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Wikimedia Endowment financial statement for 2016–2023 published(en.wikipedia.org)
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History is written by whoever can harness the most editors(en.wikipedia.org)
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In blind test, readers prefer ChatGPT output over Wikipedia articles(en.wikipedia.org)
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The Unlikely World Leader Who Just Dispelled Musk’s Utopian AI Dreams(theatlantic.com)
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by akolbe 3y ago
Horrible title, sorry. The gist is: The Wikipedia Library provides free access to research materials to anyone who has made more than 500 Wikipedia edits and has an account more than 6 months old. https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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I will fear no paywall, for thou, Wikipedia Library, art with me(en.wikipedia.org)
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Could You Stand on the Surface of Jupiter? Exploring the Enigmatic Outer Planets(daily.jstor.org)
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Many people hate wasps, but research shows they're smarter than you might think(phys.org)
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NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft changed how we think about asteroids(space.com)
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by akolbe 3y ago
As The Hill pointed out ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qr_Kjd0xXNA ), this was not about the content he uploaded nor anything he said on the platform. YouTube was completely okay with putting ads on the conspiracy theori
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YouTube is wrong to rush to judgement on Russell Brand(spectator.co.uk)
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by akolbe 3y ago
This was a prerecorded programme and the BBC chose to air it. "Gross and nasty" or not, this was viewed as mainstream entertainment by the BBC's bosses fifteen years ago. Marina Hyde has a good piece in today's Guard
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by akolbe 3y ago
Moreover, Russell Brand has not been kicked off of YouTube. His channel is still there, as ever: https://www.youtube.com/@RussellBrand They are just withholding revenue. I am not defending sexual abuse. My point is well art
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by akolbe 3y ago
Sigh. Please get your facts right. It was Jonathan Ross who said Russell Brand fucked Sachs' granddaughter (which I personally thought was well beyond the pale, as tasteless jokes go). https://www.theguardian.com/medi
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by akolbe 3y ago
We are talking about a joke made in a comedy programme. Making a joke in a comedy programme, even in conversation with someone later revealed to have been a sex offender, is not a crime. In fact, making outrageous jokes and being Russell Br
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by akolbe 3y ago
You said "He is alleged to have passed along a girl to a known pedophile." He is not even alleged to have done that. What's been reported is that he joked on a BBC radio show about visiting Savile and bringing along his assis
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by akolbe 3y ago
The exchange with Jimmy Savile happened on a primetime BBC Radio 2 comedy show. There were no consequences for Brand at the time. You can hardly accuse the media of being consistent in their moral outrage. For the Andrew Sachs "joke&qu
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by akolbe 3y ago
Hang on a minute. He is accused of having had an "emotionally abusive and controlling relationshp" with a 16-year-old when he was 31. That is not the same as rape. The age of consent in the UK is 16, and 16-year-olds are legally s
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by akolbe 3y ago
It is worth noting, for the benefit of US-based readers, that the legal age of consent in the UK is 16. Brand was 31 at the time, according to media reports.
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by akolbe 3y ago
It's not about what he said on YouTube though. He stands accused of having been a bad person . Maybe he was, but if all it takes for a YouTuber to be deprived of their income is to be accused of being a bad person (or of having co
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by akolbe 3y ago
Also see discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37567066
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by akolbe 3y ago
It's not about the content though in this case (God knows there is worse crap on YouTube), but about the person who uploaded it.
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by akolbe 3y ago
This seems a little ... premature? Do we now have trial by TV? Worth reading: A few thoughts on the Russell Brand furore, by Jonathan Cook: https://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2023-09-17/thoughts-russe... ... The
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Who knew you could achieve so much with so little? Let Elon Musk explain(telegraph.co.uk)
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Mistranslation of Newton’s First Law Discovered After Nearly 300 Years(scientificamerican.com)
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Wikimedia power sharing – just an advisory role for the volunteer community?(en.wikipedia.org)
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The barriers that impede “stitching” collaboration between Commons and Wikipedia(en.wikipedia.org)
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by akolbe 3y ago
For reference, the underlying study[1] says: Our samples (2019–2021) range from 370 to 15,000 Bq·kg–1 137Cs, thus exceeding the regulatory limits (600 Bq·kg–1) by a factor of up to 25. [1] https://pubs.acs.org/doi/ful
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by akolbe 3y ago
The abstract of the underlying study[1] says: Here, we target radiocesium contamination in wild boars from Bavaria. Our samples (2019–2021) range from 370 to 15,000 Bq·kg–1 137Cs, thus exceeding the regulatory limits (600 Bq·kg–1) by a fac
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by akolbe 3y ago
I can't find any reference to WWII munitions in the original article. What they are talking about are atmospheric nuclear tests carried out primarily in the period after WWII: "For weapons-137Cs, the cessation of atmospheric tes

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