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Guerrilla London bus ads mock Kylie Jenner’s Meta glasses campaign

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Re: Guerrilla London bus ads mock Kylie Jenner’s Meta glasses campaign

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Post by UberFly »

Nursie wrote: post #34
charcircuit wrote: post #28

The UK police monitoring your social media posts is more of a risk than Meta monitoring your social media posts to their platforms.

> Meta monitoring your social media posts to their platforms. Monitoring everything around you, all the time. And what you've heard about the UK police is likely to have been comically exaggerated by people with an agenda. There are problems, yes, they do not arrest thousands of people a year for being mean on twitter, no. (I'm rate limited and can't reply below - when people look into these figures what they tend to…

"comically exaggerated". Tell that to the 10-12,000 people arrested per year for "inappropriate" speech. Please don't go out of your way to defend it.

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/article/police-make-30-arr...

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Post by pembrook »

zkmon wrote: post #3

Unfortunately, educating people against some technology is not going to help. It should be a state-level mandate to have any effect. Most people are discretion-less, sheep-minded money pockets. Meta and other businesses discovered this fact long ago and exploit it to maximum extent. Their products always target the "sheep-following" aspects, instead of individual usefulness.

How charming.

A young, authoritarian-minded elitist aiming to force their views onto the rest of us 'stupid sheep'...with the implicit threat of a gun to the head via the state's monopoly on violence.

Have you ever examined the idea that, people doing things you don't agree with may not all be less enlightened than you? And that, in fact, it could be you who is a sheep, angrily shouting in unison with the mob in the midst of a trendy moral panic...scapegoating all the worlds problems and your own personal frustrations onto some dumb social media app?

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Post by akomtu »

paxys wrote: post #41

I don't understand why Meta is so insistent on making the camera and creepy video recording the primary feature of these glasses. They do have a ton of other uses. The speakers are genuinely great. It's useful to be able to hear notifications while walking. Having a decent AI for asking random questions is nice as well. It supports live translation. And unlike Airpods it doesn't tune out the rest of the world, which…

The financial motive must be capturing video data for AI training. Moreover, this data won't be entirely passive: the glasses can tell the user to do something and then observe how the video feed changes.

The more nefarious motive is to inject a layer of AI between humans and nature.

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Post by dom2 »

gumby wrote: post #57

The real killer app form me requires a camera (though it doesn’t need to record photos or video for me to access — I have a phone for that). I need a device that tells me who I’m talking to if I’ve been introduced to them before and tell me how I know them (This is Bob Dobbs, you first met him in Texas in 1985 and he saved you at that party when you needed some Slack)”. Especially great when I meet someone out of con…

You can actually accomplish this pretty easily with off the shelf components! You can just say, "Hey, I think we've met before but I can't remember exactly where?"

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Post by _carbyau_ »

zkmon wrote: post #3

Unfortunately, educating people against some technology is not going to help. It should be a state-level mandate to have any effect. Most people are discretion-less, sheep-minded money pockets. Meta and other businesses discovered this fact long ago and exploit it to maximum extent. Their products always target the "sheep-following" aspects, instead of individual usefulness.

Companies, businesses, governments of all sizes, while having distinct legal rights to them as entities, are actually made up of people.

So yeah, "educating people against some technology" is kind of the only way to help people see what is going on.

I mean, the government isn't run by aliens... probably.

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Post by boomboomsubban »

wolvoleo wrote: post #5

Wow really well done with the lenticular effect. I immediately recognised the reference to They Live too. That must have cost a lot. To get posters like that made.

I doubt it's that pricy. I believe you print a regular poster with a special image then apply the textured layer on top.

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Post by wolvoleo »

Barbing wrote: post #47
ElProlactin wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Not to watch the social feeds but to find my way or read a message from a friend saying they're late. Do you really need this for that?

There are all kinds of products that we need to reject not because the fundamentals aren't awesome for some proportion of people, but because the implementation is as obviously corrupt as the business owners pushing it. The dumb speaker that OpenAI is hoping you stick in your home to spy on you is not some preposterously worthless piece of crap from beginning to end without exception. It's just a creepy mess that's n…

I kinda have that though. I use a home assistant voice preview speaker, connected to a locally hosted whisper instance backed by Qwen 3.6. All local and fairly energy-reasonable :)

Just saying it's not impossible to have your cake and eat it.

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Post by pjmlp »

dieselgate wrote: post #16
wolvoleo wrote: post #5

Wow really well done with the lenticular effect. I immediately recognised the reference to They Live too. That must have cost a lot. To get posters like that made.

I agree it’s very well done. Not sure if they’re all from/by EHE but the political adverts like this I’ve seen from around the UK are so clever.

Yes, and we definitely need more of them, society seems to have gone numb, especially for those of us that had activism in the 70s and 80s.
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