Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · Feb 13 At least one Meta employee thinks it's a good time to add facial recognition technology to glasses because we're too distracted by fascism to effectively protest www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
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Will this sell more glasses? Unlikely. Will this get more technerd himbos slapped in downtown bars when they walk in wearing one? Probably.
A generation came of age purely online and types every stray thought into phones, Slack, and work documents. They're also recording all of their work phone calls, to the chagrin of lawyers everywhere. It's an appalling thing to think in its own right, but scripting it out is separately bad judgment.
Fascism js flooding the country with illegals to replace citizen voters. So.
You’d think the two concerns would be connected.
Irony all the way down
Well, that's one way to tell others that you are a horrible person
a truly upsetting report!
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Why should we be opposed to this? I am grateful that there will be accountability for people doing crimes and being awful.
a massive self-inflicted wound to the legendary Ray-Ban brand.
If you needed more evidence that Facebook/Instagram are one of the more destructive forces on earth here you go. Ad revenue from the sites that actively make your life worse are being used to make glasses that record and surveil anyone walking down the street.
What absolute ghouls