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Activists ask a toilet maker to abandon toilets for chips

development2026-02-19

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Toto, whose ceramics now contribute 40% of operating income via AI memory, faces activists demanding it exit bathrooms and double down on chips, while Microsoft's Silica encoded 4.8 TB in glass across 301 layers with ten-thousand-year lifetimes.

Reported metric: 40% of income / 4.8 TB

Reporting date: 2026-02-19 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to February 19, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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Activists ask a toilet maker to abandon toilets for chips
Innermost Loop KB — secondary record
Reporting date: 2026-02-19
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-02-19-toilet-maker-under-pressure-to-pivot
Claim: Toto, whose ceramics now contribute 40% of operating income via AI memory, faces activists demanding it exit bathrooms and double down on chips, while Microsoft's Silica encoded 4.8 TB in glass across 301 layers with ten-thousand-year lifetimes.
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- Welcome to February 19, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-february-19-2026
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