Quinn Norton
Freelance Journalist at Freelance
Writer, migrant, burn out, cat servant. Trying to forget more about the internet than you'll ever know. b. 329 ppm FYI I can't spell.
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2 weeks ago |
emptywheel.net | Quinn Norton
The Death of the Internet and Karim Khan’s InboxThe International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor Karim Khan is not having a good year, and neither is the ICC in general. It was never an easy job, going after people who commit Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity. The ICC tries to prosecute crimes in opposition to regimes like Russia, who do things like murder whole cities and steal children so routinely it’s like doing the laundry for them.
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1 month ago |
emptywheel.net | Quinn Norton
Why you should use Signal (But maybe ditch Whatsapp?)The Secretary of Defense and Fox Host Pete Hegseth keeps using Signal to talk about war plans with people he’s not supposed to be talking with at his day job. He also gets caught, because he’s bad at security as well as his job. Hegseth uses his personal phone for Department of Defence business, including killing a lot Yemenis.
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1 month ago |
emptywheel.net | Quinn Norton
Protesting Safer in AmericaIt’s not looking good out there, and a lot of people in the coming months (and maybe years) will be taking the streets to show the government their displeasure. Protesting the Trump Administration is still legal, but there’s a lot you should know before you take your rights out for some exercise. You need a lot more than your funny sign ready before you head out for a protest. First and foremost, you need to have a plan.
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Mar 6, 2025 |
emptywheel.net | Quinn Norton
What We are Quietly Losing in All the TumultLast week the ghouls of DOGE came to gut NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) by firing all the probationary employees, because they were the easiest to fire. It was terrible, but it won’t be their last visit.
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Feb 21, 2025 |
emptywheel.net | Quinn Norton
The Other Half of the AI relationshipWhen trying to understand AI, and in particular Large Language Models, we spend a lot of time concentrating on their architectures, structures, and outputs. We look at them with a technical eye. We peer so close and attentively to AI that we lose track of the fact that we’re looking into a mirror. The source of all AI’s power and knowledge is humanity’s strange work. It’s human in form and content, and only humans use and are used by it.
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First they came for the transgender people, and I said nothing because I was not transgender. Then they came for the furries, and no one knows what happened after that because the net went down and no one could fix it.
RT @matthew_d_green: Micah Lee is spending his weekend poking through the TeleMessage Signal app source code. So far it looks like they use…
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#GVPodcast: Olek Shyn, Korean–Ukrainian, on the complex history of his ethnic and national identities In each episode, we invite our guests to reflect on the assumptions that lie behind the question, “But where are you really from?“ and how they respond. https://t.co/am3hjoZg0x
