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Seth Frey
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How to retrain everyone in doing democracy daily? It's the only way.

Prof in computational commons, self-governance, and the cogsci of social emergence. Internet as a governance lab. Science towards nescience

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Seth Frey @enfascination.com · 2h
“MERRY CHRISTMAS to all, including the dead Terrorists, of which there will be many more”

Full mad king.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Trump on Christmas: “Tonight, at my direction as Commander in Chief, the United States launched a powerful and deadly strike against ISIS Terrorist Scum in Northwest Nigeria.”
Tonight, at my direction as Commander in Chief, the United States launched a powerful and deadly strike against ISIS Terrorist Scum in Northwest Nigeria, who have been targeting and viciously killing, primarily, innocent Christians, at levels not seen for many years, and even Centuries! I have previously warned these Terrorists that if they did not stop the slaughtering of Christians, there would be hell to pay, and tonight, there was. The Department of War executed numerous perfect strikes, as only the United States is capable of doing. Under my leadership, our Country will not allow Radical Islamic Terrorism to prosper. May God Bless our Military, and MERRY CHRISTMAS to all, including the dead Terrorists, of which there will be many more if their slaughter of Christians continues.   DONALD J. TRUMP PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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Seth Frey @enfascination.com · 18h
It raises the question of how to build and maintain that trust, on both sides of the staff.

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Seth Frey @enfascination.com · 18h
I’m always looking for the secret joints that you carve social relations along.

I realized that responsible and irresponsible use of power comes down to much the wielder trusts those in their charge.

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Seth Frey @enfascination.com · 1d
Awesome and also lol and "props"

Reposted by Eric Goldman, Robert C. Richards, Alan Richardson , and 5 more

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Trump on Christmas: “Tonight, at my direction as Commander in Chief, the United States launched a powerful and deadly strike against ISIS Terrorist Scum in Northwest Nigeria.”
Tonight, at my direction as Commander in Chief, the United States launched a powerful and deadly strike against ISIS Terrorist Scum in Northwest Nigeria, who have been targeting and viciously killing, primarily, innocent Christians, at levels not seen for many years, and even Centuries! I have previously warned these Terrorists that if they did not stop the slaughtering of Christians, there would be hell to pay, and tonight, there was. The Department of War executed numerous perfect strikes, as only the United States is capable of doing. Under my leadership, our Country will not allow Radical Islamic Terrorism to prosper. May God Bless our Military, and MERRY CHRISTMAS to all, including the dead Terrorists, of which there will be many more if their slaughter of Christians continues.   DONALD J. TRUMP PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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Seth Frey @enfascination.com · 1d
After opening, a Pandora’s Box never empties, but it does equilibrate, with the same demon pressure and demon temperature outside as in.

Reposted by Timothy Graham, Ann Bartow, Seth Frey

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Doghouse Reilly @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 4d
Bringing back Limewire to illegally rip copies of reporting suppressed by the government is definitely some cyberpunk shit

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Seth Frey @enfascination.com · 4d
Really disgusting. May this follow him forever.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d
Fine: "I'm talking to my colleagues about whether we want these fake Somali refugees - who come to our country, add no value, suck our resources, defraud our govt - whether we actually want them here. I don't think Ilhan Omar shouldn't be a member of Congress - I think she shouldn't be an American"

Reposted by John McLaren, Seth Frey, David Darmofal

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d
Fine: "I'm talking to my colleagues about whether we want these fake Somali refugees - who come to our country, add no value, suck our resources, defraud our govt - whether we actually want them here. I don't think Ilhan Omar shouldn't be a member of Congress - I think she shouldn't be an American"

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Seth Frey @enfascination.com · 4d
Tolkien's Mirkwood exists today, but instead of giant spiderweb it's thousands of strands of fiberoptic cable spooled from drones that stay hardwired to their operators to resist jamming.

Reposted by Conway Waddington, Seth Frey

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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 5d
Fiber optic hell forest

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Seth Frey @enfascination.com · 5d
What's the "proper ideology" they should be representing?
washingtonpost.com The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 5d
The Trump administration threatened to withhold federal funds from the Smithsonian if it did not submit extensive documentation for a sweeping content review.

President Trump is set out to purge what he called “improper ideology” from the museum system.
White House threatens Smithsonian funds in sweeping content review
It is not clear on what authority the administration could withhold Smithsonian funds, as President Trump tries to purge “woke” content from cultural institutions.
www.washingtonpost.com

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Seth Frey @enfascination.com · 5d
Is this the economic liberation that crypto dreams of? Funding tyranny through conspicuous failures on its biggest selling point, security?
savchenkoua.bsky.social Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 6d
🇰🇵💻 In 2025, North Korean hackers stole a record $2 billion in cryptocurrency, - Bloomberg

The agency notes this marks a sharp increase compared to 2024. The report states that North Korea remains the most serious state-backed threat to global cryptocurrency security.

Reposted by Seth Frey

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 5d
The Trump administration threatened to withhold federal funds from the Smithsonian if it did not submit extensive documentation for a sweeping content review.

President Trump is set out to purge what he called “improper ideology” from the museum system.
White House threatens Smithsonian funds in sweeping content review
It is not clear on what authority the administration could withhold Smithsonian funds, as President Trump tries to purge “woke” content from cultural institutions.
www.washingtonpost.com

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Seth Frey @enfascination.com · 5d
To step securely away from the authoritarian cliff we're going to need a president who is committed to some very boring and thankless repair work.

If we get 47 off the table, 48 will have to be committed to making 49 the greatest president the country's ever seen.
vtcommons.bsky.social VT Commons @vtcommons.bsky.social · 6d
I do not envy the next Democratic president. The task of bringing all these criminals to justice while trying to piece back together the very foundations of our government and institutions will be daunting.

Reposted by Seth Frey

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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 6d
🇰🇵💻 In 2025, North Korean hackers stole a record $2 billion in cryptocurrency, - Bloomberg

The agency notes this marks a sharp increase compared to 2024. The report states that North Korea remains the most serious state-backed threat to global cryptocurrency security.

Reposted by Seth Frey

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VT Commons @vtcommons.bsky.social · 6d
I do not envy the next Democratic president. The task of bringing all these criminals to justice while trying to piece back together the very foundations of our government and institutions will be daunting.

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Seth Frey @enfascination.com · 6d
The admin is really staring hard into that state-sponsored terrorism and piracy abyss.

I thought I was exaggerating but unfortunately I called it:
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angrystaffer.bsky.social Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 7d
This is the dumbest shit I’ve ever seen.

Let’s pretend like these dudes on the boats are really cartel members.

There are a handful of OIF/OEF veterans that would be prepared to deal with that amount of firepower.

Everyone else? This will get Americans killed.

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Seth Frey @enfascination.com · 6d
As your kid grows it can feel lonely. Like right now my boy is seven and way into poop jokes. But what am I going to do when he grows out of them?

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Seth Frey @enfascination.com · 7d
[Academic publishing] I think it's sinister that JSTOR hides all DOIs in favor of jstor.org links.

e.g. this paper:
www.jstor.org/stable/43905...
Looks for its DOI
10.2753/jei0021-3624480202
You'll find it in the PDF and the raw HTML, but nowhere on the rendered webpage. Not good for trust in JSTOR

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 7d
This is the dumbest shit I’ve ever seen.

Let’s pretend like these dudes on the boats are really cartel members.

There are a handful of OIF/OEF veterans that would be prepared to deal with that amount of firepower.

Everyone else? This will get Americans killed.

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Seth Frey @enfascination.com · 8d
... but I didn't even catch it at first. He was piling on lies one after another, speaking at 2x. Escher sentences need an audience that is doing shallow processing, which happens during overload. The rate is so exhausting that you start glossing. To notice you have to feel your own eyebrows twitch.

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Seth Frey @enfascination.com · 8d
"Numbers so high they are not even to be mentioned"

In cognitive science we call this an Escher sentence, it sounds like it has meaning but it doesn't. Like "More people have been to China than I have"

Numbers can be so tiny that they are not even to be mentioned. They can't be too big to mention.
brendannyhan.bsky.social Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 9d
Prices are impossibly going down by 500%, law enforcement costs going up "by numbers so high they are not even to be mentioned" (incoherent word 🥗).

The man with the nuclear codes.
markjacob.bsky.social Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 9d
Trump says immigrants “increased the cost of law enforcement by numbers so high that they are not even to be mentioned.“
What kind of bullshit comment is that?

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Seth Frey @enfascination.com · 8d
National healthcare: sure it works in practice, but it's impossible in theory.
dailyherald.bsky.social Daily Herald #FBPE #NAFO @dailyherald.bsky.social · 8d
Reform supporters keep telling us we are lying when I repeat this. So let’s be clear.

Here is the video of Nigel Farage himself saying the country will need to “have insurance based healthcare” - private healthcare. Those are his words. That is not a rumour and not spin.

youtu.be/pxuQyTCHXyE?...
Nigel Farage on NHS & Insurance
YouTube video by Counter Collective - News & Politics
youtu.be

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Daily Herald #FBPE #NAFO @dailyherald.bsky.social · 8d
Reform supporters keep telling us we are lying when I repeat this. So let’s be clear.

Here is the video of Nigel Farage himself saying the country will need to “have insurance based healthcare” - private healthcare. Those are his words. That is not a rumour and not spin.

youtu.be/pxuQyTCHXyE?...
Nigel Farage on NHS & Insurance
YouTube video by Counter Collective - News & Politics
youtu.be

Reposted by Seth Frey

brendannyhan.bsky.social
Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 9d
Prices are impossibly going down by 500%, law enforcement costs going up "by numbers so high they are not even to be mentioned" (incoherent word 🥗).

The man with the nuclear codes.
markjacob.bsky.social Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 9d
Trump says immigrants “increased the cost of law enforcement by numbers so high that they are not even to be mentioned.“
What kind of bullshit comment is that?
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d
Trump’s primetime diatribe against immigrants is straight up unvarnished Nazi stuff

Reposted by Steve Peers, Michael H. Whitworth, Barrett , and 1 more

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Pictures of Nixon @picturesofnixon.com · 11d
not the kind of behavior I expect from the winner of the fifa peace prize

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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 11d
"According to the…annual Harris Poll, for the 1st time, a majority of Americans believe billionaires are a threat to democracy. A remarkable 71% believe there should be a wealth tax. A majority believe there should be a cap on how much wealth a person can accumulate." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/o...
Opinion | The Billionaires Have Gone Full Louis XV
www.nytimes.com

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Seth Frey @enfascination.com · 11d
I like to think of vicarity as a sort of parallel immortality. Maintaining good relationships with diverse people, and experiencing their ups and downs with them, provides a way to live multiple lives side-by-side, much more practical, attainable, and human then living them serially.

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Seth Frey @enfascination.com · 11d
Effective government setting an example for the US
ceaubin.com C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 11d
It really can be this easy btw.
On the day following the shooting, the National Cabinet unanimously agreed to strengthen gun laws. Proposals brought forward during the meeting included restricting firearm ownership to Australian citizens only, accelerating the launch of a national firearms register, limiting the number of firearms a single person can own, and further restricting the types of weapons that are legal.