matt 👑

oh, did i win?

[celo @cel0fc]

Eu tentando tirar um cochilo no ônibus na volta pra casa:

[River Page @river_is_nice]

They’d never get away with this shit if Joan Rivers were still alive

[AntifaPuddin’Pop @Andie00471]

"Assisted living facility" - the new name for Congress.

[Degen CPA @DrewVento]

My ex would call me her passenger princess whenever she drove, but she was a bad driver so the princess I felt like was Diana

[Frankie James Grande @FrankieJGrande]

Y’all I just watched Stop that Train and it was low key better than the Odyssey.

[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.

[brandon* @brndxix]

don’t worry guys, the wealth will trickle down

[Fuck You I Quit @fuckyouiquit]

Fun fact: Mitch McConnell has voted against practically every federal paid leave bill in existence

[The Golden Age @thegoldenaged]

2000s aquariumcore

[miia @miiagarro]

ready for whatever the day brings

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

You can’t call him Sleepy Joe for years and then keep passing the fuck out every day.

[Don’t Boo…Revolt! @BreeNewsome]

The capitalists have now created an entire industry around children being shot in schools

Do we understand this?

[⚖️🪴🇺🇦🌈 @rogertansey]

You’re obviously not trying too hard.

[W.E.B. DaBoi @Tyre_94]

Y’all are not prepared for what’s coming

[troy @troyyallen]

need august to feel like this

[c @rayofvenuss]

Ik we make the “this is like watching the Mona Lisa being painted” joke a lot but bro…….. omg

[AllisonMDavey @AllisonMDavey]

Wait, what if Mitch McConnell is filming Drag Race