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Dec 30, 2022 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Announcing the encyclosphere plugin!
- Adds #encyclosphere results to DuckDuckGo & Google searches.
- The built-in reader opens free articles (incl. Wikipedia, which is blockable) direct from WebTorrent.
- You can seed articles from your open tabs!
encyclosphere.org/plugin more 👇
This turns your browser into an active participant in a truly decentralized *public-driven* knowledge network.

Just install the Chrome/Brave plugin from encyclosphere.org/plugin.

You can customize how many articles each tab seeds, when Wikipedia results appear, and more.
We've been setting up the network this year. It's getting better and better. In 2023, we're going to fill up a bunch of servers with millions of articles from many sources.

This is free software and we are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. We need your support: encyclosphere.org/donate
This is FREEDOM TECH.

How does it support freedom? Because anyone can use the free software. Anyone can add content to the network. Anyone can run an aggregator. In these respects it's just like the blogosphere. That's why we call it the encyclosphere.

Free the knowledge!
If you want to follow our work, please do two things:

(1) Follow @ks_found.
(2) Join our mailing list...scroll down a bit on encyclosphere.org to find the sign-up form.

On the mailing list, I'll be posting a summary of this year's work this afternoon.

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Larry Sanger Profile picture
Dec 31, 2022
Avoidable problems that the Establishment creates/makes possible:

1. Massive homelessness.
2. A drug addiction epidemic.
3. Rapidly rising crime rate.
4. An epidemic of child sex trafficking, esp. but not only across borders.
5. Lots of free porn—and addiction to it.

- cont’d -
5. Open borders and many millions of illegal aliens.
6. Kids masked for no good reason for hours on end.
7. Billions given multiple jabs with a dangerous experimental “vaccine.”
8. The increasing legitimization of hatred of whitey, of Christians, and of men.
9. Extreme political indoctrination in schools & universities.
10. Educational malpractice—generations of youth not rising to their potential, on purpose.
11. Entertainment (music, TV, movies) imparting nonstop decadence—moral poison.
12. Spies controlling Big Tech for the left.
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Dec 7, 2022
@elonmusk @stillgray @jimmy_wales Hey @elonmusk, I am “the other” co-founder of Wikipedia. The ex-founder, I like to say. I actually pushed and led the idea of a wiki encyclopedia in the project’s seminal first year. Read what I wrote about why neutrality is so important here: larrysanger.org/2022/03/why-ne…
@elonmusk @stillgray @jimmy_wales Wikipedia is another example of oppressive Internet centralization. The solution is to build on a new, open standard for encyclopedias: the ZWI file format and the #encyclosphere. See EncycloReader.org and EncycloSearch.org aim to bring together all the encyclopedias.
@elonmusk @stillgray @jimmy_wales The files, the file format, the network, the software—it’s all free. Please ask your many followers to support the 501(c)(3) Knowledge Standards Foundation: mightycause.com/organization/K…

Follow @ks_found
Join our mailing list: encycloaphere.org
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Dec 3, 2022
Random recommended music thread

We begin with some Scottish stuff because I've been into that lately.
But these are the guys that sort of got me into "Celtic" (first Scottish, then even more Irish) music: Ossian.

Which then got me into Altan...
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Nov 29, 2022
It's Giving Tuesday. The Knowledge Standards Foundation (@ks_found) would like to thank the five people who have already donated today (total, $800!).

Why should you join them today?
When we are finished (and we are making rapid progress on multiple fronts), the world will be given (100% free) a constantly-updating database of *all* the encyclopedias in the world.

Unlike Wikipedia, we actually *need* your donations. We have a very limited war-chest.
Why does such a database matter? Many reasons.
- "All the encyclopedias" means ones from every point of view, including those the Establishment hates.
- It means indexing articles from personal blogs and small encyclopedias, which society's self-appointed gatekeepers would block.
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Nov 17, 2022
It’s the end of the year, so Wikipedia’s fundraiser is here—a terrible way to spend your money.

Friends, please share a better alternative.

How much would you pay to make *all* the encyclopedias plus new encyclopedia articles as easily searchable as Wikipedia? Thread 👇 Image
How much would you pay to make a consolidated, free, public database of all the encyclopedia articles (including metadata about proprietary ones)? A truly decentralized database controlled by no one, an “encyclosphere” like the blogosphere?
How much would you pay for developers to make software for searching, reading, hosting, and selecting from this database—which you or your org can install and adapt?
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Nov 3, 2022
"You'll pay $100/year to be centrally controlled and sold to advertisers­—and you'll like it!"

Prove me wrong, @ElonMusk.
@elonmusk BTW to the peanut gallery:
- I voted for Trump in 2020. 😁
- Twitter should have remained an open protocol, just as Jack said.
- I didn't have a blue check until 2019, and will be happy to lose the one I have now.
- I don't tweet after 11 a.m.
@elonmusk - This makes the blue check more of a status symbol, not less: like vanity plates, as someone said.
- $100/year is actually a lot to ask of lower-income people.
- I concede that it *is* possible Twitter will offer value worth $100/year. But just a blue check? Not worth it.
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