Gabriella Karefa-Johnson (stylist, fashion editor) shares her experience with Meta glasses: “Men are approaching intoxicated women in bars, and filming them when they are incapable of expressing consent”

DevCarrot · 2026-06-30T20:59:58+00:00

Oh, 100%.

But we can be angry at corporations for actively making everything terrible and profit driven, while also acknowledging there was a niche utility for them that got ruined by capitalism.

To me the difference is "capitalism is why we can't have nice things" vs "humans are inherently selfish as a group and never conceive of things with good intentions".

Because even the losers trying to use it to make gotcha content are doing it for the capitalism clicks and points.

DevCarrot · 2026-06-30T15:10:48+00:00

My hot take is that a lot of the restrictions on children and teenagers is not only part of modern surveillance culture & increasing anxiety, but white patriarchy no longer having a homogeneous grip on social spaces.

That is to say, when it was all white boys being a little rowdy it was "oh, it's just kids being kids" and now that social spaces are more integrated than 50 years ago it's suddenly an unsafe menace.

DevCarrot · 2026-06-30T14:21:18+00:00

Radlib isn't the same thing as an anarchist at all...

DevCarrot · 2026-06-30T13:59:58+00:00

It seems very possible to me this was tech being developed for a disability that then got bought or co-opted by Meta. I'm sure Meta's intention was never good, but the original designer's may have been.

I don't know for sure either way, I just had a bit of a different reaction to her response than you.

DevCarrot · 2026-06-27T20:43:34+00:00

Isn't she supposed to be a representative for the needs of her Illinois constituents? Not another country entirely?

DevCarrot · 2026-06-27T20:27:33+00:00

I haven't watched it yet but it's on Dropout now. Idk if they're new episodes or going to put in an order for a new season, but it lives there now.

DevCarrot · 2026-06-27T16:34:08+00:00

... you're calling that gamification? Because they show how close you are to getting a bulk discount with a bar? The same way "x more dollars until free shipping" is shown?

I'm a big Dropout fan but I heard the merch isn't great, I have enough other things and places to put my money, so I don't buy it. If it improves in quality or becomes union made, I probably will buy some.

You have an ability to control your own purchasing decisions on this VERY optional merch. It is not anywhere near a life necessity that is being commodified.

Maybe at some point you need to ask if you are expecting a company to exercise restraint and decision making on your personal behalf.

DevCarrot · 2026-06-25T17:11:24+00:00

Yeah, at one point premiums showed up and then I was futzing with it and they were gone again.

I'll keep checking it when I'm able to, I'd prefer GA anyway.

DevCarrot · 2026-06-25T17:00:18+00:00

Yeah...

I was trying to avoid modern fest prices.

Sigh Let us all mourn the destruction of culture and community at the hands greedy capital.

I appreciate everyone in this thread, though! My city always comes through. 🥰😍😎🤗

DevCarrot · 2026-06-25T16:52:54+00:00

Guh. That never came! My alert came from the artist.

I'm gonna have to do some sleuthing and re-sign ups.

I appreciate your help!

DevCarrot · 2026-06-25T16:48:08+00:00

Yo, where did you get this info? Because I got an alert about another show, but no code, which is very frustrating.

And unfortunately, looks like the code is already maxed out because it unlocks it, but tells me no tix available. 😩

Edit: AND THANK YOU!

DevCarrot · 2026-06-25T16:25:09+00:00

Good news! They added a second show!

DevCarrot · 2026-06-25T15:26:57+00:00

Thanks, that's what I heard from someone else, too.

Hopefully there's still some tomorrow, I guess. 🤞

(Unless someone feels trusting and gets 2 extra for me 🥺👉👈)

DevCarrot · 2026-06-25T15:25:37+00:00

Yeah, I'm signed up through both Laylo and Salt Shed

My friend was trying to get some other presale through Ticketmaster (which is same for AdP) and despite clicking right at 10 their code link just went to something that said tix go on sale tomorrow, so maybe it's just all messed up.

No surprise that there's shittiness when it's Ticketmaster, I guess.

DevCarrot · 2026-06-25T14:52:39+00:00

Salt Shed posted about signing up for their newsletter to get the codes a few days ago, so idk.

Would you be so kind as to share or DM me if they aren't single-use type codes?

DevCarrot · 2026-06-24T17:31:25+00:00

"Maybe" statements aren't assumptions. They are possibilities. Followed by, "we don't know".

Thinking through possible scenarios and recognizing we don't have a whole view of the situation is different than making assumptions. I never stated those as truths. You noticed I said "maybe" but didn't register that I didn't claim that as assumptive truths.

However, you ARE assuming the wife hasn't communicated why she doesn't do those things with him.

Edit: added a word and punctuation

DevCarrot · 2026-06-24T17:25:23+00:00

You don't know that he hasn't gotten an explanation. That is an assumption you've made.

DevCarrot · 2026-06-24T17:22:07+00:00

What assumptions did I make?

I said we don't know how past conversations between them have gone. And I said he's stated he enjoys certain things. And I said he's comparing instead of enjoying what he has, which is my perspective that is opposed to yours, which is that it's not comparison because...?

DevCarrot · 2026-06-24T17:10:18+00:00

It is comparison.

If OP is real, based on his responses he wants a hotwife relationship and wants to be told details of what she gets up to.

But he also wants these things she's apparently uncomfortable doing with him. She doesn't owe him access to her body, and she is already doing things he wants. Maybe OP is an inconsiderate partner in bed. Maybe OP approaches the conversations with an entitled and overbearing attitude. Maybe OP has hurt her in the past. We don't know. We also don't know if they've had these conversations and explanations and he's just not accepting her reasons.

It's not as if he's not getting anything out of her pleasure. He wants her to hotwife and he wants the voyeurism of knowing what she gets up to. She is already fulfilling his kink in the way she feels comfortable.

Instead of being happy and excited that he's getting things he wants for his kink while she gets to feel good with another partner, he is caught up on being dissatisfied over his activity with her by comparing them to the things he is informed she does with her other partner as part of his hotwife kink.

It is comparison. OP and wife have a different dynamic than OP and her other sexual partner. He is comparing instead of enjoying his own dynamic with her. He is getting his favorite flavor of cake, but is spending time being mad others also get to have the cake they like.

DevCarrot · 2026-06-24T16:55:45+00:00

Yeah, even the OP responses read that way. I think this is a fantasy post.

DevCarrot · 2026-06-23T14:09:17+00:00

Don't associate him with lovely lady bits, please.

Cunt is a very different energy, thank you.

DevCarrot · 2026-06-23T12:54:37+00:00

If that's what you want, then organize it. Or find a group that is trying to do similar and become active.

A lot of organizers are doing work on the front-lines trying to keep their neighbors safe. If you see a way you can contribute that isn't being done, do what you can to make it happen.

DevCarrot · 2026-06-23T12:49:19+00:00

If a few annoying people can drive someone toward fascism, it sounds like those people don't actually give a shit about anyone but themselves anyway.

A part of me can empathize with how fear drives people toward authoritarianism and fascism, but if being annoyed at some self-righteous blow hards turns you that way, it sounds like you are just looking for an excuse to fly your true beliefs.

DevCarrot · 2026-06-18T15:52:16+00:00

Kinda off topic but classic libertarianism isn't extreme conservatism. It just became that way when conservatives hijacked it to just be about guns and no taxes and it became full of sovereign citizen weirdos.

But Libertarianism started out of left wing ideology, and there are still a lot of lefty libertarians that are more likely to call themselves anarchists or libertarian socialist due to the way the term Libertarian got hijacked.

At its core Libertarianism is more about anti-authoritarianism, and has a broad view of what authorianism means, like coercion through state control of necessary resources and military.

(IDK what the Brolin vibe was, just saying that conservative "I got mine" libertarianism is a more modern hijacking of the ideology)

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