ok, I woke up with another reason why this wikipedia sell out has me so angry...
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ok, I woke up with another reason why this wikipedia sell out has me so angry...
I've long held up gifting economy models like wikipedia (and reddit and craigslist and buy nothing) as #Solarpunk In Real Life, here today, manifesting the better world I want to see.
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ok, I woke up with another reason why this wikipedia sell out has me so angry...
I've long held up gifting economy models like wikipedia (and reddit and craigslist and buy nothing) as #Solarpunk In Real Life, here today, manifesting the better world I want to see.
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Libraries are the same, #solarpunk in real life.
There are many ways a better world exists alongside the terrible one...growing those seeds & using them as familiar models to help people transition conceptually away from exploitive capitalism...
https://brightgreenfutures.substack.com/p/episode-25-library-economies-and
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Libraries are the same, #solarpunk in real life.
There are many ways a better world exists alongside the terrible one...growing those seeds & using them as familiar models to help people transition conceptually away from exploitive capitalism...
https://brightgreenfutures.substack.com/p/episode-25-library-economies-and
2/n...is one way you get to a better world.
First reddit & now wikipedia are breaking the model...
...and gaslighting us at the same time about it, which is just infuriating.
It's not that they've found an "ingenious" way to make money while keeping (maybe?) AI slop out of wikipedia...
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...is one way you get to a better world.
First reddit & now wikipedia are breaking the model...
...and gaslighting us at the same time about it, which is just infuriating.
It's not that they've found an "ingenious" way to make money while keeping (maybe?) AI slop out of wikipedia...
3/n...it's that they've broken the volunteer gifting model that wikipedia is based on.
Uncountable hours of freely-given volunteer human labor went into creating and maintaining a library of human knowledge, so that all of humanity would benefit. That's the model.
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...it's that they've broken the volunteer gifting model that wikipedia is based on.
Uncountable hours of freely-given volunteer human labor went into creating and maintaining a library of human knowledge, so that all of humanity would benefit. That's the model.
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That AI corps felt free to scrape and profit from that is wrong...
...and instead of fighting that (despite promising to! for donations!), wikipedia sold out to the AI corps and are making it faster and easier for them to scrape and profit from the freely-given volunteer human labor.
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That AI corps felt free to scrape and profit from that is wrong...
...and instead of fighting that (despite promising to! for donations!), wikipedia sold out to the AI corps and are making it faster and easier for them to scrape and profit from the freely-given volunteer human labor.
5/n(and again, gaslighting about it!)
It breaks the model — *and* it's incredibly short-sighted. Editors are already waning, this will only accelerate that.
It's the exploitive, extractive capitalist monsters destroying one of the few #solarpunk IRL models we have.
I am so furious.
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(and again, gaslighting about it!)
It breaks the model — *and* it's incredibly short-sighted. Editors are already waning, this will only accelerate that.
It's the exploitive, extractive capitalist monsters destroying one of the few #solarpunk IRL models we have.
I am so furious.
6/nMy only consolation, as with everything being destroyed by fascists & AI corps & broligarchs of all kinds right now, is that they can't destroy the IDEA of wikipedia.
We had something good once.
They can enshittify and extract and exploit... but WE (the people) are the source of everything...
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@Zambunny nah
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@harald It definitely is. It’s a fixed appointment every few years.
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@anubiarts hugs if you need them, and look after your physical and mental health. We'll be here for when you feel like coming back 8-)
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@utrenkner Sadly true
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see ya later
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hey fellas
this will be a more personal announcement than what you are used to seeing, but honestly I don't feel that passionate about art anymore. it just doesn't click for me like it used to, i don't feel motivated to draw anymore ever since a few months now and trying to force it just makes me hate it even more, and I feel like the cause for it is to have turned this into a pseudo-job, where as before I used to do art whenever I pleased to, nowadays with it being my main source of income I feel like I got stuck in this position where I must draw something every day to make ends met, and I've tried to take more spaced breaks, which worked at first, but it ended up making me feel even more guilty of not doing any art for social media, and any time I spent on personal or unrelated art feels like could have been spent way better on doing things for those places.
I feel like that's the culprit of it all, after all this kinda turned into my job due to it, so I'm gonna take the nuclear option and go on a break on almost all social medias, and focus on doing more personal or experimental art in places like this/my discord server (anubihub) or other places where friends and colleagues are.
I don't know how long this break will last, it might never end even, but when I come back to posting new art on public, online spaces, I want to come back with a fresh new focus, something that makes me happy again.
those supporting monthly on ko-fi will still get the new art I do over there, they'll be tagged as "Exclusive Content" instead of "Early Access" due to this change though.
gamejolt will get some reposts of oldies because I have a backlog of them that need some reposting there, but for any other social media, don't expect anything for a while.
it was this or quitting art, and i dont wanna quit art yet, i wanna keep trying for more things.
thats all.
see ya later!
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@u0421793 Bookmarked, I’ll surely watch it
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@NickBergenComputerQuest Wow! Beautiful!
It’s one of my favourite movies, too. I grew up with it.
