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It hasn't been a print-first publication in many years - the site was updated weekly. It's also where a lot of the facts on Wikipedia came from. This is a real
by simonw 9mo ago
It hasn't been a print-first publication in many years - the site was updated weekly.
It's also where a lot of the facts on Wikipedia came from. This is a real loss.
I trust CIA over official population numbers from a lot of countries. There was a thread on here recently that pointed out a lot of countries haven't conducted an effective census in many years, if at all: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46810027 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46810027
- stopbulying 9mo agoHopefully the next admin will regain an understanding of the value of the World Facebook collection of somewhat-vetted facts and opinions.
- shmeeed 9mo agoPlease no World Facebook
- stopbulying 9mo agoWhat if they call theirs Truthbook Bader Ginsberg? Like RBGPAC
- stopbulying 9mo ago(Truth Social went out of their way to copy the look of Twitter by styling their Mastodon instance with the Soapbox theme.) (Elon Musk was the only contributor to a PAC that claimed to represent a deceased Supreme Court Justice.)
- edsu 9mo agoYes, apart from the loss of the publication as a historical artifact, it is the loss of the continuing process that kept it up to date as a representation of the present (with whatever flaws you always have with such representations).