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Ah, Texas: Get Arrested, Have Your Mugshot and Indiscretions Blasted All Over Twitter

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If you get arrested in Denton, Texas, your surely precious mugshot will be splayed all over Twitter, along with your age and crime.

Sadly, it’s not a pure innovation of the Texas penal system designed to further humiliate lawbreakers, just a clever art student scraping their public feed to comment on how much information is out there, floating freely. Implied commentary: You haven’t even begun to see the kinds of scary shit Twitter will make public to your devoted followers. It’s the world’s most frightening publishing system. [Twitter via HardOCP]

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