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Seth Frey

Seth Frey

@enfascination.com

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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 · 1h

What being a parent and being an academic have in common: the feeling of being utterly mad about something that everyone else thinks is fundamentally unremarkable.

Seth Frey @enfascination.com · 9h

Help me read this. Heritage is erasing memorials to black soldiers. Is it mustache twirling strategy to create a backlash that makes an opening for restoring confederate memorials? Or am I overthinking it and they're simply erasing non-white history because it's crime season and the getting is good?

ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 1d

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

Seth Frey @enfascination.com · 13h

A book that made you a radical (politically or about anything).

Seth Frey @enfascination.com · 22h

A discipline I used to have that I’ve let slip over the years is not having opinions about things I haven’t actually read.

Now I opine left and right. Some of it is that there’s only so many ideas to be had, and I’ve tussled with them already in some form. But some of that is just me being sloppy.

Seth Frey @enfascination.com · 22h

Used to be my intro coder grad students would ask “Is this possible” and the answer would be “unfortunately, no”.

Now with LLMs the answer is “unfortunately, yes” Everything is now accessible to beginners, but each is a spirally rabbit hole and beginners need a good nose for what problem to want.

Seth Frey @enfascination.com · 1d

What motives are there to complain for the removal of Black soldiers' memorials, at the same time that you defend those to Confederate generals?

Heritage Foundation, is much more than a "conservative American think tank." It's a radically extremist and deeply un-American institution.

ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 1d

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

Seth Frey @enfascination.com · 1d

Is it just me or does Newsom need Visine?

Seth Frey @enfascination.com · 1d

As someone with deep lifelong loves of atheism and rationality, it's so uncomfortable that the prominent figures to emerge representing them in my lifetime have been so unimpressive. In particular, they seem so blind to how their emotion is interfering with their reason.

Seth Frey @enfascination.com · 1d

Newest most offline place I've seen evidence of AI replacing people: those sentimental schlock prints that you replace with your art when you're buying a picture frame. Walk through a frame section of a place like Hobby Lobby: about 15% is clearly AI right now.

Seth Frey @enfascination.com · 1d

Always makes it back home though!

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 1d

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

Seth Frey @enfascination.com · 2d

Not entirely sure what's going on but while "6 7" is just another thing in the online world, I'm getting wink-winked by the most incredibly offline and disconnected people in my life: barely literate children, near retirement faculty, and every rando in between

Seth Frey @enfascination.com · 3d

Never sure when a bundle of random characters in a message are a new social media acronym or someone sneezing with autocomplete on

Seth Frey @enfascination.com · 4d

Few things are more radicalizing than knowing history.

Nothing opens your mind faster than experiencing other ways of being and seeing that they work too.

Krista Koeller @kristalerista.bsky.social · 4d

Something I’ve noticed is there seems to be a sort of pervasive assumption that the status quo has gravity. That there’s a natural, comfortable way things should be and that deviations from the normal state of the world will correct themselves in time.

But as a paleontologist, I know this is false.

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 4d

Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment

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Krista Koeller @kristalerista.bsky.social · 4d

Something I’ve noticed is there seems to be a sort of pervasive assumption that the status quo has gravity. That there’s a natural, comfortable way things should be and that deviations from the normal state of the world will correct themselves in time.

But as a paleontologist, I know this is false.

Seth Frey @enfascination.com · 4d

Few things are more radicalizing than a plane ticket.

Nothing opens your mind faster than experiencing other societies and seeing that they work too.

Nikhil Shah @grandmastershah.bsky.social · 4d

"Europeans recognize his vision about free public transit and universal childcare. We expect our governments to make these kinds of services accessible to all of us,” said Verbeek. “We pay higher taxes and get civilized societies in return."

Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’

Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given

www.theguardian.com

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Nikhil Shah @grandmastershah.bsky.social · 4d

"Europeans recognize his vision about free public transit and universal childcare. We expect our governments to make these kinds of services accessible to all of us,” said Verbeek. “We pay higher taxes and get civilized societies in return."

Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’

Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given

www.theguardian.com

Seth Frey @enfascination.com · 5d

This is still great post-election somehow. I just love all the nerds this drew out of the shadows.

Seth Frey @enfascination.com · 5d

Post-election, I'm v. curious whether split-ticket voting was lower or same than typical. If lower, that's an especially strong rebuke.

Swing voters are typically strong splitters: they want Dems to have one exactly house of Congress, no more. If Trump is changing that for them, I want to know.

Seth Frey @enfascination.com · 6d

People can be very influenced by the status quo and not notice things right in front of them like hair dryers obviously have nothing to do with hair they're just incredibly dangerous bed warmers.

Seth Frey @enfascination.com · 7d

Academics complaining about their service loads is as old as time.

Really makes a guy feels like he's a part of history.

Dr Selena Wisnom @lswisnom.bsky.social · 7d

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

Seth Frey @enfascination.com · 7d

Teen The Onion please

David Lublin @davidlublin.bsky.social · 7d

Ok it would actually be hilarious if The Onion made a spin off “Teen The Onion” and hired a bunch of the political journalists who just got laid off from Teen Vogue.

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 7d

Unlike other places, The Onion is quadrupling down on being a pain in the ass, politically.

Please subscribe.

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David Lublin @davidlublin.bsky.social · 7d

Ok it would actually be hilarious if The Onion made a spin off “Teen The Onion” and hired a bunch of the political journalists who just got laid off from Teen Vogue.

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 7d

Unlike other places, The Onion is quadrupling down on being a pain in the ass, politically.

Please subscribe.

Don’t just read the news. Feel it. Be among the first to feel the news.

membership.theonion.com

Seth Frey @enfascination.com · 7d

Big claim from a big name. Getting this kind of concession out of crypto is typically like squeezing blood from a rock.

kapitaali.com @kapitaali.bsky.social · 8d

Ethereum's Vitalik Buterin states "there's a lot of subtleties involved” with addressing governance

https://cryptoslate.com/ethereums-vitalik-buterin-states-theres-a-lot-of-subtleties-involved-with-addressing-governance/

#commons #uusitalous #p2p #neweconomy #regeneration #dework #cosmolocal

Ethereum's Vitalik Buterin states "there's a lot of subtleties involved” with addressing governance

Ethereum's Vitalik Buterin states "there's a lot of subtleties involved” with addressing governance

cryptoslate.com

Seth Frey @enfascination.com · 7d

For me it was Howard Zinn's People's History of the United States.

Seth Frey @enfascination.com · 7d

#booksky Your mission: radicalize a teenager (or hell, citizen) in one book. What book?

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Dr Selena Wisnom @lswisnom.bsky.social · 7d

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

Reposted by Seth Frey

kapitaali.com @kapitaali.bsky.social · 8d

Ethereum's Vitalik Buterin states "there's a lot of subtleties involved” with addressing governance

https://cryptoslate.com/ethereums-vitalik-buterin-states-theres-a-lot-of-subtleties-involved-with-addressing-governance/

#commons #uusitalous #p2p #neweconomy #regeneration #dework #cosmolocal

Ethereum's Vitalik Buterin states "there's a lot of subtleties involved” with addressing governance

Ethereum's Vitalik Buterin states "there's a lot of subtleties involved” with addressing governance

cryptoslate.com

Seth Frey @enfascination.com · 10d

All my costumes are bald jokes now