Taintrunner posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyaDUakTeW0

KozmoNaut posted:

So they're just polarizing sunglasses?

Agean90 posted:

https://mobile.twitter.com/WIRED/status/1137554885765980160

KozmoNaut posted:

So they're just polarized sunglasses?

Powered Descent posted:

Pirate Radar posted:

yeah I could do with a pair of those

KozmoNaut posted:

Real-life adblocker. I could certainly use that.

KozmoNaut posted:

So they're just polarized sunglasses?

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Although Alavi has published articles about Iran in a number of predominantly right-leaning publications, by far the most frequent publisher of his articles is Forbes. In a span of a year, between April 2017 and April 2018, Alavi published a staggering 61 articles for the Forbes website.

A Twitter account created under Alavi’s name in 2014 boasts over 30,000 followers, including a number of journalists and D.C.-based conservative think tank employees. The account frequently shares articles and hashtags praising Rajavi and shares footage of protests and events held by the MEK.

Alavi seems to have gained some purchase in right-wing circles in Washington. In addition to his many articles published by Forbes and other sites, Alavi also appears to run a blog called “Iran Commentary,” which describes its mission as focusing on “issues related to Iran and the Middle East.” One of its reports was recently cited as a source in an article from the Washington Free Beacon, a neoconservative site that takes an ultra-hawkish view on Iran.

The body of work published under Alavi’s name takes a consistently hawkish line toward the Iranian government and President Hassan Rouhani. Alavi’s articles also mixed criticisms of Iran and U.S. policy with overt advocacy for the MEK. His pieces in the Daily Caller, The Hill, and other outlets — though less numerous than his contributions to Forbes — employed a similar mix of advocacy against the Iranian regime and praise for the MEK. Though the MEK is known to be widely loathed among Iranians, Alavi described the group as the “main Iranian opposition group” in a 2017 Daily Caller article.

The Diplomat, a foreign policy website that published a handful of Alavi’s pieces in 2017, said that Alavi sent drafts from a Gmail account. Alavi pitched the outlet dozens of articles, though only a small number were accepted. The Diplomat stopped accepting pitches from Alavi after determining that his articles were not meeting publication standards, said a source who asked for anonymity to discuss internal matters.

The Daily Caller also told The Intercept that the outlet stopped publishing Alavi’s articles over concerns about the quality of his submissions. The Hill, al-Arabiya English, and The Federalist did not respond to requests for comment.

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The MEK initially sided with the Islamic Revolution but fell out of favor shortly after the establishment of the clerical-led Islamic Republic. The subsequent crackdown forced the group into exile, operating between France and Iraq — where, thanks to Saddam Hussein’s largesse, the group occupied Camp Ashraf, used as a staging ground for its participation on Iraq’s side of the brutal Iran-Iraq War.

The years following the U.S.’s invasion of Iraq were harrowing for the MEK, complicated by the terrorist listing. As the Americans withdrew their military forces, they handed over security at the MEK’s Iraqi base to the Iraqi government; another round of violent crackdowns ensued. The 2012 deal to remove the MEK from the U.S. terror list facilitated the movement of thousands of MEK members from Iraq to Albania, where the group would be housed in a new secretive compound.

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The Intercept reached out to editors at the outlets that Alavi has published articles with over the past several years. None of these outlets were able to confirm that they ever spoke with or met Alavi. He was not paid for his writing at Forbes, the Daily Caller, or the Diplomat, according to spokespeople for those publications.

Agean90 posted:

https://mobile.twitter.com/WIRED/status/1137554885765980160

Platystemon posted:

Literally impossible.

Garden-variety LCDs emit a wide spectrum of light.

A filter that successfully blocks light from screens is known as a “blindfold”.

Splicer posted:

Waking down the street wearing they live glasses on my dazzle camouflaged face while an AI babbles nonsense into my phone to screw with big data

Pirate Radar posted:

I mean whatever, sometimes being blind is fine. they could work like the anti-anxiety sunglasses in Hitchhiker’s Guide that automatically sensed danger and turned opaque so you wouldn’t worry

Phone posted:

they're like $50, and like it was mentioned earlier... they're just polarized sunglasses; it's a dumb and cynical marketing ploy

brb creating a cool video for my dihydrogen monoxide kickstarter

Splicer posted:

Waking down the street wearing they live glasses on my dazzle camouflaged face while an AI babbles nonsense into my phone to screw with big data

cakesmith handyman posted:

I goes not every screen is polarised the same direction.

Agean90 posted:

https://mobile.twitter.com/WIRED/status/1137554885765980160

Peanut President posted:

just get those glasses that fool face recognition into thinking you're scarlett johanssen or whatever

Picnic Princess posted:

And we are altering weather, except it isn't the government or illuminati, it's insurance companies trying to prevent huge payouts due to hail damage.

Splicer posted:

Slap a babbler in there somewhere and I'm sold!

e: cloud you make the frames LCDs so it changes who I am every few minutes?

SlothfulCobra posted:

Bushiz posted:

You embed IR leds into your glasses frames, which defeats facial recognition, but also doesn't make you immediately stand out to non-algorithm based authorities.

net work error posted:

Are these actually sold?

Amphigory posted:

Was that on a series of Luther? The serial killer used it to evade CCTV

Krankenstyle posted:

Yeah the last one.

You can make them yourself pretty easily.