Notices by Quinn Norton (quinn@social.circl.lu), page 9

@eqe lots of orwell, upton sinclair, and black reconstruction.

@janl @eqe i'll cosign this, and whole not incredibly relevant he's started a new fictional one based on mars, and it's great so far.

Can we admit yet that the institutions are failing yet, or are we just going to stick our heads in the sand and hope there's a next election?

I guess I just published this four years too soon. https://www.emptywheel.net/2020/11/03/what-comes-after-america/

@dangillmor I barely made anything like a living wage when I was reporting on occupy for wired, but they covered my travel. i could only afford to do it because i let go of having a place and put everything into storage.

now that looks like an unattainable dream.

@dangillmor but it's kind of understandable. i terribly miss and want to do reported pieces, but I simply cannot afford to -- I'd have to be independently wealthy just to cover the travel. is it better than nothing? maybe? i don't know. but it's literally all many of us can do.

@janef0421 @PenguinJunk @ErgonWolf Nuclear makes sense as part of the mix but only as part, and likely one we'd want to spin down over time. not because i'm afraid of nuclear, I actually quite like it, but because it's vastly more expensive and resource intensive than anything else.

This is a good time to read Fellow Prisoners. Maybe print it out and put it up on the fridge. https://www.guernicamag.com/john_berger_7_15_11/

@Li @dominikg @vmstan it's sardonic funny, not comedy funny.

@runoutgroover @ParadeGrotesque that's much a thing, but then also so is the human cultural desire to do things that are carbon intensive and ill thought out.

@adhocster LLMs are not magic, and they can't mind control people anywhere near as other people can. there is no real I in AI, it's a next word picker basked on stats and vector math.

@heretical_i "lifestyle" consumption is doing a helluva lift there

It's a bit early, I know, but it's probably time for the NCR.

@paninid it's going to so much easier to just poison him tho

I wonder how long Heritage and Thiel and Vance etc will let Trump live. Probably at least until inauguration.

@ortgard @ErgonWolf that's some wild retconning sir, that was a nuclear testing/waste protest, and the french did hundreds of tests right up to the ctbt.

Welp, if any of my friends want to start looking at relocating to Bordeaux, it's a lovely city and we know an immigration lawyer.

@mkj we didn't have the solar/wind/etc until recently.

@alienghic based on everyone's behavior, almost everyone in the world wants to ignore it.

@kevinrns not that we knew about climate change, that we had the knowledge and tech to solve it is pretty recent.