Google tests a mysterious home "entertainment device"

My bet is a Google Music player, hooked up via Wifi to your home (etc.) network, supporting Bluetooth headphones. #ddtb

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What is the mystery "entertainment device" Google is testing?
Google is asking the Federal Communications Commission for permission to test a mysterious Wi-Fi and Bluetooth-enabled "entertainment device," in employees' homes in four U.S. cities. So inquiring min…

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Thank you, ma'am, for many hours of entertainment. #RIP

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#Texas

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/10/29/texas-ken-paxton-lawsuit-endangered-freshwater-mussels/

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I mean, why not? He doesn't care if his advisors are crooks, molesters, spies, or all three. As long as he gets his way, that's all that's important.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/28/trump-fbi-security-clearance-check

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Or, you can just throw up your hands and say "Let's just give the state to Trump" by legislative fiat. Because FREEDOM!

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/25/trump-freedom-caucus-north-carolina-electors-00185520

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In fact, that's likely a significant reason he's running again in the first place.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/oct/24/donald-trump-kamala-harris-us-election-politics-democrats-republicans?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

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She has the one essential qualification for a #Trump AG: complete, compliant loyalty.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/judge-tossed-trumps-classified-docs-case-list-proposed/story?id=114997807

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And an amazing, unexpected, happy ending.

Three weeks ago, our 17yo, pudgy, arthritic Siberian slipped past me thru an open door, undetected. Her absence wasn't noticed until the next morning and there was no sign of her.

We had, frankly, lost hope.

This afternoon, a neighbor some houses away connected the dots between a poster I had put up and the cat that was hanging out in their window well, and contacted me.

And it was our cat, and she's now home (and getting much pampering).

Whew!

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Madness.

https://www.wonkette.com/p/missouri-kansas-and-idaho-are-suing

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The NY Times apparently thinks it's improvisational genius on the part of a compassionate #Trump ,

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