“The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because philosophy is an exalted activity, will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.” -- John Gardner:

Waiting for the *BSD port . . . . .

You have not truly experienced the BSD is dying meme until you have read it in the original Klingon.

Subtitle: Shopping in Second Life

Second Life?

They may be trying to force more people that visit into getting accounts to see content, so the situation may be more advertising for what may be the same number of people visiting the site. Ad growth, yes, but maybe not real growth in site users. If they keep banning interesting accounts they may start bleeding followers to other sites. It would be better if Twitter as a company recognized its shortcomings, but not likely to happen. Twitter has blocked newspapers announcing their stories, people with serious professional, scientific, or medical credentials from sharing their expertise, and arbitrarily blocked political statements. They aren't good actors. Twitter has been compared to a sewer. Sewers server a vital role in civilization which is something I doubt can be said about Twitter.

Perhaps you could share your thinking with us? How do you think the possibilities offered by Minecraft to recreate buildings and cityscapes as shown in the first link suffer in comparison to the use of sand tables for rehearsals such as that shown in the second link? Keep in mind that the use of sand tables for rehearsals is common for the military, and they have their limits.

Sandt table: This string represents the street, and the paper cup is the building.
Minecraft: The street scene represents the street, and the building is the building. Oh, and the layout of the streets and the floor plan of the building are the same as the real ones. Sure, you can enter the building.

On Twitter you are free to mouth the politically correct position held by the monoculture of the company or their hired "fact checkers.". Expressing anything that departs from the view of the monoculture for long periods of time seems to eventually lead to trouble. It's a poor choice to bet your professional life, business, political campaign, or public life on Twitter without a robust backup plan if you are a normal person. There is a strong argument that they abuse their Section 230 protections.

I recognize that Minecraft may lack some of the refinement of military rehearsal techniques, like those of the Bundesweher, but there may be more potential than you recognize.
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Since the week isn't over and the month is young you may make other discoveries.

FTA - "Following their arrests, the FSB searched the teens’ phones, where they uncovered videos of them making pyrotechnics and allegedly throwing Molotov cocktails at a wall, as well as a plot to blow up a virtual FSB building they had built in Minecraft."

So, was the planned virtual attack just gameplay, or a rehearsal for a real attack? Very different implications between the two.

Starting a World War doesn't require TNT, a bullet will do, and near armageddon not even a bullet.