Today in stuff so dumb you think this sh*t can't be real...

-- ‘End-to-end encrypted’ smart toilet camera is not actually end-to-end encrypted --

https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/03/end-to-end-encrypted-smart-toilet-camera-is-not-actually-end-to-end-encrypted/

"...attaches to your toilet bowl, takes pictures of it, and analyzes the images to advise you on your gut health."

it gets worse: "...it’s possible Kohler is using customers’ bowl pictures to train AI. Citing another response from the company representative, the researcher was told that Kohler’s “algorithms are trained on de-identified data only.”

#infosec #opsec #privacy #latestage capitalism 💩

Why is the world going far right? (Rhetorical)

00:00 introduction

01:06 new zealand

04:40 elsewhere

05:56 japan

09:02 should you leave the us?

11:52 why is the right wing rising?

13:48 “people lost their morals since COVID”

15:44 “the left went too woke and lost people”

23:11 “uncle sam forced us”

26:39 “the right wing plotted to destroy progress”

32:09 my answer

43:00 anti-communism and austerity

48:19 climate colonialism

Had another weird #dream about the place where I worked from the early naughties to the early-mid teens.

The place has now literally been closed down, sold, and has now become a High School (!?!?), but it still lives rent-free in my head.

In the dream, I was in the post-outsourcing hell season, and when I was going to leave for the day, they (facilities people who worked for the company I was outsourced to work for, which I used to be an employee of) told me I had to take my stuff with me, because they were renovating. I told them I had left my laptop on my desk (as I often did) and that I'd have to go back and get it. They said that I couldn't, but I talked my way out of it.

I immediately found myself going through a chemical maze with a hazmat suit on. Think of the Chernoybl TV series. Everything was scrapped and slathered with goopy paint thinner (?!?!?). I was in basement-looking somewhat nightmarish parts, getting totally lost (in a place I worked in for over a decade, lol), and finally found my way out to where things were already renovated, and it was totally opulent, Trump-tower looking shiz. The execs making more room for their profligacy, obviously.

After much time feeling lost, scrambling about, I finally find my desk in a not-yet-renovated, not-chemical-hell-looking part of the datacenter. So, I scoop up my laptop and books (?), and get out of there.

Guys, in reality, I left that place over a dozen years ago! And still, rent-free in my head.

You see, that place was one of those really stable shops where once you got a job there, you had a job for life, you enjoyed the respect of your peers and superiors, and you made great things.
Then in the mid-naughties, the very large company that owned us sold us. We were bought out by a consortium of #VultureCapitalists, who immediately wrote themselves a billion dollar check with our company's credit (debt), and outsourced the bulk of the I.T. workforce to a large douchebag tech company you all know, and if you have a gram of sense, hate.

This is just one small microcosm of what has happened in the U.S. (and to a lesser extent, the rest of the Western world) in the past 20 years.

#Dreams #Capitalism #Crapitalism #LateStage #LateStageCapitalism