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Analysis of 1.76M Community Notes received by X from January 2021 to March 2025: 90% of submitted notes are never published, with many notes "stuck in limbo" (DDIA)
https://ddia.org/en/a-deep-dive-into-xs-community-notes-report

A Deep Dive into X’s Community Notes: An Analysis of English and Spanish Contributions Between 2021 and 2025
The Digital Democracy Institute of the Americas (DDIA) examined how X’s Community Notes system functions across English and Spanish, drawing from over 1.76 million notes submitted globally between 2021 and 2025. The report explores submission and publication dynamics, contributor behavior, and systemic challenges like transparency gaps and rating backlogs. As community-driven content moderation becomes a global model, this report sheds light on its potential, and limitations, for building a h…

from my link log —
Weird architectures weren't supported to begin with.
https://blog.yossarian.net/2021/02/28/Weird-architectures-werent-supported-to-begin-with
saved 2025-04-12

Weird architectures weren't supported to begin with

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.07.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.

En 2018, un verdict belge semblait enfin mettre fin Š une affaire vieille de 20 ans.
En 2025, certaines indemnisations sont toujours en suspens.
Pendant ce temps, en France, l’enquête OKC/Spatz — rouverte officiellement en 2021 — n’a toujours pas abouti.
Cela interroge :

Strategic Customer Behavior in an M/M/1 Feedback Queue with General Payoffs
Peter Taylor, Jiesen Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11263 https://

Strategic Customer Behavior in an M/M/1 Feedback Queue with General Payoffs
We consider an M/M/1 feedback queue in which service attempts may fail, requiring the customer to rejoin the queue. Arriving customers act strategically, deciding whether to join the queue based on a threshold strategy that depends on the number of customers present. Their decisions balance the expected service reward against the costs associated with waiting, while accounting for the behavior of others. This model was first analyzed by Fackrell, Taylor and Wang (2021), who assumed that waiti…

"#Duluth as a climate refuge" #Minnesota (from 2021)
Opinion: As people flee climate change on the coasts, this Midwest city is trying to become a safe haven | CNN

As people flee climate change on the coasts, this Midwest city is trying to become a safe haven
After visiting Tracy, a woman in California who is ready to flee her dream house to escape wildfires and other effects of climate catastrophe, John Sutter traveled halfway across the country, to Duluth, Minnesota to try to answer her question: Where can she go? Is anywhere safe? It turns out, Tracy isn’t alone in asking the question.

'My husband is free' — Belarus opposition leader Sergei Tikhanovsky freed after US envoy visits Minsk
https://kyivindependent.com/in-highest-level-visit-in-years-lukashenko-meets-us-envoy-kellogg-in-minsk/…

Docs and sources: Builder.ai faked business with Bengaluru-based VerSe, which runs the Dailyhunt news app, by "round-tripping" sales worth ~$60M from 2021-2024 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.07369 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

On lattice coverings by locally anti-blocking bodies and polytopes with few vertices
In 2021, Ordentlich, Regev and Weiss made a breakthrough that the lattice covering density of any $n$-dimensional convex body is upper bounded by $cn^{2}$, improving on the best previous bound established by Rogers in 1959. However, for the Euclidean ball, Rogers obtained the better upper bound $n(\log_{e}n)^{c}$, and this result was extended to certain symmetric convex bodies by Gritzmann. The constant $c$ above is independent on $n$. In this paper, we show that such a bound can be achieved fo…