Gourd Clae

Prosthetics engineer, RPG Maker enthusiast, pixel artist, horror fan

Abolish ICE, Free Palestine, BLM, Queer Rights, Community Defense

Bisexual guy (he/him)

[Volcaholic 🌋 @volcaholic1]

“Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones, with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you’re the one filming it.”

[realyuriyearners @realyuriyearns]

the friend who is clearly starved for connection: i think i want to be alone forever.

[cav empty @cavempty_]

i know whoever is behind all the prophetic visions i get is mad as hell cause i ignore them entirely

[☀️ Hyde Angelus ☀️ @HydeAngelus]

Printed my pomegranates.. really happy with the color.

[𝛑 @jadethetrapper]

I don’t even enjoy dating at this point. Everyone is boring me with therapy speak. I wanna tell you that I eat calamari because it reminds me of cartilage and makes me feel like Mike Tyson.

[Scoutfrost @scoutfrost_]

idk

[Scoutfrost @scoutfrost_]

another environment concept for my very real game with a very real amount of progress
#pixelartㅤㅤㅤㅤ

[Scoutfrost @scoutfrost_]

been busy with school but I found the time for these

[potato bun @erewhonsmoothie]

One time I went out with a guy and decided I didn’t want to go on a second date with him because he talked about cold plunging and sauna too much and told me I don’t like to cold plunge because I have a weak mind and when I turned him down for a second date this is what he said

[The PokeShop @ThePokeshopBST]

Cyndaquil throwin' it dowwwnnnn

[𓊓 @social_actavis]

it’s all water under the bridge man. dark dirty water under a horrible horrible bridge

[mick @mickidiot]

Hmm I’m not sure. I’ll have to drink a million beers and get back to you

[IT Guy @T3chFalcon]

A 22-year-old student teacher in Illinois sent a private Snapchat message to her boyfriend and two roommates.

A student had walked up to her laptop and deleted her lesson plan mid-class. frustrated, she typed something like "should I shoot him" with a gun emoji. venting. four people. private group chat.

An hour later, police walked into her school and arrested her.

here's what happened in between.

Snapchat's AI scanned the private message. flagged it as a potential threat. automatically reported it to the FBI. the FBI forwarded it to local law enforcement. deputies arrived at the school within the hour.

she cooperated immediately. handed over her phone. when shown the message she said: "oh yes. okay. yeah. i'm realizing that was a bad joke. i did not mean it at all serious at all."

police determined she was not a threat. school officials determined she was not a threat. prosecutors reviewed and issued a disorderly conduct charge. she was released the next morning. she lost her student teaching placement.

This means:

Snapchat scans private messages.

Not just public posts or stories. private group chats between you and your closest contacts. automated AI. no human reviewed it first, got flagged and reported.

Snapchat AI → FBI → local police → school → arrest.

in under an hour.

Snapchat's privacy policy says it may share your information with law enforcement when it believes there is a risk of harm. the definition of "risk of harm" is determined by an algorithm.

you are not told when a message is flagged.
you are not told when a report is filed.
you find out when the police arrive.

the message was private.

it wasn't.

[COCO @TWOTIMESABITCH]

i love that our generation managed to kill the stereotype that if you have tattoos, you won’t be able to find a job.

now nobody can find a job, whether you have tattoos or not.

[anna !!! :)) 🇵🇸🌸✨🌸🇵🇸 @frogs4girls]

think of the most accomplished person you know who is younger than you. ok now compare yourself to them. feel bad. feel bad. feel bad. feel bad. feel bad

[Ciarán @androgynator]

your critique of ai cannot be entrenched in aesthetics because there will be a time when you see an ai image or hear an ai song and think "that looks/sounds good". your critique of ai must always be entrenched in the poisonous effect it has on people's brains and the planet.

[Ben See @ClimateBen]

Biodiversity is being destroyed due to the disconnection from and domination of nature and people through capitalism, colonialism, & growth-driven economies (IPBES 2024). The 1980s-2020s intensification of this minor mass extinction means major mass extinction this century looms.

[sera @seraphicxc]

Streetlights in rain look so beautiful