• themoken@startrek.website
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    Uh, what? The Ayn Rand garbage philosophy? I’ve never heard that and don’t see how that jibes with a free, crowd sourced encyclopedia…

    • incentive@lemmy.ml
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      Jimmy Wales is an objectivist- he moderated online forums related to Ayn Rand before he started Nupedia and Wikipedia.

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        19 hours ago

        An Ayn Rand acolyte begging for donations every other month then refusing to do right by his employees?

        Yup sounds like the kind of hypocritical bullshit a so-called “objectivist” would do. SMDH

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      Yeah the founder is or was into that. Thus the idea that Wikipedia’s editorial decisions could essentially be made by algorithms. I have some jokes about it but will spare you for now. The WMF itself is just another tech company with some nonprofit virtue vibes though. Expect a typical campaign.