Finally, a solution to the unfairness of authorship ordering in scientific papers! 😂

"Every Author as First Author"

https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.01393

Every Author as First Author

We propose a new standard for writing author names on papers and in bibliographies, which places every author as a first author -- superimposed. This approach enables authors to write papers as true equals, without any advantage given to whoever's name happens to come first alphabetically (for example). We develop the technology for implementing this standard in LaTeX, BibTeX, and HTML; show several examples; and discuss further advantages.

arXiv.org
@blinry This unfortunately gives an advantage to those with the longest names.
@schuelermine @blinry solution: hash everyone’s name so they’re the same length
@cinebox @schuelermine @blinry But now no one is citeable.
@themeowgicalfairycat @cinebox @blinry But aren’t they if the hashes are unique and consistent? Just cite everybody by SHA256 of UTF-8
@schuelermine @cinebox @blinry doesn’t solve the ‘i can’t read a single hash to cite’ problem though