Zuckerberg can keep his dystopian digital world and shove it. My digital world is free of surveillance and doesn't require AI anything - let alone glasses.
this post was submitted on 31 Jul 2025
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My digital world is free of surveillance
I dig the sentiment, but here you are posting via ActivityPub which by its very design is not going to be free of surveillance. Corporations are scarfing our comments up to train their shitty LLMs.
You probably also send other people emails and text, after which you no longer control what happens with your message.
Training LLMs is not surveillance. As long as the platform doesn't need to know who I am I'm good.
(Though I wish it wasn't used by capitalists for anything, obviously)
That's exactly what someone selling AI glasses would say
Putting his name behind something makes it less trustworthy.
Zuck says a lot of things. Reprinting his sales pitches as news is a disservice.
I don't want an advantage. I want to sit on a log in the forest, listen to the birds chirp, and eat snacks.
Go zuck yourself fuckerberg
codeberg
The glasses let users listen to music, take photos or videos, and ask Meta AI questions...
so... there is no benefit to wearing them.
i would love a new technology that does something groundbreaking (though only if it has an open source equivalent; im not buying anything from facebook), but this doesnt seem like it.
There's hardly anything left. Anything developed now is for BUSINESS LINE GO UP ADD MORE FEATURES because its all been done, we have perfected computing 15 years ago. All this is just slop features for the rich to get richer off our data. Every single new tech "innovation" is for surveillance and capitalism/fascism.
Really the iPhone was the last actual innovative tech thing to be "invented". The only thing left now is better energy production, and maybe health advances.
I agree tech bro wise completely. But there's all sorts of Engineering strides to come still. Plenty we don't yet know about.
But computing has been a solved problem for many years on all but the most intense levels. Since then silicon valley has been desperately trying to hang on to their former glory days like a has-been football player in his 50s
Something tells me that Meta's smart glasses won't have a billboard, signage and poster blocking feature....
I did mention one possible use and people freaked out. Imagine an AR overlay where you’re at a gala or business function and you can pull up people’s names or LI profile to better know them when chatting. Or say at a sportsball game where it could give you stats of the people on the field as they’re playing (sports nerds love that sort of shit). There are many uses for AR but I don’t think this meta approach is even close to correct.
"Anyone who's not in the metaverse will be at a disadvantage in the future"
-Zuck, a while back, probably.
Kiss your privacy goodbye when someone with these on looks at you if you're not wearing a mask, you've just been geolocated.
Also as soon as Apple copies this you are going to see them everywhere in the West, the only thing holding it back now is no one cares about a Meta product.
Metaverse? Smart Glasses? Didn't this nonsense come and go ten years ago?
I always remember this strip
And people without a million dollars in the bank will be disadvantaged in the future too, but here we are.
I'd actually prefer to see Godot games/apps for cardboard developed, now that's so easy to do it
"Gargoyles represent the embarrassing side of the Central Intelligence Corporation. Instead of using laptops, they wear their computers on their bodies, broken up into separate modules that hang on the waist, on the back, on the headset. They serve as human surveillance devices, recording everything that happens around them. Nothing looks stupider; these getups are the modern-day equivalent of the slide-rule scabbard or the calculator pouch on the belt, marking the user as belonging to a class that is at once above and far below human society. They are a boon to Hiro because they embody the worst stereotype of the CIC stringer. They draw all of the attention. The payoff for this self-imposed ostracism is that you can be in the Metaverse all the time, and gather intelligence all the time."
One of the best books.
What book? The passage above seems great. Kind of Terry Pratchett–esque
Snowcrash.
Not just a disadvantage, a cognitive disadvantage. @grok is this true?????????? my critical thinking skills have atrophied to nothing now that i rely on ai, i need u gronk
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I don't know. Not getting punched in the face has it's advantages.
Remind me how many hot dinners he could have fed starving children instead of funding the Metaverse project?
Zero. Because he would have donated the money to a war mongering state instead.
Rich man who had [stole] one good idea desperately tries to sell his next stupid product.
Is not being shoved ads in my face a disadvantage?
Going by the thumbnail, it looks like an ad from MAD magazine for spy glasses.
Oh wait…
What the hell does he know about real life and disadvantages? I’ll be without them for life. At least anything Meta or the like have a hand in. Poor me. 😄
I recently saw someone post that the stuff Zuck comes up with shows has no friends. I'm starting to believe that to be true.
(slaps forehead) Of course! People without AI glasses will miss out on all those free knuckle sandwiches that people with AI glasses will be offered everywhere they go!
And why should anyone care what he says?
I'll be fine without your stupid glasses douche bag, thanks anyway
I have perfect eye sight, can they make a buttplug version?
Something something, Sugarmountain tries to push a project again that will probably fail, like so many before.
Is that because of the free surgery he's going to give everyone who wears his obnoxious AI glasses and then subsequently gets punched in the face? Is that why we're going to be at a disadvantage, Mark?
Tell you what, Mark, you finally let your daughters make Facebook accounts, and I'll put on your glasses to chat with them on Facebook and I'll tell them all about their precious Daddy and his many deeds.
Would be a shame if someone kill him
/s
It would t be a shame.
So he's saying one day it may make sense to get one? Great sales pitch.
if they are cheap , have unloackable bootloader , and does not required any propitiatory service like systemmd to run specific apps then i am all for it and if they will be that good i dont mind replacing the androids with this if the batteries dont blast out of nowhere
I’m all for wearables if I can have battery that last a week, a month else it is just nonsense.