It’s an interesting symptom of the decline of the internet, and the politicization of everything, to see how terrible Wikipedia is, now…
I’m not denying that it has always been shit, but it used to at least pretend to be “objective”, or “unbiased”…
Now? What a complete fucking joke!!
Anyone else have experience of attempting to make small edits to incorrect information on there?? It’s an absolute bloody nightmare! Especially when it is something contentious or “woke”…
For my part, it was trying to correct the historical record for places in Australia, like where someone claimed a whole town, of some 10,000 people or so (Toodyay, Western Australia) was on ”Aboriginal Land”…
“Aboriginal Land” has a specific legal meaning, in Aus, and it does not cover Toodyay (fucking obviously). I tried to correct that. They banned my then-IP address. For “vandalism”…
It still says what they (woke powermods) want it to say. Because of course it does…
There’s also something rather dark that I noticed at Uni, which is that, academically, you are required to use recent sources, generally things published in the last 5 years, or a decade at most…
What this means, therefore, is that actual books are heavily discouraged…
Sure, fine, online journals are generally “legit”, I get that, but they have to conform to woke “standards”, and my most recent Uni got rid of all its physical journal copies, because they weren’t “up to date”, and the Uni wanted “more study space”, i.e. purely armchairs and desks, for students to sit on their own laptops…
At the same time, they sold off all the good hardware in the campus libraries, because “students can just use their own devices, and get a grant if they need to buy better gear”… Yeah, I’m not making that up.
Anyway, the point of this rant is that no womder academia is fucked.
My “college” (i.e. science) does not even require that all sources be peer-reviewed, only that they be “up to date”, meaning that they must be off the internet, not print. Unless you want to buy the latest print version yourself, of course.
Oh that’s right, they closed the specialist campus bookshops, so you can’t even easily do that, anymore… 🤦🏻♂️
I should add, this is a university known for its science (first environmental science degrees in Aus! Lol…), this is not some private humanities college…
What I describe absolutely should not be the case, but here we are… 😕
That's what destroyed Google's search algo. It's not so much the political bias (though there is that), but that they heavily favor news sites and "recent" in their calculation of what's "relevant". It wasn't always that way. Search for some obscure video that you know is on YouTube, and the top results will always be news stories that only tangentially relate to the keywords entered. Your video will be past the 3rd page of results, if it comes up at all.
Brave Search seems to do the same fucking thing. DuckDuckGo is actually better in this regard.
They were sold as free speech but transitioned to far left censorship after they were large enough. (bait and switch)
Nowadays- using those websites is a sign you live in a fake bubble and contact with reality will destroy you. See the recent AntiWork Transgender 20 hour a week interview for proof.
It’s an interesting symptom of the decline of the internet, and the politicization of everything, to see how terrible Wikipedia is, now…
I’m not denying that it has always been shit, but it used to at least pretend to be “objective”, or “unbiased”…
Now? What a complete fucking joke!!
Anyone else have experience of attempting to make small edits to incorrect information on there?? It’s an absolute bloody nightmare! Especially when it is something contentious or “woke”…
For my part, it was trying to correct the historical record for places in Australia, like where someone claimed a whole town, of some 10,000 people or so (Toodyay, Western Australia) was on ”Aboriginal Land”…
“Aboriginal Land” has a specific legal meaning, in Aus, and it does not cover Toodyay (fucking obviously). I tried to correct that. They banned my then-IP address. For “vandalism”…
It still says what they (woke powermods) want it to say. Because of course it does…
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There’s also something rather dark that I noticed at Uni, which is that, academically, you are required to use recent sources, generally things published in the last 5 years, or a decade at most…
What this means, therefore, is that actual books are heavily discouraged…
Sure, fine, online journals are generally “legit”, I get that, but they have to conform to woke “standards”, and my most recent Uni got rid of all its physical journal copies, because they weren’t “up to date”, and the Uni wanted “more study space”, i.e. purely armchairs and desks, for students to sit on their own laptops…
At the same time, they sold off all the good hardware in the campus libraries, because “students can just use their own devices, and get a grant if they need to buy better gear”… Yeah, I’m not making that up.
Anyway, the point of this rant is that no womder academia is fucked.
My “college” (i.e. science) does not even require that all sources be peer-reviewed, only that they be “up to date”, meaning that they must be off the internet, not print. Unless you want to buy the latest print version yourself, of course.
Oh that’s right, they closed the specialist campus bookshops, so you can’t even easily do that, anymore… 🤦🏻♂️
Yeah, shit’s bad, man… 😑
I should add, this is a university known for its science (first environmental science degrees in Aus! Lol…), this is not some private humanities college…
What I describe absolutely should not be the case, but here we are… 😕
That's what destroyed Google's search algo. It's not so much the political bias (though there is that), but that they heavily favor news sites and "recent" in their calculation of what's "relevant". It wasn't always that way. Search for some obscure video that you know is on YouTube, and the top results will always be news stories that only tangentially relate to the keywords entered. Your video will be past the 3rd page of results, if it comes up at all.
Brave Search seems to do the same fucking thing. DuckDuckGo is actually better in this regard.
Wikipedia USED to be pretty good.
Same with reddit….
They were sold as free speech but transitioned to far left censorship after they were large enough. (bait and switch)
Nowadays- using those websites is a sign you live in a fake bubble and contact with reality will destroy you. See the recent AntiWork Transgender 20 hour a week interview for proof.