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I, too, prefer to sit in stony silence while taking 45 minutes to select a show

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I meant “behavioral threshold” not “temporal threshold,” and yeah, “protesting” the campus Jewish students definitely crosses it

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Eg, design safeguards are great, but anthropic has no obvious lever to force their deployment. The lever LLM developers *do* have is behavioral influence on the models. So with the headline aimed at behavioral safeguards but the prescription aimed at systems designers/operators, idk who it’s for

b/c, as you pt out, behavioral safeguards still matter for things where harm can flow entirely from communication channels (eg, model-manipulated operator, etc). I also think it would benefit from dividing up the work of safety among responsible actors and more specifically bucketing prescriptions.

the basic thesis seems to be “design + behavioral safeguards are good but if you have to pick just one, design should be it.” On form, I agree it could be shorter. On substance, I don’t think the headline aligns with the thesis,

at some point “anti-Jewish” or “antisemitic” seems like a more appropriate label than “pro-Palestinian” for some of these groups

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NATO-member troops*, ie US troops

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By muscular countermove I mean something like putting NATO troops into Ukraine—which wouldn’t have worked if NATO members weren’t united behind it and instead had some ready to blame the US for any ensuing Russian invasion after that.

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This is what I’m referring to

all it is is talk. Biden admin’s push for a muscular NATO countermove to deter the Russian invasion of Ukraine in the first place was rebuffed by Germany et al., whose colossally bad judgment has helped put us all here. They couldn’t lead their own defense w a gun to their head. And there is one.

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Connor Lynch @connorlynch.bsky.social · 7h

I realize this tech is new enough that people who are already adults never saw anyone else get bullied for this specific thing in HS, but how does someone not innately understand how deeply pathetic “a fake woman I completely control likes me and is going to marry me” is to brag about

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He’s doing exactly the right things to win

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Connor Lynch @connorlynch.bsky.social · 8h

But even if you just accept “craven politicians want personal money,” candidates who win tend to raise more money than candidates who lose

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Connor Lynch @connorlynch.bsky.social · 8h

There was once a time, and maybe it’s still possible in some states, where money raised for a campaign could just be personally used later. I think this only changed shockingly recently too. Like ~1980s. Leadership PACs also don’t have a ban on personal spending for some reason

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Connor Lynch @connorlynch.bsky.social · 9h

It’s just like smashing the crosswalk button repeatedly

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Connor Lynch @connorlynch.bsky.social · 9h

They’d have had to start this message 8 months ago. Public opinion is mostly baked already on this.

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Connor Lynch @connorlynch.bsky.social · 13h

80% of the workforce can get decision fatigue from these things in a way that was previously only ever felt by upper level management

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Connor Lynch @connorlynch.bsky.social · 14h

interestingly enough! Ossoff is good at this because he is talented *and practiced*. has clearly found his own voice in the past decade

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Connor Lynch @connorlynch.bsky.social · 15h

I think Newsom’s odds are underestimated here but I don’t see him beating Ossoff in South Carolina

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Connor Lynch @connorlynch.bsky.social · 15h

A matchup much closer on bsky than it would be irl

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Connor Lynch @connorlynch.bsky.social · 22h

I have to imagine holding office isn’t too pleasant either.

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Connor Lynch @connorlynch.bsky.social · 22h

Earn it or put your own ego and career ambition aside and do something bigger than yourself. I’m sure the bad blood is mutual but yeesh.

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Connor Lynch @connorlynch.bsky.social · 23h

I wonder whether he asked for the opinion looking for a reason to decline something that felt unearned

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Jurphenstein's Monster @jurph.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Is she rocking a PRIMUS shirt?

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Connor Lynch @connorlynch.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

(That’s exp 1. The other 2 have very modest results)

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Connor Lynch @connorlynch.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

lol holy shit they had 25% v 3% exclusion rates in their AI v control sample (they tossed everyone from control who couldn’t do fractions; AI group already had AI-assisted fractions answers) Doesn’t seem publishable like that!

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Jacob @jacobweinbren.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

@danwaterfield.bsky.social @cjterry.bsky.social bluesky users: bluesky is like twitter but left wing (laudatory) me: bluesky is like twitter but left wing (derogatory)

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It’s just an almost comical iteration of Republicans do a bad thing Tankie leftist: let’s not let this make us lose sight of the real enemy, the democrats

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civil harassment claims are purpose-built for this kind of shit

step one: dress extremely poorly

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I don’t really have a good solution cooked up; the status quo just isn’t great

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but forcing the only path to liability at “you have to make an accusation that carries all these social implications and reqs proving lack of consent” exposes victims to public abuse, puts them potentially on an evidentiary wrong-foot right out of the gate, and shoehorns the story into one pattern

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right, and I think in, eg, the context of this Cornell case, there ought to be a path for liability for some of those individual defendants without even asking her to prove lack of consent. whatever way you spin it, their wrongful conduct completely derailed her life

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One challenge is that expanded liability, if not approached carefully, can contribute to some of the same social attitudes that socially punish mostly women for perceived deviancy, which imo is bad.

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IMO there’s some extremely exploitative and wrongful conduct that is downstream of “chastity as women’s’ virtue; conquest as men’s” that should, in right circumstances, give rise to its own claims without needing to fit into definitions of rape, even tho it also spills into current rape definitions

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yeeesh. I don’t think her claims are going to win, but the behavior of the men (esp Newell) is so contemptible and deplorable that I have zero sympathy whatsoever for whatever their plight is supposed to be.

“Go to this location. Your daughter gets out of school at 2:30 p.m. sharp. Make sure you get her to her music class at 3:15. Check your email every 10 minutes or you fail the mission. Obey all traffic laws.”

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I think this is basically correct. And I could probably live with it if the people carrying it out took their duties solemnly, soberly, and seriously. But we have pete hegseth, and id prefer we ban it entirely than give anyone like him the chance to indulge their own brutal appetite in our names.

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Yes, striking Iran, what a good idea for improving poll numbers.

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Jon Ossoff’s full election concession speech | CNN Politics

It’s actually interesting to compare how he speaks now with his older 2017 speech. Still disciplined about filler words and you can hear the voice that’s shining through now, but he sounds more like someone trying to emulate Obama’s powerful style than embracing his own www.cnn.com/videos/polit...

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Republican Karen Handel defeated Democrat Jon Ossoff in a high-stakes special election for a Georgia House seat, denying Democrats their first major victory of the Donald Trump era.

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He’s a great example of the power of cadence + striking filler pauses and discourse markers. He just pauses and holds when he’s thinking of his next word, and his cadence is just slow enough that it projects a confidence that you’re going to hang on his words.

That doesn’t mean housing programs are bad, but they don’t address the issues that people are actually concerned about when the topic of encampments comes up, and people are (imo quite fairly) suspicious/hostile to the “never ever clear the encampments by force” crowd.

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That faulty premise leads to suggestions for programs that are not well calibrated to address needs of those pops. For example, “housing first” absolutely does not mean you can clear an encampment by telling everyone you got them a real place to live. many will refuse and stay put unless forced.

Advocates often seem to view the most visible homeless populations with the most needs as just as capable of rational, pro-social decision making as everyone else but for a couple changeable circumstances, and it isn’t true.

💯. IMO male-only spaces *can* theoretically be healthy but they generally are not in a social context where they are its members’ dominant mode of social engagement, which is a lot of them and definitely modern frats