"Wikipedia is the largest compendium of human knowledge ever assembled, with more than 7 million articles in its English version, the largest and most developed of 343 language projects.
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"Wikipedia is the largest compendium of human knowledge ever assembled, with more than 7 million articles in its English version, the largest and most developed of 343 language projects. Started nearly 25 years ago, the site was long mocked as a byword for the unreliability of information on the internet, yet today it is, without exaggeration, the digital world’s factual foundation. It’s what Google puts at the top of search results otherwise awash in ads and spam, what social platforms cite when they deign to correct conspiracy theories, and what AI companies scrape in their ongoing quest to get their models to stop regurgitating info-slurry — and consult with such frequency that they are straining the encyclopedia’s servers. Each day, it’s where approximately 70 million people turn for reliable information on everything from particle physics to rare Scottish sheep to the Erfurt latrine disaster of 1184, a testament both to Wikipedia’s success and to the total degradation of the rest of the internet as an information resource.
“It’s basically the only place on the internet that doesn’t function as a confirmation bias machine.”
But as impressive as this archive is, it is the byproduct of something that today looks almost equally remarkable: strangers on the internet disagreeing on matters of existential gravity and breathtaking pettiness and, through deliberation and debate, building a common ground of consensus reality."
https://www.theverge.com/cs/features/717322/wikipedia-attacks-neutrality-history-jimmy-wales
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undefined fosstodon.org ha condiviso questa discussione
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"Wikipedia is the largest compendium of human knowledge ever assembled, with more than 7 million articles in its English version, the largest and most developed of 343 language projects. Started nearly 25 years ago, the site was long mocked as a byword for the unreliability of information on the internet, yet today it is, without exaggeration, the digital world’s factual foundation. It’s what Google puts at the top of search results otherwise awash in ads and spam, what social platforms cite when they deign to correct conspiracy theories, and what AI companies scrape in their ongoing quest to get their models to stop regurgitating info-slurry — and consult with such frequency that they are straining the encyclopedia’s servers. Each day, it’s where approximately 70 million people turn for reliable information on everything from particle physics to rare Scottish sheep to the Erfurt latrine disaster of 1184, a testament both to Wikipedia’s success and to the total degradation of the rest of the internet as an information resource.
“It’s basically the only place on the internet that doesn’t function as a confirmation bias machine.”
But as impressive as this archive is, it is the byproduct of something that today looks almost equally remarkable: strangers on the internet disagreeing on matters of existential gravity and breathtaking pettiness and, through deliberation and debate, building a common ground of consensus reality."
https://www.theverge.com/cs/features/717322/wikipedia-attacks-neutrality-history-jimmy-wales
@remixtures it is somewhat ironic that the post is about open access Wikipedia, but Verge wants an immediate subscription of cca $50 a year to read the blog post. How long is the blog post? Hope Verge gives most of the profits >80% to authors.
Gli ultimi otto messaggi ricevuti dalla Federazione
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Detta in modo meno tecnico, "ha ragione chi urla più forte". Se l'educazione va avanti così, non ci si può stupire degli estremismi di destra e sinistra.
Per capire cosa faceva Charlie Kirk bisogna conoscere una cosa molto americana https://www.ilpost.it/2025/09/12/charlie-kirk-dibattiti-universita-stati-uniti/
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Marte, segnali nascosti nel sottosuolo: lo studio che fa riflettere
https://leganerd.com/2025/09/12/marte-segnali-nascosti-nel-sottosuolo-lo-studio-che-fa-riflettere/
@scienza
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Pace e giustizia climatica: settimana di azione globale dal 15 al 21 settembre 2025
@anarchia
Torna la Settimana di azione globale per la Pace e la Giustizia Climatica. La seconda edizione, in Italia rilanciata dalla Rete Pace Disarmo, si terrà dal 15 al 21 settembre 2025 e si occuperà dei legami tra guerra, militarismo/militarizzazione e...
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@Sveva_1506 @matz @adriananselmo la mia impressione è che dipenda molto da chi si segue: nella mia bolla/timeline ad esempio c'è abbondanza di cazzeggio, foto di gatti, craft vari, foto di gatti, argomenti seri, e qualche altra foto di gatti, e soprattutto ci sono un sacco di thread pieni di interazioni.
però ho dedicato del tempo (negli anni) a seguire persone che postavano cose che mi interessavano
(e sono su un'istanza piccola, che blocca molto poco, il che aiuta)
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Revealed: Apple is teaching its AI to adapt to the Trump era https://blog.quintarelli.it/2025/09/revealed-apple-is-teaching-its-ai-to-adapt-to-the-trump-era/
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@max può anche darsi che non sappiano dell'esistenza di Friendica. Il mio primo account federato aveva il limite di 500 caratteri (che poi per quello che scrivo sono fin troppi... Per il resto ho il blog)
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Vita su Marte?
Risposta concisa: "forse". Ecco una brevissima rassegna dei vari comunicati, con diversi gradi di "ottimismo" ...
