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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 3m

Miller would mass exterminate 2/3rds of the country if he could. 3000 deportations per day is his workaround.

"He has the president's complete trust," said Mr. McCarthy.
"Trump's complained about everyone. Never him."
Mr. Trump may not complain about Mr. Miller, but he does occasionally poke at his obsession with immigrants — a hostility that goes far beyond Mr. Trump's. In one meeting during the 2024 campaign, Mr. Trump said that if it was up to Mr. Miller there would be only 100 million people in this country, and they would all look like Mr. Miller, according to a person with knowledge of the comment. Karoline Leavitt, Mr. Trump's spokeswoman, denied the account.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 1h

the president using the office to punish americans that didnt vote for him should really be one of the biggest scandals in americas history

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 9h

Trump is upfront in saying he will use the shutdown to punish Democrats, and here are the receipts. About $27.2 billion cut from Dem districts compared to about $0.7 billion in GOP districts.
We all complain about the media, but need this type of in-depth journalism.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trump Halts Billions in Grants for Democratic Districts During Shutdown (Gift Article)

The Trump administration has frozen or canceled nearly $28 billion primarily located in Democratic-led districts, according to an analysis by The New York Times.

www.nytimes.com

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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 9h

The game plan is to out-China China in every way:
• state capitalism
• single party rule
• surveillance/censorship
• state academia
• state propaganda
• systematic ethnic cleansing
• great wall borders

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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 9h

Wild to be living through a Red Scare of a Radical Left while Dear Leader consults the Politboro to price control commodities

Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 9h

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent getting into the price control business.

I'm old enough to remember 12 months ago when the Trump campaign (and really The Washington Post) accused Kamala Harris of promising communist price controls. www.cnbc.com/2025/10/15/t...

Trump administration will set price floors across range of industries to combat China, Bessent says

www.cnbc.com

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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 10h

Trumpflation is why we can’t have nice things.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11h

We were actually getting somewhere, too. 😞

@sbmitche.bsky.social
www.library.hbs.edu/working-know...

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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 20h

Been festering for a decade now
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 21h

Tila Tequila, ten years ago at the OG MAGA3X Trump Inauguration parties, canary meet coal mine

Two young white men give Nazi salutes with Tila Tequila at a social gathering of mostly blazered and suited young white men.

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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 21h

To the Governor’s credit, her denunciation does elucidate from whom a vile toxicity emanates, thus implying without expressly saying, an orchard’s worth of apples are rotten now, in the same category of bovine excrement.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?

HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

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Warwick Gow @warwickgow.bsky.social · 1d

When they said AI was going to take everyone's jobs, this is actually what they meant.

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 5d

“Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it’s 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis.”

Hang onto your butts. This “correction” is gonna hurt.
futurism.com/artificial-i...

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

futurism.com

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Tuffy @smtuffy.bsky.social · 1d

The pivot from “I’m building god” to “I’m building a jerkoff tool” is pretty funny

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

OpenAI to allow mature content on ChatGPT for adult verified users starting December reut.rs/3J8NTAi

OpenAI to allow mature content on ChatGPT for adult verified users starting December

OpenAI will allow mature content for ChatGPT users who verify their age on the platform starting in December, CEO Sam Altman said, after the chatbot was made restrictive for users in mental distress.

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 1d

Showing up to No Kings with a sign reading “monarchy is an affront to human dignity but, when incorporated into a liberal democratic system, may nevertheless be a useful safety valve for nationalist and/or authoritarian impulses” and then getting clobbered by a Buttigieg-supporting grandmother

Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 1d

Incidentally, I’ve been chafing a bit at the “No Kings” thing, because there are loads of monarchies that have more limits on executive power than the US does, but it has the great advantage that it makes Americans who want to oppose it sound, well, unamerican….

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 1d

one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead--

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 3d

going back in time ten years to let everyone know the Silicon Valley libertarians will be lining the streets to greet federal troops as liberators

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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 5d

‘Sloptimized’

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 5d

Our plane to Spain is in the air!

🙌🙌

Thank you so much to the countless people supporting us in every way and in particular all of the Rutgers students and faculty who have supported us every step of the way.

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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 5d

OpenSløp
Misanthrøpic
Grøken
Geminøpe

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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 5d

Even the slop machines are slop

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 5d

Every single AI data center is a toxic investment, with most of its value tied up in GPUs that will be multiple generations behind by the time these things turn on - and then die in 3-5 years.

All to build for AI demand that doesn't exist.
edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo...

Actually, wait - how long do GPUs last, exactly? Four years for training? Three years? The A100 GPU started shipping in May 2020, and the H100 (and the Hopper GPU generation) entered full production in September 2022, meaning that we’re hurtling at speed toward the time in which we’re going to start seeing a remarkable amount of chips start wearing down, which should be a concern for companies like Microsoft, who bought 150,000 Hopper GPUs in 2023 and 485,000 of them in 2024.
Alright, let me just be blunt: the entire economy of debt around GPUs is insane.
Assuming these things don’t die within five years (their warranties generally end in three), their value absolutely will, as NVIDIA has committed to releasing a new AI chip every single year, likely with significant increases to power and power efficiency. At the end of the five year period, the Special Purpose Vehicle will be the proud owner of five-year-old chips that nobody is going to want to rent at the price that Elon Musk has been paying for the last five years. Don’t believe me? Take a look at the rental prices for H100 GPUs that went from $8-an-hour in 2023 to $2-an-hour in 2024, or the Silicon Data Indexes (aggregated realtime indexes of hourly prices) that show H100 rentals at around $2.14-an-hour and A100 rentals at a dollar-an-hour, with Vast.AI offering them at as little as $0.67 an hour.
This is, by the way, a problem that faces literally every data center being built in the world, and I feel insane talking about it. It feels like nobody is talking about how impossible and ridiculous all of this is - it’s one thing that OpenAI has promised one trillion dollars to people - it’s another that large swaths of that will be spent on hardware that will, by the end of these agreements, be half-obsolete and generating less revenue than ever.
Think about it - let’s assume we live in a fantasy land where OpenAI is somehow able to pay Oracle $300 billion over 5 years. Said money is paying for access to Blackwell…

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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 6d

Article doesn’t mention how Truth Social is an unauthorized fork of Mastodon. Mastodon is notorious how it handles DMs in a non-standard way. This weird UI/UX probably confused the president which had legal implications. These articles should be inquisitive about it. newrepublic.com/post/201529/...

Trump Accidentally Posted Message That Could Destroy Entire Comey Case

It turns out Donald Trump didn’t mean to make that Truth Social post public after all.

newrepublic.com

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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 6d

The Library of Congress record for antifa dot org captured June 2020
webarchive-beta.loc.gov/playback-ser...

LIBRARY
WEB ARCHIVES
HETA
https://www.antifa.org/
antifa is not an organization
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
The United States of America will be designating
ANTIFA as a Terrorist Organization.
12:23 PM • May 31, 2020 • Twitter for iPhone
BLACK LIVES
MATTER

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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 7d

www.theverge.com/policy/79051...

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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 7d

Take it from a TV chef who doesn’t sell a line of cookware. Love my cast iron pans. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Opinion | Relax, America, There Is Life After Nonstick Pans

www.nytimes.com

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Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 7d

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Jessica Tarlov @jessicatarlov.bsky.social · 7d

Republicans will say he’s just joking. Media will say it’s just Trump. But if it was any other President, we’d taking him seriously, and we should here too.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 8d

Oscar Issac looking at some kind of electronic tablet.

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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 8d

Slop-n-Scroll

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 8d

Meta’s new A.I.-generated video app, Vibes, launched last month to overwhelmingly negative reception. The “Hard Fork” co-hosts discussed why. "It’s essentially like TikTok, but if TikTok were populated just by little animated A.I.-generated shorts." nyti.ms/4ocx2LW

A quote from Kevin Roose, co-host of "Hard Fork": "I was not surprised to see Meta announcing a version of essentially a social network with no actual people on it. I think this is the direction that they’ve been moving for several years now."

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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 8d

Mastodon might be a haven for the truly insufferable, yes, okay, but, but, but, it is actually decentralized and really quite cheap and easy to spin up your own server.

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