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The Meta glassholes have arrived (www.theverge.com)
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[–] beesyrup@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I like how they are called glassholes. It sounds like another word I like.

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Next life goal: get internship at Meta and “accidentally” remove word boundary checking in the profanity filter, so that if you type glasshole in a Facebook post, it will come out as gl***hole.

[–] ZILtoid1991@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Someone forgot to do their focus group testing, or, even better, forgot to use their common sense.

[–] snooggums@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Pretty sure the author is using it as a disparaging term for the jackoffs that were wearing the headsets for attention.