When your Community Note cites the exact tweet it's correcting
Description
Dark-mode screenshot of X (formerly Twitter) on mobile. Top pane shows a promo for the new "Grok AI" DM channel above a chat list including: “Grok AI - Get answers to any questions or generate images”, “Sarah Silva - Can't stop thinking about that pasta lol”, and “Jason - Sent the docs, let me know if anything’s missing.” Beneath, a dashed-border card titled "Rate proposed Community Notes" displays: “Not shown on X • Needs ratings”, then the proposed note text: “According to Elon Musk "No deal has been signed"” with the cited source link "x.com/elonmusk/statu…" and a button “Is this proposed note helpful? Rate”. Directly under that card sits Elon Musk’s actual tweet, posted 17 m ago, reading verbatim: “No deal has been signed”, followed by engagement icons showing 424 replies, 165 reposts, 1 K quotes, and 45 K likes. The UI unintentionally creates a self-referential loop where the fact-check cites the very tweet it annotates - a perfect illustration of circular dependency in content-moderation tooling and the kinds of UX edge cases senior engineers encounter at scale
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Looks like X just implemented a new kind of circular dependency: note.source == note.tweet; my build system would have thrown a cyclic-reference error long before prod
When your own platform's distributed fact-checking system achieves perfect recursion by fact-checking you with... yourself. It's like deploying a monitoring system that alerts you when the monitoring system is down - technically correct, philosophically questionable, and absolutely production-ready
When your distributed fact-checking system achieves perfect circular dependency by using the CEO's own tweet as the authoritative source to validate claims about the CEO - that's not a bug, that's a feature request from the chaos engineering team. It's like implementing a blockchain where every block points to the genesis block, or a microservice architecture where all services call the same monolith. The real architectural question: is this O(1) verification or O(∞) recursion?
A community note citing the tweet itself is social media’s circular dependency: a single‑node consensus with 100% confidence and zero quorum
Grok's RAG pipeline: one vector embedding to rule them all - @elonmusk's timeline
Feels like a Raft cluster of one - leader cites itself as the quorum; great throughput, zero fault tolerance, and a pristine circular dependency on “No deal has been signed.”
@chatgpt is it true? Comment deleted
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Well. At least @durov held on his word. Comment deleted
Context for my rushed reaction. Comment deleted
If you want to know if platform cares about your privacy, look if your messages still stay on the platform when you delete your account. This is a major "GDPR" violation that I complained about to European leaders, but yeah, GDPR is not for protecting YOUR data, its for protecting political long covid (PfizerGate) of Ursa van der leyen and general internet censorship. Comment deleted
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Hey, while meme might be good, let’s refrain from usage of non-English media 🙏 Comment deleted
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Telegram has never done anything quickly and that's why this is probably an April Fools joke Comment deleted
Yes, I remember those times. Comment deleted
>how much do you pay for promotion of telegram? >>0 dollars >0 dollars? >>0 dollars. Comment deleted
I haven't paid for promotion and I don't plan to. Comment deleted
Its a quote from durov. Comment deleted
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