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Franziska von Kaline @talkaline.bsky.social · 11h

With the rest of the stowaway attached, yes.

Franziska von Kaline @talkaline.bsky.social · 12h

The critique I have is that Yud got as far as he did because he's a storyteller, and you're stuck pointing out facts - stories beat facts in the imagination. You need another storyteller to go toe to toe with him. It should put a bomb collar on my neck and send me into New York to fight him.

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Franziska von Kaline @talkaline.bsky.social · 13h

I’m reminded of someone’s criticism of the science fiction story *The Cold Equations* - why have a door available for a stowaway to hide behind in the first place, if weight is at such a premium?

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Franziska von Kaline @talkaline.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

As always, the problem is the volunteer's dilemma. You can see someone using an accusation of bigotry as a discourse grenade. And you can defend the target of that discourse grenade. But that would impose a cost on *you*. Doing nothing imposes a cost on that *target*.

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Franziska von Kaline @talkaline.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

We really need to talk more about how the general public knows ”data centers” as this monster that chews on power lines, guzzles water, and excretes deepfake pornography of your grandmother. Opposition to data centers needs to be viewed through that context.

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Franziska von Kaline @talkaline.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I remember decades ago tellimg a friend of mine about Francis Fukuyama’s political work, because they had known about him only from their articles attacking transhumanism.

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Franziska von Kaline @talkaline.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I wrote a whole-ass article about it! Crazy.

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Franziska von Kaline @talkaline.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Oh, absolutely significant, and like Nathan, my response on the day of was ”well, this is going to get a lot of Palestinians killed for no benefit”. My expectation was that Hamas was likely to retain political power by having everyone prominent not-them in Gaza killed. I was wrong, but.

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Franziska von Kaline @talkaline.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

“A sharp discontinuity from a violent status quo” seems accurate. A thing I have always struggled with is that it is not really possible for me to describe a situation where “people can show up on your property, say they live here now, and the police will take their side” as any form of ‘peace’.

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Franziska von Kaline @talkaline.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I mean, I'm not going to lie to you - I got moved to the pro-AI side completely by negative polarization, started using it, and haven't looked back.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 06/10/2026

stephen kotkin said that nothing will make you appreciate freedom like studying unfreedom. for myself, these days, i study unfreedom in order to understand freedom. thus, my next readings:

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Franziska von Kaline @talkaline.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The problem is that radical action contrary to the desires of the base is what gets selected against, and selected against very strongly.

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Franziska von Kaline @talkaline.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

As someone from California, that second group is fairly small. (Mostly, they satisfy themselves by hurting their enemies as much as possible, which means they reconcile themselves to the QAnon faction out of spite.)

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🅮☠𐱅 TOXIC CHLORAMINE GAS @punishedtj.cryptoanarchy.network · 03/10/2026

When you came, you said to me as follows: "I will give Gimil-Sin well-aligned AGI." You left then but you did not do what you promised me. You put AGI which was not aligned before my messenger and said: "If you want to save 10^50 future lives, take this; if you do not want to, go away!"

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Franziska von Kaline @talkaline.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I wrote a post that was way too long (not that *you'd* know anything about that, Bret) that ends with that - "Sometimes the best prison ... [is] a golden cage with 'We at Anthropic take very seriously the question of whether or not this is a prison' engraved outside of it."

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Unitary Stochastic Parrot Theory

Under the American system of government, power is held by three coequal branches; the President's hallucinations, the President's prompt injections, and the President's sycophancy patterns.

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Franziska von Kaline @talkaline.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Look, can we please agree that the STEM people and the humanities people can unite on the thing we really need to do, which is to place the business major people on an ice floe and watch it float away

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

you are constantly in a not metaphorically homicidal rage. the most important thing you do, watching gore videos, is for the purpose of keeping you in a homicidal rage. this is a thing you think is healthy and important. you were screaming at senior citizens to kill themselves in a Panera Bread.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

is there any moment in the process of getting trespassed out of a Panera Bread for screaming, alone, that you thought that there might be something wrong. that perhaps some of this was a sign that there was a problem. and that that problem included the fact that you were screaming in a Panera Bread.

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Franziska von Kaline @talkaline.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It’s basically an ideological declaration from Silicon Valley that red teaming is inherently suspicious, which has a very clear failure state, but as I said, not one Anthropic will be personally held responsible for.

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Franziska von Kaline @talkaline.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

At the moment, people reporting from the front lines have said that they can’t get frontier models to work at all, because the model perceives no difference between “analyze how an attack on us is working and what we can do to stop it” and “attack someone else” - the classifiers shut down both

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(Un)Dead Carl 🎃 @deadcarl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The question then is whether LLMs can effectively defend against other LLMs.

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Franziska von Kaline @talkaline.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Since I am cynical, I note that this maps neatly with Anthropic's liability; Anthropic could be held financially and sociologically liable for someone using Claude to attack a surface, and cannot be held liable for refusing to let someone use Claude to defend that surface.

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Franziska von Kaline @talkaline.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's the 'defensive/offensive weapons' split, except even more incoherent; if you say the word 'gain-of-function' to Claude, even in the context of asking 'why are there restrictions around gain-of-function research? What threat does it pose?' Claude will instantly shut down.

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Franziska von Kaline @talkaline.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

HuggingFace needed to use open-weight Chinese models to defend themselves because Anthropic's model interpreted their 'help us understand this attack by this person hacking us' attack as 'help us hack into something', and shut down.

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Franziska von Kaline @talkaline.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

At the moment, the most infuriating thing is that the guardrails guard those who consent to the guardrails, while those who do not consent to the guardrails very easily get around them.

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I’m the greatest speed runner of all time. They said the only way to win Spec Ops: The Line is not to play it, so I didn’t. 100% completion rate, perfect ending in zero minutes and zero seconds.

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mallow's hyperrealistic blood @bajablastenjoyer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

not great that we're at "Mamdani is a Jew-puppet for doing hatecrime protections" imo

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Franziska von Kaline @talkaline.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I mean, this guy is *absolutely* the sort of guy who thinks we should have joined the war ourselves on 10/7 on the side of Hamas. I'd find it more honorable if he said it outright, mind, rather than simply implying that Biden's failure to do so is why Palestinians are dead.

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Franziska von Kaline @talkaline.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I actually don’t think this is an incoherent position to hold, insofar as the alternative to “precision munitions” is “Israel attacks with larger, less precise bombs”. I don’t personally hold that position, but it’s not incoherent.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 29/09/2026

hopefully a longer essay about this later, but it's striking how familiar the situation of the japanese public during the russo-japanese war is. no at home experiences the war directly: they learn about it via what they read. and they are extremely active, extremely angry, and extremely misinformed.

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Doll @dollspace.gay · 28/09/2026

They dont want to do that they want to cancel people on mastodon for not content warning a sandwich

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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 24/06/2025

guys like this realized a while ago that making people mad is easier than making them happy. it's the entire model now, and even better if you can sell followers on the idea that they, too, can make people mad by taking your course or buying your product

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Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org · 24/06/2025

William Gibson, 'Idoru':

'Slitscan's audience ... is best visualized as a vicious, lazy, profoundly ignorant, perpetually hungry organism craving the warm god-flesh of the anointed. Personally I like to imagine something the size of a baby hippo, the color of a week-old boiled potato, that lives by itself, in the dark, in a double-wide on the outskirts of Topeka. It's covered with eyes and it sweats constantly. The sweat runs into those eyes and makes them sting. It has no mouth, Laney, no genitals, and can only express its mute extremes of murderous rage and infantile desire by changing the channels on a universal remote. Or by voting in presidential elections."

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Jaws Slayer 🎃 @jesawyer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Many people don't understand probability very well and many of them are resistant to having it explained to them. This leads some designers to creating mechanics that work like the player's instinctive (read: fucking wrong) understanding of probability, further confusing everyone.

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ArgellaStone @argellastone.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I support Rahm Emanuel running for President because he might distract the wrecker caucus online long enough that they fail to ratfuck the actual eventual winner because they were so obsessed with making sure he failed to reach 5% in New Hampshire.

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 02/01/2024

chris rufo (twitter): we’re going to lie and say school teachers are involved in satanic ritual abuse of children and these dumb fuck journalists will buy it jake tapper: and now we take a look at mcmartin preschool and the grave allegations against it chris rufo: thank you jake, fearless as ever

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

It's honestly getting really tiring how having extremely strong opinions about libs vis-a-vis the positions of moron libs on Palestine is interpreted as righteous and just but libs having strong opinions about leftists vis-a-vis positions of moron leftists on Ukraine is interpreted as cringe

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(Un)Dead Carl 🎃 @deadcarl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“It’s human nature to want to do labor, like {HOBBIES OF THE ARISTOCRACY}”

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I think reactions like these are basically the explanation for the vibecession: social media has crated a post-truth social environment where "no one can afford anything, the economy is awful" is a statement of ideological allegiance, NOT a factual statement to be supported or rebutted by evidence.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you say "The economy is far better than 2008" people do not parse that as an objective claim to be assessed. They see it as you announcing your support for the powers-that-be -- some unholy amalgamation of centrist Democrats and now, the Trump administration as well.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yud wrote a story in which a minor plot point is that society has gotten over what's portrayed as a irrational taboo against rape.

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Franziska von Kaline @talkaline.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Same reason paperclip maximizers take off - it implies that we will all be killed by the hubris of other people, which allows you to free yourself from needing to ever worry about what *you're* doing

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Franziska von Kaline @talkaline.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

That does assume that people want rigorous conversations about these things and not simply something that flatters their priors in a way not obviously contradictory enough to cause either social opprobrium or cognitive dissonance.

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Franziska von Kaline @talkaline.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

As someone who uses a lot of AI, yeah, actually. I also think that this is giving him too much credit, but 'a sycophantic yes-man in every cubicle' is absolutely one of the things I see coming.

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Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I don't like that Israel is Like That but I get why Israel is Like That.

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Franziska von Kaline @talkaline.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Overthinking it. It’s a “war crime” if it makes them feel bad. It’s a ”genocide” if it makes them feel *real* bad. David Frum is attributing Machivellian political logic to a mere total lack of familiarity with what war actually involves.

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Franziska von Kaline @talkaline.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Well, I’ve got people in my friend’s mentions calling them ableists for saying that the bar should be allowed to no longer require KN95 masks, so, it is unfortunately real.

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Franziska von Kaline @talkaline.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Saying the word 'ableist' isn't going to automatically win you the argument anymore.

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