Post #509436
2026-03-03 23:07 UTC
Replies (39)
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@km@mastodon.babb.no 2026-03-04 19:39
@phire@phire.place why would anyone want to wear such glasses in the first place?
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@Viss@mastodon.social 2026-03-03 23:08
@phire@phire.place spectacular.
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@renardboy@mastodon.social 2026-03-03 23:31
@phire@phire.place What's most baffling to me is that this is even remotely unexpected to anyone whatsoever. At this point the *only* sensible expectation is that the fascist tech giants will pull *every* *single* *bit* of nasty business they can get away with. Things are gonna start getting better when people at large accept the fact that the billionaires are our *enemy* and the institutions we put in place to keep them in check have failed. It's up to all of us to defend ourselves.
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@luc0x61@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-03-03 23:36
@phire@phire.place How long before Meta glasses wearers do get addressed with "you perv!" and a punch?
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@Jesticulated@mastodon.social 2026-03-03 23:37
@phire@phire.place Time to start slapping glasses off of tech bro faces
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@gregalotl@c.im 2026-03-03 23:59
@phire@phire.place Regulation must be introduced globally, that anyone wearing these glasses MUST wear a dayglo pink burqa with the word 'recording' emblazoned in 50cm Arial Black front & back and an amplified voice warning in the local language, saying 'DANGER, META OVERSTEPPING!"
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@linux_is_best@sushi.ski 2026-03-04 00:18
@phire@phire.place I tried telling people this, but no one wanted to listen.
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@dalias@hachyderm.io 2026-03-04 00:22
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@dalias/116156794322790242 @phire@phire.place Facebook Smart Glasses
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@kathimmel@mstdn.social 2026-03-04 00:25
@phire@phire.place *luddite population increases*
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@gordoooo_z@hachyderm.io 2026-03-04 00:36
@phire@phire.place is anyone really surprised at this point (I mean, aside from anyone stupid enough to own these and then clutch their pearls when they find out)?
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@leahbobet@mstdn.ca 2026-03-04 01:15
@phire@phire.place The first place I went was: "Imagine having that job. Like, identifying someone's sad morning genitals for a machine learning program."
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@halotroop2288@meow.social 2026-03-04 01:36
@phire@phire.place If they bought a pair of smart glasses from Meta, Amazon, Google, or Microsoft in 2026, they should have absolutely expected this. I have no sympathy.
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@Edelruth@mastodon.online 2026-03-04 01:52
@phire@phire.place How wrong of me is it that my knee jerk reaction was, "served them right"?
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@sgt1372@sfba.social 2026-03-04 02:10
@phire@phire.place Someone needs to design a #MetaGlasses #jammer that you can carry in your pocket or in a purse. They suck!!! 🤬
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@kentenmakto@mastodon.ie 2026-03-04 02:30
@phire@phire.place Speaking as someone who does not get acceptable vision correction from contact lenses: fuck those people. ("Who, the makers or the users?" ("Yes.")
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@nora@blob.love 2026-03-04 02:45
@phire@phire.place seems bad
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@Jeffrey1@mstdn.ca 2026-03-04 03:05
@phire@phire.place LMFAO What did you expect from Meta?
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@TheGreatLlama@kolektiva.social 2026-03-04 03:06
@phire@phire.place I sincerely want to chat with anyone surprised by this news. I want to welcome them and ask them what they thought of their first day on the planet.
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@TJC_2@mastodon.social 2026-03-04 03:08
@phire@phire.place NO META.
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@maddad@mastodon.world 2026-03-04 03:25
@phire@phire.place too funny....😂 You get what you pay for..
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@RavenLuni@furry.engineer 2026-03-04 03:39
@phire@phire.place
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@clive1@kolektiva.social 2026-03-04 03:40
@phire@phire.place karma!
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@peterkos@iosdev.space 2026-03-04 05:05
@phire@phire.place "And the contractors sure seem like they’d rather not watch it—though they risk losing their job if they decide not to label something. “You understand that it is someone’s private life you are looking at, but at the same time you are just expected to carry out the work,” an employee told the papers. “You are not supposed to question it. If you start asking questions, you are gone.” Who leads a team like that and thinks "i'm doing a good job!" 😬 like damn. grow up!
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@mrundkvist@archaeo.social 2026-03-04 05:37
@phire@phire.place This is going to create a market for glasses that look obviously and loudly NOT like Meta's spying device. #meta
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@gabriel@mastodon.samfira.com 2026-03-04 05:50
@phire@phire.place probably also looking at screens containing highly confidential/sensitive info. Although there is a high chance that the people that routinely put their phones on top of the clothes dryer when they want to have an in person conversation, won't buy these. Not sure about the ones that add reporters to signal groups though.
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@dazzr@social.tchncs.de 2026-03-04 05:54
@phire@phire.place Won't come as a surprise that the internet is full of search strings like: "How to turn off Meta Smart Glasses recording LED permanently?" or "Removing the Recording Light from Meta Ray-Bans?" Look it up. I feel these thingies carry quite some potential for violence.
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@Powerfromspace1@mstdn.social 2026-03-04 06:11
@phire@phire.place .. and have a laugh
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@Turre@mementomori.social 2026-03-04 06:56
@phire@phire.place If somebody is actually surprised by this, it's time to check your expectations wrt these companies.
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@xs4me2@mastodon.social 2026-03-04 07:08
@phire@phire.place We are doomed…
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@MamaLake@beige.party 2026-03-04 07:27
@phire@phire.place who are the people saying “the glasses stay on during sex” ????
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@H4Heights@mstdn.social 2026-03-04 08:33
@phire@phire.place Never understood the attraction of those things… in the UK you need permission to film on private property so the question of what commercial properties do is interesting. I think I’d whip them off their face and crush them under my heel. Seems about right. Better than punching the wearer until they break, which is more tempting.
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@EF@mastodon.bsd.cafe 2026-03-04 09:58
@phire@phire.place why is this a surprise to anyone?
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@WorldTravelerAll7@mastodon.world 2026-03-04 12:02
@phire@phire.place haha!😁 #fafo to everyone still enriching the #Meta fascists
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@gnomon@mastodon.social 2026-03-04 13:05
@phire@phire.place I've been waiting years for head mounted displays like the ones from XReal and Viture to get good enough that I could keep a pair in my bag and use them for working around town from my phone, without having to lug around a laptop. No interest in AR and "smart glasses". And bullshit like this has poisoned that well entirely. I will now never be able to wear anything in public that looks like smart glasses without (correctly) attracting social opprobrium. These finks make me so mad.
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@lemgandi@mastodon.social 2026-03-04 15:24
@phire@phire.place Deep inside a cube farm in an office tower in Virginia, a small group is gathered around a PC monitor. They are laughing at you.
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@aka_quant_noir@hcommons.social 2026-03-04 15:31
@phire@phire.place So police body cameras can be turned off, but consumer AR cameras can't. Can we reverse those policies?
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@su_liam@mas.to 2026-03-04 17:08
@phire@phire.place Who knew buying your eyeglasses from an amoral surveillance company would be an awful idea? 👋
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@deftpunk@fosstodon.org 2026-03-05 10:51
@phire@phire.place at what point can we all agree the correct term is "stupid glasses"?
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@wendinoakland@beige.party 2026-03-05 17:01
@phire@phire.place Whatever you see — your banking info, your private doodads, anything else — is recorded, stored, data mined