Quinn Norton / is on Nostr

Writer, migrant, surprisingly nice in person. Old queer. I would rather be blocked than tone policed. More meme literate than I should be at this age. I mainly shitpost, then sometimes make you cry.

Writer: Internet, Security, Climate, Covid, Weirdness, Utopias etc
I've started a zine:: https://social.yoyodyne-it.eu/@CassandraZine
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It's usually sensitive content: B. 329 ppm

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2024-09-03 14:58:12

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they're not really correct or incorrect. they're a next word selector, there's nothing that knows in any sense we use that word. accuracy is the wrong way to think about AI. it's hallucinating, all the time, just sometimes it aligns with the outside world. it doesn't even know when it does.

2024-07-06 21:33:08

I'm pretty sure that the triathlon coaches at the Olympics are going to give their swimmers prophylactic Cipro and call it good.

2024-07-02 16:38:55

Y'all are showing up to a gun fight with nothing more than deeply held principles

2024-07-01 18:26:02

Interesting footnote on these last Scotus decisions: their titles are not longer "Justices," you have to refer to them "Supreme Masters of the Universe" now.

2024-06-30 15:53:36

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not a gift link, fyi

2024-06-16 22:06:25

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i put my own year of birth on my own page 😁

2024-06-13 10:49:22

Did Apple put AI into spell correction? It is hilariously wrong now, like, those aren't words wrong.

2024-05-27 20:38:54

Young people are waking up every day to media about war, genocides, dead children. They are unsure of being able to make a living, scared by debt, violence, addiction, homelessness. They are unsure if the burning planet will even support their lives. They are struggling for secure basic housing after having their lives upended by a pandemic...
meanwhile the NYT:
https://social.circl.lu/system/media_attachments/files/112/514/979/076/620/805/original/75cc0685beac940d.png

2024-05-16 12:19:08

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honestly if we cared we could probably nail this down fairly well, but then people might have an excuse not work while they're sick and capitalism would collapse and we'd be eating each other within a week.

2024-05-15 20:15:45

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we need more awards for staying home when sick.