RayBan are being sued for covert Luxury Surveillance
06.03.2026 22:20
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RayBan are being sued for covert Luxury Surveillance
Glad for Android users, may they protect us all
I’m especially annoyed at @luxottica.bsky.social who made the RayBan frames for Meta glasses impossible to distinguish from regular glasses. Glad they’re being sued for this.
OpenAI posted the terms of the deal. Reveals that it absolutely does allow for domestic surveillance. EO 12333 is how the NSA hides its domestic surveillance by capturing communications by tapping into lines *outside the US* even if it contains info from/on US persons.
openai.com/index/our-ag...
if you believe in any form of free enterprise at all, the idea that the Pentagon can not only cut off your contract but designate you a supply chain risk and prevent other companies from buying from you just because you won't build killbots for the government should be terrifying
Politics is the defining aspect of networked technology. AT corresponds best to the kind of institutional structure that is key to large scale democracy. AP is a better match for smaller, village-style governance, which is very valid but not the problem I care about.
remember in school when we learned about monopolies lol so quaint
Now that CNN and WBD are set to become state media in a sale to Paramount/Oracle/TikTok, it is especially important to support independent media.
Off the top of my head:
www.thehandbasket.co
404media.co
www.garbageday.email
Add your favorites in the replies. Fuck state-backed media monopolies.
This is a brilliant @dylangyauchl.bsky.social essay in @newrepublic.com about why the 'abundance agenda' people spend way, way more time helping big tech and data centres than they do helping enable transit, more housing and clean energy - packed with LOTS of good info
now thats a response
David Noble, The Religion of Technology
I have not even heard of it! Thank you for this.
I have read William Gibson and Ursula LeGuin and Card and Levy and so much other science fiction but nowhere have I found a compelling artistic vision of what the internet could be if it was good and fair and beautiful.
Does this exist? A vision of what we want, rather than what we don’t want?
Thanks for writing this up David. We did, indeed, get this going six years ago in the UK when few were listening. But it’s not too late to course correct like the Swiss, dump Palantir, and buy something else. For loads of state applications, not just health…
There is so much pent up demand for joy and to believe in the future.
Cartoon. Person says to other person „We invented a robot that answers questions.“, adding, „we just have to feed it 10 baby giraffes a day“. The other person asks „But it answers the questions correctly?“ Person responds „Oh my goodness, no. No no no no no.“ By Aram J. French Appropriated due to missing alt text
Another Guardian story on Substack hosting Nazi newsletters.
Here's something I wish more academics knew: There's a Cambrian explosion happening in atproto world. Where your data is yours. New apps every week. Including @leaflet.pub, a blogging platform, newsletter functionality coming soon. 1/3
Did you make this? I love it
An image with 2 panels. In the first it compares a tiny planet Mercury to the enormous sun. The second looks like the first, but in this case it's a tiny button to close a popup, and an enormous fingertip.
I will ha.. strongly dislike your popup when:
- Escape doesn't close it
- Clicking the background doesn't close it
- The close button is sized like this
Once we make all social media interoperable, our next mission has to be tupperware lids
wow, Google, way to make me not trust you. I'm signing into a gmail I don't use very often and fair enough making me get a code by SMS as well as by the secondary email address you already have but sneaking in 'tells us your address for ad targetting' in the account recovery is an utter dark pattern
@leaypi.bsky.social Free is a beautiful book ❤️
You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test
Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs)
Good tech.
Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales)
Bad tech.
This is how I learned the UK government was offering AI training
The short version. They wanted to use scenes from the movie in their video for "One," but they could not get it licensed. So they just brought the entire movie themselves. Now it's owned by the band.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM8b...
Sick, thanks for sharing
What’s the Metallica story?
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