Stupid smart home

Sad dads, Insta cults, crypto dating shows, #vanlife, Taco Bell and unburst bubbles

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Hi friends. Today is April 22, 2022.

And today I’m writing with a parable we’ll call “the dad, the switch, and the swindler.”

The dad, in this case, is my own: a man cursed — like many of his generation — with a surfeit of enthusiasm for gadgets. The switch — or rather the switches, plural — connected to the internet via…