Thursday Tweets -- a lot of philanthropists insists on having things named after themselves

This was going to be part of our regular tweets post, but I didn't it getting lost in the crowd.

Even for Elon, this is some cartoonishly evil asshole techbro shit.

Most of Earth: “The MSM is biased.”
Wikipedia: “Cite MSM source to confirm this claim.” 🤣🤣

Wikipedia has a non-trivial left-wing bias.@jimmy_wales, what are your thoughts?

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 6, 2022

While musk is a baffoon and this message is comically stupid. Musk and the techno fascists/accelerationist contingent turning their gaze towards Wikimedia and Wikipedia betrays their actual intent. Ending our ability to know what is real, What is true, and facts. pic.twitter.com/3pJgdQL6FN

— karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet) October 23, 2023

I see that this community note has disappeared pic.twitter.com/AGLbPe53ya

— Steve Peers (@StevePeers) October 23, 2023

We regret to inform you that Elon Musk, billionaire owner of a troubled website, still doesn't understand how Wikipedia works. https://t.co/aFvVSLrtEQ

— Motherboard (@motherboard) October 23, 2023

Why is Elon Musk attacking Wikipedia? Because its very existence offends him | Zoe Williams https://t.co/9tGq7Zoo2T

— Paul “Halloween Name” Myers (@pulmyears) October 24, 2023

There's a lot of reasons I hate Elon Musk, but this has to be top 5.

Wikipedia is the singular greatest library humanity has ever built. He has more than enough money to save it.

And he wants to turn it into a conspiracy/dick joke. Because they say some mean things about him. https://t.co/mgbhORPrZI

— Bryce (@BryceorSome) October 22, 2023

Though this offer is too outrageous to be entertained, it's also worth noting that the ratio of what Elon says he's going to give to charity to what Elon actually gives to charity is remarkably low. Musk is a master of the effective altruist trick of claiming that money you give yourself is actually going to help humanity.

Elon Musk, poster boy for arrested development, says he’ll give Wikipedia $1 billion if they change their name to 'Dickipedia' https://t.co/WPpPtdGmI6

— David Lazarus (@Davidlaz) October 23, 2023

Musk has been trying to bully Wikipedia for years, sometimes successfully. This may have something to do with him being a serial revisionist.

Elon Musk didn't like his Wikipedia page, so he asked the community to do something about it. They did. @donreisinge https://t.co/NYZ9lMae6j via @Inc <— Wikipedia, where history is rewritten on request.

— Lora Kolodny (@lorakolodny) December 23, 2019

In late 2019 Musk even asked to have the descriptor "investor" removed from his Wikipedia page, kicking off considerable discussion among the editors there: https://t.co/84uGX0P5Nb

Uh... what changed? pic.twitter.com/dKcblvq1bO

— E.W. Niedermeyer (@Tweetermeyer) May 5, 2022