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Alexios Mantzarlis
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donmoyn.bsky.social
This is...sort of brilliant.
Six years ago, after watching my circle of friends surrender one too many evenings to insurance wrangling and doctor portals and DMV confusion, I emailed them a proposal: Come over next Tuesday. Grab a six pack. And bring your bills, your credit-card statements, your school forms, the streaming services you need to unsubscribe from, the airline miles you need to manage, the expenses app you need to figure out. I’d be throwing the lamest party ever. At the heart of this party was a truth that has gone under-acknowledged in recent years: We’re all sinking. We’re sinking into a quicksand of tiny, dumb administrative tasks. It is the most tedious quicksand imaginable. Tasks once accomplished with a quick phone call now require logging into a new website, which requires remembering yet another password. Disputing a charge means arguing with a chipper chatbot, or submitting to an hour of brain-melting hold music—call volume higher than expected!—only to be disconnected.
November 19, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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harold.bsky.social
we also open source all of our code, data, and embeddings!
paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.09685
github: github.com/htried/wiki-...
huggingface: huggingface.co/datasets/htr...
the abstract of our paper
November 17, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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PS. I'm working on a piece about Community Notes in Japan. If anyone has written/read anything about that, please @ me!
November 18, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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(The bots are also leaning heavily on Wikipedia, fact-checkers and the media -- those very institutions Musk, Zuck, and co. think will be supplanted by Notes).

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An AI bot is now the top contributor to Community Notes on X
But synthetic contributors aren’t replacing humans – yet
indicator.media
November 18, 2025 at 2:20 PM