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1. myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Oct-2023 01:54:46 JST myrmepropagandist

   Elon’s tweet disparaging the need to support the Wikipedia has stuck with me. How could anyone, even a creepy libertarian who hates government find fault with wikipedia? The wikipedia is an independent not for profit corporation. It’s the way the libertarians always assure us public goods can still exist even in their fantasy futures. And in this limited area the wikipedia largely works. A backbone for the web of human knowledge. But somehow even this is still objectionable.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Oct-2023 01:54:45 JST Aral Balkan

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     @futurebird Not to mention that Jimmy Wales is also a libertarian.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Oct-2023 02:35:40 JST Aral Balkan

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     • JW prince of CPH

     @jwcph @futurebird Well, to his credit, Jimmy Wales isn’t a billionaire.

   • JW prince of CPH (jwcph@norrebro.space)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Oct-2023 02:35:41 JST JW prince of CPH

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     • Aral Balkan

     @aral @futurebird I can't be arsed to research it but my guess would be that they have some sort of petty personal beef between them. After all, the only thing billionaires hate more than poor people is other billionaires.