Germany’s Stonehenge 🪵

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The Culture Wars Have Come for Wikipedia | The Interview

18 Oct 2025 The Interview | A Podcast From the New York Times

Wikipedia might seem like a public utility, but in recent years it’s become part of the culture wars. The site has been criticized by Elon Musk, Tucker Carlson, congressional Republicans and right-wing influencers, who all claim that Wikipedia is biased. On “The Interview,” Wikipedia’s co-founder Jimmy Wales talks to host Lulu Garcia-Navarro about how he views this political moment and the challenges Wikipedia faces. Wales has written a book, “The Seven Rules of Trust: A Blueprint for Building Things That Last,” which will be published this month.

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Additional video credits for this episode include: Zach Caldwell (cinematography) and Luke Piotrowski and Jenny Leavitt (additional cameras).

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Chapters:
00:06 About Wikipedia and Jimmy Wales
01:18 Our society’s “trust deficit”
02:59 How Wikipedia works
06:57 Why Wikipedia sometimes restricts editing access to a page
09:03 Wikipedia editors under threat
11:16 The congressional investigation
14:35 Charlie Kirk
17:04 Elon Musk
22:16 A.I. and Large Language Models
26:20 Was the internet better before?
28:25 Media bias
30:58 Wikipedia’s creation and lessons for today
33:39 The benefits of Wikipedia’s non-profit status
36:22 Tucker Carlson
38:48 Wikipedia’s future
40:15 The last Wikipedia page Wales visited

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Dog reacting to 3D street art.

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This is the map of submarine internet connection cables across the entire planet Earth.

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America is an Anti-Civilization – Prof. Jiang Xueqin

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• Civilization #52: Empire of Democracy

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EPISODES | Articles Of Interest

Avery Trufelman|10/22/2025
Almost all clothes have something to do with the military. But one industry in particular has a lot to do with the military.

The first episode of the new season establishes how the American military came to be, and how they were dressed. To see images and learn more, go to articlesofinterest.substack.com

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Source: https://www.articlesofinterest.co/podcast/episode/3c6a99d3/gear-chapter-1

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I Ate the Extinct Banana (so you don’t have to)

 

Just a truly devastating video to have to make…

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Edited by Milo!

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The Evolution of Males and Females – with Judith Mank

Judith Mank leads a tour of how sex is genetically programmed and how sex differences evolve.
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Males and females in many species are often quite different from one another. The sex of an individual can have profound effects on how an organisms behaves, how it looks, how it lives and, in some cases, even how it dies. These differences are the product of different evolutionary forces acting on males and females, sometimes creating substantial conflicts between the sexes. In this talk, Judith Mank gives a quick tour of how sex is genetically programmed and how sex differences evolve.

Judith Mank is Professor in the Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment at University College London. She is interested in understanding how form, behaviour and reproductive patterns have evolved through selective pressures.

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Patrick Favrel (@patleon.bsky.social) | #StreetArt in #Paris 13th #Lavomatik by #JANA and #JS

#StreetArt in #Paris 13th #Lavomatik by #JANA and #JS

Patrick Favrel (@patleon.bsky.social) 2025-10-25T12:50:07.004Z

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Brock’s Photographic Journey (@bar44.bsky.social)

Different perspective of my previous post. Forgot I took this one with my iPhone… #Photography #ExpandedContent #StreetArt #Mural #Lisbon #Portugal 📷

Brock’s Photographic Journey (@bar44.bsky.social) 2025-10-24T21:54:44.277Z

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