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@naia @troubleMoney True, but he's claiming that his social media platform doesn't need mods because it will self police...like Wikipedia (doesn't).

I own a Wikipedia scarf, but holy shit is it easy to see that there are issues with trolls and bigots holding articles hostage on there

@naia @troubleMoney Nobody except for Jimbo looks at Wikipedia and thinks, "This is an ideal way for a community to run"

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The first example that leaps to mind is how the article on Wendy Carlos has a picture of her from when she was in high school, in 1958, years before she became a public figure and when she was still presenting as a boy. The talk page is riddled with arguments over the photo, but because of a small number of people patrolling the article and stonewalling (ha!) its removal, it stays in.

@troubleMoney Wikipedia has a huge problem with transphobes, misogynists, and racists patrolling articles and, for example, keeping trans people's dead names in articles. And he expects the same policies to produce a better social network than FB? He must know how fucked it is.

@troubleMoney Oh no.

I really thought this was just a setup for a pun.

It's real and it's a terrible idea.

"Bonzo Goes to Bitburg" seems pretty quaint now

"What would be a chill beat to study to? Hm...how about I take this Hoagie Carmichael track, combine it with some Gameboy samples, and slip in a little bit of Marge having a serious conversation with Homer?"

I was listening to a podcast about "Best Years of Our Lives," a movie from the 40s about WWII soldiers returning home from the war, and there was this jazzy piano track up front in the mix while a couple discussed getting a divorce. It sounded like chill beats to study to.

Sobble team represent

It's the real life equivalent of people complaining about highly specific things on social media because they've curated their experience so narrowly.

"Everyone on Tumblr is always posting porn!"

Uh...you follow nothing but porn accounts?

"Where are all these tacky ethnic people coming from? Must be Queens! Haha, I live in an East Village loft and attended NYU so I'm superior to these ugly, badly-behaved, cheap losers!"

People like this invented the term "bridge and tunnel" because they were too far up their own asses.