Posted on 05/02/2026 6:42:33 PM PDT by Red Badger
Prego Pasta Sauce announced they were teaming up with StoryCorps to create a device that would store pasta while also eavesdropping on, recording, and, according to some reports, uploading your family's dinner conversations to the Library of Congress.
It gets even crazier.
The devices sold out almost instantly! (Probably picked up by some guys in an unmarked van).
To be fair, though, Prego promised the devices won't upload your conversations without permission. And it seems pretty innocent.
The Prego x StoryCorps Connection Keeper is a simple, AI-free, screen-free device designed to help families create an audio scrapbook of the moments that matter most. It captures the everyday conversations you wish to preserve — your kids' voices, the 'how was your day' chats, the laughter and stories shared around the table — so you can revisit them for years to come. With just the press of a button, families can record meaningful moments in real time. The device is not connected to the internet and does not use Wi-Fi or AI, allowing you to capture memories without phones, screens, or distractions getting in the way.
But seriously, despite their best assurances, I've got enough to worry about with my AI-infested phone.
The last thing I need is to have to wonder whether there are spies in my pasta.
Don’t ask where meatballs come from..................
-PJ
My marinara starts with starting seeds in the early spring/late winter.
Ecclesiastes 3:11...
.....He has also set eternity in their hearts....
Another demonstration of the human need for purpose, and permanence...
Instead of a message in a bottle, or a written diary,or autobiography, we have a digital format and gizmo....
talking to God has been replaced by an upload to the library of congress....hope it doesn’t go the way of the library at Alexandria...
Ah, retrogradation! I just learned about that a few weeks back. Stumbled on it by accident. I’ve got roasted new potatoes and sweet potatoes in the fridge to put on my salads. Yum.
Regards,
Lovely that you have those tapes. I’d be so happy to hear my father’s voice again. He knew everything about food and politics and traveling. Could be stern or funny, and I knew he loved me either way.
LOC is home to many important oral histories including:
Slave narratives - interviews with people who lived as slaves; Interviews of Americans taken immediately after Dec. 7, 1941; Interviews of Americans taken immediately after 9/11; More than 110,000 first person histories of veterans of all wars including Frank Buckles the last WWI vet; A massive Twitter archive covering roughly 2006–2017 (public tweets/not currently searchable); Stories from American workers—coal miners, fishermen, taxi drivers; oral histories of luminaries of Jazz, Supreme Court justices, etc.
Story Corps is not part of LOC although they send their collections there for archiving and access.
LOC’s Veterans History Project is phenomenal. If you have a veteran in your life, I strongly suggest you look into this as a home for their story.
Indoctrination to get people comfortable with full surveillance.
I am sure some of the conversation would be discussing how Prego sauce tastes like crap compared to Noni’s gravy. Because THAT needs to be kept and archived forever.
They are trying to steal pasta sauce recipes!
One’s “permission” is simply to induce the thought that one can maybe turn it off, too. If the capability is there, it can be accessed remotely and if it can broadcast anything at all it is doing that right out of the box and while it is still in the box.
I've seen some comments about this around the dark web. Apparently the firmware is lousy with spaghetti code. And...
🙄..............
Mine: “Hush and eat.”
-PJ
LOL!
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