Both sides are taking data center money, though.

Here in Michigan, Governor Whitmer (Dem) is all-in on AI, even doing photo ops at (extremely locally unpopular) data center groundbreakings. “Think of all the local jobs” is the supposed upside. (spoiler: there are no local jobs being created)

I used the nicholas-fedor Watchtower branch for a while.

I use Dockhand now (switched to it when Portainer accounced their enshittification), and that has auto-update built-in. So I no longer needed Watchtower.

I believe Arcane also has auto-update, since Dockhand has hinted at their own enshittification a few years from now…

My Plex is updated, and hiding behind a random-long-text-string wildcarded subdomain that (so far) has not been discovered.

My Crowdsec intercepted 5X the normal number of hacking attempts & port scans on October 17th… no doubt from dirtbags trying to exploit this.

Absolutely. Frontpage stuff like /r/politics has been mostly bots & trolls farms since well-before the AIpocalypse. AI just took much of the burden off the human hand on that rudder.

Anything with an even mildly AI-adjacent topic is a solid 75% bots right now…

/r/nvidia, /r/amd, /r/hardware, etc, etc…

Next thing they’ll tell us is that motorcycles are faster than people-powered bicycles…