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Quinn Norton @quinn.social.circl.lu.ap.brid.gy · 14h

For everyone whose answer to everything going on in America right now is a midterm election, do you think the problem with the Nazis was that not enough people voted?

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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 08/10/2026

Yet again, the EU surrenders to Trump. After facing pressure from the US State Department, @kajakallas.bsky.social's EU foreign service pulled out of a conference this week at the last minute – because one of the panels dared to discuss American disinfo in Europe.

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EU drops sponsorship of disinformation conference at Trump officials’ request

Lithuania and Canada were also pressured to withdraw, and days before #Disinfo2026, logos were wiped off website

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Quinn Norton @quinn.social.circl.lu.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

I'm trying to write a talk proposal for CCC but I'm just dreading everything. I'm so tired of AI nonsense.

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Quinn Norton @quinn.social.circl.lu.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

I feel like the Fates are trying to pass a message to me

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Quinn Norton @quinn.social.circl.lu.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

My Fellow Americans can be so fucking annoying sometimes

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Terence Eden @edent.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Very long shot. Do I know anyone in or near Phuket who can do me a favour? I left my wallet in a hotel earlier this year. They've just let me know they found it. Anyone over there willing to pick it up & post it back to me? Happy to pay, of course.

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Quinn Norton @quinn.social.circl.lu.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

America needs a revolution but Americans are way too lazy and smug* to bother *Except for the poor who are invited to just die in the streets.

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Quinn Norton @quinn.social.circl.lu.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

I'm starting to think the world is steadily reducing to the AI brained people and the horrified people.

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Quinn Norton @quinn.social.circl.lu.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

I feel like I just live in a continuous AI nonsense headache. Bill Gates recently called AI the most dangerous thing humans have ever gone near. He said this on planet Earth in the year of our Lord 2026. It's been a year of fires, floods, famine, really endless disaster. He said this against a […]

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Quinn Norton @quinn.social.circl.lu.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Queer genx might be the cohort with the absolutely least fucks to give.

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Quinn Norton @quinn.social.circl.lu.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

RE: social.circl.lu/@quinn/117348632357… I'm starting to get dug into the next French election, and it's going to be one for the political junkies' history books. It's one of the strangest, most disjointed moments in French political history. Yes, I mean even including that. But no […]

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Quinn Norton @quinn.social.circl.lu.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

I was going through an analysis of the hugging face attack (I know, news as it breaks lol) and the thing it really most reminded me of was the mold that reproduced the Tokyo subway map. That feels like the best analogous example. At that level, it seems more interesting than anything else I've […]

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Quinn Norton @quinn.social.circl.lu.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

This is just the worst time, and I remember the 80s.

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Ika Makimaki @pezmico.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

People keep saying "If we do a wealth tax, rich people will leave the country" And I'm like "Naybe, if we get lucky. But let's try it first and see how we go." #NZPol #TaxTheSuperRich

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Quinn Norton @quinn.social.circl.lu.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

RE: ohai.social/@resuna/117274624138257… But what if your RA did so much acid/speedballs. Like sooo many, with the occasional ayahuasca come down and leval out sessions

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

1) Ellisons bet everything on Warner. After being bought off Netflix let them. 2) Larry's wealth is even more invested in stock (Oracle) than Elon's in Tesla 3) Oracle is declaring force majeure in NM. 4) Oracle's bonds are going up. 5) Larry needs more $$ to pull of Warner. Did I get that right?

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Quinn Norton @quinn.social.circl.lu.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

RE: federate.social/@mattblaze/11733614… I'm going to stick up a bank because my AI told me to. Nobody's fault, it just happens.

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

“Our software went rogue!” No. You programmed it wrong.

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josh buermann @buermann.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@buermann/113206030… Happy #StanislavPetrov Day to all those who celebrate, live it like it's your last. I guess I could observe this year's #Ramadoom by refusing to use LLMs but you'd have to make me in the first place. Like the one where the Catholic gives […]

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`Da Elf @elfin.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Flock thinks it's cameras have a legal right to privacy in public. 😂

Flock Safety has issued a legal demand seeking the removal of a public map showing the locations of approximately 300.000 of it's surveillance devices across the United States.

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Quinn Norton @quinn.social.circl.lu.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

re: the AI apocalypse ending humanity, I'd like to remind everyone that we still have backhoes and squirrels. We're going to be fine.

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Quinn Norton @quinn.social.circl.lu.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

In this history of epic self-owns, my gods Netanyahu, you absolute tool. All you had to do was not mention Mamdani. Probably ever, but definitely not near a mic, and not at the fucking UN. He's the mayor of New York, you bellend. He has nothing to do with anything in your whole world. Go back to […]

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Quinn Norton @quinn.social.circl.lu.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

So, do you have people you just quietly stopped talking to because they're AI brained? How many where you just avoid the subject because you don't want to end up in a fight?

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Quinn Norton @quinn.social.circl.lu.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

Some of y'all have never been subject to coercive power being exercised over your body and mind alike in a situation of forced confinement and it shows.

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Quinn Norton @quinn.social.circl.lu.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

Sometimes the comments make me think you read a couple paragraphs and then just hit the comments section as fast as you can, people.

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Quinn Norton @quinn.social.circl.lu.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

Foreign Policy described four current superpowers and two of them were the UK and Russia and that was obviously wrong and dumb.

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Quinn Norton @quinn.social.circl.lu.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

Looking forward to a few years after this administration dies in a fire, Israel is figuring out their reparations program under UN supervision, the US is bankrupt, and all of us will have always been on Macklemore's side.

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Quinn Norton @quinn.social.circl.lu.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

RE: social.circl.lu/@quinn/117281741040… Turns out no one cared 😂 Tempted to repost here, buuuut I don't get the vibe that this is the crowd for talking hiphop

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Quinn Norton @quinn.social.circl.lu.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

I just went to the whitest of the white social media networks and big upped macklemore for being principled RIP my mentions. Send memes. (yes I mean bsky, and I'm pretty sure it is by percentage more white than truth social, given how that man likes to collect uncle toms)

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026

Kremlev, the Russian who sponsored Don Jr's wedding, is a former member of the Night Wolves biker gang, went to China with Putin and is personally sanctioned by Ukraine for his role in abducting children. He praises Stalin on social media www.propublica.org/article/dona...

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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch

The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...

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Quinn Norton @quinn.social.circl.lu.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

Am I seriously the only person who finds the hugging face thing sus? At the perfect time to get out of a possibly disastrous IPO? While their shit and datacenters are hated? Surely they would never do anything unethical or make overblown claims

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Quinn Norton @quinn.social.circl.lu.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

People often seem to be surprised by my distaste towards AI. I am, after all, one on the net's early advocate. I was on the www mailing list in '95. I helped build the net, and then spent years advocating for it. I would have gotten deeper in if I'd found the right job, (with the right health […]

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

Project Glasswing: Claiming to have found 26 thousand real vulnerabilities but only 0.8% of them have resulted in a real fix in a real project after five months is dire. They blame it on the human independent review bottleneck, but human experts being paid for their time definitely have a […]

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Leo Ré Jorge @leorjorge.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

@futurebird Brazil has exactly what you're proposing, it's called pix and it makes Trump extremely angry because it sidelines visa and MasterCard. @Techaltar has a nice video about that and other initiatives in other places m.youtube.com/watch?v=ls-eE8FVM8E

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Quinn Norton @quinn.social.circl.lu.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

I guess these days just anyone can be a Specially designated global terrorist.

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Quinn Norton @quinn.social.circl.lu.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

RE: flipboard.com/@independent/arts-ent… Macklemore remains a real one. I am so angry and disgusted that modern hip hop has been pro genocide. Don't want to make the powerful uncomfortable! They sold their soul so cheaply.

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Quinn Norton @quinn.social.circl.lu.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

The best social media network is the one most full of cats fight me

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Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss (Apple edition) www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/…

Now, Schiller is 66 and clearly wanted to have some semblance of retirement. He can focus on philanthropy and spend more time with family. But there’s a bit more to the story, I’m told. Ternus and services chief Eddy Cue want to make even more money from the App Store and figure out ways to raise margins and squeeze additional recurring revenue from the platform. Schiller, on the other hand, seems to believe that such moves will only further irk developers and governments. While there was no internal blowup or anything like that, it’s something he wanted no part of.

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