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Quinn Norton @quinn.social.circl.lu.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

@sundogplanets I'm most worried that Musk will manage to damage the ozone layer enough to have Permian style mutations, and everyone will actually starve to death while dying of cancer.

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Quinn Norton @quinn.social.circl.lu.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

@josh @cdarwin I mean the balance of power has been tilting towards an overpowered executive for decades which is horrible in itself, but now we have a whole party of glue huffing morons and it makes me apoplectic and saf.

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Quinn Norton @quinn.social.circl.lu.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

@cdarwin WTAF is putting a hold on mean? He can veto or confirm, but that's not a presidential power. FFS. I hate this era.

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Quinn Norton @quinn.social.circl.lu.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

There's been a lot of disruptions and changes around the house lately. Well, the cat is putting their paw down and going to aggressively sleep about this nonsense.

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Quinn Norton @quinn.social.circl.lu.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

Doing Trump's dirty work in Europe won't age well.

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sam henri gold @samhenrigold.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

the rapture doesn’t work if you’re indoors. so if you’re in Costco and you get raptured, then you’ll just hit the ceiling like a helium balloon

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Quinn Norton @quinn.social.circl.lu.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

@EdCates a bunch of developers are deeply AI brained. Even good ones, they've fallen for the pied Piper of the next awesome you have to use it, it's amazing, use it or you'll be living in front of a train station by spring

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Ed @edcates.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Data: - LLMs are killing the planet - LLMs are raising utility prices - LLMs are raising computer prices - LLMs give you teh dums - LLMs show negligible increases in net productivity - LLM costs are going up - LLMs run on stolen content - LLM companies keep breaking laws and saying, "Oopsie!" […]

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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Most expensive city in the world by many measures, developing world utilities

A screenshot of a SF Standard story about how there has been 40 PG&E blackouts since December

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Quinn Norton @quinn.social.circl.lu.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

intermittent failing is always the best kind of failing

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Quinn Norton @quinn.social.circl.lu.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

@medium hey, I used to write for early Medium. I noticed something that you might want to change. I wrote the story of Aaron Swartz's suicide some years ago. It's a rough read, but needful. It currently has a banner ad about halfway through the story. Probably no one is going to like that.

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Quinn Norton @quinn.social.circl.lu.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

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 · 04/10/2026

@sebhans there's a lot of rational backstops in that system, and the people who specialize in that are very dialed in.

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

@sebhans well, the nuclear weapons systems require a lot of effortful re-engineering to be connected to the net, much less AI, so that's probably a ways off or not happening. Effort isn't really what the AI people do. So that's one good thing.

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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

Roko's basilisk is never more than one incompetent backhoe driver away from being defeated for all eternity.

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

How the hell is AI going to intervene? How would it threaten humanity? Is it going to engineer a virus and send it to a few random addresses? That's already kind of happened a few times anyway. If they get rid of humans, how are they supposed to keep going? Have any AI models figured out how to […]

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

How is it going to mind control people into launching nukes? All these systems require people to do physical things in the real world, and have redundancies built in. They were designed that way *because of computers,* specifically, because of an 80s movie. Hell, mostly defense engineers have […]

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

Nuclear threats that are, if anything proliferating as treaties weaken and the international order weakens. And anyway, we are still one space rock, supervolcano, or GRB away from having a *real* problem. How the hell is AI supposed to kill us all? It generates media in a datacenter. It can […]

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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 · 30/09/2026

@VeroniqueB99 the middle name is where you can do a thing. My daughter has my grandfather's middle name, (post WW2, long story) and that middle name is Trouble. A bunch of the elders in her life just call her Trouble, and she genuinely enjoys the middle name. Doesn't entirely live up to it […]

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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

Melenchon is, at this point a pure media perpetuation, if not invention. He's little more than a post driven into the ground. You know, typical old guy at a think tank.

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

@mattblaze rude, stop attacking my plausible deniability

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