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(she/her)

[Prem Thakker @prem_thakker]

NEW: A group of Hollywood insiders are running a smear campaign against "The Voice of Hind Rajab" to stop it from winning an Oscar.

They call the film — which shows the effort to rescue Hind before Israel killed her & her saviors — "one-sided…propaganda."https://t.co/ep0fekrdCG

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

JUST IN: Meta sold 7 million Ray-Ban smart glasses in 2025 alone.

Workers in Kenya are watching the footage.

Not metadata. Not anonymized clips. The actual videos. People undressing. People in bathrooms. People having sex. Bank cards. Medical documents.

The blurring is supposed to protect privacy. It fails constantly. The contractors see everything.

Here is the part that should stop you cold: You did not buy the glasses. You did not agree to the terms of service. You did not consent to anything. But if someone wearing Meta glasses walks into your bedroom, your bathroom, your doctor's office, your home, a contractor on the other side of the world may be watching you right now.

The person wearing the glasses consented. Everyone else in the room did not.

Meta's defense is that this is all disclosed in the privacy policy. They are technically correct. Buried in language so dense that 99% of users never read it. And even if they did, it would not matter, because the terms govern the wearer's data. Not yours. You are not a party to the contract. You are the product being annotated.

Millions of AI-enabled cameras walking around in public. Recording constantly. Uploading to servers. Reviewed by humans earning a few dollars an hour to label your most intimate moments so the algorithm gets smarter.

This is not a bug. This is the business model.

The EU is already asking questions. MEPs submitted formal inquiries to the Commission this week demanding answers on GDPR compliance. The problem is obvious: European data protection law requires consent from data subjects. Bystanders are data subjects. Bystanders never consented. The entire architecture violates the regulation by design.

Meta's response has been silence and a reference to terms of service that do not apply to the people actually being filmed.

Google Glass died because people called the wearers "Glassholes" and banned them from bars. Meta solved the social problem by making the glasses look normal. They did not solve the privacy problem. They hid it.

Seven million units sold in 2025. The installed base is accelerating. Every unit is a potential surveillance node operated by someone who may not understand what they are feeding into the system and reviewed by contractors who see everything the algorithm cannot process.

The question is not whether this becomes a scandal. The question is whether the scandal arrives before or after the glasses are on 50 million faces.

Watch the EU. If Brussels moves on GDPR enforcement, Meta faces a choice: disable human review in Europe and cripple the AI training pipeline, or accept fines that could reach billions. Neither outcome is priced into the stock.

The glasses are selling faster than ever.

The contractors keep watching.

And somewhere right now, someone you have never met is looking at footage of you that you never knew existed.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Everyone’s missing the real story here.

Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses need human data annotators to train the AI. When you say “Hey Meta” and ask the glasses to analyze something, that video gets sent to Meta’s servers, then routed to Sama, a subcontractor in Nairobi, Kenya. Workers there manually label objects in your footage. They see everything you recorded, intentionally or not.

7 million pairs sold in 2025 alone. Every single pair generates training data that flows through human eyes in Kenya. Workers told Swedish journalists they see people undressing, using bathrooms, having sex, and accidentally filming bank card details. One worker said “we see everything, from living rooms to naked bodies.”

Meta’s automatic face anonymization is supposed to protect people in the footage. Workers say it fails in certain lighting. Faces that should be blurred are sometimes fully visible. The person you recorded without knowing? A stranger in Nairobi can identify them.

Buried in Meta’s terms of service is one sentence doing enormous legal work: the company reserves the right to conduct “manual (human) review” of your AI interactions. That’s the legal cover for routing intimate footage from Western homes to a $2/hour labor force operating under NDAs, office surveillance cameras, and a strict no-questions policy. Workers say if you raise concerns about what you’re seeing, you’re fired.

This is the same company, Sama, that TIME exposed in 2023 for paying Kenyan workers $2/hour to label graphic content for OpenAI while being billed at $12.50/hour per worker. Workers described the experience as torture. Sama ended that contract, then pivoted to labeling Meta’s glasses footage. Same workforce. Same rates.

Meta markets these glasses as “designed with your privacy in mind.” The privacy design is a tiny LED light on the frame that most people don’t notice. The data pipeline behind it routes your bedroom footage to a contractor with a documented history of worker exploitation, failed anonymization, and union-busting lawsuits.

And the next generation of these glasses? Meta is planning to add facial recognition. The same system that can’t reliably blur faces in training data wants to start identifying them on purpose.

The LED light on the frame is doing about as much for your privacy as the terms of service nobody reads.

[Clash Report @clashreport]

📸 The last photo of Mikaeil Mirdoraghi, a third-grade student killed in the reported U.S./Israeli strike on a primary school in Minab, Iran.

He is waving goodbye to his mother.

[Chris Hedges @ChrisLynnHedges]

The real death count in Gaza is likely extraordinarily higher than the official figures. People trapped under the rubble aren't counted — only those that died in hospitals, which are now practically nonexistent. Anecdotally, my friends have disappeared. People I've had contact with have stopped replying.

[Variety @Variety]

Susan Sarandon says she was banned from Hollywood for "speaking out about Gaza, for asking for a ceasefire."

“I was fired by my agency... It became impossible for me to even be on television. I don’t know lately if it’s changed. I couldn’t do any major film or anything connected with Hollywood. I found agents ultimately in England and in Italy, and I work there. I just did a film in Italy, and I did a play at the Old Vic for a number of months. I know this Italian director that just hired me — he was told not to hire me, so that’s still recently. He didn’t listen, but they had that conversation. Right now, I kind of specialize in tiny films with directors who have never directed, in independent films.”

https://t.co/np9WmygmZm

[BowTiedPhys @BowTiedPhys]

I don’t want the email of 50 words summarized by AI. I don’t want to know my biological age. I don’t want the wearable telling me when I should be happy. I don’t want the Bluetooth toothbrush gamifying brushing my teeth. I don’t want my trash can to be “smart”. I don’t want my Air Fryer connected to WiFi. I don’t want an app for my coffee maker. I don’t want my refrigerator sending me push notifications.

Enough.

[Elissar 🇵🇸 🇱🇧 @Elissar]

Look at this BS AI summary that comes up when you search Ms. Rachel on Instagram. The whole entire first paragraph focuses on the absurd "antisemitic" smear campaign against her.

[Elissar 🇵🇸 🇱🇧 @Elissar]

BBC criticised for nixing ‘Free Palestine’ tribute from BAFTA coverage https://t.co/ibWZ4O4XfH via @AJEnglish

[Elissar 🇵🇸 🇱🇧 @Elissar]

They managed to censor "Free Palestine" but chose to air the N word. Their apology means nothing. Their racist priorities were made clear by their actions. #bafta

[Elissar 🇵🇸 🇱🇧 @Elissar]

"A hundred castellanos are as easily obtained for a woman as for a farm, and it is very general and there are plenty of dealers who go about looking for girls; those from nine to ten are now in demand"

-Christopher Columbus, 1500

[Elissar 🇵🇸 🇱🇧 @Elissar]

Mayim Bialik thinks she has a soul. Cute.

[Tired Peasant @HorrorGorl]

They removed children’s teeth so they couldn’t bite. We’re underreacting

[Elissar 🇵🇸 🇱🇧 @Elissar]

Anyone loyal to this system is complicit in its crimes. A system that fails to do the bare minimum for humanity, a system that doesn't even bother to protect children, has no worth. In fact, it's our responsibility, the responsibility of all decent people, to tear it down.

[The Nation @thenation]

Today, as Gaza continues to be stuck in a bloody limbo, we are turning our website over to Gaza and its people in an initiative we are calling “A Day for Gaza.” There will be no pieces published on our website today that do not come directly from Gaza. https://t.co/x5yu0SWtHG

[Elissar 🇵🇸 🇱🇧 @Elissar]

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[UpScrolled @realUpScrolled]

WHAT!!! One MILLION!!! 🤯🤯🤯 YOU did this.

Our founder @issamhijazi shares why he built UpScrolled - and what's next.
"This is yours. We're just building it."

[UpScrolled @realUpScrolled]

WHAT!!! One MILLION!!! 🤯🤯🤯 YOU did this.

Our founder @issamhijazi shares why he built UpScrolled - and what's next.
"This is yours. We're just building it."

[Elissar 🇵🇸 🇱🇧 @Elissar]

@SuppressedNws1 @elissar

[YourFavoriteGuy @guychristensen_]

TikTok users are fleeing to a new upstart social media called UpScrolled after Larry Ellison purchased the platform.

UpScrolled is founded by a Palestinian and promises no censorship and no billionaires.

Yesterday, it broke into the top 15 most downloaded apps.

Come join us!

[Fe. @NoHealthNoFun]

China approves an HIV drug for the acute treatment of just-a-cold.