{"id":282,"date":"2026-08-18T13:50:04","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T17:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/btphotographer.com\/postdraft\/?p=282"},"modified":"2026-08-18T13:52:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T17:52:46","slug":"the-quantified-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/btphotographer.com\/postdraft\/the-quantified-dog\/","title":{"rendered":"The Quantified Dog"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My dog has diabetes, and today he was fitted with a Libre sensor. I am supposed to scan it a few times a day and it will send glucose levels to a company from which the vet will download them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Can&#8217;t wait to see how this connection gets sold\/hacked\/distributed and what it does to the digital version of me that systems perceive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also if the phone and sensor are too far apart for more than X number of minutes, the phone freaks out. Which is basically the same reaction I have to being away from the dog so that feels significant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"675\" height=\"483\" src=\"https:\/\/btphotographer.com\/postdraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image.png\" alt=\"A screenshot of discord where a user named Brian writes: &quot;the dog's glucose monitor keeps disconnecting from my phone\n\ngotta de-airgap my dog&quot;\n\nand someone replying with an image that says &quot;you wouldn't de-airgap a dog&quot; in the &quot;Your wouldn't download a car&quot; meme format\" class=\"wp-image-284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/btphotographer.com\/postdraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image.png 675w, https:\/\/btphotographer.com\/postdraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-300x215.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My dog has diabetes, and today he was fitted with a Libre sensor. I am supposed to scan it a few times a day and it will send glucose levels to a company from which the vet will download them. Can&#8217;t wait to see how this connection gets sold\/hacked\/distributed and what it does to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[84,83],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words","tag-diabetes","tag-dog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btphotographer.com\/postdraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/btphotographer.com\/postdraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/btphotographer.com\/postdraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btphotographer.com\/postdraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btphotographer.com\/postdraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/btphotographer.com\/postdraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285,"href":"https:\/\/btphotographer.com\/postdraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions\/285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btphotographer.com\/postdraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btphotographer.com\/postdraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btphotographer.com\/postdraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}