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 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 I'm endlessly confused by the wave of legislation to ban children from accessing social media, rather than banning social media companies from harming children. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton I just need to say this every so often to keep myself sane: IT'S NOT THE FUCKING DEPARTMENT OF WAR IT'S THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE CHANGING THE NAME TAKES AN ACT OF CONGRESS npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton And then these mofos are going to blame the electorate because they should be able to win while phoning it in and buying their second beach house. It sucks. The Dems suck. They suck so much that we have Trump the raving lunatic and we all know how that happened. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton "Vote Blue no matter who" npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton Who doesn't love Democrats? They don't fail democracy, democracy fails them. Losing elections to idiots, dementia patients, or idiot dementia patients (yes I have specific people in mind) and still it's "don't blame me I voted democrat" npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton My fellow journalists, I need you to stop talking about the Turing Test; it was never a good metric. Turing was a computer scientist, not a psychologist. ELIZA passed it, and also was a decent Person-centered therapy bot. Some people actually used it that way, even knowing it was a bot. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton RE: https://mastodon.social/@jplebreton/116355757033992032 npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton I literally have no idea what that is. 🤷 npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton there's a lot of good people saying important things on Twitter still, too. People I respect and people I care about. Network effects are crucial. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton not many of my non geeky friends are here, and none of the communities I am trying to reach out to 😔 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'm worried that the younglings have never seen it and want to correct the error immediately npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton RE: https://social.yoyodyne-it.eu/@rafi0t/116341293183911034 npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton RE: https://mastodon.social/@zackwhittaker/116323734408381625 npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton RE: https://mastodon.social/@freakonometrics/116253899766465545 npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton All npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton Hey guys I wrote this short story twelve years ago, but oops it came true. It's a dark look at the AI lifestyle, and it hits so many notes. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton So ways in which masto is my favorite... npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton the wire is so good! But precious few Europeans can follow a bmore accent 😂 npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton The rest of world never sees the poor and desperate America, they mostly stay in the decently rich bits of New York or California, and have no idea what a "food desert" is. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton Europeans don't, maybe sometimes can't, understand the absolute crushing pressure and gaslighting that most Americans are put through to make us the way we are. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/116224961260367484 npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton Hey guys, I actually wrote some science fiction. It's a capstone to my AI series at Emptywheel, but it takes place in 30 years. IT COUNTS. I'm also not actually anti AI in it. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton RE: https://flipboard.com/@aljazeera/middle-east-news-oapkqap7z/-/a-kRUVgfJURbW4b9zw7Xxp3Q%3Aa%3A3199698-%2F0 npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton If the whole of Europe isn't in a civilizational mad dash for renewables within months I don't know what to tell you. It's going to get real rough and even more expensive to function. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton I tried doing alt-text for a while, but I just ended up not posting at all. I don't understand why screen readers can't recognize and OCR text in the year of our lord 2026. I used OCR so much back in the day. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton RE: https://mastodon.social/@effinbirds/116143219894094373 npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton But also sometimes when you're US centric it has its moments/posters npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton Checked in over at bsky npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton on the down low, it could also be a miner affair, you dig? npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton So it looks like Trump raped a child. Will he suffer any reduction in support from his base for it? npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton Here's a fun thought: You know how you work in.. *that field* You know what I mean. With all the management crises and no one really know how it's all held together, but we keep duct taping it all so that it doesn't fall over. We all know it can't go on like this forever, and when someone asks "Who are the adults in the room" you just laugh and go back to managing your stress with questionable habits. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton RE: https://infosec.exchange/@metacurity/116104393407032622 npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton The PTSD clinic I work with in Bordeaux keeps a posted list of human rights lawyers on the wall. It's hard to explain how comfortable and validating that is. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton It took a year and getting through several medical emergencies (the kind that drag on) to get here, but I got here. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton ...and they're right! until maybe the day they aren't. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton and honestly, they're blending way too much these days. I spend a lot of time thinking about how to avoid the former, and have been at the mercy of the latter. My intuition is that when they finally collide is where we get into 1984 territory, probably without realizing we're there at all. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton everyone is scared and powerless right now, i fear they will only increase for a while. And worse, there's a grain of truth to it, making it all the harder to handle. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton I've spent my whole life seeking reliable expertise and asking, humbly, for time and specialized knowledge from the people who are the experts. This really is the shape of my career and key to who I am. I want to get things right, and I want to fix it when I don't. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton stupid. Most recently people were agreeing with each other that if he was now harassing CoY off platform as well, there's nothing bsky can do 🤷 npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton I checked and.. the discourse about catsofyore on Bluesky is exactly what you think it is. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton anytime, you can count on us. We're like the Spider-Man of Fediverse, for some weird reason there's too many of us. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton I mean, there is some. We're not talk interstellar medium empty, where Voyager 2 is now. but it says something that V2 went though a 50,000 C temperature zone, and matter was so dispersed that it was fine npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton not necessarily cook itself, there is *some* heat transfer in space, especially a busy place like and inner solar system. But modern computer components absolutely would toast themselves long before you really got much up and working. A whole datacenter? That's just absurd. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton that's easy, NOTHING IS EVER ALLOWED TO BREAK. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton Space isn't quite cold, for this purpose it's more empty. you need matter to transfer heat into a medium dense enough to allow heat to flow. Put something generating heat in a vacuum, and it will cook itself. 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 yeaaah... Substack is a bad idea. Look into Outpost or Ghost, and stop supporting literal Nazis. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/07/revealed-how-substack-makes-money-from-hosting-nazi-newsletters 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 Peter Mandelson, you scamp. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton RE: https://federate.social/@mattblaze/116013966140738150 npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton the losers are also anyone who has to deal with climate change too! npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton RE: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/116003787681227517 npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton RE: https://mstdn.social/@Nickiquote/116002845169409239 npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton So my journalistic alma mater, Wired, has been doing great coverage. Last year they put out a video on how governments spy on protestors, and everything about it is technically superb (though it has been a while and it might be out of date.) It comprehensive look at surveillance at protests, and how to evade it. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton I have been invited to forgo my work day. Sigh. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton Been deluged in Epstein news, just like everyone else. But what strikes me is how far you can get as a mediocre white man, if you truly have no morality at all. It's breathtaking how stupid they all are. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton RE: https://social.circl.lu/@quinn/115989814863816106 npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton Can someone explain to me, in simple language even a tech and politics journalist can understand, how Bellingcat isn't labor exploitation? npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton What if we were able to pay attention to more than one genocide at any given time? That would be amazing. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton Proposal to nickname AI the stupidification machines. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton I'm still a bit on edge about it, these guys find ways to ruin shit I didn't even know you could ruin. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton I may have not understood this; it's about scraping, not generating articles? It's a bit confusing. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton Does anyone remember when we were going to make an energy transition so we didn't all doom our children in a climate apocalypse, before we just forgot about climate change and just burnt our carbon budget on AI slop? npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton would love to dig into it... When this flu is done with me. 😂 npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton it feels highly avoidable though, they all tend to be on the same instances. The Nazi furries aren't exactly evenly distributed. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton I have been hearing people talk about mastodon in the past tense, and it's weirdly upsetting. It turns out that it has lost a lot of users apparently? This is by far the best social media site in terms of communication health. Not... That that is saying much in this social media environment. npub1ls4zq7un7ck7stvpf66jnuuq6n86c38fzpkkwdcn6n2jhvv0jj9sy77vtk Quinn Norton I was sick for all of CCC, which sucked. But the session that I am most sad at missing was the hack of WhiteDate. *chef's kiss* https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-the-heartbreak-machine-nazis-in-the-echo-chamber 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.
