Writer, migrant, surprisingly nice in person. I write, these days mostly explainers. Old queer. I would rather be blocked than tone policed. It's all warnable content. More meme literate than I should be at this age. I mainly shitpost, then sometimes make you cry. ❤️
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Last Notes npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton The whole Hugging Face/Openai thing just reeks of scam. It's a publicity stunt, it helps keep them in the media, trying to scare people into being wowed by their horrible next word picker. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton When are Americans going to stop having parades and actually do something about about the Trump administration? Hint: if your protest has a parade permit, it's not a protest. It's a parade, a walk with cute signs. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton This, on the gear to cover (or attend) a real protest, holds up after some years. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton it has shrunk a lot which i am sad about, but what people need to remember is that foss shit never goes away, even when you want it to 😂 npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton I checked and.. the discourse about catsofyore on Bluesky is exactly what you think it is. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton I'm so confused, I am a bear of little brain, can someone explain to me, in simply words... HOW THE FUCK DO YOU COOL A DATA CENTER IN SPACE npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton As an American, and a journalist, I can't express how upset I am that these demonic fuckers came for the CIA world fact book. It's literally the only good thing the CIA ever did, and it was wonderful. I remember discovering it as a kid, and it was like the first time you discovered Wikipedia. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton I may have not understood this; it's about scraping, not generating articles? It's a bit confusing. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton I'm not sure I even think the like button is good. I use it because of social pressure. Afaik, it mainly exists to drive engagement and is a tool for social media companies to keep you on platform and surface content that drives engagement. My favorite thing about fedi is that no one is engineering the platform to keep me here instead of living my damn life. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton this is very good but also NOT ENOUGH :) npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton I wish news orgs would figure out how to use Mastodon. sigh. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton This is incredibly hard and and incredibly good reporting. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton I love all the posts on Public Domain Day every year. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton It's day three of CCC, and my fever has returned. I will be lying in bed all day at the hotel yet again. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton look this is effectively the only way I can go viral at this point in my career npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton I have hit the bad part of this flu. I woke up with aching in every part of my body, and feeling like I'm trying to breathe though a half pound of gauze. This will officially be my worst CCC ever. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton You know what no one needed? Liberal Twitter but with Merkel trees, unusable federation, and VC. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton The AI controversy is the loneliness crisis, the inequality crisis, and the education crisis stacked on each other, wearing a trenchcoat and a fedora. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton oh you sweet summer child 😂 npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton Ouch npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton In which I am a bit weird, I admit, but Pete Hegseth is so, so much worse. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton I've definitely compared it to asbestos, but I've also compared social media to asbestos. Together they're Super Asbestos 😬 npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton oh, they're definitely going to be identified by AI. For their own safety of course. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton This pansy ass giving up shit is why everyone hates the Democrats. Enjoy going back to millions suffering and dying without healthcare, America. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton The right is fascist incompetents, but I didn't realize the left was this feckless. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton Living that life 😂 npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton Oh ffs, this is insane. Antifa foreign terrorist designation could completely fuck America. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton Being one of the white trash usians who gets dumped on, getting called a Nazi and bs like that, I'm damn tired of how self defeating the US left is determined to be. Trump has no better ally than social media progressives who tear down anyone who tries. Anything. Harvard perfect only. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton I... Just don't know. It could be a form of self expression for some people. Probably never huge, but, the glasses are coming back successfully. Also apparently in workplace mandates? More surveillance. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton I think it's most likely going to fail because our phones already do most of this anyway and existing ai companies have already made friend agents power enough to drive us into psychosis anyway. 😬 npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton it's deeply cynical, and could very possibly work on more people than I'd like to admit. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton they're targeting lonely people without community or social support. That's not you, but statistically that's most Americans, especially the young ones. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton Unpopular opinion, but I don't care that much what they do with the Whitehouse, I'm much more concerned about what they're doing to the people and civil institutions while distracting us with the Whitehouse. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton I know I mentioned it in my piece, but I cannot recommend watching the Revisionaries enough. https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/documentaries/revisionaries/ npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton but you know with *ever so slight variations*, so we swing on each other like good leftists 😂 npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton You're walking into an abattoir and trying to set up a tea room. You're fighting a founder effect and an interface culture of Twitter at its worst. Just the founder effect on its own is basically cursed. This is "they only moved the headstones" territory. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton you cannot decentralize your way out of bsky's kneejerk culture of bonding over hating people. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton They have bigger problems. Have you seen how fucked their culture is? It's like watching overcrowded chickens peck each other to death. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton ok but do you have any new blood over 67? npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton I've been trying and trying to get people to understand that the US political crisis is the result of a decades long effort to destroy literacy for most people in America, by destroying education. The right wing played a long game, and that's what got us in this mess. https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/11/22/a-farce-or-a-tragedy-or-perhaps-both/ npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton I swear this article is like two grafs away from handing out the poisoned koolaid. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/10/22/democrats-graham-platner-political-fantasy-00618031 npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton This. is. Amazing. https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna--lindsey-halligan-here npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton :D well lmk if you want a read through when the time comes :) npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton What's funny is like, the people who are still on twitter despite it all, they're the most unflappable people on social media. You're never going to move Black Twitter because 1. Network effects are real and 2. You think the problems for black people on Twitter started with Musk? Oh you sweet summer child. This was just more white nonsense to the people I know over there. I mean all the love to black fedi, but no shame to black twitter. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton I tried from the start to say if you use Twitter's interface, and invite Twitter's most angry users over, you end up with Twitter's culture on steroids. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton (It's the interface, and the seed population, just to give it away immediately). npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton OMFG bsky is so toxic. Why, tho? She asked, despite writing most of an essay on why before giving up in the face of futility. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton Social media is going great. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton garden-corn maze! npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton I remember back in the early days of smart phones... how we had this big fight about walled gardens vs freedom to install what you wanted. The walled garden was supposed to protect you from malware the data harvesting, and freedom was "the wild west" etc. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton sir I'm going to have to ask you to sit back down. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton truck, toobs can fit in a kia picanto npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton ahem it was already esplaned in replies: one is truck, the other is tubes. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton The number of "resistance" authors publishing on Substack remains dissapointing. I'd mutter something about the master's tools but y'all are actively donating lumber. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton My guess is that they're going to round up folks in Chicago and other black neighborhoods to turn them out into fields to replace the immigrants they've deported (or worse). It was always about bringing back slavery for them. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton After all of today's presidential news, I'm just going to leave this here. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton I kind of love how many people in America really do think it's Soviet France. It's so insane what Americans tell me France is really like. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton In Soviet France, you eat grue! npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton I've been trying to figure out what people mean by algorithm on Bluesky, which Jay is always talking about. I haven't managed to figure that out, but. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton we're not! these parrots aren't stochastic, we know exactly what they're going to eat next. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton Remember that fascism is fated to lose and die horribly. Not because of the moral universe or the spirit of mankind or any of that, but because climate change is real and will, if unchecked, absolutely destroy the nation-state. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton Hi! npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton "why can't you have a healthy baby in America?" npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton I try to resist call outs, but the way people on social media put on their authoritative voice and then talk TALK COMPLETE FUCKING NONSENSE drives me insane. Before you go lecturing people like you did your undergrad on this subject, make sure there isn't a Wikipedia page that totally contradicts you. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton The international community is talking about the state of Palestine, but no one has any ideas for keeping the Palestinians unmurdered. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton I'm incredibly grateful for this post on the murder of Venezuelans in a boat for no reason by my government. There's so much to worry about, but governmental extrajudicial killings being streamed to the public like a fucking show like it's the fucking Hunger Games has to be up there. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton Trump wants to bury our history, and hide this famous photograph of the evidence of a white slaver's vicious cruelty to a black man. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton Maybe the Kirk thing just isn't actually important at all. Being a talking head with a large social media following isn't that big of a deal. Being shot randomly in America is frankly the opposite of a big deal, it's just a normal thing these days. Let's take the right wing's usual advice at these moments and move on. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton I'm now living in one of those historical periods I was always so glad to not have been born into. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton Motherfucker been in a war he can't win for years, talking about harvesting organs from people to live forever, now attacking Poland on the sly. This is mad king shit, but mad king with nukes. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton Putin is straight insane. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton Oh look I guess I got up to WWIII wheeee npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton I really wish all the American media people, organizers, journalists, and bloggers trying to resist the fascist take over of America weren't using Nazi-friendly Substack infrastructure. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton he always had a cult following, and he understood his followers well. Remember that he was a TV star for years, and very interactive with his fans. The challenge at that point for him was to grow his following, not keep it. The whole maga thing has always been very culty. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton This article is about how AI interacts with people. It's got violence, death, child abuse, insanity, lead poisoning, and the Roman empire. It's a rough one, but I think a good one. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton Chat control would make the Stasi blush. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton The tariff fight is plain insane. Tariffs are the purview of Congress. They aren't the president's YOLO. It's going to be amazing to see how SCOTUS throws out the plain language of the Constitution to take the tariff power away from Congress and grant it to Trump. They're very smart - I'm sure they can torture the hell out of both logic and history to come up with some nonsense. But their names will go down in history as shameful, and plain shit. Just stupidity and motivated reasoning. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton Afrofuturism scifi novel suggestions for my college-aged kid... go! npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton I found a note I wrote some time ago, it said Dems moving right will always lose. That space is taken, and we need to get back to teaching and leading, not chasing poll numbers. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton Shuttering the NLRB is insane, if you know any labor history in America. The NLRB is the most milquetoast answer USG could get Labor to accept. Labor history in America is wild to the point of fucking insane. Strikes went into pitched battles at times. US Army vs union shootouts were a thing. The Pinkertons were a thing. Neither labor or management could sleep easy. The 2nd amendment was for shooting your boss. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton You know what Americans could do to save energy, water, and meet their needs? Everything LLM AIs can do, all the way up to (and most importantly) making friends. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton ICYMI, I wrote about the America we're in the process of losing. It was a hard write, and meant to a lot to say these things. https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/08/hold-my-beer-no-more/ npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton Sudan is being killed slowly and cruelly so that the UAE can have this shit npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton I want to write a piece about how Russia is a paper tiger, partly because of Climate Change, but also we're all paper tigers. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton Vasily Borodin surviving, and getting a new identity from the USG as Dr. Alan Grant is my favorite fan theory, and yes that means I'm old, but it is still healing magic. Which I need at my age. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton Gods I just really want to go to work for someone. I want an editor to scream at me. I want to go places I don't belong, take pictures, interview people, and tell their stories. I don't want to be an entrepreneur or "content creator" I just want to write, take pictures, do good work and make the bare minimum to live. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton all instead of going to therapy 😉 npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton Men will contemplate the existence of 10^120 multiple infinite universes rather than admit there might be a god. #cosmologicalconstant npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton I'm noodling the idea to do everyday carry, antifascist edition. What do y'all think? What would you suggest? npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton People are losing their shit over a proposed 2% tax on the wealthy in NYC. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton journo adjacent people, I am currently looking for a place where I can publish a piece on how journalism was wrecked and and get som eyes on it. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton When the "resistance" has over 200 cookies from 80 or so vendors and most of them are claiming "legitimate interest" oh just fuck right off. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton I'm not categorically against watching ads for content. But I'm violently against them watching me. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton this is true, but it's also been true for longer than AI has been around. There's a credulity about information online and just trusting search engins. But not Wikipedia! My daughter came home from school in several years telling me the teachers said no Wikipedia, it's not a reliable source, but google is. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton I kinda want to get some archival paper and a preservation box of some sort and write a letter about how stupid our age really was. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton Europe, Asia, and the rest of the world need to wake up to the reality that America is gone, and it's not coming back. Not in our generation, maybe not in a few. The world needs to move on, take the hit, handle the recession, and admit we have a new hermit kingdom on Earth. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton I've posted a variation of this on bsky and twitter. Naturally it's the nerds here who actually know what I'm talking about, nerds. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton This is a hill I will die on: there was a turning point of the net, unnoticed by nearly everyone, that laid the ground work for the global political fuckery and rise of fascism we live with now. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton I'm looking at doing a series of interviews on what activists and politicians around the world would do to resist the decline into fascism if they were in America right now. Would you read that? Would you read the hell out of it?
