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Ring paid somewhere between $8 and $10 million for a 30-second Super Bowl spot to tell 120 million viewers that their cameras now scan neighborhoods using AI. The math is wild. Ring has roughly 20 million devices in American homes. Search Party is enabled by default. The opt-out rate on default settings in consumer tech is historically around 5%. So approximately 19 million cameras are now running AI pattern matching on anything that moves past your front door. Today the target is dogs. The same infrastructure already handles “Familiar Faces,” which builds biometric profiles of every person your camera sees, whether they know about it or not. Ring settled with the FTC for $5.8 million after employees had unrestricted access to customers’ bedroom and bathroom footage for years. They’re now partnered with Flock Safety, which routes footage to local law enforcement. ICE has accessed Flock data through local police departments acting as intermediaries. Senator Markey’s investigation found Ring’s privacy protections only apply to device owners. If you’re a neighbor, a delivery driver, a passerby, you have no rights and no recourse. This tells you everything about Amazon’s actual product. The customer paid for the camera. The customer pays the electricity. The customer pays the $3.99/month subscription. And Amazon gets a surveillance grid that would cost tens of billions to build from scratch, with an AI layer activated by default, and a law enforcement pipeline already connected. They wrapped all of that in a lost puppy commercial because that’s the only version of this story anyone would willingly opt into.

@ThymeToBeBorn $8,000!? How?? I thought it was only $2k!

Happy Birthday to all NYE babies, and to all moms who "beat the deductible clock" (I'm one!). I remember thinking, if I can get this done in 6 hours, we will be $8000 richer!

@selentelechia youtu.be/PFtHeo7oMSU

my son only lets me get to the second page of "llama llama red pajama" because he just wants me to kiss his head after "mama kisses baby's hair" over and over again

I thought the same until I tried to buy a house in a county with no building department. Seems like some people try to do things incorrectly

What if we made it so it’s able to charge it’s battery by consuming leafy things and water and shutting down at night?

@mwmoedinger Booked! Thank you.

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Floorplan transformation: finding space out of thin air! This is a 1 bed/1 bath multifamily unit...but there's so much wasted space here, you can fit a 1 bed plus den, or even 1 bed plus den and a second bath! [Please excuse my quick sketches on my phone!] Ok let's dive in:

what happens if you owe $3m in taxes and have $0

@RandBusiness Garbage trucks

a business owner in our peer group does $1,000,000 in revenue per employee in their business If you can guess the industry, I will Venmo you $100 First comment to guess it wins, Announcing the winner in 24 hours Comment below!

@wydbryn Go on YouTube and do it yourself. Brakes are very easy. Even if you have no tools and need to buy the ones you need it will be less than $1k

$1k for brakes?? nvm bro, i’ll just stick my arm out the window and grab the car next to me

Nice high beams bro do you wanna see an unregistered firearm

@yaidawn Yes

7) 80% of US bankruptcies due to medical bills had health insurance when they got sick. While out of pocket costs have rocketed up,

Drop your Spotify wrapped below and we'll guess what you do for a living

@thetoddjacob Do you make more money for longer threads like this? Would’ve been so much better if it was a quarter of The length.

The most powerful people are the easiest to control. A Russian peasant proved this in 1916. He discovered a psychological flaw in human nature. Once you see it, you can't unsee it. And it explains everything about power: 🧵

Dear President Trump, I know people are asking for a lot of things from you right now. But I think I speak for everyone when I say please give us the Hilux. It’s time.

The internet after finding out what happened to Peanut the Squirrel

the final battle is already won

My favorite trick or treat experiences from last night: - the group of 5 teen girls who came dressed as Disney Princesses, my niece seeing them and saying Aurora is her favorite and hearing the girl dressed as Aurora say to her friends excitedly, “I was her favorite!!!”

Tell me you’ve never met a hillbilly or redneck without telling me you’re never met a hillbilly or redneck. Not only do tons of rural people own and operate heavy equipment (skid steers, track hoes, dozers, tractors), most who do can probably rebuild all the engines and transmissions with spare parts sitting around in their shops.