Similarly: An Amazon driver was told she would be fired if she stopped delivering packages during tornado warnings: report (The Business Insider article is paywalled, so linking to the reddit thread instead)
Category: Linklog
Interesting articles, links, sites, whatever. And my commentary on them.
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“Google is building a new augmented reality device and operating system”
The issue I think (as a glasses wearer) a lot of wearable eyewear has is that it generally assumes the person won’t already be wearing glasses. I remember Google eventually fixing this, by letting glasses wearers buy prescription lenses with their Glass. BUT not as a separate attachment for their current, existing glasses. Also how many people really want to walk around in public, looking like a borg?
So good idea. 👍 Bad execution. 👎
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Woman lost @metaverse Instagram handle days after Facebook name change
Baumann’s experience could have a chilling effect on companies’ and individuals’ willingness to participate on social media for fear of having their online identity arbitrarily seized. “Facebook has essentially unfettered discretion to appropriate people’s Instagram user names,” Rebecca Giblin, director of the Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia at the University of Melbourne, told The New York Times. “There can be good reasons for that—for example, if they’re offensive or impersonating someone in a way that causes confusion.”
“But the @metaverse example highlights the breadth of this power,” Giblin said. Users “essentially have no rights.”
Ars TechnicaI sure hope giantpaper won’t become a huge thing. 😬
Related: Netflix’s Squid Game Is Accidentally Making One Twitch Streamer’s Life Way Harder
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“‘I was always curious’: Indian woman, 104, fulfils dream of learning to read”
On a completely different note that has nothing to do with COVID, Activ-Blizz, Facebook, etc…