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David Carroll

@profcarroll@federate.social

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Associate Professor and Associate Program Director at #Parsons School of Design at #TheNewSchool and subject of #TheGreatHack doc on #Netflix for suing #CambridgeAnalytica to recover my data in the UK. #DataRights

Formerly at @profcarroll@mastodon.social
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David Carroll @profcarroll@federate.social · May 03, 2026

“Prompt Engineering” is the wrong language framing. It’s really “dialectical design.”

David Carroll @profcarroll@federate.social · Apr 20, 2026

With the biggest instance down for DDoS, it’s a good occasion to remind people who you know on there that there is no real benefit or advantage to being on the big ass server.

David Carroll @profcarroll@federate.social · Apr 17, 2026

“The preparation for a new Boards of Canada record is always a tense time.” via comments
https://youtu.be/6bghDcbzfEU

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David Carroll @profcarroll@federate.social · Apr 17, 2026

Replying to @alterelefant@mastodontech.de

@alterelefant@mastodontech.de This bsky thread debating the merits seems to be concluding that it’s very expensive to decentralize bsky because running a full firehosed instance costs at least $15K per month (eg. blacksky) whereas running a masto costs a fraction of that. Until this cost comes way down, I would expect deconcentrating the AT network will be slow-going. https://bsky.app/profile/davidcarroll.org/post/3mjmftgz4js25

David Carroll @profcarroll@federate.social · Apr 16, 2026

Bluesky is completely down. Even the status page is dead. Very not decentralized. (edit: service restored after a multihour outage)

David Carroll @profcarroll@federate.social · Apr 14, 2026

Replying to @profcarroll@federate.social

It was the mini miyoo plus and its onionOS that initially turned me on to the special community-built service layers that make retrogaming accessible and fun while enabling a robust market for cheap retrogaming handhelds running Linux and Android variants. Whether themes, shaders, overlays, GPU drivers, ROM managers, game asset scrapers, etc. the infrastructure built by the community to make handheld retrogaming a complete and appealing experience is really quite amazing when you dig into it.

David Carroll @profcarroll@federate.social · Apr 14, 2026

One of my nerd hobbies is retrogaming consoles and their community-built UXs and my current study unit is a dual-boot Android/Rocknix Retroid Pocket Flip2 for Emulation Station. Trying to get GranTurismo 1 through 6 running on it (for science) but PS3 emulation is just not there yet for GT 5 and 6, despite ongoing advances in Turnip drivers for the Adreno Vulkan GPU. At least PS2 emulation has recently enabled Turnip support so upscaling is working impressively well now, even on OpenGL.

David Carroll @profcarroll@federate.social · Feb 18, 2026

New Study: Evidence shows how X’s algorithmic feed is radicalizing its users toward the Right. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10098-2

David Carroll @profcarroll@federate.social · Feb 05, 2026

I suppose it was inevitable that people would make https://jmail.world so as to dress up the #EpsteinFiles in an appropriate and approachable UX/UI.

Jmail

Jmail, logged in as jeevacation@gmail.com

You are logged into jeevacation@gmail.com, Jeffrey Epstein's email. Sourced from the November 2025 House Oversight Committee data release.

David Carroll @profcarroll@federate.social · Feb 03, 2026

The Mercer family appears in #EpsteinFiles client lists. The patriarch, Robert Mercer, is known for contributions to computer science and algorithmic trading at Renaissance Tech. His family bankrolled Citizens United, Steve Bannon, Milo, Cambridge Analytica, Trump’s first campaign, and countless other arch-conservative organizations. https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA01398965.pdf

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David Carroll @profcarroll@federate.social · Dec 26, 2025

“And the cost of credit default swaps, which protect bond investors from losses, has surged in recent months on some A.I. companies’ debt.”

Cool cool So like a dot-com boom-bust with mortgage crisis characteristics?

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/business/ai-debt-investors.html?unlocked_article_code=1._k8.F72U.e_PCBOLlyQCH&smid=nytcore-ios-share #GiftLink

David Carroll @profcarroll@federate.social · Dec 19, 2025

https://www.justice.gov/epstein

David Carroll @profcarroll@federate.social · Nov 20, 2025

Mark Zuckerberg and other executives will pay $190M to the company in a settlement with shareholders who brought suit to recover damages from the Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal that reverberated out of Trump’s first term. Ensures that he, Sandberg, Andressen, Thiel, et al shielded from deposition, trial. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/zuckerberg-meta-directors-agree-190-212626624.html

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Zuckerberg, Meta directors agree to $190 million settlement of shareholder privacy case

WILMINGTON, Delaware, (Reuters) -Mark Zuckerberg and current and former leaders of Meta Platforms agreed to pay the company $190 million to resolve shareholder allegations that they damaged Meta by ‌v

David Carroll @profcarroll@federate.social · Nov 14, 2025

That’s some free speech right there. #uspol

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David Carroll @profcarroll@federate.social · Nov 13, 2025

From: jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com]
Sent: 2/16/2017 12:21:27 AM
To: paul krassner
Subject: Re: Trump

i was pointing out that that alleged rape was reported to be at my house with donald and I raping her.

On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 7:07 PM, paul krassner ‹
wrote:
On Feb 1, 2017, at 7:39 AM, jeffrey E. ≤jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:
the allegation was not at a pedophile party, it was at my house with me.

to what wording would you suggest I change that?

#Epsteinfiles #uspol

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David Carroll @profcarroll@federate.social · Oct 08, 2024

#Milton charging toward a state that officially denies climate change.

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David Carroll @profcarroll@federate.social · Jun 10, 2023

Replying to @caseynewton@mastodon.social

@caseynewton @Noupside I’m locked out of my account for 2 weeks+ now but Twitter Support RIP especially for unchecks; good thing I started my own server.

David Carroll @profcarroll@federate.social · Feb 13, 2023

Replying to @profcarroll@federate.social

Obviously the USA needs a #GDPR, something like the #ADPPA maybe? In the meantime, #PermissionSlip by Consumer Reports has been working great for me and nuking data brokers that have scrounged up my data. Thanks to the #CCPA you don’t have to be a California resident to get results. But it’s all a bandaid to actual #DataRights for America. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/permission-slip-by-cr/id1591285074

David Carroll @profcarroll@federate.social · Feb 13, 2023

⚠️New Report: Top US Data Brokers nightmarishly sell personal data of people including “highly sensitive mental health data on Americans including data on those with depression, attention disorder, insomnia, anxiety, ADHD, and bipolar disorder as well as data on ethnicity, age, gender, zip code, religion, children in the home, marital status, net worth, credit score, date of birth, and single parent status.” #DataRights #Privacy #ADPPA https://techpolicy.sanford.duke.edu/data-brokers-and-the-sale-of-americans-mental-health-data/

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David Carroll @profcarroll@federate.social · Dec 16, 2022

Replying to @mattblaze@federate.social

@mattblaze@federate.social thank you for your ongoing support :mastodon_oops:

David Carroll @profcarroll@federate.social · Nov 18, 2022

folks who are deeply skeptical and haven’t yet experienced any joys or reassurances on the fediverse yet are experiencing a lot of painful grief right now and will struggle to adapt to this new world so we should try to be welcoming and helpful when they arrive

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David Carroll @profcarroll@federate.social · Nov 06, 2022

Unfortunately, it happens here too.
Use the tools and let your #admin help protect you.
• You can Mute, Block, Report a user from their profile page.
• You can also block their domain. If it's not one of the big servers, you should probably go ahead and use defederation as defense and shut it down.
• When you Report a user you'll be asked to choose which of the server rules were violated.
• Admins will be notified and should take action.
• Find a safe instance.

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Zuckerberg, Meta directors agree to $190 million settlement of shareholder privacy case

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