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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.

[LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @LongTimeHistory]

UPDATE—Women who leaked video of abuses in ICE detention were immediately locked in solitary confinement as retaliation.

"They're threatening us... They're hitting us," women said.

"We fear for her safety... They're killing us, but we have our voice."

"Please help us!"

[Don Salmon @dijoni]

Say their name and remember them. we are also adding Nolan Wells.

[jezz @JezziiB]

Anne Frank wasn’t beat or shot to death.

She died of typhus due to unhygienic conditions in her concentration camp.

ICE isn’t just killing the people it shoots.

A detention center is just a death camp by a different name.

And they’re quietly murdering everyday.

[Dont say my name @stillnez216]

This is one of the biggest financial scams in history.

[🇺🇸 Jen 🇺🇸 @JenCommon]

Resources to track and remove mass surveillance

[King Roy @RoyIsThaTruth]

The Nolan Wells case is literally a RICO now.

Arrest everyone who participated in the lies and trying to cover it up.

The kids
The parents
The judge (and disbarred)
The medical examiner
The police chief
The boat captain

Round them all up😤

[Ole Lehmann @itsolelehmann]

btw anthropic's internal document on this literally said "we don't want it to be known that we are working on this.”

it was called project panama.

here's exactly what happened:

1: anthropic concluded that books were the cheapest way to build a world-class model because they gave claude curated facts, structured arguments, compelling stories, and writing “an editor would approve of.”

2: once anthropic decided it needed books at enormous scale, its first solution was piracy.

it downloaded 7m+ books from online libraries including libgen. the judge later wrote that although anthropic had legal ways to buy them, it chose piracy to avoid what dario amodei called the “legal/practice/business slog.”

3: that piracy created a massive legal risk.

so in february 2024, anthropic hired tom turvey, the former head of partnerships for google books, to find a legally safer way of obtaining “all the books in the world.”

4: turvey first contacted major publishers about licensing their catalogs.

those attempts didn’t produce agreements, so anthropic chose a route that required no publisher permission: buying millions of physical books through distributors and used-book retailers.

5: within about a year, anthropic spent tens of millions acquiring and scanning millions of books, including many rare and 1/1 titles. one vendor proposal targeted 500,000 to 2 million books in six months.

6: to scan that many books within months, the vendors physically dismantled them.

a hydraulic cutter removed each spine. the pages were trimmed to size, fed as loose sheets through high-speed industrial scanners, and converted into searchable PDFs. the paper remains were then sent for recycling.

7: these PDFs were fed into claude as training data.

the complete collection became a private, searchable anthropic library that the company planned to “store forever.” the scans aren’t available to the public and were never open-sourced.

[DeFlock @therealDeFlock]

Yes.

We are tracking Axon, too.

They always try to push it after Flock, because they are not listening to your concerns.

They are just hoping you will move on.

So remember after #Flock, prepare to #AxonAxoff

#DeFlock #Surveillance #fyp

[theleahfiles @leahfiles]

They tell you Flock cameras are there to fight crime.

So I pulled the actual police logs from my new favorite website (haveibeenflocked . com). 233 million searches that they have been able to get via FOIA requests and here's what "fighting crime" actually looks like:

> 84% had no case number at all
> The most common reason a cop typed in the box? Blank, nothing
> Only about 9% were even tagged as a real crime.
> "Test" and "training" show up as reasons, run on real people's cars
> The FBI and Homeland Security were wired into local camera networks your town never signed off on.

So what is Flock?

FLOCK: 100,000+ plate cameras bolted to poles across America. They read your plate everywhere you drive and never forget.

NOVA: Flock's AI that turns your plate into you. Your name, address, family, everyone you know, in seconds, no warrant.

SIGNALTRACE: a competitor's tool that tracks the Bluetooth off your phone, your AirPods, your watch. Doesn't even need your plate.

Then I followed the money and the lead investor behind Flock also funds an Israeli company that can hack cameras and change the footage. Another lead investor backs a 911 app that flips on your phone's camera and mic. Trace it all the way back and you hit a former Israeli prime minister and Jeffrey Epstein's money.

Full article with photos and receipts is on my Substack now (link in bio). Enjoy!

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

The city of Phoenix Arizona started a ‘Photo Safety Program.” They setup speed cameras that take a photo if you go 11 mph over the speed limit

🚨 A private company then comes to your door to serve you the ticket and get your signature, dressed very similar to Amazon

The city outsourced the ticket program to a company called Verra Mobility

The private company handles basically everything, they

- Installing and operating the cameras
- Processing of the images
- They mail the notice
- They then go out and serve people who don’t respond their ticket

The private company Verra Mobility gets a base fee of about $3,000 per camera per month plus $20 for every ticket that gets paid

This creates a clear incentive to pursue collection aggressively

This is insane… We now have private companies with access to all our information….. sending people out to actually serve and collect money….

[DeFlock @therealDeFlock]

"Flock cameras don't just identify criminals — they create a database documenting where law-abiding citizens worship, seek medical care, conduct business, and travel."

"That is fundamentally incompatible with a free society," he said.

#Flock #AxonAxoff

https://t.co/bYJ1pQwogj

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're free of AI-generated text. A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use because eliminating the original means only one copy exists at a time. Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books partnerships to obtain "all the books in the world."

My Take
This got to me. A bookseller told 404 Media that rare books with almost no surviving copies are being fed into this pipeline. Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email.
ISBNdb's website literally says "'AI company destroys two million books' is not a headline that generates sympathy," and they still built an entire business around making it happen quietly. They offer NDAs as a feature. They coach clients to call it "digital preservation."

I've covered AI companies scraping the internet, torrenting libraries, and stealing music. This is worse because it's irreversible. You can re-upload a website. You can reprint a bestseller. You can't replace the last three copies of an 18th-century botanical text once someone shreds them for training data. And the judge said it's legal. So it's going to accelerate.
"We shred rare books and offer NDAs so nobody finds out" is a legitimate business model in 2026. What a timeline.

Hedgie🤗

[jezz @JezziiB]

Turns out that food companies were only checking their food because the government told them to which is exactly why we need government regulations

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

I saw a post on Reddit that said that “The underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.” And I don’t think I’ve ever seen AI described so incisively.

[ColorOfChange @ColorOfChange]

Keith Porter was the first U.S. citizen killed by an ICE officer under President Donald Trump on December 31, 2025.

Justice for Keith Porter is a fight to protect Black life. It is a fight against white-supremacist terrorism and fascism. We won’t stop #UntilJusticeIsReal.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

CHARLOTTE: “I don’t see how it was a suicide… somebody did that to her… Black girl, 16, hanging from a tree, on the grounds of a Black church, in a historically Black area. I don’t know any other way to put it.”

The man who found #JulianaNzita isn’t buying what the police say.

[JoanA @JABarn76]

Incompetence, mismanagement, and grift… Good information before an election.

[James Li @5149jamesli]

People can only pay attention to so many things at once. Many see that Flock has been cancelled, but few will follow up to realize the city has installed Axon replacements.

That's why there has been a deliberate effort to demonize Flock, when the reality is they are ALL bad.

[Cenk Uygur @cenkuygur]

If you’re a reporter and you don’t explain to your audience that Israel is trying to buy the Michigan Senate seat for $50 million, you’re not a reporter. If you don’t explain to voters that a lobby for a foreign country is trying to control our Senate, you’re not a journalist.