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There Will be no Redemption for Ezra Klein (www.patreon.com)
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[–] [S] 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

i read a bit about that. i couldn't find quotes from the site employees saying they were trying to be wikipedia, so i didn't mention it because id have had to digress. but almost everyone who talked about the launch mentioned their weirdass card system for linking other articles, and that it was wikipedia like. and all the descriptions sounded AWFUL, like it would just be throwing useless rotating shit at you all the time

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  • [–] 5 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    there's this: https://nymag.com/news/features/ezra-klein-2014-2/

    While Klein is being circumspect about the operational details of Project X, he suggests that breaking-news squibs could be very short and attached to constantly updated background articles, a bit like Wikipedia entries written by professional journalists. Long features might be regularly freshened up.

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    especially amusing considering this, published only nine months after vox launched. not sure how much objective resource building the professional journalism would be buying you there, ezra

    https://deadspin.com/46-times-vox-totally-fucked-up-a-story-1673835447/

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  • [–] 10 points 3 days ago* (1 child)

    ah but if you assume a perfectly spherical polity of uniform density in a vacuum at absolute zero,, klein will still be wrong

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  • [–] 13 points 2 days ago* (2 children)

    Ezra Klein so centrist, he could both-sides a Moebius strip

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  • [–] 4 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    yeah, it was so inept and un wikilike that you would hardly believe it, but they honestly thought it would compete.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    At one point Yudkowsy raised money for Arbital, "an attempted successor to Wikipedia and/or Tumblr and/or peer review" Cw attempts to suck up to J.K. Rowling, Elon Musk, John Paulson

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