2) How did people even find out about this? Whistleblower? Nerd hacking their car computer? Or maybe it was just in the contract and people clicked "I accept" without reading a single word. Is that what the FTC meant by "misleading enrollment process"?

Two things that make me laugh, though. 1) I will be safe from these shenanigans for another decade because I only buy cars that are 10 years old or more. Take THAT, car companies.

"Bob, who the hell wants data on people's driving habits?"

[Bob whips around and dramatically puts his hands down on the conference table.]

"Insurance companies."

I can imagine the pitch: "Guys. We put computers in all our cars. They're all hooked up to the internet. Why should we let Facebook make all the money selling user data?"

I appreciate the boldness of this post. Those of us with dead hearts are ruthless against adulterators of our pure black nectar.

A firmament of golden brown dough sitting above a cavernous underworld of raspberry broth and a few stray berries is what happens.

Honestly, the crust was delicious when submerged in the raspberry morass. But that won't stop this from becoming an indelible Thabksgiving memory for years to come.

This is what happens.

Have you ever wondered what happens to a pie that doesn't have slits cut into it for air to escape?

Instead, it's pure gasoline fuel for the "AI is a poor substitute for real people and creativity" argument.

And for that, I salute you, Coke. Keep it up.

Coke knows people are unnerved by AI; that the commercialization of Christmas is touchy; that we've all seen the same Christmas commercial a million times.

So this had to be basically perfect in order to get the "AI undecided" crowd on board. And it's, um... not.