Post B2MU9ePLdk7EdxgIPg by susankayequinn@wandering.shop
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(DIR) Post #B2MU9SKIYgwjApE5sO by susankayequinn@wandering.shop
2026-01-16T15:07:56Z
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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. 1/n
(DIR) Post #B2MU9ePLdk7EdxgIPg by susankayequinn@wandering.shop
2026-01-16T15:08:27Z
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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-and2/n
(DIR) Post #B2MU9qwP2fgdVxErbM by susankayequinn@wandering.shop
2026-01-16T15:08:54Z
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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
(DIR) Post #B2MU9wwGk5927HDqE4 by susankayequinn@wandering.shop
2026-01-16T15:09:12Z
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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. 4/n
(DIR) Post #B2MUA3yIavvZvbE3rU by susankayequinn@wandering.shop
2026-01-16T15:09:27Z
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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
(DIR) Post #B2MUA9CJAH6Y8UootM by susankayequinn@wandering.shop
2026-01-16T15:09:44Z
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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/n
(DIR) Post #B2MUAE7Asmy9O1SI5I by susankayequinn@wandering.shop
2026-01-16T15:10:00Z
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My 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...7/n
(DIR) Post #B2MUAIitkTWNgB8TRI by susankayequinn@wandering.shop
2026-01-16T15:10:20Z
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WE are the source of human-crafted knowledge.And art. And science.We are the engines of creativity. We can take our attention & our creations & rebuild (or build something better) cuz we are the ones who built it in the first place.8/n
(DIR) Post #B2MUANXjpOZ6d0x8Eq by susankayequinn@wandering.shop
2026-01-16T15:10:36Z
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If your whole business model is theft, you cannot survive on your own. We can.We will outlast you & your death urges & we will build something better & in some measure, it will be built upon the model of our first attempts, the ones that showed it was possible.#FuckAI & all its enablers.9/n
(DIR) Post #B2MUASW9KjGW3XFQxM by susankayequinn@wandering.shop
2026-01-16T15:22:24Z
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MY GOD this "AI and fascism eat everything" is going to be a long hard roadI'm pretty convinced I won't even see the bottom of this death spiral. And yet I persist because it's only with someone nurturing the seeds through the winter that we have any chance at all.