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Enfascination — King sacrifice and a mechanism for finding reluctant leaders enfascination.com/weblog/post/29…

Today's word of the day: daemonic ergotropy arxiv.org/abs/2410.16567 It's all about the exploitation of Maxwell's demon, getting him off the dole and working for scraps. His struggle is your struggle.

1/ Google has been fined 2,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (2 undecillion) rubles (equivalent to $204,871,202,000,00,000,371,569,396,369,326,080, or $204.8 octillion) by a Russian court for blocking the YouTube channels of 17 Russian state media companies. ⬇️

It's very rare to encounter a number this large in everyday life. Makes you wonder if the judge followed the origin story of the name "Google" and asked his kid how big the fine should be.

The most magical of beautiful research artifacts, with the power to make normal people interested in the ins and outs of open source software governance. Not a joke: I've seen it make them fascinated, which is right, because it's fascinating.

Ukraine is funny for having 120 towns called Ivanivka. Lots of other commons towns. Compare to US, which does have a lot of Springfields, Washingtons, and Franklins, but more like 30-50.

Unlike most places, time in Canada's Saskatchewan does not follow a uniform time. Parts of it observe Mountain Time, parts observe Central, parts advance their clocks for Daylight Savings Time, parts don't. This complexity is due in part to its far-north location on earth

With this fake costumed bear attack insurance fraud, "California man" is giving "Florida man" a real run for his money: politico.com/news/2024/11/1…

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Enfascination — What if governance technologies are the last thing we need? enfascination.com/weblog/post/29…

Enfascination — When policies are written by humans: Challenges for computational representations of governance enfascination.com/weblog/post/29…

We are recruiting two postdoctoral scholars for a research project in human collective intelligence and creativity at UC Davis and Cornell. Joint project with Seth Frey, now on 🦋🦋🦋,Nori Jacoby,Dalton Conley, & Ofer Tchernichovski. Please forward this thread to relevant people. 1/n

If you've struggled to distinguish serious concern from loud alarmism, follow Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan on 🟦☁️) He's the most careful, sober political scientist I know. Having watched his slow evolution from studious neutrality, it's been good for my own courage to see his bold sanity in Trump 2.0

Twitter since I left: """ Reasonable people do something sane in response to dramatic overreach. Tell us why YOU disagree. """

Broken or no, academia is still less wrong than any other major institution out there.