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)
Slightly diminish a game
Marble Mildness
Marble Mildness
Slightly diminish a game
Entropy (Doom)
Entropy (Doom)
Slightly diminish a game
Duopoloy™
Duopoloy™
January 11, 2026 at 1:47 PM
Slightly diminish a game
Marble Mildness
Marble Mildness
Slightly diminish a band
Board of Canada
Board of Canada
Slighyly diminish a band.
Sonic Toddlers
Sonic Toddlers
Slightly diminish a band.
Ramone
Ramone
January 11, 2026 at 1:21 PM
Slightly diminish a band
Board of Canada
Board of Canada
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How about lifting sanctions on Minnesota?
January 11, 2026 at 12:29 AM
How about lifting sanctions on Minnesota?
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Today in FB ads for AI. "Perfect for students"! In addition to everything else I think we need to talk more about how this relentless messaging is shaping the way students think about writing and what this layering of tools--generators, checkers, humanizers--is doing to the way we see each other.
January 10, 2026 at 5:09 PM
Today in FB ads for AI. "Perfect for students"! In addition to everything else I think we need to talk more about how this relentless messaging is shaping the way students think about writing and what this layering of tools--generators, checkers, humanizers--is doing to the way we see each other.
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Also, by their own standards, the cops protecting the Capitol on Jan 6 should have opened fire all over.
January 10, 2026 at 11:25 PM
Also, by their own standards, the cops protecting the Capitol on Jan 6 should have opened fire all over.
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"A medic at one Tehran hospital said there were "direct shots to the heads of the young people, to their hearts as well", while a doctor said an eye hospital in the capital had gone into crisis mode"
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Iran medics describe hospitals overwhelmed with dead and injured protesters
Hundreds of people are believed to have been killed and injured by the security forces, with more than 70 bodies brought to one hospital.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 10, 2026 at 10:05 PM
"A medic at one Tehran hospital said there were "direct shots to the heads of the young people, to their hearts as well", while a doctor said an eye hospital in the capital had gone into crisis mode"
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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When I spoke to local activists here in Minneapolis, they told me there is a palpable sense that ICE agents are out for blood, that they want a fight, and you can feel it. I finally saw that myself at the Whipple Federal Building. ICE feels emboldened by the state covering for murder. Untouchable.
January 10, 2026 at 2:24 PM
When I spoke to local activists here in Minneapolis, they told me there is a palpable sense that ICE agents are out for blood, that they want a fight, and you can feel it. I finally saw that myself at the Whipple Federal Building. ICE feels emboldened by the state covering for murder. Untouchable.
Confronting an expressed preference for single party rule is still one of the unspeakables because it completely breaks bothsides ‘objectivity’ and there is no explicit editorial guidance on how to proceed otherwise.
whats missing from all the coverage is that the president is using the military to harass, brutalize and punish areas of the country that didnt vote for him
January 10, 2026 at 6:23 PM
Confronting an expressed preference for single party rule is still one of the unspeakables because it completely breaks bothsides ‘objectivity’ and there is no explicit editorial guidance on how to proceed otherwise.
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I can't describe how bad Minneapolis feels right now. My neighbors are pulling kids out of school. The public schools are offering remote learning until 2/12. We are having conversations in our alleys about how to protect ourselves. It feels like a military occupation with a blockade.
The US Department of Agriculture suspends all federal funding to Minnesota, effective immediately.
January 10, 2026 at 4:29 PM
I can't describe how bad Minneapolis feels right now. My neighbors are pulling kids out of school. The public schools are offering remote learning until 2/12. We are having conversations in our alleys about how to protect ourselves. It feels like a military occupation with a blockade.
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Taunting is not a justification for arbitrary executions. Collective guilt is contrary to the rule of the law. Resisting the state— even if unlawful and prosecutable—doesn’t justify a death sentence. Our colonial ancestors rejected that agents of the state are absolutely immune for their wrongdoing.
January 10, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Taunting is not a justification for arbitrary executions. Collective guilt is contrary to the rule of the law. Resisting the state— even if unlawful and prosecutable—doesn’t justify a death sentence. Our colonial ancestors rejected that agents of the state are absolutely immune for their wrongdoing.
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After years of hunting down and demonising T&S folks, researchers, defunding orgs, suing advertising orgs etc…. We finally see overtly that the free speech absolutism agenda was about cover for pedophilia and abuse of women.
January 10, 2026 at 1:03 PM
After years of hunting down and demonising T&S folks, researchers, defunding orgs, suing advertising orgs etc…. We finally see overtly that the free speech absolutism agenda was about cover for pedophilia and abuse of women.
The headline writing process is deeply broken over there. Rotten to the core.
“Racy”
January 10, 2026 at 3:47 PM
The headline writing process is deeply broken over there. Rotten to the core.
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Welcome to the Clicktatorship, where everything is content
ICYMI: WaPo, on why ICE always has phones in their hands: to feed the social media beast.
@drewharwell.com
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...
@drewharwell.com
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...
January 10, 2026 at 4:51 AM
Welcome to the Clicktatorship, where everything is content
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Axios - Former Trump White House adviser Steve Bannon is laying the groundwork for a 2028 presidential run. Although he isn't serious about getting elected, he wants to shape the debate and pressure Republican candidates to embrace an "America First” agenda. www.axios.com/2026/01/10/s...
Scoop: Bannon quietly making moves toward 2028 run
Publicly, however, he's calling for a third term for President Trump.
www.axios.com
January 10, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Axios - Former Trump White House adviser Steve Bannon is laying the groundwork for a 2028 presidential run. Although he isn't serious about getting elected, he wants to shape the debate and pressure Republican candidates to embrace an "America First” agenda. www.axios.com/2026/01/10/s...
Basically, I’m thinking that the US, China, and Russia are three different versions of present-day late capitalism communism hybrids where the central autocrats limit free enterprise, free expression and politics to a single party system. Trump is taking us there. That’s his goal.
January 10, 2026 at 1:19 PM
Basically, I’m thinking that the US, China, and Russia are three different versions of present-day late capitalism communism hybrids where the central autocrats limit free enterprise, free expression and politics to a single party system. Trump is taking us there. That’s his goal.
Isn’t it communism when the central authority sets prices and manages the details of factory production? Isn’t it communism when the central authority crushes public dissent with extrajudicial violence?
January 10, 2026 at 1:01 PM
Isn’t it communism when the central authority sets prices and manages the details of factory production? Isn’t it communism when the central authority crushes public dissent with extrajudicial violence?
Who decides where to drill for oil? The person who sets credit card interest rates, of course. The invisible hand of Donald Trump.
January 10, 2026 at 2:01 AM
Who decides where to drill for oil? The person who sets credit card interest rates, of course. The invisible hand of Donald Trump.
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Gamergate is as big a moment to understanding the modern right in America as 9/11 is and there are still people who think it is insane to say that.
This. Gamergate is the skeleton key to understanding just how fundamentally antisocial the right is.
I think a lot of people who weren't online and involved in dealing with channers/Gamergate etc. haven't understood until now how deeply depraved the right is
this is what they are all like. they sincerely think not just that women/minorities should face discrimination, but that we should die
this is what they are all like. they sincerely think not just that women/minorities should face discrimination, but that we should die
January 9, 2026 at 8:42 PM
Gamergate is as big a moment to understanding the modern right in America as 9/11 is and there are still people who think it is insane to say that.
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they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.
In the video that the shooter took, which I believe was leaked to be exculpatory, he appears to yell “fucking bitch” after he shoots Renee Good.
January 9, 2026 at 7:00 PM
they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.
Old enough to remember when they released Epstein Files and much of the redactions could be easily removed because they cut their govt Adobe subscriptions and then some other stuff happened
January 9, 2026 at 4:28 PM
Old enough to remember when they released Epstein Files and much of the redactions could be easily removed because they cut their govt Adobe subscriptions and then some other stuff happened
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More people are going to be murdered by ICE. It’s clear. The tactics ensure it, ICE is getting more furious and being disagreed with or resisted in any way, the verminous administration supports them and has shown they will tell any lie to support ICE murdering people.
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January 9, 2026 at 3:45 PM
More people are going to be murdered by ICE. It’s clear. The tactics ensure it, ICE is getting more furious and being disagreed with or resisted in any way, the verminous administration supports them and has shown they will tell any lie to support ICE murdering people.
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NEW: Liz Kendall, the technology secretary, says Ofcom would have the "full backing" of government if it opted to block access to X in the UK (but it's a decision for Ofcom)
January 9, 2026 at 3:39 PM
NEW: Liz Kendall, the technology secretary, says Ofcom would have the "full backing" of government if it opted to block access to X in the UK (but it's a decision for Ofcom)
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An ICE agent that didn’t vote for Trump would be news.
ICE agent Jonathan Ross, who shot and killed an unarmed civilian, flew a don't-tread-on-me Gadsden flag at his house, per the Daily Mail.
January 9, 2026 at 3:40 PM
An ICE agent that didn’t vote for Trump would be news.
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Weird to be commemorating the 250th anniversary of the Am Rev while living under a government that has a) sent armed troops to occupy cities perceived to be too rebellious, b) rendered largely irrelevant the representative branch of government, and c) claimed imperial right to rule other countries.
January 9, 2026 at 3:10 PM
Weird to be commemorating the 250th anniversary of the Am Rev while living under a government that has a) sent armed troops to occupy cities perceived to be too rebellious, b) rendered largely irrelevant the representative branch of government, and c) claimed imperial right to rule other countries.
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Leaving my house with the ‘don’t tread on me’ flag on it, putting on my mask and tactical gear, strapping on my weapon, and roaming the cities and towns that didn’t vote for my favorite candidate as an armed anonymous agent of the state kidnapping and shooting people who I don’t like the look of.
ICE agent Jonathan Ross, who shot and killed an unarmed civilian, flew a don't-tread-on-me Gadsden flag at his house, per the Daily Mail.
January 9, 2026 at 3:10 PM
Leaving my house with the ‘don’t tread on me’ flag on it, putting on my mask and tactical gear, strapping on my weapon, and roaming the cities and towns that didn’t vote for my favorite candidate as an armed anonymous agent of the state kidnapping and shooting people who I don’t like the look of.