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Technology@lemmy.world•London PR firm rewrites Wikipedia for governments and billionaires— Founded by Keir Starmer’s comms chief, Portland helps rich clients ‘protect their reputation’ – with a shady, off-the-books serviceEnglish
31·3 days agoIt’s even more structural than that. You can control functionally all editors by controlling the academia and media. Wikipedia is necessarily a reflection of the biases of the editors and the sources they peruse. Misogynistic bias in your society, media and academia will lead to a misogynistic Wikipedia. Racist bias in your society, media and academia will lead to a racist Wikipedia. Anticommunist bias in your society, media and academia will lead to an anticommunist Wikipedia.
For example, western Wikipedia editors have been quick to deprecate Chinese state media sources such as CGTN or Russian such as RT (not complaining about the latter), but even after the horrifying complacency in genocide in Gaza, the BBC is still widely accepted.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What's your favourite historical photo and why?
10·3 days agoHey Cowbee, I’m back after deleting my account referencing your name lmao. I appreciate you bringing up your knowledge about the two counter-revolution events in Hungary and Czechoslovakia.
Would you be interested in me doing a review of a book by Radoslav Selucký (economic advisor during the Czechoslovak counterrevolution attempt) called “El modelo Checoslovaco de Socialismo” (the Czechoslovak model of Socialism, printed in West Germany and later translated to Spanish and published in Fascist Spain)?
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What's your favourite historical photo and why?
354·3 days agoSomeone: takes a selfie with their phone under low lighting conditions
You: "not a photo, it’s the output of an algorithm taking the luminosity from an array of light detectors, giving information of the colour and modifying it according to lighting conditions, and then using specific software to sharpen the original capture*
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What's your favourite historical photo and why?
372·3 days agoNobody wins in war
The Vietnamese won, as a matter of fact, and liberated themselves from colonialism as a consequence
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Technology@lemmy.world•London PR firm rewrites Wikipedia for governments and billionaires— Founded by Keir Starmer’s comms chief, Portland helps rich clients ‘protect their reputation’ – with a shady, off-the-books serviceEnglish
71·3 days agoBetter names are Queer Harmer or Kid Starver
Yeah but I’d shift the phrasing from “nobody wins from war” to “carpet bombing of civilians by an imperialist power is evil”