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Zuck Knows When You Are Sleeping, He Knows When You're Awake
He knows when you're taking a shit or having sex, too
mister mix
March 12, 2026
All social media companies are bad. Of course, X / Twitter is the worst, but it doesn’t have the reach of Mark Zuckerberg’s company, Meta (Facebook / Instagram / WhatsApp). It’s a major vector for right wing propaganda. It’s also a desperate company. Facebook is for old people — young people don’t use it. Instagram is used by younger folks, but Meta is gradually ruining it because they are the enshittifiers of the earth and they just keep adding more and more ads. WhatsApp is heavily used in Latin America — I used it a lot when we were in Mexico — but it has of yet to be adopted heavily in the US. Note, too, that Instagram and WhatsApp are acquisitions. Meta’s only real successful in-house product is their original one, Facebook.
Because Latin America doesn’t count in the mind of Silicon Valley assholes, Zuck is constantly trying for the next, best thing. He poured billions into the Metaverse, a place where crappy looking 3D avatars could interact. It was a widely derided failure.
There were no legs in the Metaverse for a long time. But billions were spent.
The latest Meta “innovation” is the incredibly uncool Meta smart glasses. Look at this nerd:
Since they’re a Meta product, of course they abuse the viewers’ privacy:
It is stuffy at the top of the hotel in Nairobi, Kenya. The grey sky presses the heat against the windows. The man in front of us is nervous. If his employer finds out that he is here, he could lose everything.
He is one of the people few even realise exist – a flesh-and-blood worker in the engine room of the data industry. What he has to say is explosive.
“In some videos you can see someone going to the toilet, or getting undressed. I don’t think they know, because if they knew they wouldn’t be recording.”
In Svenska Dagbladet and Göteborgs-Posten’s investigation, the people behind Meta’s smart glasses testify to the hidden stream of privacy-sensitive data that is fed straight into the tech giant’s systems.
The person interviewed was employed by a Meta contractor to “train” the AI behind the glasses, doing things like outlining flowers or traffic signs and labeling them. It’s just a side-effect that they see people having sex or looking at credit cards.
Like a lot of other technical innovations, Meta glasses could be very useful. But the move fast and break things Silicon Valley ethos also means that they’re brought to market with little or no concern about privacy or other ethical issues.
It’s not a mystery why the social media billionaires all kissed the ring as soon as Trump was elected the second time. They know that the Trump administration will do nothing to regulate them. Democrats probably wouldn’t do much, either, but when you have the choice between covering your business with a patina of social responsibility, and being an amoral profit-seeking piece of shit, why bother trying to pretend? Ain’t nothing like the real thing, baby.
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