AI-generated books are a terrible idea and frankly shouldn’t even exist in the marketplace. Why? Because they reduce literature—the art of storytelling and the transmission of human experience—into lifeless, algorithmic regurgitation. Books aren’t just data arranged in sentences; they’re vehicles for creativity, emotion, and insight that only human minds, shaped by lived experiences, can produce.

AI has no passion, no voice, and no soul. What it churns out are bland, formulaic approximations of what it “thinks” a story or book should be, devoid of originality or genuine humanity. Selling such works undercuts the hard work of real authors, cheapening the literary world into a content factory.

Let’s not pretend this is progress. Pushing AI books is just another cash grab—a way for companies to flood the market with low-effort content that dilutes the value of real writing. Worse, it risks setting a precedent where art becomes entirely commodified, and human creativity is sidelined in favor of soulless efficiency.

Books should inspire, challenge, and connect us. AI can’t do any of that—it just produces noise. These creations don’t belong on shelves, virtual or otherwise. They belong in the recycle bin of bad ideas.

The irony about 2A is the people who care most about it also are same people who say Blue Lives Matter (note: blue lives don't exist, it's a job you can quit) and Back the Blue and all that but as soon as a cop finds out you have a gun they lose their shit. "Please put your hands where I can see them. Please step out of the vehicle. Hands behind your back. Tell me where your weapon is so I can retrieve it."

The government shouldn't interfere. The free market will sort this out. People will reject a bad product. I don't need big brother telling me what I can and cannot put on my phone. If I consent that the Chinese government has information about me, my name, where I live, what I like, who I am friends with, that Is my right to let them know those things.

I have had a bunch of Rokus and have 3 right now. None of them have a fully working remote.
One I can only turn the TV by pressing the Netflix button.
One doesn't have volume buttons that work (it did work for about 2 months).
The other is lost under the couch. Ok, that one is probably not their fault.

I am considering never buying their products again.

Good to see in person games also have problems with BM.

The government cannot limit free speech to a specific platform. A platform can limit free speech.

If Meta wants to say "You can't post porn" you have no 1st amendment protection.
If Uncle Sam says "You can't use Meta" then you do have 1st amendment protection.

You can try to legislate what a company can do but I don't know how you can enforce a law that says American citizens may not consent to giving their personal information to a 3rd party who will store it wherever they please. This isn't like sharing encryptions tools with countries we don't trust and it's a national security issue. I've seen the people on Tik Tok.. China can have all their info.. nothing of value will be had.

People who greenlight paywall articles should be relegated to anonymous coward access only.

Whether it's money or my email address I'm not offering either to any of these websites. Please stop greenlighting articles from them. Find an alternate source.

How many times am I going to fall for the old "Squint to see gay sex" trick?

To be fair, nowhere in the headline or the summary is the word carbon. Showing my age, while I knew what it meant, I considered it to be a low quality submission to not clearly state precisely what the topic is.

I have been using courier new for 30+ years.. although I use whatever the default is in Visual Studio Code.

Fixedsys is a good choice too.

I believe the mandatory return to office 3 days a week at my company was to create natural attrition. Since April very few people have left. With tech companies laying people off all over the place I can see why people are staying with the devil they know for now.

I believe almost every prison is punitive but only some are rehabilitative, at least in the US.

I believe you are correct. They are putting this feature into every car whether you buy it or not. They are probably seeing that this is causing them to lose money. Instead of admitting it's not that popular and changing the model to have be a dealer installed option they are trying to force it on people to cover their losses. I hope this backfires in dramatic fashion.

This is the problem with capitalism in the US. Whatever the big companies want to do they can but if they fail the government saves them and never punishes them. When the average Joe wants the government to save them from crippling medical debt the government says, "Go fuck yourself."

The government is always behind the donor class who in turns gets away with anything they want. You can't have true free market competition when your decisions have a 0 percent chance of causing you to go out of business. This doesn't inspire the companies to give the consumer the best product at the best price.