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)
2015: Our adversaries use Facebook to target and harm our citizens.
2025: Our adversaries use Claude to target and harm our citizens.
2025: Our adversaries use Claude to target and harm our citizens.
Chinese gov hackers used Anthropic to fully automate recent cyberattacks against dozens of targets incl. tech firms, financial institutions, chemical facilities, and gov agencies. They tricked Claude into assisting them by breaking prompts into separate tasks and saying it was for defensive purposes
Exclusive | Chinese Hackers Used Anthropic’s AI to Automate Cyberattacks
The use of AI automation in hacks is a growing trend that gives hackers additional scale and speed
www.wsj.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:51 PM
2015: Our adversaries use Facebook to target and harm our citizens.
2025: Our adversaries use Claude to target and harm our citizens.
2025: Our adversaries use Claude to target and harm our citizens.
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NEW: In the latest in our @cdt.org series on the border search exception, we show how your devices can be searched, fully copied, stored with DHS for years, and have sensitive data harvested with powerful AI tools. All without a warrant.
cdt.org/insights/the...
cdt.org/insights/the...
The Border Search Device Database and AI: How Emerging Tech Could Supercharge the Dangers of an Outdated Warrant Exception
This is the third post in CDT’s series on the Border Search Exception. Our previous posts examine best practices for protecting private information when crossing the border and the convoluted legal la...
cdt.org
November 13, 2025 at 5:49 PM
NEW: In the latest in our @cdt.org series on the border search exception, we show how your devices can be searched, fully copied, stored with DHS for years, and have sensitive data harvested with powerful AI tools. All without a warrant.
cdt.org/insights/the...
cdt.org/insights/the...
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Authors -- you are entitled to a payment for the books of yours that Anthropic stole for its AI. It's about $1,500 per book. I just filed - you should too!
www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com?_gl=1*1ersia....
www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com?_gl=1*1ersia....
Homepage | Bartz v Anthropic Settlement Site
www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Authors -- you are entitled to a payment for the books of yours that Anthropic stole for its AI. It's about $1,500 per book. I just filed - you should too!
www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com?_gl=1*1ersia....
www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com?_gl=1*1ersia....
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If anything counts as a smoking gun, it’s this email.
“i was pointing out that that alleged rape was reported to be at my house with Donald and I raping her”
“i was pointing out that that alleged rape was reported to be at my house with Donald and I raping her”
November 13, 2025 at 5:50 AM
If anything counts as a smoking gun, it’s this email.
“i was pointing out that that alleged rape was reported to be at my house with Donald and I raping her”
“i was pointing out that that alleged rape was reported to be at my house with Donald and I raping her”
So apparently if you work for right-wing ultranationalist groups and thinktanks and you get caught fraternizing with fuentes just say you watch sports instead of the news and they let you off the hook rather than getting your keister kicked to the kurb www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
In Explaining His Gaffe, Heritage Foundation Leader Pleads Ignorance
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:27 PM
So apparently if you work for right-wing ultranationalist groups and thinktanks and you get caught fraternizing with fuentes just say you watch sports instead of the news and they let you off the hook rather than getting your keister kicked to the kurb www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
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Penultimate graf of this 2017 Thanksgiving CNN story:
“Trump spent his first full day in Florida at his Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, but the White House did not offer details on what he did during his nearly five hours at the club. “
www.cnn.com/2017/11/23/p...
“Trump spent his first full day in Florida at his Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, but the White House did not offer details on what he did during his nearly five hours at the club. “
www.cnn.com/2017/11/23/p...
November 13, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Penultimate graf of this 2017 Thanksgiving CNN story:
“Trump spent his first full day in Florida at his Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, but the White House did not offer details on what he did during his nearly five hours at the club. “
www.cnn.com/2017/11/23/p...
“Trump spent his first full day in Florida at his Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, but the White House did not offer details on what he did during his nearly five hours at the club. “
www.cnn.com/2017/11/23/p...
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we need a department of kerning
November 13, 2025 at 2:54 AM
we need a department of kerning
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Live your life in such a way that if 20K pages of your files are released and someone builds a database of them, it doesn't crash because too many people want to search it simultaneously.
November 13, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Live your life in such a way that if 20K pages of your files are released and someone builds a database of them, it doesn't crash because too many people want to search it simultaneously.
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trump spent thanksgiving 2017 with epstein LOL
fuck it keep the government open this is tremendous content
fuck it keep the government open this is tremendous content
November 13, 2025 at 1:36 AM
trump spent thanksgiving 2017 with epstein LOL
fuck it keep the government open this is tremendous content
fuck it keep the government open this is tremendous content
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People who make primary source documents easily accessible to the public are the best
Thank you @paulgp.com
Thank you @paulgp.com
For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
Epstein Document Search
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
November 13, 2025 at 2:02 AM
People who make primary source documents easily accessible to the public are the best
Thank you @paulgp.com
Thank you @paulgp.com
Compulsive projection. It works because it gives his true believers the deflection they need to cope with it.
November 13, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Compulsive projection. It works because it gives his true believers the deflection they need to cope with it.
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Reminder that Pizzagate originated from 4chan getting a hold of the John Podesta emails and believing that he and people he corresponded with were using code THAT 4CHAN USERS THEMSELVES HAD CREATED TO DISCUSS THEIR OWN CSAM CONSUMPTION.
Pizzagate: If you replace the word “hot dog” with “little boy” and “pizza party” with “child sex orgy,” you will see the lengths these elites go to cover up their crimes.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
November 13, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Reminder that Pizzagate originated from 4chan getting a hold of the John Podesta emails and believing that he and people he corresponded with were using code THAT 4CHAN USERS THEMSELVES HAD CREATED TO DISCUSS THEIR OWN CSAM CONSUMPTION.
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Jeffrey Epstein advised Steve Bannon that the lawyers representing Brett Kavanaugh in his confirmation hearing should accuse Christine Blasey Ford of being on medications that cause false memories or memory loss.
November 12, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Jeffrey Epstein advised Steve Bannon that the lawyers representing Brett Kavanaugh in his confirmation hearing should accuse Christine Blasey Ford of being on medications that cause false memories or memory loss.
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Jeffrey Epstein to Lawrence Summers (both of whom are very bad people):
“i have met some very bad people , none as bad as trump. not one decent cell in his body. so yes- dangerous”
“i have met some very bad people , none as bad as trump. not one decent cell in his body. so yes- dangerous”
November 13, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Jeffrey Epstein to Lawrence Summers (both of whom are very bad people):
“i have met some very bad people , none as bad as trump. not one decent cell in his body. so yes- dangerous”
“i have met some very bad people , none as bad as trump. not one decent cell in his body. so yes- dangerous”
Join federate.social if you want to post Johnny Cash lyrics in reference to bad WSJ articles without risk of suspension.
federate.social
Cultivating a new billionaire-proof network of networks, the FEDERATE.SOCIAL community seeks to remake new social media alternatives and return to the internet's default settings.
federate.social
November 13, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Join federate.social if you want to post Johnny Cash lyrics in reference to bad WSJ articles without risk of suspension.
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Well I can see Bluesky is handling a PR crisis in their normal competent manner
November 12, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Well I can see Bluesky is handling a PR crisis in their normal competent manner
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Bluesky says it suspended author Sarah Kendzior because she was "expressing a desire to shoot the author of an article."
But there's more to the story:
But there's more to the story:
Bluesky Is Clearly Not a Johnny Cash Fan
A user was banned for making a Johnny Cash reference. Where's the dividing line between serious threat and jokey pop culture reference?
gizmodo.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Bluesky says it suspended author Sarah Kendzior because she was "expressing a desire to shoot the author of an article."
But there's more to the story:
But there's more to the story:
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This isn’t even the stuff they’re trying to actually stop from getting out.
November 12, 2025 at 10:59 PM
This isn’t even the stuff they’re trying to actually stop from getting out.
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Pizzagate: If you replace the word “hot dog” with “little boy” and “pizza party” with “child sex orgy,” you will see the lengths these elites go to cover up their crimes.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
November 12, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Pizzagate: If you replace the word “hot dog” with “little boy” and “pizza party” with “child sex orgy,” you will see the lengths these elites go to cover up their crimes.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
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What the Epstein files show is the *solidarity* of many men-across class, race, religion, profession & party affiliation-in the global political project of keeping the boot on women's necks.
People have no problem understanding class solidarity among the rich. Why can't they see gender solidarity?
People have no problem understanding class solidarity among the rich. Why can't they see gender solidarity?
Like I dunno, maybe the reason it took a lady to break open the story of all the men protecting the dude trafficking underage girls is because the male journos were all emailing him making jokes about it?
November 12, 2025 at 9:09 PM
What the Epstein files show is the *solidarity* of many men-across class, race, religion, profession & party affiliation-in the global political project of keeping the boot on women's necks.
People have no problem understanding class solidarity among the rich. Why can't they see gender solidarity?
People have no problem understanding class solidarity among the rich. Why can't they see gender solidarity?
I guess it’s the mastodon in me but goddammit no one is doing OCR alt text on their Epstein email screenshots. Which incidentally makes them hella more legible in case you haven’t noticed.
November 13, 2025 at 12:55 AM
I guess it’s the mastodon in me but goddammit no one is doing OCR alt text on their Epstein email screenshots. Which incidentally makes them hella more legible in case you haven’t noticed.
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Also important to remember that everyone involved in the coverup -- whether formally or informally -- is part of the exact same conspiracy against the victims and against the nation.
November 12, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Also important to remember that everyone involved in the coverup -- whether formally or informally -- is part of the exact same conspiracy against the victims and against the nation.
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The Epstein story gets a something that is tearing at the heart of the electorate: elite impunity. The idea that wealthy and powerful people can do terrible things *at scale* and face no consequences for them. Whatever political party actually stops it could rule the country for a generation.
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
The Epstein story gets a something that is tearing at the heart of the electorate: elite impunity. The idea that wealthy and powerful people can do terrible things *at scale* and face no consequences for them. Whatever political party actually stops it could rule the country for a generation.
2015: Facebook is basically optimized for fake news farms
2025: Facebook is basically optimized for slopaganda farms
2025: Facebook is basically optimized for slopaganda farms
the decision to really just abandon moderation and let it rip suggests that this is what meta wants for its platform. this is the final, idealized form of the product
The most horrifying AI slop of ICE raids you can possibly imagine is wildly viral on Facebook, collectively totaling tens of millions of views from a single account. First spotted by @chadloder.bsky.social
www.404media.co/ai-generated...
www.404media.co/ai-generated...
November 13, 2025 at 12:42 AM
2015: Facebook is basically optimized for fake news farms
2025: Facebook is basically optimized for slopaganda farms
2025: Facebook is basically optimized for slopaganda farms
Bad guys brag about their crimes to each other on signal with “opsec” nowadays so there will probably never be another mega email scandal quite like the Epstein Files.
November 13, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Bad guys brag about their crimes to each other on signal with “opsec” nowadays so there will probably never be another mega email scandal quite like the Epstein Files.