Ben Kaye

So much time and effort into this, so excited to see episode 1 of @lagunitasbeer Six-Pack Stories live! #PenelopeRoad joined us at @LuckReunion to crack open our six questions.

Ratboys put on a surprise pop-up show at the legendary Night Club 101 in NYC on Wednesday, tearing through songs from their fantastic new album Singin’ to an Empty Chair. Check out @Idonttwit's full recap and photo gallery → cons.lv/cLKt6M

@whaleee_99 @rockinjae You're looking at clickbait bs that proves the inherent lack of value in social media

@rockinjae what am i supposed to be looking at here

never stopped in my tracks so fast

@DT9er @acidonchain @aakashgupta Honestly, I shouldn't have wasted my time with giving you the type of engagement your desperate search for relevance and digital presence strives for. You're wrong. You lick boots. F*ck off.

@Idonttwit @acidonchain @aakashgupta I agree! But access to my front porch? I’d rather spend energy fighting them watching me take dookies. Thanks for checking out my profile! I don’t care about you enough to look at yours.

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.

@DT9er @acidonchain @aakashgupta I mean there's a difference btwn necessary on a humanistic scale and necessary on a societal one. Having fast access to the Internet, email, the ability to move swiftly without stopping to check a map every other turn, I'd say is necessary to keep up with the pace of society

@Idonttwit @acidonchain @aakashgupta Flip phones with no gps or cameras still exist. Map books and maps still exist. It’s a convenience device. Definitely not “necessary “.

@DT9er @acidonchain @aakashgupta You don't have to give more means of invasive access just because u give some - it's not an in for a penny situation. You also don't have to be pro ALL tech just because you're an acct peddling "helpful tech" to people for affiliate payouts. It's ok to say something isn't good

@DT9er @acidonchain @aakashgupta Smartphone tech became a societal necessity. And there are precautions u can take to protect against some surveillance methods - admittedly, still a large flaw, still gross. But "u can't complain about X bad thing because u participate in Y bad thing" still fails as argument here

@DT9er @acidonchain @aakashgupta ... Yea so at some point you reveal your lack of (barely) close reading comprehension skills and I realize I'm debating a toddler so we can end this now. A Smartphone with cams became a necessary societal tool. A doorbell camera with AI detection scanning a neighborhood is not.

@Idonttwit @acidonchain @aakashgupta Why are you dating married women? Stop dating married women! What did you write this post on? A computer with a camera? A phone with a camera? A tablet with a camera? Complain about surveillance while using the best surveillance device possible. Lmao

@DT9er @acidonchain @aakashgupta Not to mention - sure, there's plenty of grid out there already, but turning every ring equipped home into a literal grid of surveillance is next level 1984. Also your constant argumentative tactic of "similar bad things already exist, so what" is assinine.

@DT9er @acidonchain @aakashgupta "well if you don't wanna be stalked or blackmailed, don't do anything remotely untoward ever" not "don't create a system that allows easy access to blackmail." As if people haven't been blackmailed for legal activity like infidelity, poor investments, embarrassing hobbies...

@DT9er @acidonchain @aakashgupta The conceit here was separated. Now add in the woman never tells the guy she's seeing about her ex. Regardless, you're defending the potential use of this tech by people with ill intent or unstable demeanour by going "meh, if I see it I'll speak up". This, btw, is what 🥾 👅 is

@Idonttwit @acidonchain @aakashgupta That’s why you don’t f*ck with a married woman….. I’ll keep this in mind if I start seeing a married woman who’s husband is a cop.

@DT9er @acidonchain @aakashgupta A corrupt elected official makes their way into a position of power in their city. At risk of losing the next election, they access Ring data to track political opponents & those campaigning against them. They track their every move, looking for means of blackmail or intimidation

@acidonchain @aakashgupta Bro called me a bootlicker because I don’t think the government seeing my front porch is the same thing as 1984 😂 If your biggest worry is the feds watching you take a shit through a $99 doorbell, maybe the problem isn’t the camera…

A ‘Jurassic Park’-themed #SuperBowl ad for Xfinity has been released. Sam Neill, Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum all reprise their roles.

@QueenAnticommie Stop AI slop

Such a graceful fall

@FAmmiranteTFJ I won my first 'ship with none of these guys and vs Pickens and Cook 🏆

If you had 2+ of these players, you likely had a successful fantasy football season: Christian McCaffrey Jonathan Taylor James Cook Puka Nacua Jaxson Smith-Njigba George Pickens Trey McBride The list of players who provide major profit is always a small group.

@LukeChrisFFL Dowdle or Carter. I just have a feeling Hunter Henry's particular set of circumstances leads to more points

Which player do you worry you’re gonna regret sitting tomorrow?? For me, it’s Bucky Irving.

@jbchoknows I'm seriously considering Hunter Henry over Carter, super flex PPR. Incentives, banged up WRs, and Jets D... How crazy am I?

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@TheEkernEdge I'm leaning Hunter... Carter feels like a trap, Hunter's playing for incentives with a banged up wr core, and is already an end zone target.

@Idonttwit Carter.

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@EthanKreagerFF Carter or Dowdle... Or sneaky 3rd option, TE Hunter Henry?? PPR

Week 17 Must-Sits Thread 🧵 Not sure what to do with these players on your fantasy team for championship week? Be careful starting them 👀