[Noisebridge-discuss] Google Glass at the space?

Hannah Grimm dharlette at gmail.com
Tue Apr 15 18:50:11 UTC 2014


+1 to what hep said.



On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 11:34 AM, hep <dis at gruntle.org> wrote:

> FYI: I am super uncomfortable with comparisons of tech people wearing
> visible items like Glass that they can willingly take off any time, and PoC
> or Communities of Color where people are unable to ever escape their
> visible minority status. These kinds of analogies to experiences co-opted
> from Communities of Color are a huge part of the problem that PoC activists
> face, and it sucks to see Noisebridge going that route. Let's not do that.
>
> -hep
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 11:23 AM, Lupita Berries <garyberries at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> whoa. what did i just read
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 11:21 AM, Dean Mao <dean.mao at hackerdojo.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Yeah, I think most of the stigma against the google glass is a similar
>>> stigma against the google busses.  Wearing a Google glass flags you as a
>>> bourgeoisie.  It's strange to discuss it here at NB where there's probably
>>> a higher percentage of high-wage tech people here than most places, if you
>>> subtract the homeless who sleep at NB.
>>>
>>> It's weird to be paranoid about the glass since it has an obvious video
>>> camera on it.  It's like how many americans are paranoid about
>>> brown-skinned people because they are a similar race as many terrorists in
>>> the middle east.  They must be terrorists if they have brown skin right?  I
>>> feel especially sorry toward the Sikhs who wear a turban and probably look
>>> the most like a terrorist even though there hasn't been any Sikhs who have
>>> committed terrorism.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 10:19 AM, Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 15 April 2014 10:14, Dean Mao <dean.mao at hackerdojo.com> wrote:
>>>> > So I've used the Glass before, and it's not something that is
>>>> constantly
>>>> > recording.  If people wanted to record other people secretly, there
>>>> are so
>>>> > many other gadgets out there that will do it too.  It feels weird to
>>>> ban one
>>>> > specific gadget on the basis of a capability that is not used very
>>>> often.
>>>> > If NB was actually worried about people recording each other, they
>>>> should
>>>> > ban smartphones since the video cam on phones are used more often
>>>> than any
>>>> > other gadget in existence.
>>>>
>>>> And not just that:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://www.banggood.com/SC-Leather-Belt-Camera-Watch-Video-HD-PC-Webcam-Function-Support-32GB-TF-Card-p-921690.html
>>>>
>>>> There's quite a few recording watches that you can buy.
>>>>
>>>> Healthy paranoia is healthy. But this focus on Glass reeks of
>>>> something else. It's an obvious social status indicator and it almost
>>>> "feels" like you're being watched. (Heh, get it? I said watch. Like a
>>>> time-keeping device.Blah, whatever. You get the idea.) It has a lot of
>>>> stigma against it and it's very public.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -a
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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