g is sleepy

naptime pls

[g is sleepy @imtheplayabeach]

it's gotten bad enough that im back just to vent about how tired i am from being affected

i am tired of the emotions ive been feeling

[cult blood @sp0derm4nn]

tea is tea whether herbal or verbal

[mahrukh @parhloumahrukh]

why do Americans insist on saying eye-ran and eye raq, yet they can say Italy

[David @dayonefoundry]

Dear "I don't want to do tourist stuff I want the local experience" people.

The local experience is going to a 9-5 job that you hate in an air conditioned office building wishing for the weekend. Not trekking through a river on a coconut boat.

You're a tourist. Be a tourist.

[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.

[S.🎧 @1ssve]

Your feed on Instagram used to actually end and there would be a message that said “you’re all caught up!”. You would then close the app.

[ALWAYS WILIN @AlwaysWILINN]

sorry i called you a dumb bitch i thought you knew already

[stephanie @Stephabues]

if u are a white person who said u r in a very chinese time of ur life, pay up. give ur fellow asians red packets. come on now. put the money where ur mouth is

[⚚Sage @belikesagee]

opening this app is like lighting a cigarette

[— don @dracosrevenge]

every three minutes, another Monday rolls around. this is not sustainable.

[𝒵𝒾𝓀✯ @_Gottalovezik]

10:00 am - anything is possible
2:00 pm - but not today

[2000s @PopCulture2000s]

avril lavigne was right… what the hell

[pearl 📖 @pearlreads_]

micro joys (reading) is how i am surviving macro grief (life)

[Kristen @Kica333]

I’m currently doing this challenge called January. It’s just me making it through every day of the month.

[tara al-alami @taraalami]

Sorry i didnt respond to your text from 3 weeks ago i have been debilitated by the mundane cruelty of this world. i’m good how are you

[BODE @neverelent]

The most surprising part is, The whole of next
week is still
January

[krimbo @fuckasparagus]

pomegranate lowkey just fruity corn

[shreya @shreyabasu003]

You buy something from a company once and they make it their personal mission to make your email inbox unusable

[the elder emo @theelderemox]

Avril Lavigne was right, it absolutely is a damn cold night and I am, in fact, trying to figure out this life