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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 01/09/2026

a simultaneous dystopia and utopia that's why it does not compute

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The word “Cambridge" appears 45 times in the $17 billion Meta child-harms settlement, notes Jason Kint. Buried inside: a $459,293,017.80 payment resolving Cambridge Analytica claims across at least 46 states and two territories.

techpolicy.press

The $459 Million Cambridge Analytica Reckoning Buried in Meta's Teen Safety Settlement

Tucked inside the landmark settlement is another settlement, writes Jason Kint.

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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 27/08/2026

Data Privacy Crisis: They added intrusive warning overlays to fix it Social Media Crisis: They’re adding intrusive warning overlays to fix it.

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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 12/08/2026

Haven’t posted in awhile. But I noticed an ad for a podcast ad blocker. This means we are officially in the next era from the previous one: the era of the adblocker blocker, preceded by the era of adblockers. Podcast adblocking was the inevitable third era after adblockblocking.

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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 06/06/2026

Disagree with “Top 1% Commenter” like it’s your job.

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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 02/06/2026

Rep Massie: until billionaires get perp walked for going to rape island there isn’t accountability yet

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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 02/06/2026

Stopped reading bogost’s ferrari AI piece dead in its tracks when he asserted teenagers don’t go anywhere exposing his stupid bias. My kids go anywhere they want on public transpo.

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

now thats an anecdote with a punch, from Gillian Tett www.ft.com/content/c0ae...

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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 25/04/2026

tbh unless AI is loading and unloading the dishwasher it can eat a bag of dicks

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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 23/04/2026

Meta is a surveillance tooling company.

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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 23/04/2026

Trump 1.0 introduced alternative facts. Trump 2.0 introduces alternative math.

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kottke.org @kottke.org · 22/04/2026

Here's the tracklist (total length about 1h 13m):

1. Introit (0:36)
2. Prophecy At 1420 MHz (5:04)
3. Hydrogen Helium Lithium Leviathan (4:44)
4. Age Of Capricorn (3:52)
5. Father And Son (3:24)
6. Somewhere Right Now In The Future (2:26)
7. Naraka (5:01)
8. Acts Of Magic (1:18)
9. Memory Death (2:37)
10. The Word Becomes Flesh (5:20)
11. Into The Magic Land (4:35)
12. Blood In The Labyrinth (4:55)
13. Deep Time (3:18)
14. All Reason Departs (6:14)
15. Arena Americanada (5:22)
16. The Process (3:01)
17. You Retreat In Time And Space (5:25)
18. I Saw Through Platonia (2:39)

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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 21/04/2026

An Election-Denier Epstein-Classer running the Fed is pure Trumpism

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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 20/04/2026

The biggest mastodon instance is getting hit with DDoS this morning, but as a fedi user, you would hardly notice. There are still plenty of posts from this instance federating around during the downtime and the feed is running fairly normal. Yes, it’s insufferable but also resilient AF.

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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 17/04/2026

The elevator pitch was “it’s like fuckedcompany dot com but for slop”

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Bluesky @bsky.app · 17/04/2026

Our team received a report of intermittent app outages at about 11:40pm PDT on April 15, 2026. They worked through the night to mitigate a sophisticated Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack, which intensified throughout the day.

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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 16/04/2026

The same reason why Bluesky is vulnerable to outages is the same reason why Bluesky provides *reach* whereas Mastodon is vulnerable to valid criticism because its architecture does not provide the same *reach* but it is invincible to network outages for that reason. It’s a paradox.

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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 16/04/2026

Every time Bluesky goes down Mastodon stays up. Just saying.

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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 16/04/2026

Pivot to pasta Pivot to porcini Pivot to penne Pivot to penne porcini

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

This is one reason why I suspect that slopulism of all types structurally tends toward being at least antisemitism-adjacent, even when the individual political elites who are pushing it are not themselves antisemitic. (Some of them might even be Jews.)

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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 14/04/2026

Deadheads know that the Cornell show was a CIA psyop

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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

B-b-b-ut I was told students aren't protesting

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

I am broken-hearted at the terrible news that my alma mater, @hampshirecollege.bsky.social, after 56 yrs, is closing. Its death is a victory for conformism, for corporatism, for higher education's dull love of hierarchy & status. It's a grievous defeat for imagination & experimentation.

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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 13/04/2026

—Pride, or vainglory —Greed, or covetousness —Lust, or inordinate or illicit sexual desire —Envy —Gluttony, which is usually understood to include drunkenness (or too much McDonalds) —Wrath, or anger —Sloth, or acedia (apathy) Anyone come to mind after reading this list?

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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 13/04/2026

MAGA is pure Idolatry and a shameless practice of the Cardinal Sins.

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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 13/04/2026

Hungarians, Put in your Subject Access Requests and do the Cambridge Analytica technique to assert the GDPR. Data Rights only work when you flex your muscle.

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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 13/04/2026

Please Enjoy Today’s Religious Slopaganda and God Bless the United States of Scamerica

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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 11/04/2026

So like CAINAIDAINs I’ll see myself out.

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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 10/04/2026

BP would like to be off the hook for oil spills too.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

The obvious answer here is that the student protest movement was broadly smeared as anti-semitic and aligned with terrorists, and a variety of institutions from government, media and the universities acted as if that smear was true, threatening, suspending, expelling and even deporting students.

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Kevin Collier @kevincollier.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

This is some of the most important reporting to come out of the war on Iran so far. And it's nice to see CBS doing it, i.e good reminder that bad leadership doesn't mean that every journalist there instantly stops doing their job.

cbsnews.com

Army survivors of deadly attack in Kuwait dispute Pentagon's account, say unit "was unprepared" to defend itself

Survivors of an Iranian attack that killed six U.S. service members have disputed the Pentagon's description of events and said their unit in Kuwait was left dangerously exposed.

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I am not one of those who believes that history repeats, but consider the following from Herodotus: the Oracle at Delphi told the fabulously wealthy King Croesus that if he invaded Persia he would "destroy a great empire." Croesus invaded and lost--the empire he destroyed was his own.

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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 07/04/2026

Finally the artemis crew didn’t have to check their outlook email for just a blink around the moon

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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 07/04/2026

The 12 year old reports that all the new age verification systems are sometimes classifying him as 13+ and sometimes not. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 06/04/2026

Typically, international students subsidize undergraduate domestic students who receive need-based tuition aid but at the graduate level, domestic and international students compete for the same merit based tuition awards. Just clarifying this nuance since this topic is making the rounds.

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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 03/04/2026

if there was a betting market where you could get paid for saying zuck is full shit and his stupid ideas are stupid i would have more money www.platformer.news/meta-oversig...

platformer.news

Exclusive: Meta has discussed ending funding to the Oversight Board

Shifting priorities and budget pressures could bring an end to the company’s experiment in independent governance, sources say

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I just don’t think you need to love war crimes to be a real man.

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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 02/04/2026

if you still have to check email when you travel in space then what’s the point?

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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 28/03/2026

didn’t hear about OnlyFarms.gov when NPR did its treatment of the golden tractor story but then the information found me on a less wholesome information channel and well yeah

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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Some may have seen that Trump and Narendra Modi had a call the other day about the war in Iran and the Strait of Hormuz. What they weren't told was that Elon Musk, the richest man in the world who holds no official government position, was on the call with them. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/u...

nytimes.com

Trump and Modi Had a Call About the Iran War. Elon Musk Joined Them.

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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 27/03/2026

the new mta app update ditched the widget :(

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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 26/03/2026

Agentic Adfraud is going to be hilarious.

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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 26/03/2026

Selling America off piece by piece for spare parts. Exactly what was forewarned.

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Ann M. Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

i'll just point out for those who say the verdict is low (multiplied by thousands of plaintiffs) - the jury found negligence. if they maintain the behavior, it won't be negligence; it'll be intent

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