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Quinn Norton

@quinn.yoyodyne-it.eu
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Journalist and essayist, usually tech/poli. accidentally leftish. LLM vegan. USian in the EU. One of the early terminally online. Long time internet punching bag. Background image from Occupy Oakland. In dark times one must carry a candle.

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Quinn Norton @quinn.yoyodyne-it.eu · 5h
Honestly there's a deep moral rot in *all* of America and it doesn't get better until people who think they're good people face up to the facts of American cruelty. As far as I can tell, that won't happen, and it will only get worse. This is a country that could never even give up slavery.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 6h
France braces for day of school blockades and street protests reut.rs/4j2iCyF
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France braces for day of school blockades and street protests
France braced on Tuesday for a day of nationwide high-school blockades and trade union-led street protests in support of students demanding ​that President Emmanuel Macron's cash-strapped government tackle understaffed and dilapidated schools.
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Quinn Norton @quinn.yoyodyne-it.eu · 5h
I had no clue. Wow.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 6h
Make. Him. Cut. A. Check. emptywheel.net/2026/10/06/m...
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Make. Him. Cut. A. Check. - emptywheel
It's not enough for Trump to start paying for his propaganda ads himself. He needs to pay restitution to the taxpayers he robbed to run the ads in the first place.
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Quinn Norton @quinn.yoyodyne-it.eu · 6h
People are outraged, (on here) but still no protests, no strikes, nothing blocked, nothing forced to stop. There's been no direct resistance to Trump. Do we actually care? Care enough to act? So far, the answer seems to be no.
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Quinn Norton @quinn.yoyodyne-it.eu · 21h
Gen X, came here to say saaame. Original Napster was amazing, and literally changed the course of my life when I found music that was adjacent to things I already had. Some of them were songs from American labor and Black history. And that's been a key part of my career over 25+ years.
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Samus But a Final Girl @samusbutagirl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
file sharing was before my time, but every time i hear millennials reminisce about that era, they're always saying "yeah, it's how i got introduced to one of my favorite bands i never would've discovered otherwise, and bought their album as soon as i could afford it" streaming disincentivizes this
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Quinn Norton @quinn.yoyodyne-it.eu · 22h
Wow, this is a thread that comes with deeply mixed feelings. Glad they're doing this.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22h
pedocon theory is a theory like gravity is a theory www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/o...
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Dennis Hastert, Powerful Politician Disgraced by Child Sexual Abuse, Dies (Gift Article)
The longest-serving Republican speaker of the House admitted in 2016 to abusing teenage boys decades earlier. He was 84.
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Quinn Norton @quinn.yoyodyne-it.eu · 04/10/2026
I say controversial (but true!) things are people get mad at me, and then I get all stressed at people being mad at me, because I'm an idiot. 😂
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Quinn Norton @quinn.yoyodyne-it.eu · 03/10/2026
Unclear how much he's celebrating his achievements here
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Quinn Norton @quinn.yoyodyne-it.eu · 03/10/2026
I think the planet is fucking done with our shit
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Quinn Norton @quinn.yoyodyne-it.eu · 03/10/2026
Maan I got beat up on mastodon today, normally I come here for my beat down and ignoring.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I definitely think it possible Trump would be so shameless as to appoint Aileen Cannon. Which makes the current timing of the hearing on lawsuit to liberate the stolen documents report, November 2, of interest.
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Quinn Norton @quinn.yoyodyne-it.eu · 02/10/2026
Low effort life hacks that anyone can pick up!
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may @maysuser.name · 01/10/2026
6/10 men don't know this but it's actually really easy to not rape someone
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My teacher brother has just informed me that his primary school kids now refer to anything shit or old fashioned as "Brexit". Which has made my morning.
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Quinn Norton @quinn.yoyodyne-it.eu · 02/10/2026
Whatever the case reveals or not, she's definitely a victim of Michael Tracy. I hope she has the means or community support to hide in this most dangerous and horrible time.
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Shola Hoon @sholahoon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Give this man some well-deserved time off with his family. For all the work he does on our behalf, please subscribe to Public Notice AND:
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Quinn Norton @quinn.yoyodyne-it.eu · 01/10/2026
This is the wholesome content I need.
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Quinn Norton @quinn.yoyodyne-it.eu · 01/10/2026
Look, I am 100% anti death penalty, period, in any and all cases. But I also live in France with my french partner, who immediately said "skill issue."
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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Gosh, why wouldn't people want to visit the country that's disappearing and trafficking human beings every day
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Quinn Norton @quinn.yoyodyne-it.eu · 30/09/2026
I just live in a continuous headache derived from AI nonsense. Gates called AI the most dangerous thing humans have ever gone near. He said this against a backdrop of global warming, and even still the ever present threat of nuclear weapon armageddon.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Google and Apple immediately update their maps.
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Quinn Norton @quinn.yoyodyne-it.eu · 30/09/2026
What could possibly go wrong
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’m sorry, what? This piece was not a joint publication/ reporting job (as some are). It was @propublica’s alone and the Times followed with a summary. This is so indicative of NYT. If they don’t ignore proper credit, they just go for stolen valor.
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Quinn Norton @quinn.yoyodyne-it.eu · 29/09/2026
I really underestimated how evil my fellow Americans were for literal decades of my life.
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Quinn Norton @quinn.yoyodyne-it.eu · 29/09/2026
I look forward to a week of trying to explain this to Europeans 😂
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH. HAHAHAHAHAH. Eric Schmitt just accused Jack Smith of lying about going to an Atlanta Hawk's basketball game. Smith went to see the Iowa Hawkeyes.
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Quinn Norton @quinn.yoyodyne-it.eu · 29/09/2026
This is hilarious. But probably a smart call by Paxton.
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Quinn Norton @quinn.yoyodyne-it.eu · 29/09/2026
We really need to stop analyzing and pathologizing AI bros and the the crazy that comes out of the the Bay Area. They're assholes. Bog standard, just assholes. Selfish cunts. You never need more than two syllables to describe these people.
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Quinn Norton @quinn.yoyodyne-it.eu · 27/09/2026
Say hello to my little sleep disruptor
A tabby kitten, slightly blurry in picture as she is in real life. I'm so tired.
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Cubrilovic revealed in 2011 Facebook was tracking users when logged out. In 2014 he revealed vulnerability in the myGov portal that could lead to account takeovers
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Quinn Norton @quinn.yoyodyne-it.eu · 26/09/2026
Sorry officers it was a ghost how can you charge a ghost
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Last Will and Testament Moss @williammoss.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
American CEO: “We can’t control it!” American CEO 2: “It will destroy us all!” American CEO 3: “The apocalypse!” French CEO [hitting a Gauloise, exhaling slowly]: “C’est une issue de skill.”
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Quinn Norton @quinn.yoyodyne-it.eu · 26/09/2026
Let me say, there is absolutely no chance this will work. The French will aggressively ignore the Americans and do as they like.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026
Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.
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Quinn Norton @quinn.yoyodyne-it.eu · 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.yoyodyne-it.eu · 25/09/2026
Oh, I guess Alberta will be forgotten in favor of war and annexation of Cuba instead. Somehow I wake up every morning more tired.
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Quinn Norton @quinn.yoyodyne-it.eu · 25/09/2026
I've gotten some pushback that I'd like to address, because I'm not sure that I gave enough context for my thinking...
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JK @miniver.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I should not be this petty and mean-spirited but the collapse of society is getting to me
Nancy Mace with divorced-dad-ly tattoos on her arms
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Quinn Norton @quinn.yoyodyne-it.eu · 25/09/2026
Might update this but including the internet too.
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Quinn Norton @quinn.yoyodyne-it.eu · 25/09/2026
At some point AI will just be a normal technology and we're just use it for the things it's good at. We'll look back at all this like we look back on beanie babies, tamagotchi, the radium fad, lead cosmetics, The South Sea Bubble, witch trials, and the Black Death.
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Global Voices @globalvoices.org · 25/09/2026
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Protest in democracy · Global Voices
With this spotlight, we seek to explore the many forms of protest, the tactics states use to delegitimize and suppress them, and the complex relationship between protest and democracy. 
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Quinn Norton @quinn.yoyodyne-it.eu · 25/09/2026
The answer was yes, it's always yes.
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Quinn Norton @quinn.yoyodyne-it.eu · 25/09/2026
All Netanyahu had to do was not mention Mamdani. Ever, really, but definitely not near a mic, and not at the fucking UN.
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Quinn Norton @quinn.yoyodyne-it.eu · 25/09/2026
Would you drop a piano Roadrunner style on Alito and/or Thomas if they were walking along on the sidewalk and you were 4 floors up? And had the piano dangling?
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Quinn Norton @quinn.yoyodyne-it.eu · 25/09/2026
It's crazy to me that you can commit all the crimes, as long as your "AI did it."
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Mr. Matty J @mrmattyj.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Quinn Norton @quinn.yoyodyne-it.eu · 24/09/2026
Youch. That's gotta sting. Poor poor fascists, better luck next time.
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