https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/23/opin ... wsuit.html
Note this part:
Ha ha ha. Wondering why she would say this? Check her adulatory Wikipedia biography.We have commons on the internet, too. Despite all of its toxic corners, it is still full of vibrant portions that serve the public good — places like Wikipedia and Reddit forums, where volunteers often share knowledge in good faith and work hard to keep bad actors at bay.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Angwin
I remember that article. It was one of the first media reports to reveal that WP editing was in decline. It is routinely listed in things they can't deny but would like to, such as Criticism of Wikipedia and Predictions of the end of Wikipedia. But hey it was from way back in 2009, and since WP didn't collapse, ignore it.A November 23, 2009 article by Angwin and Geoffrey A. Fowler, entitled "Volunteers Log Off as Wikipedia Ages" on the "unprecedented numbers of the millions" of Wikipedia editors that were quitting, was featured on the front page.[17]
Also in her article:
Sue Gardner being the longest-lasting WMF director to date.In April 2018, Angwin and Jeff Larson left ProPublica to found The Markup, described on their website as a "nonpartisan, nonprofit newsroom" that will produce "data-centered journalism" to uncover "societal harms of technology".[21] They were joined by Sue Gardner, as a co-founder, and several ProPublica staff members.[22][23]
All of which have ALSO been giving armloads of cash to the WMF and/or raving about how wonderful it is.In support of The Markup's mission to investigate technology and its effect on society, Craig Newmark committed $20 million to the publication alongside philanthropic gifts from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and the Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence Initiative, a joint project of the MIT Media Lab and the Harvard Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society.[23]
Summary: Julia is plugged high and deep into the "Digerati Rectum", where logrolling and backrubbing are a daily occurrence. One of them dreams up a kooky idea for the "digital future" and the others write essays about what a "shining visionary" so-an-so is. Very few of these geniuses predicted that AI would be used to replace THEM--the creative "chattering classes".