David Carroll
@davidcarroll.org
admin of federate.social (circa 2022)
faculty of Parsons School of Design (circa 2000)
subject of The Great Hack (Netflix, 2019)
headshot by Bryan Derballa (Wired, 2019)
banner from Cadillacs & Dinosaurs (Capcom, 1993)
faculty of Parsons School of Design (circa 2000)
subject of The Great Hack (Netflix, 2019)
headshot by Bryan Derballa (Wired, 2019)
banner from Cadillacs & Dinosaurs (Capcom, 1993)
Every trillionaire is a policy failure.
November 8, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Every trillionaire is a policy failure.
Not populism. This is depopulism.
They're going to the highest court in the land to avoid feeding children.
November 8, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Not populism. This is depopulism.
If you wanted to hide crimes from the Truth & Reconciliation Commission this is how you’d do it
DHS confirmed it has stopped automatically storing officials' text messages.
Instead, officials are supposed to take a screenshot, send that to their work email, download it onto their work computer and run a text-recognition program on it. Every time.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
Instead, officials are supposed to take a screenshot, send that to their work email, download it onto their work computer and run a text-recognition program on it. Every time.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 3:36 PM
If you wanted to hide crimes from the Truth & Reconciliation Commission this is how you’d do it
No healthcare. No food aid. No air travel. Billionaires need their handouts more.
November 7, 2025 at 3:26 PM
No healthcare. No food aid. No air travel. Billionaires need their handouts more.
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I'm sure that compliance with this cumbersome process will be high, noncompliance will be monitored and punished, and the intent is surely not to flagrantly get around federal records laws
DHS stopped automatically archiving officials’ text messages.
Now to save messages — as law requires— officials gotta…
-take a screenshot.
-send it to their work computer
-run the file through a program there
-repeat
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
Now to save messages — as law requires— officials gotta…
-take a screenshot.
-send it to their work computer
-run the file through a program there
-repeat
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 2:02 PM
I'm sure that compliance with this cumbersome process will be high, noncompliance will be monitored and punished, and the intent is surely not to flagrantly get around federal records laws
Bannon knows that if they don’t secure their single party state agenda then they are getting summarily smashed with the pendulum of power
Nuremburg trials is the moderate position
He said that the agents would throw food at them to eat. The agents threatened to withhold food for a week and to beat him up if he didn't sign deportation papers. He said he saw others refuse and get beaten/receive no food. He signed because he was afraid.
November 7, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Bannon knows that if they don’t secure their single party state agenda then they are getting summarily smashed with the pendulum of power
They should just chisel their texts into stone tablets. That would be easier.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 1:04 PM
They should just chisel their texts into stone tablets. That would be easier.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
Steve prefers being released from prison and would fine the prospect of returning unsatisfactory. It’s a shame for Steve, but he was not rehabilitated by his previous incarceration, which was prematurely abbreviated.
Steve Bannon: If we lose the midterms and we lose 2028, some in this room are going to prison, myself included.
November 7, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Steve prefers being released from prison and would fine the prospect of returning unsatisfactory. It’s a shame for Steve, but he was not rehabilitated by his previous incarceration, which was prematurely abbreviated.
but can we convince a chatbot to commit suicide? now that’s something we need
November 7, 2025 at 2:48 AM
but can we convince a chatbot to commit suicide? now that’s something we need
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I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:12 AM
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
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Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.
November 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.
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The more democratic elements of the American constitutional and economic order are actually throwing up road blocks to Trumpism. Protests and boycotts and low level courts and juries and cetera. Elite actors on the other hand are all too frequently caving. Fascinating study in who actually cares!
BREAKING: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EATS A LOSS IN 'SANDWICH GUY' CASE AS JURORS FIND DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Jury acquits D.C. 'sandwich guy' charged with chucking a sub at a federal agent
Sean Dunn faced single misdemeanor offense after federal grand jurors refused to indict him on the felony charge sought by prosecutors.
www.nbcnews.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:30 PM
The more democratic elements of the American constitutional and economic order are actually throwing up road blocks to Trumpism. Protests and boycotts and low level courts and juries and cetera. Elite actors on the other hand are all too frequently caving. Fascinating study in who actually cares!
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after reading this opinion, I’m comfortable saying that the court’s liberal justices are no longer behaving as if the court they sit on is legitimate and their dissents exist mostly to explain to future iterations of the judicial system why the court should never operate like this again
SCOTUS, on the shadow docket, just 6-3 permitted the regime to require sex-at-birth identifiers on passports.
Jackson, joined by Sotomayor and Kagan, dissents.
Fuck this illegitimate court.
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
Jackson, joined by Sotomayor and Kagan, dissents.
Fuck this illegitimate court.
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
www.supremecourt.gov
November 6, 2025 at 10:38 PM
after reading this opinion, I’m comfortable saying that the court’s liberal justices are no longer behaving as if the court they sit on is legitimate and their dissents exist mostly to explain to future iterations of the judicial system why the court should never operate like this again
I mean forcing government employees to work without pay seems super communist and refusing to go shabbat dinner on religious grounds seems super antisemitic but what do i know
November 6, 2025 at 4:53 PM
I mean forcing government employees to work without pay seems super communist and refusing to go shabbat dinner on religious grounds seems super antisemitic but what do i know
Scams undermine democracies and free enterprise by eroding general mutual trust. Meta’s business model incentivizes people to financially exploit each other.
(Reuters) - Meta internally projected late last year that it would earn about 10% of its overall annual revenue – or $16 billion – from running advertising for scams and banned goods, internal company documents show.
$META @reuters.com
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
$META @reuters.com
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
November 6, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Scams undermine democracies and free enterprise by eroding general mutual trust. Meta’s business model incentivizes people to financially exploit each other.
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TRANSITION CO-CHAIR LINA KHAN!?!?!??!
November 5, 2025 at 4:38 PM
TRANSITION CO-CHAIR LINA KHAN!?!?!??!
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A lot of people probably won't get how finely crafted this joke is and how many layers it has, applause to Jane
November 5, 2025 at 8:51 AM
A lot of people probably won't get how finely crafted this joke is and how many layers it has, applause to Jane
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Oh we actually have footage of Sliwa’s call
November 5, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Oh we actually have footage of Sliwa’s call
What’s more Left Wing:
Picking Winners in Business and Nationalizing Industry
or
Reducing the Costs of Raising a Family
Picking Winners in Business and Nationalizing Industry
or
Reducing the Costs of Raising a Family
November 5, 2025 at 1:26 PM
What’s more Left Wing:
Picking Winners in Business and Nationalizing Industry
or
Reducing the Costs of Raising a Family
Picking Winners in Business and Nationalizing Industry
or
Reducing the Costs of Raising a Family
A lot of reactionary centrists knew this was coming but still decided to be losers today.
November 5, 2025 at 1:16 PM
A lot of reactionary centrists knew this was coming but still decided to be losers today.
The president is essentially eliminating free enterprise and nationalizing industries but do tell me more about how the Democrats are now Communists by electing a rent stabilizer.
November 5, 2025 at 12:36 PM
The president is essentially eliminating free enterprise and nationalizing industries but do tell me more about how the Democrats are now Communists by electing a rent stabilizer.
Nevermind that dictator for masses centrally planning the economy picking winners and losers when he’s not doing purges
November 5, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Nevermind that dictator for masses centrally planning the economy picking winners and losers when he’s not doing purges