Trump couldn't build a coalition of people trapped in a burning building who needed to work together to escape.

Suno was neat for making goofy meme songs to listen to by yourself, but the latest free model kind of sucks. The only people actually paying to use this are folks gaming streaming platforms, and for background music in ads (which is a trend that really needs to die).

I'm also kind of surprised they've mentioned copyrighted lyrics being blocked as if it was a recent thing. It's been like that for awhile, ever since it became relatively well known that if you spun up enough generations using existing popular song lyrics, you'd eventually get it to spit out something that sounded remarkably close to the original. That was also kind of fun for changing the genre, so you could do things like reimagining a Dr. Dre song as Big Band.

... without impacting the listening experience?

And how can you check for that watermark?

If it doesn't involve a roller coaster with whimsical singing dwarfs swinging pick axes, I'm not interested.

That's because the kids call it "unalived yourself" now.

To be fair, Facebook's data collection did get taken down a notch on the evil scale by Flock.

I've been getting these incessant ads lately for this e-scooter that more-or-less shares a lot of design similarities with the Bird Three (if your city was never invaded by them, it's a rather large, heavy, non-folding scooter designed specifically for dockless rental use). The ads use obnoxious AI generated music and mostly seem to contain rebuttals of criticism over their design choices. I wouldn't really go as far as call the product a scam, though. If someone legitimately thinks they'd enjoy owning a scooter that looks like it belongs in a rental fleet, they'll get exactly what they paid for.

A lot of the stuff advertised on social media tends to be like that. Truly mediocre products with a disproportionately large promotional budget.

And what would we think if parents were just going out and buying cigarettes for their kids?

... with all this AI-sh1t going on is that it's fundamentally non-deterministic in nature. Stunts like these are 10 levels above the non-sense SEO and Co. have been doing for more than a decade, and that was annoying as f*ck already. This new manipulation garbage of LLMs already (occasionally) spitting out their very own version of garbage has me running for the hills and choosing another profession.

Yeah, I use AI to write my code, but that's what I'll be running in the end anyway. There is no AI bot that I trust with anything mission-critical, wether online or on-prem.

It came across as intense satire/sarcasm to me, but then I maybe failed to consider that there may be some here who actually are that stupid. *shrug*

After 26 years a loyal customer they finally managed to be such an obnoxious nuisance that I quit them and moved to a (way) cheaper and better provider roughly 6 months ago. And I'll never return.

Does it make you watch the whole ad before it lets you take the vehicle out of park?

My 2026 Renault Scenic never nags me with any license terms, only warns me that using Google will be out of their control. Everything is opt-in. They explicitly tell me how they use my personal info (which is in a totally acceptable manner), that they encrypt everything, and that I have the right to be deleted and/or know whatever they store about me. In fact, they seem so aggressive when it comes to protecting my data, it's as if the people who work there feel the same as I do.

They turned out amongst the best in Mozilla's car privacy test in 2023: https://www.mozillafoundation....

The car is also great, by the way. Plenty of space, range and smart design. And I feel very safe that it will never show me any ads, ever.

Building data centers also does create some short-term work for the trade industry. More demand for electricity would actually be a good thing too, if the need was met by building new renewable generation capacity, rather than just jacking up prices.

Basically, it's the lack of regulation that's the problem - not the data centers.

Landfills sometimes do end up contaminating the groundwater.

Also, it's absolutely possible to cool data centers without using any water at all. You'll just use more electricity. The issue mostly that the water is cheaper than the electricity.

This.

Primaries are almost always a circle jerk. Where the rubber meets road will be the general election, and I don't even have to look on Kashi/Polymarket to tell you how that's going to turn out in a +16 Trump district.