The other 3 percent were reportedly various alternative accounts puppeteered by Elon Musk’s left hand.

Now on the other hand, these absurd c*** n*** slurs should be blurred and unheard.

No problem at all. Full disclosure: I’m a longtime member of and frequent contributor to Wikipedia. I have a bias in this. I’ll say, however, that because we’re not a monolith, internal criticism of the project is varied, rampant, and welcomed. It’s no surprise when everyone is a volunteer and the entire draw of editing is “this thing sucks; make it better”. Criticism is so prolific that for the project’s 25th anniversary, the English Wikipedia’s official newsletter, The Signpost, published a dire, 6500-word warning about our trajectory.

We’re constantly looking for criticism so we can improve, and it’s why, if you can believe it, we love seeing new faces and articles published like “I tried to edit Wikipedia for a week; here’s how it burned my house down”. What we don’t value is criticism made in bad faith; there’s nothing to talk about when one side of the discussion wants to just sit around and Gish gallop all day for transparent political ends.

For those out of the loop, this user’s entire purpose on Lemmy is to spread negative coverage of Wikipedia, one of the few remaining strongholds against far-right disinformation.

And yes, that does include signal-boosting criticism from literally anyone who’s against the project, including Israeli courts, US House Republicans…

Effectively, their job is to stir up FUD.

“One of the things I like doing most is bangin’ hoors.”

If you use DuckDuckGo, you can just type !wt wordyouwant. This takes you to the English Wiktionary entry (EDIT: I forgot to mention this language depends on your DDG locale), where Wiktionary is a (really rich and underappreciated) sister project to Wikipedia that acts as an every-language-to-English dictionary (or e.g. an every-language-to-French dictionary in the case of fr.wiktionary.org, etc.)

As an example of the first random word that came to mind: concentric

Ah, yeah, I knew what you meant. I just thought it was funny imagining the serious tone of Blade Runner’s replicants pasted onto Reddit bots astroturfing for Burger King.

Quite an experience to live in fear, isn’t it? That’s what it is to be a corporate troll manipulating public opinion.

This blog post was plausibly written by AI. Look at the fabricated source on the 2020 study and at the wording.

I don’t think we know what the actual figure is because this blog post ostensibly fabricates this alleged 2020 study.

Edit: But of course this post is taking off anyway because Lemmy users are soooo much more discerning than those dumbass Reddit users.

The study is likely fabricated by this blog post from what I can find.

This person writes an entire-ass blog post titled after this alleged 2020 Computers in Human Behavior study and can’t even be fucked to link it, name its authors, or even say what the title is. I cannot find this paper anywhere. I looked through all twelve 2020 issues of Computers in Human Behavior and could not find this study. I searched keywords. Nothing.

What an obnoxious fucking dipshit and their useless, almost-entirely-unsourced* piece of shit screed. Based on the wording and the fabricated sourcing, I wouldn’t be surprised if this ragebait blog post was generated with an LLM.

* One source to a March 2017 Pew Research article the blog post claims is from 2018.

Worse: he ran out of pixels.

“Wins $12 million” looks more to me like “loses $6 million”. If you steal $18,000 from me and a judge orders you to pay back $12,000, I didn’t win anything except a portion of the money I would’ve had anyway had it not been stolen.

Oh, no, I’m from Utica.

I make a mode dish, by which I mean I perfectly replicate a McDonald’s hamburger.

What is this fucking world 🍆💦ing to?

Sheesh, OP, watch your filthy fucking language.

Dude, that thing could be mistaken for my pinkie or for his erect penis.

In an interview with Reuters, AFT President Randi Weingarten said that the site had already been degraded by extremists and trolls since Elon Musk’s 2022 takeover, before which the platform was known as Twitter. But the recent proliferation of nonconsensual images of women and children in bikinis or underwear generated by X’s artificial intelligence chatbot, Grok, had made the site unusable, she said.

And here’s your “you helped enable this; don’t expect a pat on the back” trophy.

Hey, though, it did have Trump staring off into space while Vance and Dilbert look at the camera (albeit the former looks like he’s begging the photographer through clenched teeth to take the shot before he shits his pants). So it did capture some of that dementia.

Edit: Wait, I just noticed that there’s something obstructing the frame in the bottom right. Whyyyyyyyy? Like I understand why the GPT did this, but how did they think this was acceptable?