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

I would prefer to live in less interesting times.

What We Talk About When We Talk About AI

https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/14/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-ai-part-one/

I've published the first part of an explainer on artificial intelligence I've had going in my mind for a while.

Would love to hear what you think of it, and if you like it, share it!

Without Sullivan, corruption would have ran unchecked in America. Without Sullivan, I wouldn't have had a career. Without Sullivan, a lot of people would have died from the accidents of unchecked corruption. Sullivan is the keystone of press freedom in opposition to corruption.

Corruption is the opposite of infrastructure. Sullivan keeps bridges up, roads whole, food safe, and medicine clean.

Where are we? Why are we just letting it all happen?

Remember the Muslim ban? The airports filled with people. The marches in New York and DC, and yeah, the pussy hats.

Now it's just crickets. We're quiet, now, waiting for the dems to save us, or just waiting for the ax to fall.

The scariest part of all of this chaos in the American government is the lack of protests in the streets.

Folks, my folks, are just leaning so hard into misinformation right now, and it's toxic and dangerous. People who are against this neo-fash takeover, people who feel disempowered -- I get the emotions and why feeling helpless leads to bad info hygiene, but it's more important than ever to stay solid with reality and facts.

Don't spread it if you can't check it, or you don't know it for sure.

@CompositeFellow @aral these muppets didn't invent merkle trees, and merkle trees aren't that useful. they do impress CS students though.

@tillybridges if it was the only pin I'd feel deceptive and insincere. If it was part of a bunch of buttons and it was clear i was supportive and not trying to pretend im not cis, that would be great.

@jbaggs @tillybridges i could see it being taken as highly disrespectful or dishonest to a lot of people. I wouldn't want to be even perceived as a disrespectful imitation.

I often reach for some way to say I don't care about your identity, but in the right way. Like, the come as you are way. Whatever it is, we can work with it.

@marnanel ❤️ wonderful

@FishNamedDog but there's also an ongoing genocide in Sudan that doesn't get much coverage.

@FishNamedDog There's also the continuous repression of women, people of color, queer folk around the world, there's climate change of which everyone here is basically a guilty parter, there's extremism, racism, lack of educational opportunities, colonialism, the effects of colonialism, global banking, wealth inequality, destruction of habitats, oil extraction, the CFA Franc, corruption so much damn corruption, corporate greed, man's inhumanity to man, rewriting of historical harms, deforestati

@feorlen well, they've put in a lot of work in the last years, it's a much more polished product, but I don't know if it would work for you. I don't use it on mobile. It works broadly like Youtube, but ofc doesn't have Google resources.

@nonlinear give me your email address and i'll drop you a pass. I really like these guys.

Also an incredible and inspiring story of building something profitable on the internet without taking VC, ergo it has a future and some independence.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Alqt6RCEWdM

Is there anyone here who wants a Nebula guest pass? It's smol edu/commentary/non fash youtube without ads or pushed content.

Hey just your periodic reminder that there's a hugr genocide going on in Sudan but we aren't paying attention because it's all black people.

@kingkaufman i think there's a deeper thread of stupidity, which i alluded to in my reply to him on twitter: "This ain't going to save you, dude."