Dana El-Kurd

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4,891 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Mar 2026 last heard 30 May

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Behind the Bastards · It Could Happen Here Weekly 234 · 30 May 2026 podcast

And this is less of a risk now that, like, Doge grapers aren't running around.

But one of the dangers of Trump attempting to take control of the Federal Reserve is that his people will break something like this while doing something like attempting to integrate crypto companies into it.

And so that's just going to be a continuing risk that we all sort of have to deal with because tech companies and the Trump administration and now the president of the Federal Reserve want to fuck with these systems on which

Everything in all of our lives depends on in ways that we never see.

Cool.

All right.

Speaking of the things that all of our lives depend on, here are the products and services that support this podcast.

Products and services.

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All right, and we're back.

So I have to unfortunately talk about Wikipedia, or at least the Wikimedia Foundation.

Obviously, I think everyone here is pretty big fans of Wikipedia, which is at this point has gone from the thing my teachers used to tell me I couldn't use in projects to like, by any objective measure, one of the most significant

projects in the history of human knowledge and like storage of things that human beings know and have learned.

It's one of the last like gasps of the promise of the old internet.

And it's also the thing that underpins all of the AI chatbots alongside

Reddit in one way or another.

And the answers that they give people like Wikipedia is incredibly important for AI, which is why the Wikimedia Foundation has made deals like with the AI industry in order to get money for letting them scrape like Wikipedia.

which is kind of part of why the Wikimedia Foundation is currently doing really fucking well monetarily.

They've got a little under $300 million in reserves, which is about a year and a half worth of money for them.

So first off... Wait, so you're saying those little banners that fill half of the screen every time I use Wikipedia are lying?

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