can journalism please stop digging deep into the cambridge to pull out words like ‘wheedles?’
i’ve been on this earth for almost 50 years, and i’ve read thousands of texts and never seen that word fucking ever.
you should NOT have to look in the dictionary to read pop culture drivel. these dipshits are just trying to justify their privileged educations, and the ironic thing is that none of them can write for shit despite needing a private school/ivy league pedigree to churn out vacuous thinkpieces for teen vogue and futurism (whatever the hell that is).
I guarantee most of these schools protect the bullies and punish the victims. Like if a girl being harassed broke the glasses, she would get expelled. The world is the way it is because people enable and worship bullies across the board.
People are being disgusting, using technology that was designed to be stealthy on purpose by others for disgusting reasons (to normalize allowing ever greater data collection by tech companies - no surprise the privacy protections are trivially easy to defeat), and are posting videos online for a reason - that they get satisfaction from it.
I guess I don’t care if this makes me sound old or callous, but we need to bully these people. Make the people who post and share these videos embarrassed. Tell them they look like stupid losers who can’t get dates or talk to people. Make them feel bad for not being kind and socially connecting with others. Give them no community or understanding until they stop breaking the social contract.
What social contract? The kids wearing these can’t value something they’ve never known.
The girls need to fight back with photos of them. Watch how fast they put a stop to it.
Seems like something title 9 should be used to quash, but civil rights for women are only important if transgender people exist in public somewhere
Here they’re not even allowing students to carry mobile phones inside of schools. How is this even allowed?
Here they’re not even allowing students to carry
Thought for sure you were setting up an “Americans Love Guns” joke.
Hoooold up just a minute. How much do these glasses cost? Like hundreds right? What kind of teen boy has that much money to burn? I sure as fuck didn’t, and I worked. Their parents bought them, and these are kids, so it’s 100% blame on the parents here.
No different to mobile phones or iPods or PlayStations. Pair of meta raybans are arguably cheaper than those items now due to inflation.
Even if the kids bought them it is still the parent’s responsibility to keep their kid from being an obnoxious pervert.
That’s what really sucks about this.
There’s no institutional backlash. (At least not yet. That could change.)
We’re depending on parents who park these little shits in front of screens and expect to be left alone while their kids are radicalized.
I had thousands as a teenager from around 15 years old working part time evening and weekends at barely above minimum wage.
When you have no expenses from living at home, you can save everything (and in my case blow it all on electronics lol)
Ok, middle school then
Parents with more money than sense
When I was 16 and started working, I quickly had enough money saved from working minimum wage, part time, to buy myself a car. It’s not impossible.
Also, these may be kids/young adults, but they should all know right from wrong. Blame is absolutely on the students who use these too.
so if perverts are not allowed on school property and it is considered private space for that reason…
so who is enforcing that law?
the fuck happened to this society? everyone just seems to be victims all the time. no doers.
Stop blaming the kids, it’s the corporation’s fault. Title should be Meta glasses are recording and enabling harassment of underaged school children
And a lot of enabling parents.
Yeah. The kids are just the last part of the chain of failure here. Why is Meta producing such a thing? Why the fuck are parents buying several hundred dollars worth of spy glasses for their children and sending them to school with them without any supervision? And what the fuck is the school doing here? The first report of someone harassing other pupils with such a device should be reason to ban them and take hard discipline measures against the harrasser
The glasses shouldn’t exist but what parents are buying these for their kids?! Blame the parents too.
supplier first then the chain…everyone is blamed
10000000%
In my eyes anyone wearing one of these is a pervert. I simply don’t see who else could be the audience for a purposefully discreet camera built into a pair of glasses. Even Google’s attempt at glasses were more overt that these. I’d say Meta is shameful, but that’s not exactly a shocker to anyone at this point.
I would have loved glasses that could detect advertising with a camera and block it out so I don’t see it, but instead we got AI nudes and stalking.
And probably even more ads sent directly to your eyeballs. If they’re not there yet they’re already on the roadmap.
What matters is who controls the tech, not just the capabilities.
This. Adblock glasses were never going to come from a company that gets a lot of it’s revenue from ads.
Aww man you just made me realise that you could combine A.I. image generation with augmented reality to make everyone nude in real time. What a fucked up world we live in. I’m sure someone is already working on a program like this
So much potential. Face lookup of contacts so I get reminded of people’s names. Lyrics to any detected song so I can sing along. Virtual post-it note reminders in 3D space. Alerts or navigation while walking. Virtual monitors put on any surface.
But humans are too hung up on sex, so it’s not going to happen.Humans are often the root of the probem with technology.
I remember seeing a video of a blind woman using them, in combination with some earbuds, so she could get her surroundings described to her, as well as have objects she picked up described. But you’re right, glasses with discreet cameras on them, aren’t necessary for a situation like that - Something more overt would be fine for that use case.
I would love overt google glass style glasses that are obvious as a solution for a dashcam like system for when i am driving, or tracking where I left mg keys etc. But as you say, the discreet camera is for perverts.
It’s probably the clearest if a built-in camera is not allowed for glasses and the camera is an external unit they have to clip on. Functional the same, but socially making it clear you’re filming.
Even Google’s attempt at glasses were more overt that these.
That’s because the tech wasn’t there yet. Otherwise, it would have been the same.
I kind of like the idea. Take some pictures while doing other things like riding your bike or going on a hike without having to take out your phone. Take a quick picture while shopping to them to my wife. Get navigation cues without the phone. But they are so creepy
I’ve seen videos on Instagram of people using them for a first person view without having to strap a GoPro to their head. Like for hobby work.
But if you’re going biking or whatever, you can just as easily strap a camera to your helmet, and get a 360° view to boot. If you’re hiking or shopping, it’s very little effort to take out your phone and snap a pic. And you get the benefit of being able to actually preview the shot.
Teen BoysMen of all ages Are Using Meta Glasses toTerrorizesexually harassGirlswomen of all agesat High Schools and Middle Schoolseverywhere.Is there any actual data to support the claim you’re making, or are you taking a few viral videos and using them as a means to support your own implicit bias?
Scroll to your heart’s content.
https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=meta+glasses+filming+women+without+consent
Data.
Stats.
Compilation of actual, verified reports.
But, your response does answer my question, and you should know it’s not 2014 anymore. No matter how fashionable your algorithm has made you think that it is to smear men as a whole, the rest of the world has seen how ridiculous it is.
If you think you get to lump me or your male friends in with these people without being asked to prove it, you should maybe have enough respect for the men in your life that you esteem to actually hunt down some evidence before posting things like this.
Have a great day.
I am Jack’s complete lack of surprise.
Couple this w/ the AI nudification sites and this is gonna be insane. Teen boys don’t think big picture…
And they’ll complain loudly when they end up on tea for women or similar sites in the blacklist section.
These are children we’re talking about, they lack the ability for critical thinking.
Unfortunately society often sees them as a lucrative market segment and not as someone to protect from themselves.
And yet if one gets pregnant, parenthood is forced upon them
Don’t forget, high schools have students who are legal adults.
Many adults lack the ability for critical thinking.
I feel like everyone is talking about these glasses and I’ve never seen anyone wearing them. Not saying it’s not happening but I think it’s a US thing
Is it just a power of glasses with plastic lenses and a camera or do they actually have any other features, because if it’s just a camera then they’re really isn’t any legitimate market.
They aren’t actually all that common, especially outside the US, but you probably also wouldn’t notice them: https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/travel-products/a69461056/ray-ban-meta-glasses-review/ https://www.techradar.com/computing/virtual-reality-augmented-reality/ray-ban-meta-smart-glasses-collection-review
They just look like glasses if you’re not looking closely. You have to specifically look for the camera or the big arms.
