Mudface
@Mudface@lemmy.world
- Comment on They use to tell us we couldnt trust Wikipedia. Now we know. Wikipedia is the only website you can trust. 1 year ago:
That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.
Whoever said that should step out of their bubble and have a look around once in awhile
- Comment on They use to tell us we couldnt trust Wikipedia. Now we know. Wikipedia is the only website you can trust. 1 year ago:
Exactly
- Comment on They use to tell us we couldnt trust Wikipedia. Now we know. Wikipedia is the only website you can trust. 1 year ago:
A lot of the political entries are written with a bent towards being sympathetic with leftists.
The Kyle Rittenhouse article spends a lot of time on how Rittenhouse ‘appeared in conservative media’ or ‘appeared with conservative personalities’ which is a pretty weird thing to say, if you don’t already understand the political undertones of the Kenosha riot.
When you click the article for the Kenosha riot, it’s titled ‘civil unrest in Kenosha’ and focusses a lot on what a reader would perceive as positive aims of the riot. Protesting racism and police brutality, and doesn’t focus at all on the crime, danger, guns, vandalism, arson, etc
That article mentions BLM and when you read that article it makes sure to state that BLM protests were ‘largely peaceful’ and totally misses the amount of deaths and destruction that had happened at them.
The BLM article, if written like the Rittenhouse article, should focus a fair amount in the organizations ties to Marxism, the overthrowing of capitalism and colonialism, but doesn’t.
Wikipedia articles are written and edited and maintained to push a narrative.
If you agree with the narrative, you probably like that it does this. If you disagree, you probably don’t bother reading Wikipedia very much.
The issue with sources, is that a lot of ‘sources’ for stuff like this are already heavily curated to paint a picture the editors want to put on front street.
And anything that would combat that narrative is just outright banned from the site.
A lot of citations with politically charged topics are just opinions anyway. There is no ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ answer or sources on the war between Palestine and isreal, for example. But if Wikipedia editors want to push propaganda for either side over the other, all they have to do is only cite pro-Palestinian or pro-Israeli sources.
This is easily exploitable by editors for whatever narrative they choose to push.
Wikipedia is not an exhaustive gathering of all relevant information, it is a carefully curated propaganda machine for the editors.
- Comment on CEO Bobby Kotick will leave Activision Blizzard on January 1, 2024 | Schreier: Kotick will depart after 33 years, employees are "very excited." 1 year ago:
He’s obviously a terrible human being, I think you have to be to be a wildly successful CEO.
But those are the people who are best at running companies. I wouldn’t be good at it, because I’m not a piece of shit
- Comment on CEO Bobby Kotick will leave Activision Blizzard on January 1, 2024 | Schreier: Kotick will depart after 33 years, employees are "very excited." 1 year ago:
That entirely depends on your expectations of a company CEO
www.macrotrends.net/stocks/…/stock-price-history
I can’t think of a company that wouldn’t hire someone with this kind of stock performance over 30 years.
The issue is really that consumers just keep spending money on things that they hate.
If they did that, no tick would have been gone a long long time ago
- Comment on amazon anti union posters put up by the company 1 year ago:
It’s the company who has to sign off on the CBA, too.
A union can ASK for things, but it’s always the company guaranteeing it.
- Comment on Cat accused of wiping US Veteran Affairs server info after jumping on keyboard 1 year ago:
They shouldn’t allow pets in the office anyway
- Comment on Diablo® IV is coming to Steam 1 year ago:
Can I transfer my license to a steam one?
- Comment on Detroit man steals 800 gallons using Bluetooth to hack gas pumps at station 1 year ago:
That guy has saved …… so much money! I’m jealous
- Comment on Robin Williams' Daughter Speaks Out Against AI Recreations Of Actors' Voices: "I Find It Personally Disturbing" 1 year ago:
I never understood this, because who is going to bu
- Comment on Robin Williams' Daughter Speaks Out Against AI Recreations Of Actors' Voices: "I Find It Personally Disturbing" 1 year ago:
I never understood this, because who is going to bu
- Comment on Robin Williams' Daughter Speaks Out Against AI Recreations Of Actors' Voices: "I Find It Personally Disturbing" 1 year ago:
Sure there is, it’s called likeness or personality rights
- Submitted 1 year ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 15 comments
- Comment on The only ‘new’ feature that would excite me enough to buy an iPhone 15 is USB-C 1 year ago:
I think a lot of people misread my intentions on this post lol
I’d love to upgrade, but I think my phone is great still. Battery still lasts more than a day. I also like bigger phones, I use my phone like a PC, a lot of reading, writing and watching videos and stuff.
Bigger = better imo (at least for my use case)
- Comment on NYC police have spent millions on a tech company that claims it can use AI to monitor social media and predict future criminals 1 year ago:
I mean, that doesn’t make the point any less of a good one.
I tell my kids not to use drugs or drink all the time. Guess what I do?
- Comment on NYC police have spent millions on a tech company that claims it can use AI to monitor social media and predict future criminals 1 year ago:
Likely not for long. I’m sure I’ll be banned from this instance within 90 days lol
- Comment on NYC police have spent millions on a tech company that claims it can use AI to monitor social media and predict future criminals 1 year ago:
Just abandon social media, I cannot think of a single positive thing that could possibly come close to outweighing the incredible harm it can cause us, collectively and individually
- Submitted 1 year ago to technology@lemmy.world | 34 comments
- Comment on FBI, Federal Judge Agree Fighting Botnets Means Allowing The FBI To Remotely Install Software On People’s Computers 1 year ago:
“For your safety”
- Comment on Twitter (X) loses over 30% of users in two months! 1 year ago:
Hey bro, Twitter sucks!
(I hope that helps too)
- Comment on Teslas are bursting into flames in Florida after being flooded during Hurricane Idalia | Saltwater and lithium-ion batteries are a bad combination 1 year ago:
Does this have anything to worry consumers about in cold climates where cars could accumulate snow and road salt on them, and then say - park the car in the garage where it all melts into salt water?