Jesse Riddle

Founding hacker of Bitmvr Industries. Creator of the Native Productivity™ framework. Explorer of frictionless workflows.

[Jesse Riddle @jesseriddle]

The cinematography in the neo-noir Sugar has some really awesome 90s vibes. Richard Rutkowski, job well done.

[Jesse Riddle @jesseriddle]

It has been 0 days since I saw someone hold a lavalier microphone.

[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.

[Jesse Riddle @jesseriddle]

@dhh I've been using Termius and Tailscale for a while. But eventually realized I should probably just be focusing on whatever else I'm doing when "working out of pocket."

[Jesse Riddle @jesseriddle]

Starting at 11:00AM, my inbox received ~57 emails from AliExpress, Substack, xAI, Remember, etc. All are variations of my actual email address. It's a Gmail address, so they are 'dot' variations not tied to any actual accounts I may have with those entities.

They just stopped abuptly at 11:07.

[Jesse Riddle @jesseriddle]

@Pegs94349433 @MichelleMaxwell My proposed safe phrase is "Jen, get in the car."

[Jesse Riddle @jesseriddle]

Everything the government does it for revenue generation and not your safety.

[Mason @webdevMason]

How normal well-adjusted people become libertarians

[Jesse Riddle @jesseriddle]

@StephenFleming Well, Jim Matthew's, a rollercoaster engineer, was killed by the Man in Yellow. So they are short one.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The Matrix took its name from a 1984 novel written on a manual typewriter by a man who didn't own a computer. 42 years later, that novel finally gets its own screen.

William Gibson typed Neuromancer on a 1927 Hermes portable. He coined "cyberspace" before he'd ever logged onto anything. The book swept the Hugo, the Nebula, and the Philip K. Dick award in the same year, the only novel ever to take all three.

Then Hollywood spent four decades strip-mining it while calling it unfilmable. The Wachowskis lifted the matrix, the jacked-in hackers, the AI pulling strings behind a corporate veil. Every razor-girl assassin in sci-fi traces back to Molly. Johnny Mnemonic, an actual Gibson adaptation, flopped so hard in 1995 that studios treated his work as radioactive for a generation.

At least five directors attached and detached over the years. Chris Cunningham in 2000. Vincenzo Natali in 2010. Tim Miller at Fox in 2017. Each attempt died the same death. By the time the technology existed to film Neuromancer, audiences had watched its ideas in a dozen movies that borrowed them first.

The original became unfilmable because it looked like a copy of its own copies.

Now the timing loops back on itself. A story about a rogue AI maneuvering to escape its corporate constraints, written before the web existed, lands in January 2027 as the least speculative thing on television.

And one detail makes the whole arc perfect. When Neuromancer royalties came in, Gibson bought his first computer, an Apple IIc. Four decades later, Apple is the company putting his book on screen.

[Jesse Riddle @jesseriddle]

Ryan Gosling is going to be Ghost Rider..

Yea buddy, we don't care. We finally have a trailer for Neuromancer. STFU.

[Jesse Riddle @jesseriddle]

Send Kudos to whomever came up with `D` being used to switch between light and dark move on @digg , @kevinrose

[Jesse Riddle @jesseriddle]

The Black Crowes probably drink unsweetened tea over frozen ice.

[Jesse Riddle @jesseriddle]

In a way, Subway Takes is the city folks equivalent to the USA Turning Point college tours.

[David Kalmanson @4gb7xvbwqx]

I used Codex to port Command & Conquer: Red Alert to Mac and Android.

No emulation. The original engine now compiles natively to ARM64, with macOS and Android platform layers.

Codex wrote the code, built the binaries, ran them, played the game, found bugs, and fixed them. All in a /goal loop.

(Inspiration from @ammaar )

Full open source below.

[Jesse Riddle @jesseriddle]

@alexymik @peteoxenham Imagine not understanding that quality matters.

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@BurgerKing - Look, you need to get that Flame Grilled Chicken Sandwich in the Indiana market. I was an avid fan of the Tendergrill and we've not been friends since you stopped selling them.

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@SenSanders You're an idiot.

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@NC5 "Trucker"... Stop?

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@usnkn @QmoCrypto No. They actually provide a value unlike so many other companies worth billions who feed off negative energy.

[Jesse Riddle @jesseriddle]

@QmoCrypto Why would you pick Facebook when their shares are trading at $560 as of today.