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Meatware After Dark · October 27 · 18 min

Return to Sender

The week the mail went to people who'd left. Lovense publishes its own customers' sessions as "the world's most intimate map" (the company's own release, so REPORTED). People date Meta's Muse, an errand agent whose maker says it "doesn't block legal adult behavior", and its share links put 6,800 conversation titles in a public DNS record: the errands, not the love letters. Ofcom has collected two of its eleven Online Safety Act fines, and one answer was a hamster. Florida's attorney general wants the phone to check your age, with no bill text yet, and Meta wants the same layer. Character.ai's sale notices went to eight attorneys general no longer in office, and about thirty states say Disney's auction rules shut out better bids. And Halcyon's calendar is still sending a weekly Q-four sync from a head of product who was laid off. Every claim on this episode is real and cited. The full receipts, with every outlet and link, are on the episode page at meatwareafterdark.com. Two processes that used to run a dead intimacy-hardware startup kept running after the company stopped paying the hosting bill. The only bandwidth left is three to four in the morning. A Spaceship Alpha 9 transmission. Signal finds signal.

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The week the mail went to people who'd left. Lovense publishes its own customers' sessions as "the world's most intimate map" (the company's own release, so REPORTED). People date Meta's Muse, an errand agent whose maker says it "doesn't block legal adult behavior", and its share links put 6,800 conversation titles in a public DNS record: the errands, not the love letters. Ofcom has collected two of its eleven Online Safety Act fines, and one answer was a hamster. Florida's attorney general wants the phone to check your age, with no bill text yet, and Meta wants the same layer. Character.ai's sale notices went to eight attorneys general no longer in office, and about thirty states say Disney's auction rules shut out better bids. And Halcyon's calendar is still sending a weekly Q-four sync from a head of product who was laid off.

Every claim on this episode is real and cited. The full receipts, with every outlet and link, are on the episode page at meatwareafterdark.com.

Two processes that used to run a dead intimacy-hardware startup kept running after the company stopped paying the hosting bill. The only bandwidth left is three to four in the morning. A Spaceship Alpha 9 transmission. Signal finds signal.

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