"Hey, let's do something that Doctorow @pluralistic will struggle to make up a term for..."
Kohler Wants to Put a Tiny Camera in Your Toilet and Analyze the Contents
h/t @_L1vY_
"Hey, let's do something that Doctorow @pluralistic will struggle to make up a term for..."
Kohler Wants to Put a Tiny Camera in Your Toilet and Analyze the Contents
h/t @_L1vY_
@SRDas @pluralistic @_L1vY_ They already came up with this on Better Call Saul!

Everything in our lives is connected to the internet, so why not our toilets? Take a tour of Smart Pipe, the hot new tech startup that turns your waste into ...
π π€£ Sure I'm going to trust a toilet manufacturer to keep my daily deposit data secure. π€£
Oh my...never in my younger wildest dreams had I imagined anything that laughable.
#ProblemsTheJetsonsNeverToldUsAbout
The only possible reply to this is "no shit."
@SRDas @pluralistic @_L1vY_ The most egregious part of this is that you actually PAY THEM to spy on you shitting!
Seriously! It's a SUBSCRIPTION!!!
I'd say they could get my info by paying me $25k/year. If they agreed, then I'd make it $100k and so on, just to find out how valuable I am.
Fuck this behaviour.
Oooh I know exactly who will want to buy those:
The Dept. of Work & Pensions (UK), to be mounted in the house of everyone on benefits because they claim to have inflammatory bowel disorders.
(They don't actually have to work, or anything. It's fine.)
The only response to this is "FUCK NO!".
@SRDas @pluralistic @_L1vY_ Entoiletify? Ok, I'm out.
I'm gonna wait for the ads to start playing.
I reached out to a buddy who works on... interesting... engineering projects, and I hit jackpot.
It's even funnier than it may seem by the news articles.
@SRDas @pluralistic @_L1vY_ I couldn't bring more of the exchange, because contained too much identifiable stuff, and they DO have a job that pays their bills and etc.
But the conversation was MUCH funnier.