the exaggerated Jurassic Park and its increasingly trashy sequels and similar media have had more of a broad cultural presence, but that's not much to do with paleontology and serious paleo-art.

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  • "Completely wrong" is an exaggeration, would portraying a chicken without feathers be "completely wrong"? Of course not, if the overall anatomy is plausible, it would be inaccurate in one regard but not scientifically or illustratively worthless.

    No, not all dinosaurs were feathered. Some definitely were not feathered (we have evidence of their scaly exterior, most impressively this armoured dinosaur specimen) while certain other clades definitely were, for which we have strong evidence, and thus species such as Velociraptor have been reconstructed with feathers even in the most broad-audiences-oriented media for over two decades. For many species it's uncertain. So no, many of the featherless reconstructions are still not wrong in that department, considering our current knowledge.

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    The Foundation Is Strong: What TDF Is, Why It Matters, and Where It Is Going - TDF Community Blog

    blog.documentfoundation.org /blog/2026/04/17/the-foundation-is-strong/
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    The Document Foundation Blog: Let's put an end to the speculation

    blog.documentfoundation.org /blog/2026/04/05/lets-put-an-end-to-the-speculation/
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    LibreOffice Drama: The Document Foundation Removes Collabora Developers in One Sweep

    itsfoss.com /news/document-foundation-collabora-feud/
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    An Open Letter to Google regarding Mandatory Developer Registration for Android App Distribution

    keepandroidopen.org /open-letter/
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    Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links

    arstechnica.com /tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-bans-archive-today-after-site-executed-ddos-and-altered-web-captures/