Scary AustinMar 11

The internet has an official name for the new #Meta stalker glasses: pervert glasses!

#MarkZuckerberg

Show threadPaul Wilde    Mar 11
@MaryAustinBooks Once again, thank you to whoever it was I was talking to months back about how we should all, if seeing somebody wearing pervert glasses, point at them and shout "PERVERT GLASSES! PERVERT GLASSES!" continously - no matter where we are; at home, at work, in the street.
Show threadsotolfMar 11
@paul @MaryAustinBooks Those look absolutely like the dorkiest thing I've ever seen in addition. Dorky Pervert glasses :p
Show threadScary AustinMar 11
@sotolf @paul Right? I mean, I'm a weirdo, but I actually talk to people and ask them their names and if they don't want to talk to me I respect that. And that's the difference between my brand of weird and Zuck's.
Show threadsotolfMar 11
@MaryAustinBooks @paul I don't even know what they are supposed to do :p It's the side of tech that I don't really think about, I'm still years behind, but I guess it's something similar to the glasshole thing that was going on some years ago.
Show threadScary Austin

@sotolf @paul
They can take pictures and video and use facial recognition on people. Zuck's team flouted the law and used them to intimidate jurors in a courtroom.

I don't blame you one bit for not wanting to know much about them. I too used to eagerly read about new tech, but it's all so dystopian now, the fun is gone. I still learn in broad strokes for defensive purposes, but yeesh.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/meta-trial-mark-zuckerberg-ai-glasses/

Judge scolds Mark Zuckerberg's team for wearing Meta glasses to social media trial

A Los Angeles judge ordered Meta officials to remove their AI glasses at a trial over the impact of social media on users.

Mar 11 at 2:45pmWeb
Show threadLuke BergenMar 11

@MaryAustinBooks @sotolf @paul shows my younger self's naivete. I remember 20 years ago being at a family reunion and imagining tech like this to help me remember who's kid that is, etc.

Now I realize:

A. Perverts and dickheads have access to the same tools I dream of (and won't use them for the same ends)
B. Maybe I should try to put the effort in to remember stuff instead of leaning on tech to save me from my own apathy (or lean into it where warranted)

Show threadScary AustinMar 11
@Xoriff @sotolf @paul
Well, we all need to remember that. But I think the main problem is the tech industry owning the legislators who were supposed to regulate them. We can thank the Roberts SCROTUS for that.