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have been thinking about driving as a symbol of personal autonomy and agency and taking control, and it’s really interesting to me how in the first season of the silt verses faulkner is literally doing all of the driving whenever he’s w carpenter or carpenter&paige (well, other than that one time when he’s unconscious cause a giant crab fucked him up real good). which kinda goes nicely together w the whole thing of him starting to carve out his story. the boy is fucking desperate to be behind the wheel of his (and honestly others’) life!!

and then in season 3, he’s often in cars (the drive from the Katabasians’ Council to the Gulch, from the radio station to the ruins of Gulch and from there to his dad’s cabin, and once again from his family home to the Grand Aquifer) but all of these times he’s being driven around. not onceeee is he himself behind the wheel. and that, on one hand, is obviously due to the position of power/authority and thus comfort that he’s now occupying—now he has people to perform these kinds of services for him. butttttt i also think that it shows that the reins aren’t fully in his hands and in actuality he’s really not as in control as he’d like to think he is.

good job, buddy, you’ve made the narrative of your story into a self-perpetuating machine, now it can run along all on its own!:D you’re now stuck in the passenger seat of your life<3

piksiew

bacteriography portrait of Five Pebbles I made from yeast , mold , acrylic paints and other stuff i found

flaaffity-draws

Cake time puppies! Made this for an art trade~

beammeupplease

Lucifer

Federico Ferro

cityelf

this poem is about being nonbinary.

klapollo

I heavily recommend getting very good at spotting Meta glasses. Like I'm talking so good all you need is a glance. Otherwise, I would go about public life bearing in mind that more and more people are wearing expensive camera glasses that can record you without you realizing.

klapollo

Learn how to identify smart glasses through visual cues, behavioral patterns, and recording indicators. Handle privacy concerns with this pr

Ready or not, the smart glasses future is upon us.

With smart glasses, there are concerns around being recorded. Fortunately, you can watch for indicator lights and certain movements as a way

Here are some basic primers. If someone is wearing what look like Meta glasses, they usually have a small circular camera in the outer corners of the lenses, like the one on your phone.

I would also regularly check their own product pages so you're on top of what the models look like. They tend to have larger frames, but come in a variety of shapes and colors.

Shop every style. Every color. Prices from $299 to $499. Browse Ray-Ban Meta and Oakley Meta AI glasses and sunglasses to find your pair.

klapollo

The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film p

A new hobbyist developed app warns if people nearby may be wearing smart glasses, such as Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses, which stalkers and harassers have repeatedly used to film people without their knowledge or consent. The app scans for smart glasses’ distinctive Bluetooth signatures and sends a push alert if it detects a potential pair of glasses in the local area.

The app comes as companies such as Meta continue to add AI-powered features to their glasses. Earlier this month The New York Times reported Meta was working on adding facial recognition to its smart glasses. “Name Tag,” as the feature is called, would let smart glasses wearers identify people and get information about them from Meta's AI assistant, the report said.

ozarkthedog

I am against Meta and everything they stand for but I’m curious if peoples’ opinions would change about someone wearing them as a disability aid?

viridian-dagger

Not necessarily, because Meta has military contracts (source 1, source 2, source 3), is testing surveillance tech on their own employees and their customers (source 4, source 5), and there are at least two class action lawsuits against them for privacy violations (source 6, source 7, source 8). There is also some sketchy stuff about workers being forced to review material, which may or may not be used without the customer's permission, that is sensitive, graphic, and/or pornographic (source 9).

The American Foundation for the Blind has said that "The Ray-Ban Meta glasses are an accessibility tool only by coincidence. That makes them more affordable and, in many ways, unaware of the needs of users with reduced vision" although they do have seemingly positive views on Meta Glasses as a whole. (source 10). It also seems like their marketing push as accessibility devices began last year (source 11).

But to add even more into the nonsense, Meta is now toying around with adding a "limit" to the functionality of their glasses unless their users pay for more access (source 12). AND, as stated above, Meta has officially added facial recognition code in their glasses and only admitted it after being called out, which is basically the death of privacy as we know it (source 13, source 14, source 15). And oh look another lawsuit because of it (source 16) THAT THEY LOST (source 17)!

Long story short: I don't begrudge someone using them as a disability aid overall, but ultimately both their privacy and other people's privacy are being disregarded by Meta and that is not and should not be acceptable by any means.

I understand there is no ethical consumption under capitalism but there is a level of personal responsibility someone has to take when using them if they truly truly need them, such as opting out of sharing information, not filming strangers without permission, not posting footage of strangers online, opting out of facial recognition if possible, etc.

Disabled people deserve assistive technology AND privacy rights, and Meta is not the solution.

feltedhousetrap

Unfortunately, for all the hypothetical and presumably quite real good they could be as a disability aid, I don't think I will ever be on-board with designed to be hidden always-on recording devices. My stance on these is, and has been since the announcement of the google glasses, "hit them with a baseball bat" (preferably not while they're still on someone's face though).

sisyphean-metamorphosis

You put the mascot on the lorries, and you blanket the farms with flyers, explaining that their old gods of the harvest - grinning scarecrows, leafy green-men and faceless corn-dolls - are now this guy. This sentient parcel of shredded wheat with the bulging eyes and the grinning toothed mouth that takes up most of his body, and he eats shredded wheat even though he is of course made of shredded wheat. I mean, it’s a nightmare.

But the funny thing is, it worked, for the most part.

Farmers spat when they said Sweet Jolly Crunchtooth’s name, but they still said it. And eventually, with the long years and decades, they stopped spitting.

The Silt Verses, Chapter III: Then I’ll Speak Of Champions

raviollies

who of the OGs remembers heroes of might and magic

#homm!#excellent games #nice dryad(?) from V

fox-graves

Oh Green Dragon, King of the Forest. Benevolent Lord of the Woods. Guardian Spirit. Seeking a new home to watch over. Adopt on Ko-Fi or Etsy.

flaaffity-draws

I like em a little chonkier!

johnfeightner

Cast of characters from "Nettle and Bone." Art by Joe Watson

cheaphalloweencostume

im so sick of unnecessary dinner scenes in movies 😡 every fucking movie they just want to titillate you with some food because they think you’re a dumb animal who just wants to see mashed potatoes bouncing. if its an IMPORTANT dinner scene where they explain lore then whatever i understand. but they shove useless meals into every movie these days and its disgusting

#as someone rather meh on the topic of dinner scenes I support this message

aveloka-draws

She can have some poison fish, as a treat.

hppjmxrgosg

"going out to get milk" is a common turn of phrase used to describe a man abandoning his family.

the "milkman" is a common figure in stories depicting a woman's infidelity and adulterous affair.

this implies that the ability to provide milk would both decrease the likelihood of a man abandoning his wife and children, as it would eliminate the need for leaving to get milk AND would secure that man's marriage, as his wife would have no need to seek milk from an extraneous source.

therefore, all men should produce milk, through various means such as:

- being a cow

- being an almond

- being a woman

- being a coconut

- being in the omegaverse

- being an oat

(list is exemplary and not finite)

in this essay, i will redefine the nuclear family and explain the seductive and inflammatory nature of the 1993 "Got Milk?" commercials.

hppjmxrgosg