@quinn@social.circl.lu cover
@quinn@social.circl.lu avatar

quinn

@quinn@social.circl.lu

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.

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. For a complete list of posts, browse on the original instance.

quinn , to random
@quinn@social.circl.lu avatar

Hey there, big moment for me. I'm (softly for now) launching a new publication. It's a zine about the future. Find it here: https://cassandrazine.com/
You can also follow the Cassandra mastodon account here: https://social.yoyodyne-it.eu/@CassandraZine

mattblaze , to random
@mattblaze@federate.social avatar

Since people seem to be pissed off at me today about private messages for some reason, now is as good a time as any to repost my blog on how to test Faraday containers, which also, inexplicably, seems to infuriate a small set of people.

https://www.mattblaze.org/blog/faraday/

quinn ,
@quinn@social.circl.lu avatar

@mattblaze At least the crazy locksmiths bring whiskey, ime. next time we're in the same town i'll buy a round and toast the wonders of social media 😂

quinn ,
@quinn@social.circl.lu avatar

@mattblaze i don't have many locksmiths, but the ones i have are suuuper sweet. 😬

quinn ,
@quinn@social.circl.lu avatar

@dymaxion @mattblaze ...i might not really know the difference.

quinn , to random
@quinn@social.circl.lu avatar

We've reached the point in EU bureaucracy where we need a stamp

The deeper in you go the further back in time it is 😂

quinn OP ,
@quinn@social.circl.lu avatar

@dymaxion made for us.

rafi0t , to random
@rafi0t@social.yoyodyne-it.eu avatar

In case you wonder where EU projects money goes into, assume it is administrative overhead. And storage capacity is mainly copies of the same documents they asked over and over again.

With stamps.

It is definitely unrelated to anything I'm doing right now.

quinn ,
@quinn@social.circl.lu avatar

@rafi0t @whvholst Brazil was a documentary.

quinn ,
@quinn@social.circl.lu avatar

@dymaxion @rafi0t @whvholst I don't think he did though, that's why he vanished in a vortex of paperwork. he was always a dream.

quinn , to random
@quinn@social.circl.lu avatar

Man this is the most wine I've had since Kissenger died.

quinn , to random
@quinn@social.circl.lu avatar

looking at british politics you get the feeling that brits aren't really enfranchised before the age of 45 or 50

quinn OP ,
@quinn@social.circl.lu avatar

@dymaxion true

quinn , to random
@quinn@social.circl.lu avatar

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:

quinn , to random
@quinn@social.circl.lu avatar

I really am thinking these days that the best historical parallel for our current moment is the 16th century in Europe, and boy, it that a rough place to be.

dymaxion , to random
@dymaxion@infosec.exchange avatar

I'm incredibly happy to see that Nabiha Syed has taken over as director of the Mozilla Foundation. I think this is the first real ray of hope I've had for the future of the open web in... Idk, like a decade? We worked together while she was at BuzzFeed, and it's been a genuine delight to stay in touch since. I look forward to seeing where she takes Mozilla, and to a future with much less bullshit in it.

quinn ,
@quinn@social.circl.lu avatar

@dymaxion oh Nabiha! Say hi and congrats for me next time you talk.

quinn , to random
@quinn@social.circl.lu avatar

Doing things productively is really difficult when it feels like i wake up every other day with a new medical emergency.

quinn OP ,
@quinn@social.circl.lu avatar

Make that every day, today was dizzyness, and nausea/vomiting that hit if I tried to lay down. I'm holding some food down but my limbs feel like paper maché.

quinn OP ,
@quinn@social.circl.lu avatar

Today in medical nightmares my doctor told me to eat meat. Because of my anemia. In the esprit de l'escalier, I didn't manage to tell her that it was probably having periods with 2x, 3x, sometimes even 4x the normal menstrual blood loss rather than vegetarianism.

quinn OP ,
@quinn@social.circl.lu avatar

She also gravely told me if this next treatment doesn't work (the last one took most of a week out of my life) that I'll have to go to the hospital for a transfusion. "Please can we just do that," I said. Because it would solve my problem and put me on the road to recovery. But no. Now we're doing another iron treatment I might tolerate but I don't see exactly why this one won't make me sick. She pointedly told me it's for children.

Ok, lady. Whatever.

quinn OP ,
@quinn@social.circl.lu avatar

@dymaxion probably because i don't have a dx'd blood disease. "heavy periods" isn't normally a reason, and i get that, but at some point i just need some damn blood in my body again. (I'm actually right at the French transfusion threshhold, annoying. I wish I could say just this once to get me back on track please) But no, I need to get worse before they'll treat.

dymaxion , to random
@dymaxion@infosec.exchange avatar

Not a single performer with the balls to say something unambiguously political or disrupt the show. A complete waste of oxygen, every last one of them.

quinn ,
@quinn@social.circl.lu avatar

@dymaxion dude this is eurovision we're talking about. i mean they did pretty well for the praxis of ...eurovision

quinn ,
@quinn@social.circl.lu avatar

@dymaxion get back to me when a european has the balls to say "george bush doesn't care about black people" 😂 😂 😭 ... 😂

quinn ,
@quinn@social.circl.lu avatar

@dymaxion i would be fascinated to read the story where the european entertainment broadcasters were the key to constructing a better world 😂

quinn , to random
@quinn@social.circl.lu avatar

I really really want to dig into AI tools and incorporate them enough to really get a feel for this particular moment in history.

I just haven't been able to figure out what I could use them for.

quinn OP ,
@quinn@social.circl.lu avatar

I did try to see if I could come up with a logo for Cassandra but they were all meeeh

quinn OP ,
@quinn@social.circl.lu avatar

@dymaxion i have outsourced that to everyone's benefit, even french bureaucrats

quinn OP ,
@quinn@social.circl.lu avatar

@mikeloukides @dymaxion so far i'm not worried about bad writers going away. and for serious, i mean this in a loving way.

quinn , to random
@quinn@social.circl.lu avatar

how did americans end up with such stunted moral philosophy?

i guess maybe it's not just americans per se we just open our mouths and make complete fools of ourselves more often.

quinn OP ,
@quinn@social.circl.lu avatar

@pooserville slavery up close though. Europe did far, far more, but always at arm's length.

quinn , to random
@quinn@social.circl.lu avatar

It's kind of amazing after doing the absolute most extractive colonialism around the world, slave trading and genocides and ruination of land and societies just looted into the isles, the Brits have managed to squander everything so much in the last 70ish years that they've turned themselves into a backwards, increasingly poor nation. They've thrown the richest empire the world has ever known away to become a broke rump nation on the edge of Europe, with literal shit in the water supply.

mattblaze , to random
@mattblaze@federate.social avatar

I'm not likely to stop using Mastodon, but I'm seriously considering limiting it to photos and professional announcements. Posting personal stuff, opinions, and engaging in general discussion has become extremely unrewarding for me here.

quinn ,
@quinn@social.circl.lu avatar

@mattblaze I am sad about this in that i enjoy bantering with you and always have, both online and in person. but jesus h christ, i get the toxic social media thing, and you got to look after yourself.

quinn , to random
@quinn@social.circl.lu avatar

David Brooks just said I can't think of another war with 500 miles of underground tunnels.

I suppose that's technically true, since the North Vietnamese had 10+ times that.

video/mp4

quinn OP ,
@quinn@social.circl.lu avatar

I mean seriously what the hell are you supposed to scream at your screen at moments like this.

quinn OP ,
@quinn@social.circl.lu avatar

this whole thing is just crazy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSS_akOAGqc

"How does a mistake like the WCK mistake happen when ...WCK was working in coordination with the army..." asks a man from the country that did a Gulf of Tonkin incident so they could go try to finish what the French started.

quinn OP ,
@quinn@social.circl.lu avatar

Whatever you do kids don't mention the Vietnam war. Or Iraq. 1, or 2, or Afghanistan actually let's just stop talking

mattblaze , to random
@mattblaze@federate.social avatar

For the record: Yes, I sometime do discretionary travel by air. That's not ideal for the environment, I know that. On the other hand, I also have never owned a car, I walk or take public transit to work, and I have a solar system at home.

Imperfect people like me do what they feel they can.

quinn ,
@quinn@social.circl.lu avatar

@mattblaze There was a point where I couldn't afford a place to live in the Bay Area where my child was, but I could afford to fly around all the time and stay with different people, because that was more manageable than rent, and how I could remain part of my child's life. How badly does society have to fuck up for that to be the best option?

quinn ,
@quinn@social.circl.lu avatar

@mattblaze i lived it and i still think it sounds fake.

quinn ,
@quinn@social.circl.lu avatar

@dymaxion @mattblaze yeah, it was not a good look for you.

quinn , to random
@quinn@social.circl.lu avatar

I am genuinely confused why American insurance companies don't leverage medical tourism more. Like, "we'll cover everything if you just go to this country and get it done there" would save them heaps of cash and buy them goodwill.

whalecoiner , to random
@whalecoiner@indieweb.social avatar

Open Source is fascinating. Imagine a pastry chef who spends all day making pastries at work going home to make pastries in the evening. Imagine them wandering around giving these pastries to others for free. Imagine them finding out their free pastries are a huge part of a local company’s lunch offering. Imagine the company complaining because the chef doesn’t make enough pastries for them. Imagine the chef staying up all night making them more pasties instead of just telling them to fuck off.

quinn ,
@quinn@social.circl.lu avatar

@whalecoiner most open source is made by people paid handsomely.

quinn ,
@quinn@social.circl.lu avatar

@whalecoiner *at this point

quinn , to random
@quinn@social.circl.lu avatar

@puercomal wrote a wonderful revisit of the law I accidentally made in https://monkeynoodle.org/2024/01/20/nortons-law/ very nicely explained. The examples of Ea-Nasir and Gilgamesh are absolutely lovely.

The main thing I'd add, and I should revisit this, is that it's and expression of not too complex information theory/physics in our current data landscape: information, in all its glorious forms, requires energy, and if it doesn't get it, it is subject to entropy. If is is energized, that's usually copying.

mike , to random
@mike@thecanadian.social avatar

@mattblaze @mike This is literally how we vote in Canada: a cardboard box and a paper ballot. Granted we're only 40 million people, but no one ever feels the need to question the results.

quinn ,
@quinn@social.circl.lu avatar

@mattblaze But at some point, it will be the only answer left. 😔

I suppose I'm not really talking about ballot security anymore.

(otoh, I also don't try to teach my grandma how to suck eggs)

rbreich , to random
@rbreich@masto.ai avatar
quinn ,
@quinn@social.circl.lu avatar

@rbreich *if they manage to revive it. 😐

quinn , to random
@quinn@social.circl.lu avatar

This is my new favorite meme

quinn , to random
@quinn@social.circl.lu avatar

My fellow journalists, wtf. A dude self immolated about an ongoing conflict that's killed 10s of thousands of uninvolved people, that the ICJ has said could possibly be an ongoing genocide, and you're talking about mental health?

Imagine being like "Well the important thing to remember about Mohamed Bouazizi is that he was having a bad day"

quinn , to random
@quinn@social.circl.lu avatar

I really hate the 'it's immoral to stay on twitter' stuff. Many people have spent their lives in hostile infrastructure. That didn't start with Musk and it won't end when he's gone. Most black people in America have to pay their taxes to governments run by white supremacists, women have to pay the people who take away their rights. It sucks, but if someone's support network lives on hostile ground and yours doesn't maybe think on that before you judge.

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • •
  • random
  • test
  • worldmews
  • mews
  • All magazines
    •