David Carroll

All Trump had to do is say Russia three times repeatedly and it bullied everyone into submission like a magic spell.

ICYMI: Why did Zuck get smacked with $25B for Cambridge Analytica? Scroll thru the jury decisions here. Meta is a proven liar. Trust the jury! www.techpolicy.press/eight-years-...

Old enough to remember when folks expressed concern that Trump works for Putin.

Sorry but adtech killed the web long before LLMs

After jury rules against Meta for deceptive practices, it has been ordered to pay $25 billion penalty in New Mexico Cambridge Analytica case. Cost of doing business but the ghosts still haunt Zuck. www.cnbc.com/2026/10/21/m...

We are just fundamentally bad at regulating tech. This was an easy one. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/02/t...

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Meta is a surveillance tooling company.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.)

Deadheads know that the Cornell show was a CIA psyop

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.

The 2020s in a nutshell.

—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?

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

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.

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

Deorbànization

So like CAINAIDAINs I’ll see myself out.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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...

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

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