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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 · 12h

Assume good faith, no personal attacks, consensus decisions, verifiable sources, neutral point of view, no original research: even flawed they're the fabric of a global search for truth and shared understanding in a noisy, often hostile world.

Seth Frey @enfascination.com · 12h

I think Wikipedia's behavioral and content standards are brilliant for making consensus not just possible but practical at scale for a diverse global population, not all of whom are operating in good faith.

It's one of the biggest successes of anarchist thought in the world. A marvel of our age.

Wikipedia:Five pillars - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Seth Frey @enfascination.com · 14h

I always thought there should be a version of 😵‍💫 but smiling. Happens to me all the time.

Seth Frey @enfascination.com · 1d

This all hit especially hard with Buddhism, which has several traditions that go for an analytically minimal set of spiritual commitments and still diverge with flourish.

Seth Frey @enfascination.com · 1d

The metaphor is close to that of the wise men molesting the elephant, but it's better for me because it allows that even after everyone recognizes everyone else's legitimacy in theory they're STILL going to be stuck in their slice of the truth in practice.

Seth Frey @enfascination.com · 1d

I've always thought it's disqualifying of the world's religions and spiritualities that there are so many, each with so many factions, and they all think they're right.

Now I appreciate that because we're all approaching the truth from a different place we all need different directions there.

Seth Frey @enfascination.com · 1d

The rapport that's developed between geopolitical observers @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social and @sodrock.bsky.social is really getting me.

Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 2d

Fuck u

Seth Frey @enfascination.com · 1d

By statute, the Chief of the US National Guard is a general in the Army or Air Force. In every other military service, its chief is a member of that service.

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 2d

Fuck u

Seth Frey @enfascination.com · 4d

Statistical bootstrapping is absolutely magical: taking a small sample of a large population and using it to generate thousands of fictional alternative samples lets you represent the population better than the sample could alone. I'm chronically wowed.

Seth Frey @enfascination.com · 4d

My most discreditingly optimistic take on AI is that it'll make us appreciate really good humanistic writing more.

Seth Frey @enfascination.com · 4d

A lot of social theory critiques transactionalism as degrading social fabric but I think across large power gaps the more transactional the better because at least it's explicit, and at least its exchange.

Seth Frey @enfascination.com · 6d

In those data centers is data about you. Prepare to get evicted by your own digital twin.

Master Elrond [he/him] @inuyasha1953.bsky.social · Dec 12

Mark Zuckerberg’s new data center in Louisiana will use 3x more electricity than ALL of New Orleans — and guess who’s paying for it? YOU.

Billionaires like Zuck are passing the cost of their corporate greed onto everyday Americans with higher water and electric bills.

Seth Frey @enfascination.com · 6d

Stumbled on a great term: "precarious value":
"""
... is one that is essential to the viability of the collective but in which most members may have no direct stake’ (Lazega, 2001, p. 15)
"""

"Precarious" nails it: they're everything that a community defends on principle and on no other grounds.

Seth Frey @enfascination.com · 6d

What will you be doing on Jan 6 2029? I think we will all have to be in DC demonstrating with our presence what a peaceful transition of power means to us.

Seth Frey @enfascination.com · Oct 24

He’s referring to the peaceful transition of power. What will you be doing on Jan 6 2029?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Oct 21

Trump: "We can never let what happened in the 2020 election happen again. We just can't let that happen. I know Kash is working on it, everybody is working on it. And certainly Tulsi is working on it. We can't let that happen again to our country."

Seth Frey @enfascination.com · 6d

"Who's who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter"

Damn FT, that's Buzzfeed-quality snark.

Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 6d

Art.

The whole executive team as clowns.

www.ft.com/content/ad94...

FINANCIAL TIMES
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+ Add to myFT
Who's who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter
A look inside Elon Musk's big tent

Kylie McRoberts - Head of Safety
Grok #x@grok • 2m
Replying to @fr
il
Appointed in April 2024 as X Corp's Head of Safety, McRoberts leads the company's work to maintain a safe and engaging platform.

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 6d

Art.

The whole executive team as clowns.

www.ft.com/content/ad94...

FINANCIAL TIMES
FT Alphaville X Corp
+ Add to myFT
Who's who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter
A look inside Elon Musk's big tent

Kylie McRoberts - Head of Safety
Grok #x@grok • 2m
Replying to @fr
il
Appointed in April 2024 as X Corp's Head of Safety, McRoberts leads the company's work to maintain a safe and engaging platform.

Seth Frey @enfascination.com · 7d

SO much rando rhetoric it's dizzying.
* If it's a law enforcement operation, uncounted civilian deaths make it a botched one
* If it's a law enforcement operation, using military makes you a police state
* Criticize the military traipsing to other hemispheres? Venezuela is in another hemisphere.

Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 7d

I compiled some thoughts on Venezuela, and more importantly, the insane rhetoric since the attack.

Unlocked for everyone:

www.patreon.com/posts/147513...

Thoughts on Venezuela | Angry Staffer

Get more from Angry Staffer on Patreon

www.patreon.com

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 7d

I compiled some thoughts on Venezuela, and more importantly, the insane rhetoric since the attack.

Unlocked for everyone:

www.patreon.com/posts/147513...

Thoughts on Venezuela | Angry Staffer

Get more from Angry Staffer on Patreon

www.patreon.com

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 7d

France at the UN Security Council:

"The military operation which led to the capture of Nicolas Maduro runs counter to the principle of peaceful dispute resolution and the principle of non use of force. Violations of the UN Charter... chips away at the very foundation of the international order."

Seth Frey @enfascination.com · 8d

Somehow I’m just realizing how deeply I was influenced by Tocqueville in college. Twenty years later I’m 100% a Tocquevillian social scientist, without really being aware of it. And outside of work, his 1835 “Democracy in America” is all I can think about as I see the country buckle.

Seth Frey @enfascination.com · 8d

“We need to do Greenland, absolutely “

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

America is a rogue and malevolent state and global bad actor

In a telephone interview this morning with The Atlantic, President Donald J. Trump issued a threat against Venezuela’s Interim President Delcy Rodríguez, saying that, “if she doesn’t do what’s right, she is going to pay a very big price, probably bigger than Maduro,” adding that he would not stand for Rodríguez’s “defiant rejection” of military intervention by the United States.

Additionally, during the interview, President Trump reaffirmed that Venezuela may not be the last country subject to American intervention, or even that it would remain isolated to Latin America, clearly stating, “We do need Greenland, absolutely,” while describing the island which is a part of Denmark, a close-ally and member of NATO, as “surrounded by Russian and Chinese ships.”

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

America is a rogue and malevolent state and global bad actor

In a telephone interview this morning with The Atlantic, President Donald J. Trump issued a threat against Venezuela’s Interim President Delcy Rodríguez, saying that, “if she doesn’t do what’s right, she is going to pay a very big price, probably bigger than Maduro,” adding that he would not stand for Rodríguez’s “defiant rejection” of military intervention by the United States.

Additionally, during the interview, President Trump reaffirmed that Venezuela may not be the last country subject to American intervention, or even that it would remain isolated to Latin America, clearly stating, “We do need Greenland, absolutely,” while describing the island which is a part of Denmark, a close-ally and member of NATO, as “surrounded by Russian and Chinese ships.”

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 8d

What a difference a year makes.

Screenshot of a post by derek guy on X comparing two statements attributed to Elon Musk at different times. The post contrasts a February 2025 quote opposing U.S. involvement in regime change with a January 2026 congratulatory message to President Trump praising a victory as a message to dictators. Below the text is a collage of three images: on the left, a video still of Elon Musk speaking directly to camera indoors while wearing a dark shirt; on the top right, a screenshot of a social media post showing a person in military-style gear holding a firearm, with text referencing Nicolás Maduro aboard a U.S. ship; and on the bottom right, an image of a U.S. flag with text from a White House post reading “God bless the United States military.”

Seth Frey @enfascination.com · 9d

Well fuck

NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 9d

CBS News reports that Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was captured early Saturday by the U.S. Army’s Delta Force, the same elite unit behind the 2019 raid that killed ISIS leader al-Baghdadi. U.S. officials confirmed the operation.

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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 9d

CBS News reports that Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was captured early Saturday by the U.S. Army’s Delta Force, the same elite unit behind the 2019 raid that killed ISIS leader al-Baghdadi. U.S. officials confirmed the operation.

Seth Frey @enfascination.com · 10d

I'm overall eager to see Mamdani rehabilitate social democracy with Americans. But this line was too aligned with today's destructive attacks on education and the professions.

John Rentoul @rentouljohn.bsky.social · 10d

But can anyone tell me what this bit means? “For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty.”

Seth Frey @enfascination.com · 10d

Very much the AI doomer's argument, very much giving you more information about their character than about AI.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 12d

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John Rentoul @rentouljohn.bsky.social · 10d

But can anyone tell me what this bit means? “For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty.”

Reposted by Seth Frey