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

@purplepadma what if i'm a Rock & Roll Refugee

Being miserable never fixed anything.

@disappearinjon @dangillmor I just don't think there's any way to justify this being the one action USG takes on the terrible harms social media companies have done in America and the world.

@disappearinjon @dangillmor which effectively means we don't have that opportunity. The ban is not just paternalistic, it's sinister in the context of the harm American social media companies do. Tiktok isn't implicated in a single genocide, but Facebook is. It's something they knew about and let go forward. They've never faced any consequences for being genocidaires, much less the damage they've done to America as well.

@disappearinjon @dangillmor i think there's a structural sameness though; swap foreign governments for C suites and you not only have the same kind of meddling, but many similar outcomes in terms of destroying society. That's really what the tech companies are doing too, they're setting out to control what they can and destroy anything they can't. China might use some of the same techniques but nowhere near as effectively.

@disappearinjon @dangillmor (also probably worth noting that i'm not a huge believer in the Westphalian nation-state and I'm kind of amazed that people are still trying to make it work despite all the *gesticulates wildly at the 20th century* and the pile of superseding political structure we're still trying to jam into it.

@disappearinjon @dangillmor this statement implicitly assumes that the same kind of manipulation is fine if done by American companies, but those companies are actively, not theoretically, destroying the fabric of America now. Somehow that's become fine if meta does it, but dead is dead no matter who does the killing.

@dangillmor "but data and algorithmic manipulation!" Well we could just make those things illegal across the board, but that's not what anyone is after is it? Manipulation and harvesting and selling data is fine as long as American companies are doing it.

@amanda @dansinker ok. That's a weird one. If it's the temp differential a shower works just as well. But whatever helps you is fine! I have congenital insomnia.

@dymaxion @rafi0t @whvholst @th we should not say that ella, that would be silly #harumph

@rafi0t

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@rafi0t @whvholst @th MWAHAAHAHAHAHAH

@whvholst @rafi0t @th i love that raph has caught not using diacritics from his american partner, not the other way around :D

@cstross I think a lot about the Bronze Age collapse these days, but also about how the people who emerged from it were in many ways wiser and better people. not great, but better.

@whvholst @rafi0t @th they are all related to recipes, and the art that comes from suffering 😁

@philipbrewer @ku @stevendbrewer @dansinker sadly i probably have some kind of congenital sleep problem. But good tracking makes a huge difference, in that i am trying to gain minutes on average, not hours.

@ferdifz also the you should not be a dick to my people energy is def highest with judaism.

@ferdifz i mean you could go on with tons more details. and all the religions of the book have.

@futurebird no lies detected

Judaism: God has a favorite diet and it's a weird form of intermittent fasting by category.
Christianity: God has a favorite boy, be nice about him or you're fucked.
Islam: God has a favorite language and thinks you should travel more.