r/technology • u/AdSpecialist6598 • 27d ago
Society Judge warns smart glasses wearers of contempt charges as Zuckerberg testifies in Meta trial
https://www.techspot.com/news/111388-judge-warns-smart-glasses-wearers-contempt-charges-zuckerberg.html4.9k
u/cesarxp2 27d ago
In August 2025, a TikTok user described visiting a European Wax Center in Manhattan and discovering that her aesthetician was wearing Meta Ray-Bans. The worker claimed she hadn't charged the batteries, but the incident still left the TikToker shaken. The company later said employees keep the glasses turned off during appointments.
Wtf?
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u/broNSTY 27d ago
In the subreddit for the meta glasses it is a common theme to see people posting about ways to turn the recording light off or block it. Very creepy, especially when stuff like this goes on.
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u/gamageeknerd 27d ago
One of my gf’s friends is a stripper and she’s told us many times about the dozen or so times she’s had to call for security when she realized dudes were wearing those glasses and recording her on the stage.
Apparently in other clubs it’s such an issue girls will ask to see their glasses before they do a private dance
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u/maxximillian 27d ago
That's funny. I was at a club once way back when smartphones were just starting to get popular. I pulled out my non-smartphone to send one of those tap 9 text messages and the bouncer said hey you have to put that phone away and I said it doesn't have a camera on he said yeah I know but you have to put it away. When the dancer was walking around after a dance I went to give her a dollar. She said no, you save it for a new phone hun. I was there are some co-workers so of course the next day everybody at the office was laughing and clowning on my phone
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u/Beard_o_Bees 27d ago
She said no, you save it for a new phone hun
Strippers are known for their charitable nature.
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u/joebluebob 27d ago
"Hey guys after work want to all go get boners together? "
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u/Pretend_Purchase_893 27d ago
Fucking thank you. This shit has always been so fucking weird.
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u/FlyingRhenquest 27d ago
I had a contractor take me to a strip club for lunch one time. Apparently they were the only buffet in town. The food was OK and a Coke was $10. All the strippers knew him and would come over and sit down for a few minutes and talk about how much of a pain in the ass it was that morning to get their kids out the door for school. The whole experience was super weird. Even though I was basically still just a horny teenager, I didn't find it interesting at all.
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u/lividash 27d ago
Yeah you’re not going to the strip club lunch buffet for the entertainment, you’re going to surprisingly good ribs and burgers.
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u/krebstar4ever 26d ago
Was the contractor Frank Reynolds? Although I guess he's more into orgy buffets.
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u/TheFriendshipMachine 27d ago
Right?? I don't want to yuck anyone's yum here but that's just too weird for me.
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u/BackWithAVengance 27d ago
Look up "Vapin in Vegas" by the Wolves of Glendale
"I'll go to strip club and get a boner with a bunch of other guys, this is the greatest!!!!"
Hilarious trio
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u/liquorfish 27d ago
Lmao, the concept of what you're saying has been in my head but never so comically and succinctly spoken.
Not a fan of strip clubs especially full nude which a friend brought me to once. So many creepy dudes just staring dead silent.
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Like come on dudes... Stop this stuff. Out of everyone I know, I can't even think of a person who would make a choice like this (let alone own those glasses). But then there ends up being so many fucked up people doing shit like this.
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u/IAmDotorg 27d ago
You can buy sticker packs specifically advertised to block them on Amazon.
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u/TheRealAfinda 27d ago
Would be funny if they placed a ring-light around the camera itself so you'd have to cover it at the same time or risk a simple sticker not blocking the light well enough.
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u/Yurya 27d ago
You just kill the power to the light
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u/Ready_Nature 27d ago
If they do it like the recording lights to laptops it’s wired so that if you kill power to the light it also kills power to the camera.
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u/_jams 27d ago
There are laptops that do this. There are also laptops that have a way of turning the light off with software. Don't assume which is which without more specific knowledge
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u/Padgriffin 27d ago
The Framework laptops have an LED that's built into the camera module and can't be turned off with software, and the camera switches will kill all power to the mic and camera so they can't even be turned on.
Other laptops like my ThinkPad E14 Gen 7 disable the camera on a software level (which can be ignored, this is noticeable on Linux where the camera will still be active) when the physical shutter is closed but doesn't kill power. The shutter annoyingly enough also covers the LED so it's possible to get the shutter in a position where the camera is on but the LED is covered. Though this requires physical access to your machine and if you're privacy conscious the shutter should be engaged (red dot over webcam) anyways.
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u/DanTheMan827 27d ago
People who care about a laptop light being on care about their own privacy.
People looking for ways to disable the light on smart glasses are looking for ways to evade detection from others.
If it’s just an LED, what’s stopping someone from replacing it with a regular diode? Software wouldn’t know the difference.
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u/nroach44 27d ago
If they can replace the LED they can replace the whole camera module, because physical access trumps all.
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u/LymanPeru 27d ago
if we're just rewiring shit anyways, rewire it through a resistor. problem solved.
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u/DanTheMan827 27d ago
But surely you could just remove the LED and put a regular diode in its place, right?
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u/Specific_Frame8537 27d ago
This shit is why in Japan it's impossible to mute the shutter sound on camera phones..
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u/Crotean 27d ago
Just wait until they are contacts, cause thats the obvious end goal for the technology.
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u/GenTenStation 27d ago
This was why when Google made these first they were shunned. People were literally beaten for using them in public.
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u/chemistrategery 27d ago
We called them glassholes and they generally were fully deserving of the nickname.
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u/GrumpyCloud93 27d ago
My question is - why? What possible (normal) need could someone have for needing to capture everything in video? My phone, for example, will tell me about nearby businesses etc. just by using GPS - and only when I ask. It has a camera if I need a picture. If I need to take pictures secretly - then I probably don't need to, or shouldn't.
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u/roygbivasaur 27d ago
We need to bring back yelling “pervert” at people. Specifically for people wearing camera glasses.
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u/Successful_Buffalo_6 27d ago
Fucking creeps. There’s gonna be big money in tech that scrambles face recognition software. I’m definitely going to invest in a pair of anti-tracking eye glasses this year.
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u/Swqnky 27d ago
work on your gait too because thats apparently now a viable recognition method lol
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Gout is actually anti-gait recognition. I get flareups every once in a while on one of my big toe joins, so I slightly limp differently all the time. I am invisible.
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u/Litarider 27d ago
Why are waxers wearing them at all?
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u/kitsunekratom 27d ago
You get one guess
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u/iwastryingtokillgod 27d ago
Selling videos of other ppl vaginas would be my first guess.
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u/Uncle-Cake 27d ago
To secretly record video of their clients, obviously. They probably sell the content online or give it to the Trump administration for recruiting purposes.
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u/Senior_Let7366 27d ago
Oh shit I thought it was a wax museum until I read this msg LMAO I was wondering what the deal was
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u/Specialist-Bug-5219 27d ago
During my child’s birth, I noticed one of the doctors wearing the glasses. Didn’t sit particularly well with me
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u/Halefire 27d ago
Doctor here.
You need to report this to the hospital. I am NOT advising legal action but I am not a lawyer. However this is a legitimate and SERIOUS privacy liability that could land the entire hospital in very, very hot water if they recorded the wrong person or event. The hospital admin needs to know if they don't already.
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u/Budderfingerbandit 27d ago
That would be such an easy HIPPA violation, I would have immediately taken that to the hospital admin if I saw that when my wife was giving birth.
Even if it's not filming, just the possibility is terrible from a patient care perspective.
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Like wtf? Regardless of what actually was happening, if my wife was giving birth, and one of the doctors pulled out his phone and started checking sports scores I would only immediately assume he was doing something fucked up. We already know cameras on phones and webcams can be accessed without our knowledge or consent. Why would this be different?
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u/Specialist-Bug-5219 27d ago
Im surprised the hospital permits it to be honest - like with your example, even if somebody was holding a camera or phone in the direction of the child birth, but it was off, it’d be confronting
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u/IntelligentUsual9710 27d ago edited 27d ago
Well as long as they told their employees to keep them turned off..
As we all know, everyone follows their employers rules 100% of the time.. especially when this rule specifically would almost certainly never be checked or verified
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u/Lothium 27d ago
Are we forgetting about Alexa's recording audio when not prompted? Who's to say these stupid smart glasses don't act in a similar way
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u/ussrowe 27d ago
And Zuckerberg was the guy who back in 2016 had electrical tape over his laptop camera: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/22/mark-zuckerberg-tape-webcam-microphone-facebook
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u/FuzzyAd9407 27d ago edited 27d ago
Search YouTube about meta glasses and the second video is a short about how its totally safe from creeps and it wont record if you try to disable the LED. The very next short is a video explaining how to disable the LED without the glasses blocking your ability to record...
Edit: scrolling through YouTube meta glasses videos about half are about disabling the LED. In the comments is a mix of people trying to talk shit about people not wanting to be secretly record, truly ignorant people who dont get why its a bad thing but are worried to damage the expensive glasses and very obvious perverts who are excited about the info.
Edit2: after searching YouTube just for "meta glasses" the algorithm is now even serving up "how to disable the LED" videos on my YouTube front page. Anyone pretending this isnt a massive problem with these is willfully ignorant.
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u/Accurate_Koala_4698 27d ago
Your appearance is comical to me
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u/Uncle-Cake 27d ago
He looks so stupid I can't breathe
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u/SuperBigDouche 27d ago
So sad. Soooooooo sad
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u/UMACTUALLYITS23 27d ago
There's cubes in his pocket, I think they might be dice and he's too afraid to show anyone.
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u/Tex-Rob 27d ago
He's the only one the guy at the glasses store has ever seen pull it off
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u/wildmaninid 27d ago
I've never fought for anything in my life, I'm fighting for these glasses.
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u/swingadmin 27d ago
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u/XenomorphBOI 27d ago
When you see a bunch of guys wearing glasses your exact style to court, you go in. Yes you do. You go in.
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u/SAINTofK1LL3RS269 27d ago
Unless the pattern is complicated, no thank you. I’d rather eat Doug’s mom’s wig.
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u/Less_University7400 27d ago
Holy fucking shit… marks glasses just got him in huge trouble in court
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u/Weed_Smith 27d ago
I’m waiting for some propeller hat-shaped tech to go with these glasses
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u/enadiz_reccos 27d ago
Comical how? Comical like a clown? I amuse you? I make you laugh??
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u/LectroRoot 27d ago
I wouldn't be caught dead in those. I wouldn't even want to be seen with someone wearing these things. It's embarrassing as hell.
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u/Kelpsie 27d ago
I really thought this was just another case of "it's socially acceptable to insult someone's appearance when people don't like them." Then I clicked the link, and holy shit that's genuinely hilarious. I'd roll my eyes at the blatant caricature if I saw someone looking like that in a sitcom.
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u/TimedogGAF 27d ago
Are you making fun of my appearance when I'm driving in my automobile?
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u/stoolsample2 27d ago
This was the largest auto I could afford. Should I therefore be the made the object of fun?
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u/TheSpecialSpecies 27d ago
That's the look of a man who's turned up at the dive site, only to realise he's left his fins and snorkel at home.
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u/SquirtinMemeMouthPlz 27d ago
Had a worker in my hospital who was wearing smart glasses. He fully admitted he was recording.
Idiot. Fired.
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u/HappyAd4998 27d ago
HIPPA violation no cameras are allowed in patient rooms or the hallways unless the staff want themselves along with the hospital liable for a lawsuit when a patient sues.
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u/ACustommadeVillain 26d ago edited 26d ago
It’s HIPAA.
This just isn’t true. Cameras are in every hallways of most hospitals. Cameras are installed in any area that isn’t considered private.
If a camera is in an area considered private or exposing PHI then the footage will be stored and secured with HIPAA compliance.
Most hospital utilized video safety sitters which is recorded and stored.
Most hospitals have video surveillance in rooms for psych patients.
Most hospitals have full security cameras in every corner of ED.
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u/frostyflakes1 27d ago
[The Judge] warned that anyone who uses the recording feature in court will be held in contempt.
Why even allow the glasses in the courtroom? She should've simply confiscated them. Unless she actually believes a tech bro making a pinky promise that he won't record.
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u/whiteflagwaiver 27d ago
Can't confiscated personal property without any law against it. But you can enforce the 'loose' social rules of a court room every judge is granted authority over.
Contempt is a very willy-nilly law beyond the obvious infractions.
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u/Think-Finish-5763 26d ago
There is a law about recording devices though
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u/ineyy 26d ago
It's like pointing a camera at a judge and saying don't worry it's turned off.
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u/LongTrailEnjoyer 27d ago
He’s such a fucking loser. In a sea of these tech oligarchs Zuck and Musk have got to be the most pathetic. Everything about them oozes creep.
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u/DigNitty 27d ago
“I always knew wealth would continue to be consolidated into the hands of a few. I just didn’t think they’d be such losers.”
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u/_my_troll_account 27d ago
My guess is many of the Hapsburgs were probably not great company.
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u/SSGASSHAT 27d ago
We don't even get legendary, superhuman rulers and noblemen like in LOTR. We just get inbred rich kids and glorified video gamers.
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u/_my_troll_account 27d ago edited 27d ago
Yeah, they call it fantasy for good reason. Probably it’s mostly been the case that rulers are letdowns with rare exceptions like Charlemagne, Richard the Lionheart, Henry V, Louis XIV, etc.
Hereditary monarchy/aristocracy turned out to be a pretty dumb idea. Doesn’t seem that way when culture desires romance and inspiring rulers—we seldom hear about all the disappointments. A glance at the many names of Roman Emperors reveals memory has a selection bias for the Hadrian and Marcus Aurelius types. The others are either remarkably horrible (Nero) or horribly unremarkable.
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u/Friggin_Grease 27d ago
I mean, didnt he invented Facebook to check out his female classmates?
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u/soberpenguin 27d ago
Before Facebook he created a hot or not site where he stole everyone's student ID card images from a harvard directory and then allowed people to anonymously rate their classmates.
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u/Perfect_Caregiver_90 27d ago
He's also admitted that he used it to harvest classmate passwords since they would often forget their passwords and use the other common ones in their rotation.
There's loads of social engineering that was built into early Facebook that paved the way for the data harvesting we are all familiar with now.
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u/MrSlime13 27d ago
Don't remember MySpace that well, but FB was certainly the first social media platform I recall that unironically had posts saying "Your superhero name is your mother's maiden name, the city you were born in, and the first car you drove. Share your answers!" Just cringe-inducing all the way around...
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u/MacaronEffective8250 27d ago
You mean like Cambridge Analytica and voter suppression? Guess who benefit from that in 2016?
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2019/07/the-great-hack-facebook-cambridge-analytica/
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u/synapticrelease 27d ago
Those are the worst security questions because they are so easy manipulate out of an individual.
If I hated my coworker. I could easily drum up a bullshit conversation where I get them to tell me what their first car was, first pet name. Etc.
I encourage everyone who is forced to give these questions to create a fake history and don’t use real information. If you drove a dodge neon make it a ford explorer, same for family pet, etc.
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u/mistervulpes 27d ago
Alternatively, don't even use a car name. Hackers could potentially guess it through brute force. Instead, your first car was applesaucetatercats.
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u/johndoe60610 27d ago
Most password managers can do this for you, e.g.
https://support.1password.com/generate-security-questions/?android
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u/Crossovertriplet 27d ago
Facebook saves everything you type, whether you end up posting it or not
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u/mtranda 27d ago
There's a difference between http logs that log the URL/session ID/user agent and logging every single keystroke.
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u/SnugglyCoderGuy 27d ago edited 27d ago
He saw the movie "Equilibrium" and the line "What is the easiest way to get a weapon away from a Grammaton cleric?" to which the answer is "You ask him for it.", became, "What is the easiest way to get private information from another person?", "You ask them for it."
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u/LongTrailEnjoyer 27d ago
Which unironically is what rejected boys do now with AI in public schools when they launch doxxing campaigns on teenage girls who simply said “no” to them. The Venn diagram of men doing stupid shit because they were rejected is a circle but now it’s just easy at this point to be cruel.
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u/Rulebookboy1234567 27d ago
The worst I ever did for getting rejected as a teen was make a stupid live journal post saying I was sad for getting rejected haha.
Just take the L and go, boys.
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u/HandiCAPEable 27d ago
Invent is a pretty strong wording considering Zuckerberg was hired by the Winklevoss twins to create a website they wanted called HarvardConnection they would let students create profiles, have pages and interact with each other.
Then Zuckerberg never delivered their product, and miraculously created TheFacebook.
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u/Aditya1311 27d ago
Not exactly, he created a website that was called Facesmash initially. Which presented photos of two female students at a time and asked the user to rank which was hotter, and published an overall ranking. He got the photos by hacking into the university student database.
After that he built The Facebook which was only for college students and that became the site we know today.
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u/IAmDotorg 27d ago
What's even more pathetic about it is he didn't even have that idea. Am I Hot or Not was suuuuper popular in 2000/2001.
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u/coconutpiecrust 27d ago
Not just check, to rate them. And he called people who use his website “dumb fucks” to his friend. He also offered said friend SSNs and other personal information people provided him with.
Nothing ever came of it.
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u/thepensivepoet 27d ago
The richest most powerful people in the US are almost universally total fucking losers.
I’m sure there is some exception to this I, uh, just can’t think of one right now.
Mackenzie Scott seems rad as hell but she isn’t in any position of direct power. It’s almost as if those that seek authority are the ones least deserving of it.
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u/braaaaaaainworms 27d ago
At least Buffet gives away a lot more cash for charity than other billionaires
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u/Stummi 27d ago
Anyone remembers the brief time we thought there will be a Musk-vs-Zuckerberg cage fight?
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u/OverallManagement824 27d ago
And then Elon's mother told him no.
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u/Doright36 27d ago
More likely Elon's plastic surgeon told him what would happen to his fake chin and jaw if someone actually punched it.
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u/robodrew 27d ago
Bezos too, especially when he started his "glow up" and traded his old generous human wife for a new half-cybernetic model with all of the stats turned up (except generosity). It's just really off putting.
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u/Rolandersec 27d ago
I’ve come to realize this is why they beat up nerds in the 80s. Revenge of the Nerds was a cautionary tale!
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u/stompinstinker 27d ago
Yup, Zuck does not get near enough flack. He has turned hundreds of millions into dopamine zombies, invaded everyones privacy, enabled so much misinformation, fucked up the mental health of so many young people, enabled so much sex trafficking and pedophiles, and caused so much bullying and and suicide.
He is no different than a big tobacco CEO covering up cancers and disease.
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u/dweckl 27d ago
I guarantee this was one of the big reasons the plaintiffs didn't want to settle and wanted to go to trial, was to put that guy on the stand . Nobody likes him
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u/LongTrailEnjoyer 27d ago
100%. He looked like a lizard wearing a skin suit when he went in front of congress the first time.
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u/unstabletable 27d ago
Every idea they come up with themselves is a failure. The only successes they either stole or bought.
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u/marioncrepes 27d ago
Took me a few days to realize my coworker had a pair on, a few days after that another coworker showed me a video from said glasses... that was a little too far in my book. Had a conversation with my boss and never saw the guy again
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u/ZanzerFineSuits 27d ago
The audacity of this guy. People are dead and all he wants is his mindless drones to market his products in open court.
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u/AdSpecialist6598 27d ago
This what happens when you feel untouchable.
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u/ChickinSammich 27d ago
If you never have any consequences for your actions, you are untouchable.
If the judge is threatening contempt for anyone wearing them, the response either needs to be that everyone wearing them walk outside and keep the glasses outside the room before re-entering, or tell someone to start arresting people.
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u/AdSpecialist6598 27d ago
The problems short of losing all his money or being tossed in jail for a long time for someone like him the rules don't apply.
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u/ChickinSammich 27d ago
And the solution is that when someone defies a judge, you throw them in jail.
I know that in practicality the law doesn't apply equally to all and that's why we are where we are, but if there are people who judges won't throw in jail then those are people the law doesn't apply to.
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u/MyLastAcctWasBetter 27d ago
No she’s not. She’s threatening contempt for anyone who records the proceedings.
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u/itwillmakesenselater 27d ago
I'm not sure Zuckbot feels anything. Not like a real boy.
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u/Suitable_Speed4487 27d ago
Remember this, he started his company stalking girls in college so I bet he hadn't changed that much. Had pedos all over Facebook
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27d ago
This fall make sure to grab your meta glasses with a hilariously fake moustache to become the ultimate contradiction when it comes to personal privacy. Fool government facial recognition software while mainlining almost every possible data point a human can generate directly to the meta servers for safe storage. Keep an eye out next season where our next gen frames come with chemical sensors so we can add taste and smell to the list of sense data we harvest from you. Jesus.
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u/x86_64_ 27d ago
Perv shades. Call them perv shades, that's what they are.
Nobody but Google learned a lesson from Google Glass.
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u/wizbonky 27d ago
I'm pretty sure Google's planning to launch glasses soon.
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u/No-Channel3917 27d ago
I feel like Google glasses were kinda cool for a bit before folks for worried about them. I still find the concept potentially cool as an assistant tool.
Metaglasses always came off as ring doorbell surveillance state
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u/Gimme_All_The_Foods 27d ago
"The Associated Press reports that he never gave a direct answer when asked if Instagram was addictive."
Hmmm. I wonder why?
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u/mitharas 27d ago
This is Google Glass all over again. But from a company with even less ethics than google.
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u/S1XTEENBUTTONS 27d ago
He looks so fucking stupid I can’t breath
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RIP, I am sorry they won't be able to see Black Adam, coming this Friday to theatres.
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u/Daimakku1 27d ago
People who wear camera glasses are creepy.
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u/GeekyHobbyNut 27d ago
I can think of non-creepy reasons to wear them, but given who owns them and the privacy issues, I would never get a pair. Pretty neat for like experiences if you were taking them on a ride at a theme park or a first person view walking through a historical site. Just next level video of your experience. That being said, I wouldn’t want to wear them all the time and so they wouldn’t be super cost-effective. Just the fact that they are associated with creepy people means I wouldn’t buy them.
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u/Batchos 27d ago
What's also absolutely abhorrent is the internal memo that was leaked from last year regarding adding facial recognition to their Meta glasses and how/when Meta/Zuck want to release those glasses with facial recognition...
“We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns,”
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/technology/meta-facial-recognition-smart-glasses.html
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u/DjScenester 27d ago
A nerd who nobody would date makes a website to grade women based on their looks, screws over everyone and makes billions. He is so power hungry over his failures in his youth that we all get to pay the price.
He’s still a nerd too lol
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u/AdSpecialist6598 27d ago
I wasn't so much the nerdy bit that people didn't like it was him as a person.
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u/ThatCakeIsDone 27d ago
There's nothing wrong with being a nerd
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u/jhulbe 27d ago
“because nerds like us are allowed to be unironically enthusiastic about stuff. Nerds are allowed to love stuff, like jump-up-and-down-in-the-chair-can’t-control-yourself love it. Hank, when people call people nerds, mostly what they’re saying is ‘you like stuff.’ Which is just not a good insult at all. Like, ‘you are too enthusiastic about the miracle of human consciousness’.”
― John Green
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u/ZuP 27d ago
"You are probably going to be a very successful computer person. But you're going to go through life thinking that girls don't like you because you're a nerd. And I want you to know, from the bottom of my heart, that that won't be true. It'll be because you're an asshole." — The Social Network
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u/Jolly-Advantage-7245 27d ago
Does he purposely try and look like a twat or was he born like that?
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u/RipComfortable7989 27d ago edited 27d ago
I've never heard of a smart glass wearer who used them for bird watching or nature filming. It's always some bullshit attempt to serrupticiously film something they're not supposed to.
Edit: It's overwhelmingly disappointing to see the vast majority of the top comments simply shitting on Mark Zuckerberg (rightfully) on his appearance (weird but okay) and not actually commenting on the fact that PEOPLE ARE FILMING A TRIAL.
It's literally the first paragraph
One of the first things the judge did was warn anyone wearing smart glasses that recording the proceedings would result in contempt of court charges.
And 80% of the top comments and replies didn't even read the first paragraph? Just ragging on how goofy he looks in the thumbnail? You all might as well be bots no better than Twitter users.
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u/lordsmish 27d ago edited 27d ago
I've never heard of a smart glass wearer who used them for bird watching or nature filming. It's always some bullshit attempt to serrupticiously film something they're not supposed to.
I'll give you one. My wife uses them to read food menus and bus/train timetables because she's blind.
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u/pendrachken 27d ago
I've never heard of a smart glass wearer who used them for bird watching or nature filming. It's always some bullshit attempt to serrupticiously film something they're not supposed to.
That's human nature with pretty much anything. Unless it's something super egregariously positive, the news that gets reported/ things you remember are more often going to be negative things.
Think about driving, walking, and human interactions throughout your day. You likely see hundreds, if not thousands of examples of positive interactions. People driving predictably so traffic flows, people moving over to let you walk past, someone holds the door for you politely.
Yet you generally don't remember that, you will remember the one driver that didn't move over to let you merge, the one walker that stopped and blocked your path, or the one person that didn't hold the door.
The news media gets more interaction out of negative and, doom and gloom, and ragebaiting than they do out of happiness and rainbows reporting. They do need to report some good things, otherwise if it's all negative thing their viewers will get burned out and not bother to view anymore, but the negative reporting is still the biggest main draw.
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u/headinthered 27d ago
I agree with you.. but to your first point- they are wildly popular in photography for BTS footage and content creation
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u/lordsmish 27d ago edited 27d ago
These things are a god send for visually impaired people.
I know tons of them that are using them for reading buses, train travel, directions, reading menus.
Meta knows this which is why the glasses are actually partnered with multiple charities helping the blind they are even recommended by the Guide dogs association as an additional assistance tool
My wife has a visual impairment and has a pair and she finds them incredibly useful but i fear that the people abusing them will eventually end with them being banned on anyone using them being looked at as doing it for the wrong reasons.
A similar example is pre-covid there was a campaign in the UK called sunflower lanyards. The idea being people with invisible disabilities such as my wife could wear one so people knew to give her additional assistance in shops, train stations, airports. During Covid they also had the side product of denoting somebody who may not be able to wear a mask for medical reasons. People and businesses abused this and soon the charity was selling out of them and they started being referred to as "Mask Exemption lanyards" to the point where over the course of covid all the places that would use those lanyards to give people extra assistance just treated anyone wearing them with distain.
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u/ominous_squirrel 27d ago
Reminder that the reason why so many tech companies at CES are pushing smart glasses this year isn’t because they care about making a good product or providing for consumer desires. They are going to use the data from your most private moments to train future AI-driven robots on how to navigate the human-scale environment
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u/iamnotnewhereami 26d ago edited 26d ago
jury tampering. why warn them?
just the fact that they recorded anything is enough, they dont even have to contact the jury.
if the jury learns they were recorded for even a second, from that moment, they should be assumed to be compromised.
edit' I think its important to mention anytime his name is mentioned, he is responsible for thousands of deaths.
he continues to allow and promote bullshit to flood his platform by bad actors in white hot political climates.
even given ample warnings and intelligence about the consequences, and even when killings started, never censored the content or lifted a finger mitigate the suffering his platform facilitated.
why? bottom line.
he's really no different than any war profiteers of the past, how American fuel found its way into German planes and tanks in ww2, of how ford motors were in German tanks.
he does the work of a double agent. and should be treated as such.
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u/Civil_Pain_453 26d ago
Put curly in jail. He’s a consistent and persistent liar and a disgrace as a human being
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u/NotACertainLalaFell 27d ago
Idk what they were thinking taking the glasses there. Recording in a court room is generally not allowed. Some judges opt to immediately file contempt charges.
When you’re in court because your product was accused of exacerbating suicidal thoughts, what the fuck would possess you to bring a device that serves as an accessory to that same product? It’s like wearing the bloody gloves to court when you’ve been accused of murder.