Notices by Quinn Norton (quinn@social.circl.lu)

First they came for the transgender people, and I said nothing because I was not transgender.

Then they came for the furies, and no one knows what happened after that because the net went down and no one could fix it.

@AlSweigart see I wish there'd been a trial. I think things might be better if we'd been able to have a public trial. But I think he knew that too, and that's why he shot himself.

People keep talking about AI and crypto coins as things that are popular and interesting. But Fentanyl is also popular and interesting, so y'all will need a better argument than that.

@eliseo01 @raed @lxo

welllll... the sans culotte would beg to differ 😁

I deeply appreciate the open and free and secure tools people have developed for people like me over the years. That's it, that's the post.

... well, but, sometimes their theories about it and their praxis is... exhausting.

@raed Oh bless. I'll just call it Red Hat, that should be clear to everyone.

I just re-discovered this exchange in some old writing:

“I don’t believe journalists should use the cloud.” — me

“I agree with you, but if you have, this subpoena applies to anything you have in the cloud.” — Federal prosecutor who was subpoenaing me.

Anyway, my fellow journalists or activists working under a hostile regime, it's time to think more about data movement and encryption.

Well, if the SAVE act passes, that's elections gone for a huge swath of people. There's not many institutions proving able to stand up for democracy and rule of law, and it's still the first 100 days.

The good news is that with some adjustments and yes, some time and pain, the world can simply move on from America and adjust to a new financial and trade system. It not only can be done, it has to be. So the sooner the better. Possibly even for Americans.

I've written a starter guide to protesting in America for no particular reason.

https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/04/10/when-we-take-the-streets/

IDK man, if my dream candidate got caught embezzling from the EU, I'd be really, lividly, mad at them, not at the people who caught my candidate doing crimes.

Am I the weirdo?

"Madam President, I yield the floor."

Thanks to both my partner and my annoyed cat for bearing with me, up to past 2am.

@matthew_d_green you have to wonder how many people are getting disappeared without any media attention.

They took a Golden Girl who served in WWII off the DoD website?
These people are just stupid. And nuts. Stupid nuts. https://www.jta.org/2025/03/20/politics/holocaust-remembrance-pages-removed-in-pentagons-dei-purge

Bea Arthur, vet: https://web.archive.org/web/20250208020826/https://www.defense.gov/News/Feature-Stories/Story/Article/2803048/before-stage-and-screen-bea-arthur-shined-as-a-marine/

@MAKS23 I am so, so confused by Meloni

Still thinking about Mark Klein. I only hung out with him a few times, but he was a great guy. He gave me his book and we chatted a lot. Told me a lot about his union - it was clear being a union man was a lot of what gave him the courage to take on the telco-government-NSA spying complex. We've lost the world that made him, and we're poorer for it.

Won't it be fun to bring back that bullshit. Then a whole new generation can grow up chronically ill with shitty lungs like me.

My daughter can run circles around me, and I love it.

@fluffykittycat when the trusts bust you, they bust you.

weirdly, the best movie on this is Who Framed Roger Rabbit 😂

What I grew up in: