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   Nate Bartram (nateb@mastodon.thenewoil.org)'s status on Saturday, 14-Feb-2026 07:10:02 JST Nate Bartram

   In an internal document reviewed by The Times, Meta says it will launch the feature “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.theverge.com/tech/878725/meta-facial-recognition-smart-glasses-name-tag-privacy-advoates

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     Nate Bartram (nateb@mastodon.thenewoil.org)'s status on Saturday, 14-Feb-2026 07:14:22 JST Nate Bartram

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     Passing this story around today and everyone's going "what the actual fuck?" and it's making it so hard not to be that guy going "damn, I guess I wasn't just being a wet blanket when I've been telling y'all for years that Meta is straight-up cartoon-villain-style fucking evil and we should do something about it."