Tag: #AltTech

SJWs claim a tech scalp

Rest assured, they wanted this one badly:

Travis Kalanick is stepping down from his post as CEO of Uber, effective immediately.

Kalanick’s exit came after a shareholder revolt reportedly made it untenable for him to stay at the company he founded in 2009. Investors called for the change in leadership in a letter that was delivered to Kalanick in Chicago and obtained by Times reporter Mike Isaac.

The news was first reported by the New York Times and later confirmed by TechCrunch.

“I love Uber more than anything in the world and at this difficult moment in my personal life I have accepted the investors request to step aside so that Uber can go back to building rather than be distracted with another fight,” Kalanick said in a statement to the Times.

He will remain on Uber’s board of directors. In a statement to TechCrunch, the board called Kalanick’s decision “a sign of his devotion and love for Uber.”

There is always more to this sort of thing than meets the eye. Any CEO who professes love for The Fountainhead and served on Trump’s advisory council was always going to be an SJW target in Silicon Valley. Watch as Uber will be praised for its newfound professionalism even as it begins to be converged.

Kalanick’s mistake was when he signaled that he was a pushover. The key paragraph:


Kalanick pledged to clean up the company culture in response. He asked former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to lead an inquiry, and got former Huffington Post editor-in-chief (and Uber board member) Arianna Huffington to pitch in.


Once they know you’ll give in to pressure, you will never stop feeling it.

Alt-Tech options

Jon del Arroz lays them out at The Federalist:

Where Can Users Get Unbiased Reference Information?

Infogalactic launched as an alternative to Wikipedia during the height of the toxic political climate of 2016. Wikipedia moderators at the time began deleting information that could paint conservatives positively, and replaced those articles with information from editorials with notorious left-wing biases. Vox Day, founder of Infogalactic, said these problems stemmed back to Wikipedia’s beginning.

When asked what he thought triggered the company’s censorship, Vox said, “anything ideologically or politically controversial. The 538 thought police, or ‘active admins’ as they are called, are hard core SJWs deeply committed to policing the Wikipedia content. For example, three of them squat on the page about me and will respond within minutes to remove anything they deem excessively positive.”

I found similar results across the Wikipedia pages of prominent right-wing voices. So what does Infogalactic do differently? “We are designing a very different system that allows the user, rather than the admin, to determine which version of the page he sees,” Vox said. “Our perspective filters will render the power of the admin entirely irrelevant with regards to content; we are utilizing a horizontal model rather than a vertical one. So, there is no reason whatsoever to engage in edit wars. It’s not applicable.”

The perspective filter is where Infogalactic shines as an innovative concept, allowing a user to determine what content he or she would like to see. The user can choose the liberal view on a topic, a conservative one, or even a variety of other factors. This gives users more agency about the information they receive. Infogalactic will have three different filters each with ten different sub-settings to allow robust user customization.

This provides much more freedom regarding the information that can be posted on a topic, and for readers, who can choose how to see the world, including how their opposition views their topics of interest. The end result, Vox says, “is more neutral, more objective, and more accurate.” All of Wikipedia’s current database has been uploaded to Infogalactic, and its hardworking volunteers have added what Vox approximates to be 1 percent of new content to its information databases.

The Brave browser has a built-in setting to allow users to switch default searches to Infogalactic, and will automatically search Infogalactic if a user types :i into the URL bar with his search. Other browsers have extensions that automatically switch Wikipedia searches to the Infogalactic page.

If you’re not using Infogalactic – and Infogalactic News – yet, you really should be. We’re now in Phase Two of five, so we’re nowhere near full functionality yet, but we’re already pretty much caught up with Wikipedia on a daily basis, as this page should suffice to demonstrate.

Jon also has a new book out from Superversive Press. I have to say, I like the cover.

Mailvox: a call to edit

HJ explains why he has begun to get active as an Infogalactic editor:

The other day I was interested for no particular reason in the founding of Oxford University, and looked it up on IG.  The content was the original material pulled from Wikipedia.  To my astonishment, or maybe I was naive, there was no mention of the crucial role of the Church in laying the foundations of the university system.  Here’s what it said:

“Teaching at Oxford existed in some form as early as 1096, but it is unclear when a university came into being.  It grew quickly in 1167 when English students returned from the University of Paris.  The historian Gerald of Wales lectured to such scholars in 1188 and the first known foreign scholar, Emo of Friesland, arrived in 1190.”

So apparently those were the highlights of the one-hundred-year period that began with a handful of monks and ended up setting the world standard for institutions of higher learning.  Fortunately, there was an entire section on the history of women’s blahblah, in which I was informed that “Oxford and Cambridge were widely perceived to be bastions of male privilege.”  Until they were converged, of course.

Needless to say, this cannot stand, so I jumped in and made some edits.  Much more can and will be done.  If anyone out there is wondering what the point of Infogalactic is and why it’s important to get involved, hopefully this example will demonstrate why Wikipedia needs to be disrupted.  It’s biased, and SJWs have smeared their feces all over the place as a form of territorial display.  And yet to many people Wikipedia is an impressive and reliable source.  We will do better.

Someday it may be possible to view IG content from the perspective of a Christ-hating SJW sperg.  When that day comes, I suggest we call that perspective “Wikipedia.”

People often ask me why this Infogalactic page doesn’t have X or why that Infogalactic page has Y. To everyone, my answer is the same: because you haven’t fixed it.

I am not the reality police. The Techstars are not occupying themselves with trying to fix all of the egregious errors and propaganda that litters Wikipedia, and which Infogalactic has inherited by virtue of its nature as a dynamic fork. What we’re doing, rather, is giving the truth-oriented community the ability to fix these things themselves, for their own benefit, on their own time. With 7 million pages to date, that’s all the dev team can reasonably expect to do.

So get involved. Do one edit per day. Join the Burn Unit. Start using IG News and IG Tech for your headlines. Get a group of five editors together and launch your own IG Francais or IG Finance or IG FPS. All of these things are possible, but all of them require action, not mere intentions. And, in doing so, help Infogalactic continue to grow into the replacement for Wikipedia that it is designed to be.

Global Rank: 55,991
US Rank: 15,340 

We have a long, long way to go, obviously, seeing as Wikipedia is currently 5 and 6. But we are considerably closer than we were six months ago.

Fear of an Alternative Media

Media Matters is attempting to scare its readers again.

Then again, perhaps they are right to be scared. The chart below only includes YouTube, a medium which most of us evil Alt-Media types don’t even use. I mean, Media Matters doesn’t even mention Andrew Torba and Gab, despite it now being the most significant Alt-Media organization besides InfoWars. Nor do they mention Infogalactic, despite the rapid growth of Infogalactic News and Infogalactic Tech. Then again, I suppose their idea is to send an exciting little frisson of fear up the spine of their readers, not make them wet themselves.

What is a bit ironic is the fact that we learned the importance of this “incestuous” relationships from them. Specifically, from the Left’s portrayal of the New Atheists, aka The Four Horsemen of Atheism, who were never anywhere nearly as closely connected as the media made them appear, or as the Alt-Media actually is. I found it amusing that they don’t have me tied, even indirectly, either Mike or Milo, even though Milo wrote the Foreword to SJWAL, Mike wrote the Foreword to Cuckservative, and Castalia publishes one of Mike’s books. But then, as their YouTube chart tends to indicate, Media Matters is not the sort of organization filled with people who actually read books.

Mailvox: knowledge core vs convergipedia

A pair of relevant emails:

I teach a course for an online university where students are required to submit papers (with references).  Students are citing from Infogalactic now on a fairly regular basis.  I’m still seeing some Wikipedia cites, but I thought you’d be interested in knowing Infogalactic is being used by students. 

That is an encouraging development. And Wikipedia is, by every measure, getting more expensive and less efficient. One 12-year Wikipedian with 30,000 edits to his credit even suggests it has metaphorical cancer:

According to the WMF, Wikipedia (in all language editions) now receives 16 billion page views per month. The WMF spends roughly US$2 million a year on Internet hosting and employs some 300 staff. The modern Wikipedia hosts 11–12 times as many pages as it did in 2005, but the WMF is spending 33 times as much on hosting, has about 300 times as many employees, and is spending 1,250 times as much overall. WMF’s spending has gone up by 85% over the past three years.

Sounds a lot like cancer, doesn’t it? For those readers who were around three years ago, did you notice at the time any unmet needs that would have caused you to conclude that the WMF needed to increase spending by $30 million dollars? I certainly didn’t.

From 2005 to 2015, annual inflation in the US was between 1% and 3% per year, and cumulative inflation for the entire decade was 21.4%—far less than the increase in WMF spending. We are even metastasizing the cancer by bankrolling local chapters, rewarding them for finding new ways to spend money.

Nothing can grow forever. Sooner or later, something is going to happen that causes the donations to decline instead of increase.

I wonder what that might be? Join the Burn Unit and the Alt-Tech Revolution here.

I should also mention that due to corporate demand, we are going to be putting together an Infogalactic Consult branch to help organizations make the change from the wikimedia engine to DONTPANIC for their internal wikis, or even just to make their existing wikis more functional and efficient. If you have a need for this, feel free to get in touch.

Infogalactic Phase Two

This is the current state of Infogalactic development and the updated Road Map. Phase One is complete and we are now officially in Phase Two.

Phase One

FUND LEVEL COMPLETE

Image load speed improvement – COMPLETE
Search time speed improvement – COMPLETE (needs additional improvement)
Integration with Brave browser – COMPLETE
Operational ad server – COMPLETE
Additional administration and editing levels – COMPLETE

PHASE ONE COMPLETE

The reason we’re not putting more time and effort into tweaking the performance is that doing so would involve spending more time refining the Wikimedia engine that we’re in the process of replacing anyhow. So, now that the site is reasonably functional, we prefer to focus our development efforts on the new engine since that will provide both increased performance as well as the ability to incorporate the planned new features.



Phase Two

IN PROGRESS

DONTPANIC engine
Sub-sites wikimedia – COMPLETE
Sub-sites DONTPANIC
Ad server DONTPANIC
Dynamic page updates – COMPLETE
Improved Database categories
Relativity, Reliability, and Notability 1.0 algorithms

New members of the Burn Unit, please note that an email will be going out soon telling you how you can acquire your Burn Unit t-shirts. They’ve proven to be popular enough that we’re looking into making Burn Unit athletic jackets and baseball caps available as well.

Infogalactic: Forkbot is go!

Rifleman and the Techstars are very pleased to report that the much-awaited dynamic forking tool is not only complete, not only tested, but is now operational. You can see the results here.

What this means is that Infogalactic will always be entirely up-to-date with Wikipedia across all five million+ pages, including the newest ones, except for those where the Infogalactic editors have improved upon specific pages.

This is probably the most significant step for The Planetary Knowledge Core since we first turned it on.

Why I was blocked from Twitter

I was never suspended, but my account was blocked. Once I unblocked it, I found that they also required me to delete these two tweets:

  • Antisemitism is a natural reaction to being told one is a subhuman beast destined to be one of a Jew’s 2,800 slaves.
  • “Amy Schumer says women MUST identify as feminists – or are ‘insane'”. (((Amy Schumer))) is a fat, ugly, no-talent. Stay “insane”, girls.
I didn’t have a problem with deleting them; their site, their rules. I do find it interesting, however, to see what they do, and do not, believe merits locking an account.
Anyhow, I finally took the time to unlock my account – thanks to Spacebunny – because otherwise my Darkstreams aren’t announced on Twitter.

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