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."
Who are the morally bankrupt execs who wrote this? I want names.
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 sex slave supplier on Gmail with “Heya yo haave sum tasty kiids to fuck in Cali thiss wekend?”
“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” Shock Doctrine at its best
The fact that this is being said so openly.
oh it illustrates the principles of Shock Doctrine as explained by Naomi Klein in her book as have been used over and over by extreme capitalist to impose the wonders of their
ideologicscientific capitalism. But I just made up the whole sentence above
Wow, they said the quiet part out loud
Whoever had that idea probably got a promotion and raise.
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.
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.
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.
slapping a spy device from their face is self defense, not a crime
Balaclavas will be in fashion
Gait Recognition ™️
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I’m learning the Fremen sand walk.
stones in my fucking shoes it is then.
Everybody says this… but I’m afraid it won’t help or for very long. Gate recog algos measures physical characteristics. Things that are not changed by a shoe stone, like the length of your femur and tibia. The way your hips move as your leg does. Ratio of hip width to other measures. Things things are more fingerprint-ish like that.
It’s a lot like… how facial recog looks at distances between your pupils. Or the exact position of your cheekbones and structure of the face. Making it hard to fool in some ways.
It can all be fooled to a degree. Anyway it’s all probabilities. Maybe it works 95% and fails 5% or w/e, but that’s “good enough” for advertizers and data brokers.
It’s all just an exhausting uphill battle :(
Hoverboard m8
A knee brace might be more comfortable.
I was really interested in who the pervert experts were, but it turns out it was just human rights groups.
“Pervert Glasses” = AI glasses
(For doomscrollers who don’t read the articles)
well considering that most AI is used to create child porn (looks directly at Grok)… pervert glasses seems like a very good description of these “glasses”.
most
¿Is there data supporting this conclusion?
tuere is a cesspool of proof. but posting links to it would get me banned. I wanna puke after seeing how many different “legally compliant” AI either don’t have child checks… or have instructions telling you how to disable said child checks.
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.
When google glass first debuted, I was thinking how much easier my job could be if I could have the faces of the people authorized to enter in that device to make admission easier (there were over 300 faces to remember that didn’t have to use their issued ID due to position), as in, when a person approaches if they were in my “PRIVATE ON DEVICE” database their access card would display on my screen. Never got one, thankfully. This new tech would be great for this except I doubt that there would be an offline mode, so I see no use case for this unless you want to assist in the tracking of people for Meta.
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 camera9 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)
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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
since when do we need experts for this? what we need is laws. it’s unbelievable that they’re even allowed to do this shit.
A dude wore these to a club I was at. Not easy to notice unless you’re looking for them. He was creeping on people showing skin and was a known stalker for one of the dancers in particular.
Fortunately he got kicked out unceremoniously.
asshole perverts will always find ways to ruin things for everyone else, but these glasses just make it way too easy.
How are the glasses related to the guy being creepy? Out of the loop…
Edit: Oh shit, I just read the article. Jesus H.
Are they that terrible or is this mostly a corporate propaganda campaign against Facebook? We’re all on every camera and microphone pointed in our direction 24/7 already because ppl couldn’t figure out we shouldn’t turn every nation into a corporate surveillance state.
Honest question: are you high?
I don’t recall but it is quite possible.
This argument needs to stop. We should be pissed at the Flock cameras, the glasses, the shitty trackers and all that shit. We have to fight all of it.
