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> This is the standard tech playbook. Fire the engineers who know how the system works, fire the ones organizing labor, hope nothing catastrophic breaks before you can ship something splashy. Twitter did it. Meta did it. Salesforce did it. Google did it. We have all seen this movie.
this time it's Wikipedia
https://medium.com/@jakeorlowitz/wikipedia-is-doing-the-capitalist-thing-56a393232943
@davidgerard more a decaybook
@davidgerard And then the author mentions "the AI that you use every day".
Which means he's a slopper who thinks everyone is a slopper, which means this whole article is most likely AI slop and nothing in it must be believed or trusted.
A different source is needed to report on this.
@yora This one is accurate enough that multiple Wikimedia staff sent it to me, this is a close source
@davidgerard
This is natural cycle of life
New system will be minimal better with ai
(of course she was)
"The Foundation itself once described her as one of a very small number of people in the world who deeply understand the technical underpinnings of the system. She was also a union organizer."
@davidgerard
"The encyclopedia belongs to everyone. The labor that sustains it deserves the same protection."
No, "Big Tech's Anti-Labour Playbook" is not coming for Wikipedia, it's coming for Wikimedia. The editors of Wikipedia never get paid for any of their work. It's Wikimedia employees who get fat salaries in this neo-liberal middle-man gatekeeper company. Screw them, no need to unionize for privileged leechers whose jobs rest on the exploitation of the work of unpaid "volunteers".
@davidgerard
"The encyclopedia belongs to everyone. The labor that sustains it deserves the same protection."
No, "Big Tech's Anti-Labour Playbook" is not coming for Wikipedia but for Wikimedia. The editors of Wikipedia never get paid for any of their work. It's Wikimedia employees who get fat salaries in this neo-liberal middle-man gatekeeper company. Screw them, no need to unionize for already privileged leechers whose jobs rest on the exploitation of unpaid "volunteers".
@davidgerard Hmmmm. They're not getting any more money from me, for sure.
"The encyclopedia belongs to everyone. The labor that sustains it deserves the same protection."
No, "Big Tech's Anti-Labour Playbook" is not coming for Wikipedia but for Wikimedia. The editors of Wikipedia never get paid for any of their work. It's only Wikimedia employees who get fat salaries in this typical neo-liberal middle-man gatekeeper company. Screw them, not need to unionize for already privileged leechers whose jobs rest on the exploitation of unpaid "volunteers".
@davidgerard it sure was a good run.
@davidgerard
I guess they won't need my money anyway, then
oh well
And as we can see with twitter especially, everyone got so used to tech getting worse over time that they barely notice the effects of this self sabotage
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