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Beyond Community Notes: A Framework for Understanding and Building Crowdsourced Context Systems
Travis Lloyd, Tung Nguyen, Karen Levy, Mor Naaman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15434

Beyond Community Notes: A Framework for Understanding and Building Crowdsourced Context Systems
Social media platforms are increasingly developing features that display crowdsourced context alongside posts, modeled after X's Community Notes. These systems, which we term Crowdsourced Context Systems (CCS), have the potential to reshape our information ecosystem as major platforms embrace them as alternatives to top-down fact-checking. To deeply understand the features and implications of such systems, we perform a systematic literature review of existing CCS research and analyze several re…

From Birdwatch to Community Notes, from Twitter to X: four years of community-based content moderation
Saeedeh Mohammadi, Narges Chinichian, Hannah Doyal, Kristina Skutilova, Hao Cui, Michele d'Errico, Siobhan Grayson, Taha Yasseri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09585

From Birdwatch to Community Notes, from Twitter to X: four years of community-based content moderation
Community Notes (formerly known as Birdwatch) is the first large-scale crowdsourced content moderation initiative that was launched by X (formerly known as Twitter) in January 2021. As the Community Notes model gains momentum across other social media platforms, there is a growing need to assess its underlying dynamics and effectiveness. This Resource paper provides (a) a systematic review of the literature on Community Notes, and (b) a major curated dataset and accompanying source code to supp…

Notes on false vacuum decay in quantum Ising models
Ian G. Moss
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12592 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.12592

Notes on false vacuum decay in quantum Ising models
This paper aims to gather together some of the basic ideas behind the theory of false vacuum decay in quantum Ising models, focusing on the application of spin chains as analogue systems to false vacuum decay in elementary particle theory. Elementary results on quantum Ising models are rewritten to more closely resemble the original literature on false vacuum decay. A highly speculative conjecture for the false vacuum decay rate in a two dimensional quantum Ising model is also put forward.

#WritersCoffeeClub October 2025
1. Have you written in an epistolary format?
2. Do you tend to include prologues? Why?
3. How do you transition into writing mode?
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1. Not the entire big literature thing. I did better.
In-game letters.
I love notes and letters in Morrowind, Deus Ex HR and MD as well as Dishonored. Not so much post-Oblivion (Beth Fallout3 …