Week 37

Free, Open Source, Community Driven

The Verge: "Wikipedia is the largest compendium of human knowledge ever assembled, with more than 7 million articles in its English version, the largest and most developed of 343 language projects. Started nearly 25 years ago, the site was long mocked as a byword for the unreliability of information on the internet, yet today it is, without exaggeration, the digital world’s factual foundation. It’s what Google puts at the top of search results otherwise awash in ads and spam, what social platforms cite when they deign to correct conspiracy theories, and what AI companies scrape in their ongoing quest to get their models to stop regurgitating info-slurry — and consult with such frequency that they are straining the encyclopedia’s servers. Each day, it’s where approximately 70 million people turn for reliable information on everything from particle physics to rare Scottish sheep to the Erfurt latrine disaster of 1184, a testament both to Wikipedia’s success and to the total degradation of the rest of the internet as an information resource."

Politico: "A memo obtained.. cautioned Democrats about relying solely on the emergent school of thought [Abundance], which criticizes overly bureaucratic regulations for slowing progress on housing production needed to drive down costs and infrastructure projects...

Progressives, led by Rep. Greg Casar.. argu[ed] that the party must rebuild its relationship with working-class voters by vilifying billionaires and corporate power. That's more in line with what the memo argued will reach voters, as 'majorities of Democrats and independents and two in five Republicans believe the outsized power of billionaires and corporations in our government is a bigger problem than red tape and bureaucracy'...

It described affordability as voters' primary concern, and posited they 'see Abundance-style policy solutions as less responsive' to that problem."

Little Marco, became SecState and now acting NSA, supporting the usual Zionist scum... MIC has him.

Why are you troubled Marco Rubenstein..?

MSN: "The U.S. State Department told CNBC on Thursday that it was 'very troubled' by Norway's $2 trillion wealth fund selling its stake in New York-listed Caterpillar... Fund management said last week that the sovereign wealth fund would exit Caterpillar and several Israeli banks over concerns about ties to the conflict in the Gaza Strip."

Arab News: "One of the European Union's most senior officials on Thursday called the war in Gaza a 'genocide,' ramping up criticism of Israel and slamming the 27-nation bloc for failing to act to stop it. 'The genocide in Gaza exposes Europe's failure to act and speak with one voice,' European Commission vice president Teresa Ribera said during a speech in Paris"

"@ben@werd.social

Just a thought, but if we're worried about competing with China, we might want to educate the population, invest in public health, create great infrastructure, build low-cost, high-speed transit, and provide the underlying conditions for people to do great, creative, well-informed work nationwide."