David Carroll
@davidcarroll.org
admin of federate.social (circa 2022)
faculty of parsons.edu (circa 2000)
subject of The Great Hack (Netflix 2019)
headshot by Bryan Derballa (Wired 2019)
header from Cadillacs & Dinosaurs (Capcom 1993)
faculty of parsons.edu (circa 2000)
subject of The Great Hack (Netflix 2019)
headshot by Bryan Derballa (Wired 2019)
header from Cadillacs & Dinosaurs (Capcom 1993)
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The US has sanctioned European researchers and policymakers studying misinformation, framing independent inquiry as a free speech violation. The Trump admin's refusal to allow regulation of platforms is US tech policy by other means—now being enforced through sanctions. Scholars must pay attention.
In a major escalation against the EU, alongside civil society representatives the Trump Administration sanctions former Commissioner Breton for work he did in official capacity ↘️ www.state.gov/releases/off...
Announcement of Actions to Combat the Global Censorship-Industrial Complex - United States Department of State
The State Department is taking decisive action against five individuals who have led organized efforts to coerce American platforms to censor, demonetize, and suppress American viewpoints they oppose....
www.state.gov
December 24, 2025 at 2:29 PM
The US has sanctioned European researchers and policymakers studying misinformation, framing independent inquiry as a free speech violation. The Trump admin's refusal to allow regulation of platforms is US tech policy by other means—now being enforced through sanctions. Scholars must pay attention.
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Declaring anti-harassment and disinformation organizations, as well as those working to stem hate speech and anti-vaccination conspiracies online, enemies of the US is basically admitting that trolling, harassment, and conspiracies are our new official ideology.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/b...
They Seek to Curb Online Hate. The U.S. Accuses Them of Censorship.
www.nytimes.com
December 24, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Declaring anti-harassment and disinformation organizations, as well as those working to stem hate speech and anti-vaccination conspiracies online, enemies of the US is basically admitting that trolling, harassment, and conspiracies are our new official ideology.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/b...
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Um, holy fuck, they appear to be trying to rename immigration judges "deportation judges"---this ad just showed up in my Facebook feed
December 24, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Um, holy fuck, they appear to be trying to rename immigration judges "deportation judges"---this ad just showed up in my Facebook feed
The Unredacted Epstein Files because PDF is an hilarious file format joshwho.net/EpsteinList/...
joshwho.net
December 24, 2025 at 12:16 AM
The Unredacted Epstein Files because PDF is an hilarious file format joshwho.net/EpsteinList/...
The SOPA/PIPA protests back in the day were pretty much about the fear of an eventual oppressive regime seizing power and weaponizing online copyright requests to censor the internet.
December 23, 2025 at 3:06 AM
The SOPA/PIPA protests back in the day were pretty much about the fear of an eventual oppressive regime seizing power and weaponizing online copyright requests to censor the internet.
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The repeal of Section 230 would lead to the kind of regime-controlled internet in which reposting the CECOT torture prison video inside the United States would be impossible
www.patreon.com/posts/146475...
www.patreon.com/posts/146475...
Leak: 60 Minutes CECOT Piece | Matthew Cortland
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December 23, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The repeal of Section 230 would lead to the kind of regime-controlled internet in which reposting the CECOT torture prison video inside the United States would be impossible
www.patreon.com/posts/146475...
www.patreon.com/posts/146475...
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
Very DPRK of us to say it’s a “leak” when someone makes a handheld video of the banned CECOT program “smuggled” over the Canadian border
December 23, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Very DPRK of us to say it’s a “leak” when someone makes a handheld video of the banned CECOT program “smuggled” over the Canadian border
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read CHIPWRECKED here www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
December 22, 2025 at 4:01 PM
read CHIPWRECKED here www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
“He has disparaged the clean energy source ever since, 14 years ago, he failed to stop an offshore wind farm visible from of one of his golf courses in Scotland.”
December 22, 2025 at 9:41 PM
“He has disparaged the clean energy source ever since, 14 years ago, he failed to stop an offshore wind farm visible from of one of his golf courses in Scotland.”
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Every news org: We want to make it very clear that the extensive documentation of Donald Trump’s intimate friendship with the world’s most notorious pedophile shows no evidence of wrongdoing.
December 20, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Every news org: We want to make it very clear that the extensive documentation of Donald Trump’s intimate friendship with the world’s most notorious pedophile shows no evidence of wrongdoing.
Wait this is the plot of a movie…oh right
“Rather than relying on an implant or a patient's own body fat to add volume to hips or augment breasts, alloClae — which can cost as much as $100,000 per procedure — uses donor fat from a cadaver as a first-of-its-kind body filler.”
Corporate types are clamoring for a new kind of plastic surgery — using dead people's fat
Corporate types are waiting weeks for — and spending big on — alloClae, which cuts out the recovery time typically associated with body enhancements.
www.businessinsider.com
December 20, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Wait this is the plot of a movie…oh right
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Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year
December 20, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year
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I honestly still can’t believe they did this
it’s just photos on a desk! it’s not even in the same league as his fucking birthday note! removing it after the fact is the biggest possible “we are covering shit up” signal they could possibly send, couldn’t look guiltier if they tried
it’s just photos on a desk! it’s not even in the same league as his fucking birthday note! removing it after the fact is the biggest possible “we are covering shit up” signal they could possibly send, couldn’t look guiltier if they tried
This photo, file 468, from the Epstein files that includes Donald Trump has apparently now been removed from the DOJ release.
AG Bondi, is this true? What else is being covered up? We need transparency for the American public.
AG Bondi, is this true? What else is being covered up? We need transparency for the American public.
December 20, 2025 at 8:49 PM
I honestly still can’t believe they did this
it’s just photos on a desk! it’s not even in the same league as his fucking birthday note! removing it after the fact is the biggest possible “we are covering shit up” signal they could possibly send, couldn’t look guiltier if they tried
it’s just photos on a desk! it’s not even in the same league as his fucking birthday note! removing it after the fact is the biggest possible “we are covering shit up” signal they could possibly send, couldn’t look guiltier if they tried
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This is potentially a massive cover-up. Where is the corporate-owned legacy media that claims it exists to expose government corruption? www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
DOJ Likely Pulled Photo of Trump from Released Epstein Files
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 20, 2025 at 7:20 PM
This is potentially a massive cover-up. Where is the corporate-owned legacy media that claims it exists to expose government corruption? www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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There is no basis to withhold these images under the clear terms of the Epstein Files Transparency Act. None.
WOW: The DOJ has DELETED an image from its release of the Epstein files that shows photos of Trump in a drawer.
Yesterday, we noted that this image — file 468 — likely slipped through the cracks while officials were attempting to hide materials pertaining to Trump.
Now, it’s gone.
Yesterday, we noted that this image — file 468 — likely slipped through the cracks while officials were attempting to hide materials pertaining to Trump.
Now, it’s gone.
December 20, 2025 at 9:04 PM
There is no basis to withhold these images under the clear terms of the Epstein Files Transparency Act. None.
The Epstein Files release is part of vast a conspiracy among printer manufacturers to get people to waste ink and toner cartridges
December 19, 2025 at 11:01 PM
The Epstein Files release is part of vast a conspiracy among printer manufacturers to get people to waste ink and toner cartridges
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The war on vaccines is a war on child mortality on the side of death, & everyone who did anything to aid and facilitate RFK Jr's rise to authority over vaccine rules has a hand in the future rise in child deaths. Widespread vaccination for a time was a pinnacle of human achievement, undone by fools
December 19, 2025 at 10:56 PM
The war on vaccines is a war on child mortality on the side of death, & everyone who did anything to aid and facilitate RFK Jr's rise to authority over vaccine rules has a hand in the future rise in child deaths. Widespread vaccination for a time was a pinnacle of human achievement, undone by fools
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Grim. ("CSAM" is Child Sexual Abuse Material).
December 19, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Grim. ("CSAM" is Child Sexual Abuse Material).
Epstein files are like the ones I remember from Cambridge Analytica, redacted af
December 19, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Epstein files are like the ones I remember from Cambridge Analytica, redacted af
Someone somewhere is building a better Epstein Library search right now
December 19, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Someone somewhere is building a better Epstein Library search right now
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"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
Did anyone seriously expect Trumpist tech regulation to be anything but a plotline that wouldn’t make it out of the writer’s room?
The supposedly dastardly Chinese algorithm that required everyone to lose their minds and set fire to the first amendment for this law also remains owned and developed by bytedance and is leased to the US consortium under this deal. So, y'know, congrats everyone, great job
December 19, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Did anyone seriously expect Trumpist tech regulation to be anything but a plotline that wouldn’t make it out of the writer’s room?
“Can’t have TikTok influenced by a foreign nation.”
“Abu Dhabi is fine tho right?”
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
“Abu Dhabi is fine tho right?”
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
December 18, 2025 at 11:40 PM
“Can’t have TikTok influenced by a foreign nation.”
“Abu Dhabi is fine tho right?”
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
“Abu Dhabi is fine tho right?”
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
NYT: The president has turned exaggeration into an art form.
Matt Walsh: The most pointless televised address in presidential history.
Matt Walsh: The most pointless televised address in presidential history.
December 18, 2025 at 11:22 PM
NYT: The president has turned exaggeration into an art form.
Matt Walsh: The most pointless televised address in presidential history.
Matt Walsh: The most pointless televised address in presidential history.