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Folks, it's happened. AI has become *so* smart that it knows how to intentionally sabotage a live product demos by Mark Zuckerberg and leave him helplessly flailing...
Folks, it's happened. AI has become *so* smart that it knows how to intentionally sabotage a live product demos by Mark Zuckerberg and leave him helplessly flailing...
The new smart glasses by #Meta is actually some cool tech, and pretty close to what I've always envisioned and wanted since about a decade ago.. but no way should you be buying that type of shit, anything with cameras or mics really, from Meta lmao. Gotta wait for that sort of tech to trickle down into products from #Apple or maybe even #Valve?? (that'd be REALLY cool - if they'd like to expand their hw offerings beyond gaming).
🔗 https://www.meta.com/ai-glasses/meta-ray-ban-display
The new smart glasses by #Meta is actually some cool tech, and pretty close to what I've always envisioned and wanted since about a decade ago.. but no way should you be buying that type of shit, anything with cameras or mics really, from Meta lmao. Gotta wait for that sort of tech to trickle down into products from #Apple or maybe even #Valve?? (that'd be REALLY cool - if they'd like to expand their hw offerings beyond gaming).
🔗 https://www.meta.com/ai-glasses/meta-ray-ban-display
I give a fiver each month to the wonderful FOSS-type things below:
- Signal (killing Meta's WhatsApp)
- Libre Office (slaying Microsoft's 365)
- GrapheneOS (kicking Google Stock Android in the goolies)
If you use any of these - and you can afford to - why not set up a monthly dontation to the wonderful organisations above.
#Signal #LibreOffice #GrapheneOS #Meta #Microsoft #Google #WhatsApp #Android
Google Secretly Handed ICE Data About Pro-Palestine Student Activist
Google handed over Gmail account information to ICE before notifying the student or giving him an opportunity to challenge the subpoena.
https://theintercept.com/2025/09/16/google-facebook-subpoena-ice-students-gaza/
#google #gmail #meta #ice #privacy #surveillance #enshittification #dystopia #technology
I give a fiver each month to the wonderful FOSS-type things below:
- Signal (killing Meta's WhatsApp)
- Libre Office (slaying Microsoft's 365)
- GrapheneOS (kicking Google Stock Android in the goolies)
If you use any of these - and you can afford to - why not set up a monthly dontation to the wonderful organisations above.
#Signal #LibreOffice #GrapheneOS #Meta #Microsoft #Google #WhatsApp #Android
Google Secretly Handed ICE Data About Pro-Palestine Student Activist
Google handed over Gmail account information to ICE before notifying the student or giving him an opportunity to challenge the subpoena.
https://theintercept.com/2025/09/16/google-facebook-subpoena-ice-students-gaza/
#google #gmail #meta #ice #privacy #surveillance #enshittification #dystopia #technology
This comic 👆 by @span jensorensen sums it up perfectly when it comes to decisions for or against certain social media networks. Let's do better!
Our #SocialMediaMatrix helps communications managers weigh up the options:
https://social-media-matrix.king-consult.de/index-en.html
#SocialMedia#responsibility#Fediverse#Instagram#Meta#X#Twitter#Threads#Facebook#TikTok#WissKomm #Bundestag#DigitalSovereignty#Demokratie #TagderDemokratie #DemocracyDay#SciComm#Science#Communication
Perhaps unsurprisingly, threads.com seems increasingly broken from an #ActivityPub perspective; subscriptions to external accounts frequently fail, and it is not picking up posts from certain user accounts.
I know, many of you will be unsurprised or even quite happy this is the case, but it is not good. #Meta should not get a free pass on this.
🥸 Meta bypassed Apple privacy protections, claims former employee / 9to5mac
｢ A “closed and secretive” team at Meta is alleged to have used “deterministic matching” — gathering identifiable information that could then be used to connect data across multiple platforms in violation of Apple’s new privacy policies ｣
🤯 Instagram is testing new iOS push notifications that include a profile photo. Each time the notification is shown on your screen, it triggers a GET request to fetch that image, letting Meta track every on-screen impression.
The app still misuses push notifications to send detailed device analytics about the device (uptime, battery, volume, locale, timezone, memory, CPU, etc.)
Latest comic on the convenience of making less ethical choices
This comic 👆 by @span jensorensen sums it up perfectly when it comes to decisions for or against certain social media networks. Let's do better!
Our #SocialMediaMatrix helps communications managers weigh up the options:
https://social-media-matrix.king-consult.de/index-en.html
#SocialMedia#responsibility#Fediverse#Instagram#Meta#X#Twitter#Threads#Facebook#TikTok#WissKomm #Bundestag#DigitalSovereignty#Demokratie #TagderDemokratie #DemocracyDay#SciComm#Science#Communication
🤯 Instagram is testing new iOS push notifications that include a profile photo. Each time the notification is shown on your screen, it triggers a GET request to fetch that image, letting Meta track every on-screen impression.
The app still misuses push notifications to send detailed device analytics about the device (uptime, battery, volume, locale, timezone, memory, CPU, etc.)
Australia’s plan to ban under-16s from using social media, including YouTube, has reignited debate over how best to protect kids online. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/09/14/world/banning-teens-from-youtube/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #australia #youtube #meta #australia #socialmedia #internet #google
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