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beeimu5

Stoned af and made the best tweet of my life.

une-croquette

there r literally billions of reels u could have seen b4 u die but instead u wasted ur life being with those u love.

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.

hungwy

she made you a carrotcake but she eated it. OK?

aphid-kirby

This is so funny it's tearing me apart

elitefourkylewantstobattle

Sucking two dicks at the same time like that pig in chicken little

elitefourkylewantstobattle

not-very-kawaii-of-you

mossydreamz

old but gold

dragongirlsweetie

i do think oil executives should be considered mass murderers and treated as such. they knew this was going to happen

barcarole

In the evenings, little Hedgehog went to little Bear’s house to count stars. Sitting on a log, they would sip tea and gaze into the starry sky.

Hedgehog in the Fog (Ёжик в тумане), dir. Yuri Norstein, 1975.

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hagiomoto

In Malay language, window shopping (casually looking around shops without intending to buy anything) is commonly called “cuci-cuci mata” (literally “washing/cleansing the eyes”).

In some Malaysian slang contexts, “menyelam” (“diving”) can refer to digging through thrift stores for good finds.

Now you know.

hagiomoto

In Bahasa Melayu, reduplication (repeating a word or part of a word) can change a word's meaning in different ways, depending on the word and the context. It can indicate plurality, repeated action, emphasis, or make an action sound more casual, light, or leisurely.

In cuci-cuci mata, the reduplication of "cuci" gives the action a casual and relaxed nuance rather than suggesting that the action is done thoroughly or intensively. Although the phrase literally translates as "wash the eyes," it is an idiomatic expression and is not meant to be taken literally. Instead, "cuci-cuci mata" means to look around casually, browse, or enjoy the sights often without any intention of buying anything.

Another example, fikir-fikir. Fikir-fikir suggests "thinking it over" or "giving something some thought" in a relaxed or non-committal way, rather than engaging in deep or intensive thinking.

Depending on the context, it can also imply "consider it first" or "think about it for a while." The common thread is that the reduplication gives the verb a softer, less forceful, and often more tentative or leisurely feel.

spreadsopotism

My favourite phenomenon relating to word reduplication is bilingual reduplication in Manglish, specifically "cuba try", which translate to something like "try trying". If an English speaker were to say that, it can be taken as sarcasm, like you're poking fun at someone for not trying enough, but "cuba try" is meant to be a well meaning emphasis. It comes from the fact that in Malay, "cuba" is rarely said by itself but more often followed by a verb i.e. "Cuba tengok" = "Try looking", so in Manglish "try" slots in comfortably to satisfy the urge to avoid closing the sentence with "cuba" when trying to urge someone to make a general attempt at something, rather than trying a specific action. I find it a really cute quirk haha.

This also kinda goes round back to what I think Kropotkinder was referring to, which is the Chinese-Manglish "mata-mata" being used to instead mean "to police", "to look around" or even just "police" as in the cops, which was never really in common use among Malay-Manglish or Tamil-Manglish but fell out of use in modern Chinese-Manglish as well, while in Indonesia, from what a friend told me, it's still used here and there even for non-Chinese-Indonesians.

addicted2wasps

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0311365

Earlier this year (April/May), I had the pleasure of drawing the life cycle of Megarhyssa atrata for this paper.

I want to personally thank the authors for giving me this amazing opportunity. I had a blast drawing these! I tried my hardest to create some quality illustrations. 🙈