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antonim

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  • Wikimedia Foundation refuses voluntary union recognition, hires union-busting law firm

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  • the employees are few

    WMF has 650 employees.

    What they're going to demand is preventing arbitrary layoffs, less bullying in the workspace, etc. Supposedly the Foundation is very toxic workplace. It's not (just) about the money.

  • Wikimedia Foundation refuses voluntary union recognition, hires union-busting law firm

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  • Don't abandon Wikipedia over this, if it's useful it's useful (though it shouldn't be overrated). Do reconsider donating to Wikimedia Foundation, since the money apparently can be spent even on union-busting.

  • Wikimedia Foundation refuses voluntary union recognition, hires union-busting law firm

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  • Relevant to mention: I've just posted a thread about users reporting that apparently WMF has hired a union-busting firm.

    https://lemmy.world/post/50205578

    It is publicly confirmed that WMF contracted the notorious union-busting law firm Littler Mendelson to fight Wiki Workers United.

    (I also posted it to this community but it got deleted by the autobot.)

    Edit: I just realised the OP link/article talks about this as well, ah 🤦‍♂️

    Also may be worth mentioning the later part of the article, talking about Abstract Wikipedia, a beta project regarding whose future a request for comments has been called. Many editors believe it is unviable and a waste of money and time: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/The_future_of_Abstract_Wikipedia

  • Wikipedia @lemmy.world
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    Wikimedia Foundation has hired a union-busting firm

  • AI companies are anonymously buying and destroying millions of books through middleman services to avoid headlines about AI companies buying and destroying millions of books

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  • Mind providing the parts that you think are more relevant?

  • Wikimedia Will Not Voluntarily Recognize Union a Supermajority of Its Workers Want

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  • “We have heard a range of views from staff, including concerns from those who have felt pressured to support union efforts and those who are confused by the unionization process,” the foundation added in a frequently asked questions section. “We have also seen a misunderstanding around what the union can do for global staff and Wikimedia movement communities.”

    LMAO, fuck off with this bullshit. I noticed WMF spokepersons love this vocabulary, everyone except for them is "confused", if you disagree with WMF's actions it's just a "misunderstanding".

  • Wikimedia Will Not Voluntarily Recognize Union a Supermajority of Its Workers Want

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  • Allegedly they fire and bully the employees a lot. Recently they fired the entire team that was dealing with the "Community Wishlist", the most direct way WP editors had to make requests for technical improvements and tools to WMF.

  • Seriously though what the fuck is wrong with this guy

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  • Btw what are the realistic chances the guy suffers some actual consequences for the bullshit he has done?

  • The lost golden age of language diversity

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  • Do they put catalan as endangered?

    Probably not. The image does not really say what languages the points represent.

  • Traditional Art @lemmy.world
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    Mirko Ilić: Workers of all countries, who washes your socks? (1978)

  • Linguistics @mander.xyz
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    The lost golden age of language diversity

    www.mpg.de /26871018/the-lost-golden-age-of-language-diversity
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    Permanently Deleted

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  • Be of upstanding character

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  • Firefox capitulates and returns to Twitter

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  • That's news to me, thank you.

  • Firefox capitulates and returns to Twitter

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  • The thing that pisses me off is the fact that they demonstratively did move away from Twitter, acknowledging its usage as problematic, but now have changed their mind and provided a dumb non-explanation. Either way they've taken a dump on their own decision-making.

  • Firefox capitulates and returns to Twitter

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  • That's a search engine (like Google Search and DuckDuckGo), not a browser (like Google Chrome and Firefox).

  • RULE

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  • Ah, the heaviest artillery of art criticism: food comparisons.

  • Firefox @lemmy.world
    antonim @lemmy.world

    Firefox capitulates and returns to Twitter

  • AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop

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  • Google (and/or the libraries that collaborate with Google Books) and Archive.org usually scan non-destructively. Some of Google's book scans still show the fingers holding the corners of the pages, some of them were taken mistakenly mid-flip, etc. So they clearly used whole, normally bound books.

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    rule

  • Return to office propaganda floating around LinkedIn

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  • I mean, yes, that's true.

  • Formal education

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  • Except that the alternative method, the "whole word" approach, seems to have way worse outcomes.

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    the tides have turned (rule)

  • Not in the center of the rule!

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  • Ohh, I like that idea!

  • Not in the center of the rule!

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  • The direction is the trickier part of the problem. Bending over seems to be the only way to get the water directly hit the asshole, although then the asshole water would wash over the rest of your body as well

  • Wikipedia @lemmy.world
    antonim @lemmy.world
    Wikipedia Signpost: Opinion

    We need to innovate with Wikimedia decision-making

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2026-07-13/Opinion
  • History Memes @piefed.social
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    serious business

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    rule

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    rule

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Umm, actually protests DO work (rule)

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    😋 rule

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    rule

  • science @lemmy.world
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    Why have papers by one of history’s most famous physicists [Max Planck] been retracted?

    www.science.org /content/article/why-have-papers-one-history-s-most-famous-physicists-been-retracted
  • World News @lemmy.world
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    Ivanka and Jared’s Island Resort Could Bring Down Albania’s Prime Minister

    www.wired.com /story/ivanka-and-jareds-island-resort-could-bring-down-albanias-prime-minister/
  • Wikipedia @lemmy.world
    antonim @lemmy.world

    Public Universal Friend

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Public_Universal_Friend
  • Traditional Art @lemmy.world
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    Semyon Skrepetsky

  • Linguistics @mander.xyz
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    Martin Haspelmath: Four stereotypes that have guided morphosyntactic thinking

    dlc.hypotheses.org /4343
  • Wikipedia @lemmy.world
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    Wikipedia's traffic drop: more on languages and freshness

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2026-05-22/Community_view
  • Linguistics @mander.xyz
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    Language Science Press

    The multilingual lexis of the medieval English manor: A trilingual thesaurus, by Giorgia Mambelli

    langsci-press.org /catalog/book/524