Even more concerning is community scientific documents researched specifically to serve NASA going offline in the name of DEI: https://jatan.space/scientific-documents-go-missing-from-nas...
Readit Newsuncertainquark commented on NASA Deletes Comic Book About How Women Can Be Astronauts futurism.com/nasa-deletes... · Posted by u/doener
uncertainquark commented on X users are unable to post “Signal.me” links disruptionist.com/p/elon-... · Posted by u/confusing3478
I'm not defending Twitter or their policy in any way (disclaimer: I left Twitter the moment Elmo took over. I despise his hypocrisy and his fascist ideas)
But this could be a "legitimate f-up". Normally, most of these unsafe-url protection and detection is automated in something with the scale of Twitter.
Just like URL-shorteners often are (were?) "seemingly randomly" banned, because a portion of the shared urls are pointing at malware/phishing/otherwise banned content, all urls from this shortener get banned. It may be that signal.me is simply picking up on amount of illegitimate links. Signal is clearly growing strong. Therefore signal.me links' are increasingly seen by Twitter. Most legitimate links, but the amount of illegitimate links will then also increase.
This would trigger an automated ban¹.
The real problem then is that even if it was deliberate (conspiracy theory: Mark messaged Elon: Pls help me curb the growth of the biggest competitor of Whatsapp?) twitter can easily hide behind "overzealous automation, sorry".
¹ Especially if this automation isn't maintained properly, finetuned and kept being tweaked by teams of experts - many of which left or were layd off after the aquisition of Twitter.
Three issues with believing this:
1. How long does it take to undo this though even if it might be an automated screwup?
2. Why it isn’t getting banned on other social networks and only on X?
3. Didn’t X previously block Substack and Mastodon URLs?
uncertainquark commented on I've been advocating for RSS support, and you should too reedybear.bearblog.dev/iv... · Posted by u/emschwartz
Most introductions to RSS assume that people want to know about RSS.. and so instead here’s a more people-centric explainer: https://journal.jatan.space/why-use-rss/
uncertainquark commented on I ditched the algorithm for RSS joeyehand.com/blog/2025/0... · Posted by u/DearNarwhal
Most introductions to RSS assume that people want to know about RSS! And so here’s a more people-centric explainer instead: https://journal.jatan.space/why-use-rss/
uncertainquark commented on Footage of Chang'e-6's land on far side of the moon cnsa.gov.cn/n6759533/c105... · Posted by u/xnhbx
Thanks, this is the most informative writeup I’ve read about the current and upcoming missions.
Thank you! It’s part of the Chinese lunar special series I’ve been doing all month. Here’s the rest of the four:
https://jatan.space/moon-monday-issue-175/