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paul-melman.bsky.social
I dream of a world where the left wants rule by a distributed network of citizens assemblies and the right wants rule by a technocratic doge https://www.electionbyjury.org/
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submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

there's definitely a gen zalpha tbh. the rate of cultural change has accelerated to the point where 20 years or so is too coarse to understand cultural generations

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

IT'S BLUE WEDNESDAY!!!

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

everyone shut up, the neoliberal jihad is happening in syria

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

I was at a political networking event recently and the conversation turned to AI. A guy asked me my AGI timeline, and I said probably by the early 2030s. He then asked a reasonable question: "If your AGI timeline is so short, why are you working on sortition?" unfacts.substack.com/p/if-my-agi-...

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

journals with low impact scores are basically secret tomes when u think about it

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

dropped this on someone in discord the other day lol

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

My first post on the official @assembleamerica.org blog is about how sortition can inject local knowledge into policymaking without the need for heavy-handed legibility-increasing tactics typically employed by governments. assemblingamerica.substack.com/p/seeing-the...

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

The kind of person who balks at energy work or talk of qi or prana wouldn't lift an eyebrow at someone saying that adderall gives them energy. Adderall has zero calories! It literally does not give you energy in any sense except the same one meant by the woo practitioners!

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

Englewood Cliffs NJ is just so NIMBY. They hired attorneys to pursue a ludicrous challenge to their state-mandated affordable housing obligation. The lawyers told them it was doomed but Englewood Cliffs insisted. When the lawyers lost, they *sued the lawyers for losing*... www.nj.com/bergen/2025/...

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

this might be the nail in the coffin for the other site

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

My friend lives on a hippie island in Thailand and once a year on Smallpox Eradication Day lures the hippies to a talk on how great it was that we eradicated smallpox with vaccines

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

The Ayatollah will soon fall inshallah

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

Spotted this while driving around south Florida lol

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

We should let people sell their tort claims

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Why don't whatsapp, signal, etc. have an "ultra compressed" mode you can switch to that sounds like normal phone lines for increased reliability?

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment