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Seth Frey @enfascination.com · 9h

I suspected Hobby Lobby, being Christian extremist, wouldn't do Halloween. I was right, there's nothing, but I didn't know that they used to, just 5-6 years ago. I think their turn to those principles is actually pretty new.

Seth Frey @enfascination.com · 12h

Something lefty do-gooder types strangely struggle with is the sense in running a decent half disciplined business. It’s not a shame it’s a hygiene. Like brushing your teeth, you don’t have to like it or be good at it or organize your life around it. Do it, be better off

Seth Frey @enfascination.com · 20h

About 10% of Americans have an unusual name, up from 7.5% one century ago.

I get all of this from Social Security Administration data on names, and some Python.

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Seth Frey @enfascination.com · 1d

According to recent work, the single best intervention for depolarizing Americans is showing them evidence that the other side respects election outcomes, rejects gerrymandering, and so on.

So you see how the most effective tool for splitting us is lies that the other side already crossed the line.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

Seth Frey @enfascination.com · 1d

Beyond Saturn's "big five" moons, it has over 250 more, many still being spotted. They can be found orbiting the planet in both directions, both clockwise and counterclockwise.

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Moons of Saturn - Wikipedia

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Seth Frey @enfascination.com · 1d

Way more links:
- Linked in - www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
- YT - www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj85...
- Apple - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
- Spotify - open.spotify.com/episode/0Acl...
- X - x.com/gov_futures/...

🚀 New episode of Governance Futures is live! In this episode, hosts Eugene Leventhal and Jamilya Kamalova speak with Prof. Seth Frey, a computational social scientist researching governance, common… ...

🚀 New episode of Governance Futures is live! In this episode, hosts Eugene Leventhal and Jamilya Kamalova speak with Prof. Seth Frey, a computational social scientist researching governance, common p...

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Seth Frey @enfascination.com · 1d

OMG so fun to join the budding Governance Futures podcast with my @metagov.bsky.social friends Eugene and Jamilya

We talked about governance of online communities as a microcosm for all the bigger self-governance q's

trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ql8z...
episode: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj85...

Your rules, your governance... shouldn't be a history lesson

YouTube video by Governance Futures

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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Seth Frey @enfascination.com · 1d

Although I pass for functional in society I’m at heart a pathological pedant who gets a tic every time I hear “The worst A since B” to mean A<=B instead of A> B which Is What It Literally MEANS it’s right there

Seth Frey @enfascination.com · 1d

I got caught up mid sentence searching for a singular for “sheeple” but I guess that’s the point.

Seth Frey @enfascination.com · 1d

Got a spam call to sell me solar but instead of saying I’m not a home owner I said sun dweller

Seth Frey @enfascination.com · 1d

I’m a real sheeple person

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Seth Frey @enfascination.com · 2d

This should be a joke but it's kind of a real question. If there are actual flat earthers, why isn't everything on the table? Sun rotating around the earth? Anyone with a phone and a $30 weather balloon off Amazon can literally see that the earth is round. But heliocentrism is a leap.

Seth Frey @enfascination.com · 3d

The proprietor of this cafe gives the sense of someone whose read several books on how to be natural.

Seth Frey @enfascination.com · 4d

Another strong quality of a good researcher is the ability to sometimes spot a strange assumption and come down hard on it, and sometimes to embrace a strange assumption and reimagine everything in its image, and to be able to switch between the two, skepticism and credulity, wisely

Sylvain Gigan @sylvaingigan.bsky.social · 4d

A strong quality for a good researcher is the ability to sometimes ignore small details, and sometimes delves into them with the greatest care, and more importantly to being able to switch wisely between the two modes.

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Seth Frey @enfascination.com · 4d

Now is the time to start talking about whether Jan 6, 2029 will go better than Jan 6, 2021 did, and if not what we intend to do when that day comes, and where we intend to be.

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Sylvain Gigan @sylvaingigan.bsky.social · 4d

A strong quality for a good researcher is the ability to sometimes ignore small details, and sometimes delves into them with the greatest care, and more importantly to being able to switch wisely between the two modes.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 6d

I was told not to teach a class on the intellectual histories of Zionism and Anti-Zionism next year - not because they doubted I could teach it fairly, but because it would attract too many politicians scrutinizing the syllabus.

A society where that is a valid fear is no longer fully democratic.

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Seth Frey @enfascination.com · 6d

Until we solve AI ownership, there are no AI devs, only users instantiated to think they're devs.

Boo! 👻 Cavello (they/them) @b-cavello.bsky.social · 6d

Lots of people talking about AI, not nearly enough people talking about private equity.
#PrivateEquityKills

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Boo! 👻 Cavello (they/them) @b-cavello.bsky.social · 6d

Lots of people talking about AI, not nearly enough people talking about private equity.
#PrivateEquityKills

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Seth Frey @enfascination.com · 6d

The idea that you can embrace theories is clearly anthropomorphizing yourself.

Mutual A @mutual-a.bsky.social · 6d

going to embrace the theory that llms and only llms are conscious

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Mutual A @mutual-a.bsky.social · 6d

going to embrace the theory that llms and only llms are conscious

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 7d

A WILD ONE: A man broke his leg during an arrest by ICE at a car wash south of L.A.

ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why.

A judge has ordered his immediate release.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 7d

New poll of Jewish Americans:

• 61% say Israel is committing war crimes in Gaza.
• 39% say Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.

Gift link:
wapo.st/42q0h5z

Many American Jews sharply critical of Israel on Gaza, Post poll finds

Most Jews say Israel is committing war crimes — and 39 percent say genocide — while often distinguishing between the country and its leadership.

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Seth Frey @enfascination.com · 7d

People are on about how easily we anthropomorphize animals, AI, and so on. But it still gets me how easily we anthropomorphize humans.

Seth Frey @enfascination.com · 8d

I fell asleep on the plane with my head against the movie touch screen, and woke up halfway through Casablanca (1942).

While I was out my head picked "Entertainment", then "Movies", then it scrolled to 'C' and pressed play.

Seth Frey @enfascination.com · 9d

You'd think "anti-intellectual nerd" is an oxymoron. But welcome to SF!

Seth Frey @enfascination.com · 9d

Worth looking at the list of US cities by crime rate.

Portland is small time compared to Memphis, Houston, Little Rock, Salt Late City, Nashville, Indianapolis, Charlotte, and 50 other cities.

Let's all hope they don't get invaded too.

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List of United States cities by crime rate - Wikipedia

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Seth Frey @enfascination.com · 9d

Confusing criminals with combatants, and erasing the line between law enforcement and military action, is a defining quality of the police state.

Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 12d

Stephen Miller has played a leading role in directing US strikes against suspected Venezuelan drug boats.

At times, his role has superseded that of Marco Rubio, the secretary of state and national security adviser.

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 12d

Stephen Miller has played a leading role in directing US strikes against suspected Venezuelan drug boats.

At times, his role has superseded that of Marco Rubio, the secretary of state and national security adviser.

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