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Still thinking of what to do when I grow up...

[Chris Mowrey @chrisdmowrey]

Go fuck yourself.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

The West was incensed when the Taliban blew up the Buddhist Bamiyan statues in Afghanistan.

Crickets as Israel blows up a UNESCO heritage site in Lebanon.

[Brian Gaar @briangaar]

I'm disappointed in Twitter because 15 years ago, RIP Big Pussy would be trending rn

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

So weird that he only wins at his own courses

[Democrats Deliver @DemzDeliver]

🚨 Zohran Mamdani unveils plan to cover 30% of NYC with trees by 2040.

[squeaky fromme the block @averpee]

A few decades ago we had Steve Jobs, Johnny Cash, and Big Pussy. Now we have no Jobs, no Cash, and no Pussy.

[Birger Høst @CommonSenseASAP]

🇷🇺Russia: The Soviet Union no longer exists, can you let us into NATO like everyone else?

🇺🇸USA: No

🇷🇺Russia: Okay, but can you please not threaten us by expanding NATO to the East?

🇺🇸USA: No

🇷🇺Russia: Alright, we saw you're developing new missile systems, will you let us work on them with you?

🇺🇸USA: No

🇷🇺Russia: Fine, hypersonic missiles it is, but can you at least not put military bases right in front of our borders?

🇺🇸USA: No

🇷🇺Russia: Well, you just carried out a military coup to overthrow a democratic election in Ukraine, can we still have a friendly relationship with them?

🇺🇸USA: No

Russia: Gotcha, but the people of Crimea are really pissed off about that coup, can you please let them have independence?

🇺🇸USA: No

🇷🇺Russia: Roger, but surely you can at the very least stop bombing the civilians living in Donbass, right?

🇺🇸USA: No

🇷🇺Russia: Huh, we've been trying to find a diplomatic solution for a 8 years but you refuse to even talk to us... I guess that if you want to use military force to solve issues so much we have no choice but to do the same.

🇺🇸USA: OH MY GOD PUTIN IS A MADMAN, AN IMPERIALIST GENOCIDAL DICTATOR, LITERALLY THE SECOND COMING OF HITLER, WE MUST STOP HIM AT ANY COST BEFORE HE TRIES TO CONQUER ALL OF EUROPE

#SigerDetBare

[Shaiel Ben-Ephraim @academic_la]

The fact that the US is admittedly destroying the only international court which holds war criminals responsible for crimes in order to protect a mass murderer in the midst of a genocide should be the worst political scandal of all time. But no one cares.

[DavidSaysStuff_ @davidsaysstuff_]

Can you survive without my tax dollars?

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Amazon’s customers paid the extra costs of the tariffs, but Amazon, which is owned by Trump’s billionaire ally, gets the $640 million refund.

Do you see the scam yet?

[Steve Laws 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Steve_Laws_]

LMAO

[Boston Smalls @smalls2672]

True story

[Aes🇺🇸 @AesPolitics1]

Okay, let’s start with you then.

[Czarina @fishontherun02]

This is the United States under capitalism

[Zaid Jilani @ZaidJilani]

It’s funny that Mamdani has never said anything as antisemitic as Dershowitz did right here

[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.

[Bubies, Esq @only1bubies]

When you meet a swordsman, draw your sword: Do not recite poetry to one who is not a poet.

[Milenka~ @MilenaAmit]

You want to stay home, bake sourdough and have 9 kids? Wonderful!
But if another woman wants to go to med school and become the ob-gyn who helps you deliver those 9 kids, you don't get to guilt or shame her for HER CHOICE.