1984

From Tech Age Kids™. Breeders w/ rug rats
still in the house may be interested.

It won't be the gummint establishing the Orwellian panopticon (Panaudion?) in your house; the capitalists have already sold you the rope w/ which they will hang you.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders Uses White House Twitter Account to Complain That Alexa Ordered a Batman Toy

Not to mention the national security implications of a robot permanently recording everything said in the house of the Executive Mansion's Press Secretary. And that said secretary used an official Twitter acc't. essentially to complain that she's too dense to disable the damn robot's microphone.

Gizmodo thinks it's bullshit; I'd already forgotten Trump's attacks on Bezos, as Bezos is hardly one of my favorite humanoids, but Press Sec. Sanders adding to the attacks would be of a piece, wouldn't it?

On Sunday, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders used her official government Twitter account to complain that her two-year-old had allegedly ordered a $79.99 action figure by “yelling ‘Batman!’ over and over again at her Alexa-enabled Amazon Echo.

Hmm.

If this were true, it would certainly be a convenient way for Sanders to score some points with her boss, who has repeatedly accused Amazon of not paying fictional “internet taxes” (a confused reference to state sales tax), being a tax shelter, and screwing over the U.S. Postal Service on delivery rates. Also, it would be very bad if a two-year-old repeatedly screaming “Batman!” could in fact end up with an account owner being charged $79.99 for a toy.

Asimov's Three Laws? Not bloody likely. Ferengi Rules of Acquisition will govern future capital-produced robots.

[Headline at top from THR. WARNING: Hollywood assholes have autoplay for their stupid, un-needed video of the story.]