“Most people seem to have no idea he’s wearing anything other than normal eyeglasses.”
Which will apply to him and the other 7 million and rising wearers of Meta Ray-Bans
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I don't know anyone who has these, I never see anyone using them.
Who is buying them and where are they going?
@futurebird me neither but I am sure as hell on the lookout for them now
@urlyman @futurebird This might be useful.
…Meta Ray-Bans are a form of assault
@urlyman a vendor at a cooperative mall was evicted because he refused to stop wearing his. He was creeping other vendors out by photographing them without consent and talking about how he was trying to cover the video recording light. I can only imagine how customers felt when he focused on them and touched his glasses.
He and a bunch of his (old, Republican-voting) buddies tried to bury the mall with one-star reviews, all complaining that the management were "against new technology and progress".
@AbramKedge @urlyman Reminds me that Pelicot in France was first investigated for his crimes after getting caught trying to take pictures up women's skirts at the mall. That led to the discovery of his much larger crimes. Wonder what else that guy at your mall was up to.
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spanners may be used to hit people on the head.
But if your wheel needs changing you'd regret the weapon being banned.
People commit assaults, other indiscretions, torts, crimes.
Machines, as yet, do not.
My daughter's use case - steady recording ahead from atop a horse - seems rather a good one.
Possibly the frames should be orange stripes or some such.
@Photo55 technology is not neutral, it is deterministic. That some people put extremely dangerous ideas to good use does not change the overall determinism
@Photo55 comes to the same thing
@urlyman it does not. You may consider it as a line of progression, but it is not an identity.
Also, assault is assault. Taking photographs or movies may be an invasion of privacy, can be ill-mannered, might be a tort, could be part of a crime.
But is not assault. That's a well-understood word which has particular careful usage which needs preserving.
@Photo55 my post is a polemic, a metaphor. I make no apology for it.
I also tend to think that Go-Pros on cycle helmets are a bad idea
@urlyman oh well, that's all right then, as would be any consequences to others.
Metaphor?
I'm recall someone claiming that a fork is a metaphor. For a fork.
It didn't seem to me a useful use of language. #metaphork
