But what if I want my kettle to start advertising to me? It will help drown out the ads from my microwave, sink, and fridge while I wait to open my cabinets that are locked during a firmware update

Thank you for a week where we could forget about the state of the world and do something for a good cause. I have been watching for a decade now and it is always a highlight of my year.

For all the various hand wringing culture war nonsense about "things you're not allowed to say anymore", an actual thing you're apparently not allowed to say for risk of drawing down the wrath of Big Brother is "I do not mourn for Charlie Kirk."

As SCOTUS said in Houston v. Hill: The "freedom of individuals verbally to oppose or challenge police action without thereby risking arrest is one of the principal characteristics by which we distinguish a free nation from a police state."
www.thefire.org/supreme-cour...

I had to pause for laughter at Surveil magazine.

I mean, she wasn't wrong... (The lesson was just he could get away with whatever he wanted)