François Kafka

PhD & other pieces of parchment paper. Human rights/democracy/security/anti-disinformation/postcommunist politics.

[François Kafka @MonkeyGrenade1]

The biggest tragedy of our time: roughly 405,000 Americans died from combat & combat-support related causes fighting fascism in World War 2. The consequence of this generation disappearing w/o a voice? 77.3 mln Americans voted for a neofascist in 2024.

[Mary Ellen Klas @MaryEllenKlas]

STUNNING admission from one of the globe’s top AI safety experts, why he’s engaged, and is essentially calling for a stop: “If we build superintelligence without more robust alignment I expect we will permanently lose control of it. If that happens then most people could die.”

[François Kafka @MonkeyGrenade1]

@oldcruizer @washingtonsun Hey Cooter: maybe lay off the whiskey/oxycontin cocktails.

[François Kafka @MonkeyGrenade1]

@BBCNewsnight @vicderbyshire So much jaw-dropping stupid in the comments here masquerading as informed skepticism. It’s as if half of humanity has already been annihilated, but is still walking and tapping their mobile phone screens while on Twitter.

[François Kafka @MonkeyGrenade1]

@Kasparov63 Don’t forget the bounties they offered members of the Taliban for killing US soldiers in Afghanistan.

[François Kafka @MonkeyGrenade1]

@ParkerThayer I definitely trust a GenZ MAGA social media agitator over this character who lacks credibility. I mean, what does “Sir Geoffrey Hinton” know about AI? Nobel Schmobel! He’s got to be part of some well-funded “Democrat” AI doomer conspiracy! You’re spot on!

https://t.co/eCuIfOY3Tb

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

Trump has found so many ways to use the presidency to enrich himself and his family that we had to narrow the list down.

Here are 75 of the most staggering examples of Trump corruption in 2026. And yes, there were more. Read Ron Filipkowski’s full breakdown: https://t.co/F6OcxzK4u3

[François Kafka @MonkeyGrenade1]

@RnaudBertrand It’s unclear what you know less about: the logic of the GCFR statement you’re ridiculing; the history of EU structural spending during the last few generations; or the importance of tech partnerships to defeat your cynical buddy Xi’s psychotic partner in war crimes & genocide.

[François Kafka @MonkeyGrenade1]

@MorawieckiM You sound paranoid, angry &vindictive. Believing your claims requires both ignorance & amnesia. Thank God your govt is no longer in power, or PL would be on the road to becoming an even more lamentable version of Orbán’s Hungary, lurching forward toward autocracy & national ruin.

[François Kafka @MonkeyGrenade1]

@TMZ Why do most famous Americans sound so aggressively uneducated?

[Lima @limalemonnn]

A Nobel laureate went on stage and explained in sixty minutes why smart people make stupid decisions with money. For free. For the next decade business schools charged $200,000 for the same material.

He didn't sell a course. He didn't launch a fund. His name was Daniel Kahneman, a psychologist who never studied economics and won the Nobel Prize in it. Zurich, 2013. Seven hundred people could not fit in the hall and listened from a screen next door.

His whole argument fits on a napkin. Widen the frame, and treat the decision in front of you as one of a hundred like it. Ask a friend, because they do not feel your loss and can see odds you cannot. Slow down when the stake is big. Write the procedure if you run anything, because an organization holds what a person cannot.

A loss lands twice as hard as the same size gain feels good. Two thirds of American small businesses close within five years, and their founders put their own odds at four in five. He invented the term planning fallacy, then promised a colleague his book in eighteen months. It took four and a half years. You built your last deadline the same way.

He does not think you can fix yourself. He says it near the end, flatly, that individuals cannot do much about any of this. A company that simply knows about these two things, he says, gets an advantage and a clearer picture of what the world is actually like. Almost nobody takes it.

A portfolio manager at a London fund told me this is the first thing he sends anyone joining his desk. Not a book. Not a model. This recording. The book sold in the millions and runs five hundred pages. The lecture carries the same argument end to end in sixty minutes.

He died in 2024. The napkin is free. Writing the four rules down takes a minute. It is in the video.

[François Kafka @MonkeyGrenade1]

@JacqWitjes @JayinKyiv Dudayev was right. But let’s not give him credit for being an effective political leader. The Republic of Ichkeria which he briefly led had an economy based largely on banditry and hostagetaking.

[François Kafka @MonkeyGrenade1]

@nexta_tv Great that he said this. But he should’ve been looking right at Putin the whole time he was speaking. For one thing, it would’ve made Putin look up and prove that he’s actually listening.

[François Kafka @MonkeyGrenade1]

@Neil01181 @atrupar And let me guess: a flambé turd is the best dessert you've ever had.

[François Kafka @MonkeyGrenade1]

@eacross92 @GeorgeShoe65908 @CalltoActivism This guy has no interest in what actually happened. Zero.

[François Kafka @MonkeyGrenade1]

@mybxpress What a stupid stunt. Poor premise, even worse set up and execution. This guy needs some work before he starts posting things online.

[François Kafka @MonkeyGrenade1]

@jenahr711 That Sachs still has a career at an American university, given his grotesque and indefensible moral relativism, is truly astounding.

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

I'm old enough to remember @HillaryClinton's "3am phone call" ad during the 2008 presidential primary season

[The Kyiv Independent @KyivIndependent]

President Volodymyr Zelensky’s former press secretary Iuliia Mendel gave an interview to Tucker Carlson, an American conservative political commentator.

In this video, the Kyiv Independent’s Nastia Kasinchuk breaks down all the false claims that Mendel said in her one-and-a-half hour long interview, including the mobilization law in Ukraine, the freedom of speech and her claims about Zelensky himself.