Just need to associate ray bans with creeps moving forward. If they are too far away to tell, just assume it's a fucking weirdo in Meta glasses. Forever associate the brand with creepy weirdos, and maybe they'll rethink their strategy.
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They know. They consider it a sell-able feature.
Perverts know what perverts want.
They have already had people on them for not stopping scam ads, they get paid by their customers so they don;t care how many of their products are harmed.
Gonna make Bluetooth scramblers real popular
And there's an app called "nearby glasses" that'll notify us when/where anyone nearby has these meta glasses active.
I found this morsel particularly poignant:
"Ironically, Meta expected rights groups to be too busy to step in, given the disastrous geopolitical climate.
“We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns,” the document reads, as quoted by the NYT."
Wow, they said the quiet part out loud
That's particularly evil. No matter what their lame rationalizations will be, this is how we know that they created this tech in bad faith, and they intend to use it in bad faith.
Yup. It’s also an admission that they know they are in the wrong and will cause harm to people, but don’t care. A lot of these companies try to pull the “we didn’t consider these concerns; we need to do more research” shit when they get called out on it, but this makes it blatantly obvious that’s bullshit
"if such a dynamic political environment fails to come, the corporation will spur on dynamism by sponsoring alternative dynamic groups from within the country whenever possible"
And I used to think the "secret dastardly plan diary" -files scattered around in Resident Evil and the like were silly B-movie stuff that obviously would not be written down in the real world.
But no, they're assigned in company strategy meetings and politicians just hit their supplier on Gmail with "Heya yo haave sum tasty kiids to fuck in Cali thiss wekend?"
Who are the morally bankrupt execs who wrote this? I want names.
Please reach out to your family and urge them to stop using Facebook (or worse, any form of reels) if they still do. The onus is on the informed now. It’s not enough to just ask the tech barons to stop, we also need to divert their support.
I'm so happy that no one in my family is into social media at all. But those who I know who are into it, just do not care at all. To a point where I wouldn't even bring it up
But those who I know who are into it, just do not care at all.
I have friends like that too. Which is why it's so hard.
It's not even a fair fight, b/c the big social medias employ psychologists to design their product to be as addictive as possible. So it pits Jane and Fred Doe of Main Street against a team of psychologist PhD who study every possible way to weaponize Jane and Fred's normal human feelings and emotions. Jane & Fred doesn't want to quit, so will find ways to rationalize a use of the products.
It's a big damn problem. It impacts everyone. All of us. Not just the ones who use FB, IG, or X.
Also, it will introduce: snitchonomics.
Mass surveillance is here, but what if you could be an annoying little shit in the local community? Introducing: snitchonomics. Go around your neighborhood, discover discrepancies, automate your snitching and become a toadie for the local commissars.
Meta: the Nazis would have loved us.
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Get ahead of the curve and make these illegal.
Or don't, because we aren't fragile ninnies unfamiliar with the concept of carrying a microphone & camera everywhere we go & easily carried away by sensational headlines for dumbasses.
The cameras and microphones we carry around are not hidden, and one can tell when one is being recorded by them, ninny.
Haha laws aren't made to benefit the population silly.
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so like, i think the tech is cool. i can't really think of a good use case for it though. that's the thing.
Accessibility: live captions & transcripts. Sharing whatever you see in high stakes situations, eg, police interactions. Seems pretty obvious.
There's a couple of people on SM I follow who use them.
There's a street photographer called Bleg who always explains to people that he is using them to record the interaction.
Another is a guy that feeds several cat colonies on his mail route (first class whiskers) so he can use both hands to stroke and feed the cats.
Another is a guy called AsamaPOV that visits small family run restaurants in Japan and like the first guy, always explains and asks permission.
They're examples of nice people but the scope for abuse is so wide
I would like it to replace clunky GoPro camera to capture outdoor sports adventures.
See that's a good use. I'm thinking of getting a "dashcam" style gopro or other camera^9^ for my bike (I might be able to get a free low end one through a law firm I consult with from time to time. I like free and at 15mph you aren't that blurry. Or maybe you are but for free I can try it and use it elsewhere like a chump if it sucks)
^9^
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