David Carroll

Grossly irresponsible of the Times to have this ludicrous credulous spin as the top story the morning after a president who rules by fiat proclaims a totally specious emergency to militarize the capital - an editorial insult to our intelligence and our democracy.

We stopped expanding the House in the 1920s, decided the Supreme Court should freeze in the 1930s, added the last states in the 1950s, amended the Constitution only once in the last fifty years.

The USA and its government continued to grow, but almost all that growth came in the executive branch.

CDC was established in Atlanta because malaria was endemic to the region before the federal government solved that problem.

Every now and then you can see the consent manufactured in real time

If Senator Chuck Schumer stepped into the future and got a pair of Progressive Lenses it could be like Curtis Silwa ditching the beret.

The gun culture means we cannot reflect on the harms of extracting corporate profit from human bodies, whether health insurance or sport

The target audience for a NY Times tech article is a Boomer woman. Eventually, editors will tailor to a retired GenX subscriber and improve their style and substance.

With the obvious caveat that children are not responsible for nor necessarily agree with what their parents do, have I mentioned lately that Axios’s Mike Allen is the son of OG conspiracy theorist Gary Allen, whose 1971 blockbuster was the book that inspired Alex Jones to become the man he is today?

Meta investors, Zuckerberg reach settlement to end $8 billion trial over Facebook privacy litigation Mark Zuckerberg and current and former directors and officers of Meta Platforms agreed on Thursday to settle claims seeking $8 billion for the damage they allegedly caused the company by allowing repeated violations of Facebook users' privacy, a lawyer for the shareholders told a Delaware judge on Thursday.

Zuckerberg, Sandberg, Andressen, and Thiel evade truthtelling over Cambridge Analytica scandal with a shareholder settlement in Delaware just before defendant testimonies. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

(fwiw i used “listener” instead of “viewer” bc i think mcluhan about it and those who actively listen to audio/video are more than merely passive viewers and should be called “seers” to be verbally equivalent to “listeners”)

tbh cpb should just re-establish as a listener-and-worker owned cooperative and function fully independently from government but be wholly owned by the citizenry

old enough to remember when they said digital advertising would fund the production of news and there was no need for people to pay for it

Legally, it’s over. All major lawsuits and investigations have now officially concluded. The practices continue, unchecked, only amplifying with LLMs.

Meta just settled its $8B shareholder lawsuit in Delaware Chancery for executive misconduct during the Cambridge Analytica scandal, finally concluding the saga.

Autonomous Vehicles ironically aim to eliminate our individual autonomy to go wherever whenever however

Outstanding use of “modest proposal” take a bow

No McCain this time

Trump Organization announces mobile plan, $499 smartphone President Donald Trump and his businesses have rolled out numerous products during his political career, including watches, sneakers and Bibles.

Grift Mobile is for Trumpists who love getting ripped off
www.cnbc.com/2025/06/16/t...

During the Obama era, CIA recruited from top design programs to hire a person to adapt the PDB for the iPad. During the Trump 2.0, era Tulsi is hiring FoxNews alums to make a Truman show.

Old enough to remember when a search engine would supply a useful result.

If my posts were actually good then maybe I’d feel guilty for blocking you but since they are bad I am doing you a solid.

Grills are also for desserts! Spray ripe split summer peaches with Pam spray. Grill flesh side down until top is tender to the touch with good grill marks. Serve with vanilla ice cream drizzled with olive oil and ripped basil leaves.

Putin has earned more money selling oil and gas to the West than the West has provided in military aid to Ukraine. So there’s that.

(20th Century)
Nuclear: Let’s get in a race to blow up the world

(21st Century)
AI: Hold my beer

Like I really can’t stress enough how nothing about that attack was *easy* and *low-effort*

I’ve never seen them called out for it tho. We haven’t yet seen a most courageous interviewer strike the jugular. No admin member has yet been properly Chotinered.

That said, it pays to be skeptical of bot detection itself. Because fraudster data centers are absolutely hilariously clever.

Truth Social is built on a rogue fork of Mastodon and so I’m familiar with its back-end and moderation capabilities. There is no bot detection whatsoever.

Wouldn’t doubt that that truth social post conspiricizing on a biden robot was itself generated by an LLM bot

ICE wears masks because they are ashamed. Vought lies in TV because he is ashamed. There is shame inside these people. They should be told so to their faces. “Why are you so ashamed that you lie to us so obviously? Shouldn’t you be proud of your achievements?”