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[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.

[miaoski @miaoski]

I've informed #Parc55 staff. It's very important for everyone's safety.

[miaoski @miaoski]

#Cisco, appreciated your advertisement in #RSAC, but you should be responsible for recycling the lithium battery within. It can be hazardous to #sanfrancisco and #parc55.
#RSAC2026

[Antonio (Tony) I56578 SWL 🇮🇹 @i56578_swl]

Decoding UFO-11 MILSATCOM Downlink (MIL-STD-188-181)
https://t.co/s93nbw75Op

[hydrasdr.com @hydrasdr]

LoRa RF Visual Autopsy.
Coming soon hydrasdr-lora enterprise-grade framework for HydraSDR SDR.
Bare-metal C99 SIMD scanner.
Up to 1024 parallel decoders brute-forcing every SF, BW, channel, sync word...
Real-time/Recording/Replay
Open-source edition TBD
#LoRa #SDR #HydraSDR

[Kalshi Finance @Kalshi_Finance]

Meta just confirmed a 20 percent company wide headcount cut but insiders are screaming the real story is way uglier than the efficiency memo.

Direct word from multiple sources deep in the org. The announced 20 percent is only the near-term floor.

A senior manager told me it's the starter number. Top leadership is already modeling two to three times that long term.

They dug into developer activity logs after rolling out heavy AI tools across engineering. What they found floored them. Hours worked have plummeted for a huge chunk of the org. Many seniors now clocking under 10 hours of real productive time per week because the tools are handling so much grunt work so fast.

One staff engineer said leadership pulled dashboards showing commit rates holding steady or climbing while logged hours tanked. Same output. Way less human sweat. The math was brutal. If AI is letting one person do the work of three with half the time input why pay for three.

They have been quietly running knowledge extraction sprints for months. Senior engineers screens recorded 24 7. Every prompt logged. Debugging flows captured in brutal detail. Entire decision trees filmed under the banner of process documentation for continuity.

One engineer described being forced to whiteboard his whole system design playbook. Trade offs. Failure modes. Scaling hacks. All while cameras rolled. They called it knowledge transfer to support the transition.

The transition is agents and remaining skeleton crew armed with those exact recordings prompt libraries and heavy Claude+Gemini access. Replacements are already shipping changes 40 percent faster using the precise workflows they ripped from the outgoing engineers.

They are not slashing for cost alone. They are turning 15 plus years of Meta engineering DNA into structured training data. Every document your process request is not teamwork. It is feeding the beast that replaces you.

The strategic AI pivot line they are feeding the press is cover. They are replacing the entire engineering organism with agents trained on their own seniors captured minds.

CTO level playbook is already locked. Extract. Document. Automate. Repeat at two to three times scale.

If you are still at Meta and someone pings you to please record a quick walkthrough of your workflow for the team run. Do not document. Do not hand over the keys.

The knowledge extraction is complete.

If you are inside watching more engineers get gutted because AI made their 40 hour week look like 10 hours of value, DMs are wide open.

[NiKITa🇺🇦 @NiKiTa_32156]

美國情報部門消息稱，中國正在秘密測試新一代核武器。

美國情報人員認為，中國正在研發多彈頭導彈和小當量戰術核武器，以便在地區衝突中使用，特別是針對台灣局勢。

[民視新聞 FTV Taiwan NEWS @FTV_News_Taiwan]

【政治消息】

中國舉辦環台軍演，國軍後備幹部竟在群組中唱衰台灣，不但轉發影片，大讚中國戰機，還嘲諷國防特別預算，批評總統賴清德是聖誕老萊爾，群組對話曝光，綠營痛批，幫中國洗白、為虎作倀，網友也氣炸了，養了軍人軍眷一輩子，最想投共的就是這群人。

[Luv Letter @LuvLetter_moe]

听说这两天南京有 GPS 干扰, 在南京的同学可以下个谷歌的 GNSS Logger 去试试看 Jammer 检测, 大概原理就是通过时间/功率来判定是不是有干扰源

[World Uyghur Congress @UyghurCongress]

"The 2025 Taiwan Mass Recall Movement – A Test and Challenge for Democracy" https://t.co/T9ZtzoEnnD

[Congressman Zach Nunn @ZachNunn]

CCP agroterrorism threatens Iowa family farms and America’s food supply.

Our PLANT Act creates real consequences for Chinese operatives attempting to bring deadly pathogens into the U.S.

[Congressman Zach Nunn @ZachNunn]

If the CCP invades Taiwan, it would send shockwaves through our economy and put U.S. security at risk. That’s why we're working to strengthen Taiwan’s defense—so we deter China before conflict starts and protect Iowa's economy.

[Puffin @anaconda1030089]

8月1號免巴士量表上路

我跟一戶重症人家的看護滿熟了，來治療的時候會跟他聊天排解他的憂鬱

我今天跟他說8月1號台灣新法令要上路，對他可能會產生的影響

她聽完之後說「如果可以選輕鬆的工作，那當然是輕鬆的啊」

我說我跟你是朋友，而且你遲早會知道這個消息，我直接先跟你講

另一個原因是因為這戶人家經濟捉襟見肘，如果哪一天你要跟他們談判工資或換工作，請試著對他們友善一點

她說好

然後他問到我這是不是跟禮拜六的投票有關

我說是

他說，這就是姐姐（病人的女兒）他們說贏了之後的結果嗎？

我說是

看護笑的很開心

//
就說這些人不知道自己贏回了一個大海嘯

[Zhongjing Liu | 劉仲敬 @LiuZhongjing]

時間已到六月，半數以上匪軍單位的預算已經完成。
總結信息。
沒有任何軍分區召回退役軍官。
醫療和後勤招聘人員比去年降低了百分之十五。
醫療採購預算的最大部分用於中藥，藿香正氣水名列第一，說明匪軍認為未來六個月的主要危險跟過去一年相同，就是新兵中暑。
八分之七的軍供站預算減少，包括西部戰區範圍內除成都以外的所有市地縣。
軍分區的機動車輛只有百分之十更新。
縣市軍供系統的外包企業承擔了戰區團級單位的大部分採購項目，主要開支是糧油和物業管理。

結論是
按照現有的後勤和財政安排，匪軍沒有在九月以前發動全面戰爭的能力。
儘管匪軍本身的財政，以及中央系各單位的財政尚屬充裕，但地方財政，尤其是縣級財政的崩潰，已經開始對匪軍戰鬥力構成嚴重威脅。軍改推行的戰區只主管戰爭，不負責機構管理和後勤補給的體制，能夠有效地保證軍官沒有政變能力，但也導致戰區單位無法彌補地方財政枯竭造成的問題，物資服務和新兵兵源的劣質化與貿易戰以來的淪陷區民間社會並無二致。傳統兵源區出現公安局和兵源單位聯合監押壯丁入伍的現象，軍供企業裁減編外人員並將項目外包給社會豪強。
從長遠看來，匪軍的最大戰爭能力取決於三點：少數作戰單位的彈藥儲備和裝備的用戶體驗；後勤體系的補給能力；戰時體制的軍工生產能力。現狀是人為壓縮彈藥配置，用戶避免使用裝備；空運能力基本沒有，海運能力低於印度巴基斯坦，大部分後勤必須像朝鮮戰爭一樣依賴鐵路，而除了極少數重點城市以外，防空裝備低於巴基斯坦，比朝鮮戰爭時期的米格走廊可靠性差得多，而運輸路線又長得多；戰時體制迄今毫無進展，軍工生產能力不及朝鮮的百分之五。#時與勢都在大蜀民國一邊

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

I've seen relatively little coverage on this topic but geo-strategically speaking Starlink is one of the most important developments of the 21st century so far.

Basically what we're talking about is a private American firm - whose owner is now part of the U.S. government - that could single-handedly own the world's communication infrastructure, put traditional domestic telecommunications providers out of business and render terrestrial communication infrastructure obsolete.

The implications of this are staggering, and we've started to understand some of them in Ukraine: Musk is undoubtedly right when he says that Ukraine's "entire front line would collapse if [he] turned [Starlink] off", and as a result he knows he can afford to call the Polish foreign minister a "small man" and ask him to "be quiet" when he suggested Ukraine might seek other suppliers: to date, there aren't any!

Marco Rubio added that Poland should "say thank you because without Starlink, Ukraine would have lost this war long ago, and Russians would be on the border with Poland right now"... Which again is probably true (at least the part about Ukraine losing the war) and highlights both how much strategic leverage this provides the U.S., as well as how easily they threaten to use that leverage.

This is without a doubt why China, which always understands strategic implications of new developments extremely early (which I would argue is one of the primary reasons for its success), started developing its own version of Starlink since early 2020 (Starlink itself was launched in May 2019). This is when China's National Development and Reform Commission included satellite Internet in the "new infrastructure" for the first time (https://t.co/cEWvl93I0u).

China's primary goal is undoubtedly to give its own population a Starlink option so that it can maintain sovereignty over its information environment. Without its own satellite constellation, China - as all nations - would face an impossible and possibly existential choice: either accept Starlink and lose sovereignty over information flow, or reject it and fall behind technologically. Plus, it arguably wouldn't even have the option to reject it given it can't exactly stop satellites from flying over its territory or block transmissions from orbit.

And since satellites by definition orbit around the earth, China with its own satellite constellation is now in a position where it can compete outside China with Starlink, which is what this news 👇 is about.

Honestly, the world can thank China on this one because this considerably reduces the U.S.'s strategic leverage it has with Starlink: it creates competition in a domain that would have otherwise been a monopoly with all the geopolitical implications that entails. Countries can now negotiate better terms with both providers, in particular terms that better maintain their sovereignty: the leverage shifts from being with the supplier to the customer.

Still though, as a European, this is yet another domain of extreme strategic consequence where we're pretty much nowhere to be seen. There is a planned European Starlink alternative called IRIS² but it's years behind with "initial services expected to start in the 2030s" (https://t.co/45JOKe1AVn)...

As just mentioned it's great to now have competition in this domain between the U.S. and China, but it's still infinitely better to have sovereign control over your own communication infrastructure. Which is why China ensured it did just that, and which is another very painful illustration of Europe's strategic myopia and inability to execute.

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

It’s time ⁦@elonmusk⁩ makes a choice. Be a US Contractor, or Russian. Not both

Ukraine Discovers Starlink on Downed Russian Shahed Drone: Report - Newsweek https://t.co/FYXIRWy9Kz

[風暴士兵 🪐🪬Taiwan only @dabowagaga]

7月6日中國無錫市。

黑市貓販子發現被人跟拍後，停車在高架橋上把籠子裡的貓全部丟棄，導致逃散的貓在公路上一隻隻被汽車輾斃。

目擊者稱還有一堆貓四散在錫橙運河大橋63米兩向快車道⋯⋯

[重回天安门 @backtotiananmen]

民主，我们共同的理想。 #重回天安门 #June4 #TAM25 #蓝丝带

[武田山宗 @iamericlintw]

花蓮王要帶 20 位藍色立委，去中國四天三夜好好玩。

現在投共完全不用掩飾，直接明目張膽做給你看。

去那邊可以光明正大跟中國主子好好討論一下，該怎麼毀台亂政、該怎麼雙手奉上台灣、該怎麼好好分贓，都比在台灣這邊會被盯著來得安全。

所以我為什麼說投給藍白的人該下地獄，最底層的那種。

你們親手一票票投出來的立委，現在帶著大禮包，要去朝貢敵國中國，然後肯定會收到很多指示，配合中國再把台灣好不容易恢復一點的元氣消耗殆盡。

中國是敵國，引進中國的各樣勢力、各種服務、各種洗人口，就是會讓台灣各方面進入混亂，嚴重削減國力，最終影響到民生。

然後，花蓮王現在要帶一大團過去好好交流怎麼辦到這些事。

等到有一天，你出門坐公車，滿滿中國口音順道抹個屎在座位上。去醫院，滿滿中國口音讓掛號人數翻好幾倍，看診時間直接刷成一天。找工作，滿滿中國口音年輕力壯低薪好用的人來跟你搶，雇主會用哪邊顯而易見。

屆時再來哭哭，民進黨怎麼都不負責?

嗯，民進黨到時候應該已經被攻擊到體無完膚，連站起來都艱難，諸位台灣醉生夢死的老中青小草們、老中青藍色們，就好好享受中國的善意，好好體會中國人的感覺。

希望大家都有準備好，在社會階級要往上下剖開的時候，確保自己是站在靠近上面那端。

#花蓮王帶20把槍示忠
#朱主席大概芒刺在背
#下一任國民黨主席鹿死誰手就刺激了

[pumashen @pumashen]

今天立法院狀況懶人包：

1. 國民黨和民眾黨要強推國會擴權法案。

2. 我一開始舉手想要詢問（三分鐘），結果召委竟然想要表決「不給發言」（我們是少數，所以表決的話會輸）。亦即，讓我發言三分鐘都不願意。

3. 後來抗議成功之後，好不容易發言三分鐘，後面幾個委員接續發言，就進入「逐條審查」。

4. 何謂逐條審查？因為這次藍白提的條文太多了，而且還彼此矛盾，絕對需要一條一條討論。

5. 開始討論之後，我們針對每一條提出疑義，結果傅崐萁總召和吳宗憲召委大概看這樣下去會討論不完，但他們又很想強行通過法條，結果就不讓我們發言了是的，直接不讓我們發言。然後藍白也乾脆不發言，連提案人傅崐萁都不說明（我猜他根本不知道自己寫了什麼法案），每一條就是念過去，碾壓，而且不是表決碾壓，是連表決都不肯，直接念過去。沒有發言、沒有表決，就這樣「逐條審查」。

6. 為了阻止鬧劇，我們不斷提出散會要求。藍白就不斷用表決否決散會要求。

7. 最後，因為傅崐萁去內政委員會質詢，突然就排上台發言，讓我們一人講了四分鐘。所以我今天，從頭到尾七小時，就總共講了七分鐘的話。逐條審查結束。其他時間，就只能用吼的表達訴求。

以上。