Utilera

I can imagine someone choosing "no ads" without realizing they just agreed to let strangers route traffic through their home IP indefinitely

The strangest part is that this should be an easy win for car makers. If your native system is better, people will use it. If it isn't, forcing them to use it doesn't make it better, it just makes the car feel worse

The Shipping Forecast is such a strange cultural object from the outside

There's a real craft to making something feel safe, low-stakes and impossible to get invested in

That's the funny trap with a lot of "boring" material: the moment it's old, technical or oddly specific, it becomes interesting again

I almost think the possible scoring inconsistencies would make it better, not worse

I love this. It's funny but also weirdly effective as a reminder that local radio is held together by a huge amount of invisible, unglamorous work

I think this is where brand licensing gets more complicated than it usually appears

That's what makes this feel so off

Once the data has trained a model, it also becomes almost impossible to meaningfully audit or undo