Or, I can readily observe the dozen or so street names around my city that have changed before Google existed that Google still calls by the old name, and that there's no accurate pedestrian or bicycle navigation data in Google's database, and this is in Tulsa, Oklahoma, what happens to be the city Google Maps defaults to if it can't detect your location: The best Google gets. Yet, landmarks for paid business listings are extremely current.

If you're using Google Maps as a Yellow Pages, you're using it right. If you're trying to use it as a map, then you're an idiot. Go get something that pulls OpenStreetMap data for that.

Google Maps is a shitshow if you try to use it for anything other than the Yellow Pages.

That's why businesses and billionaires need to pay higher taxes. An educated public primarily benefits employers.

Actually came here for that. Was like, "Well, guess that means companies are starting to realize that people will help them, for money."

I feel like we'd go a lot further by abolishing the Senate and the Electoral College entirely.

Yeah I came here to say this. There's three groups you should never trust: Corporations, billionaires, techbros. And all of generative AI lands squarely where all three meet on the Venn diagram.

Then what we should be doing is passing laws to nationalize and liquidate companies that do this, and use the death penalty on the company's upper management. It's the only way to be sure.

Which was the wrong call. The Republicans ordered the National Guard into California as a political act, Trump happened to be the stooge with the button. This was all obvious from the start.

Anthropic ran a marketing campaign comprised almost entirely of bullshit with some hokey story that it's "too dangerous" to release to the public. The reality is that shit doesn't work but they need to pretend it does long enough to pocket people's money and run. Republicans, being too stupid to see their own game played by someone else, went apeshit for bullshit. Anthropic staff, not wanting to blow their grift at best, go to prison at worst, are now caught in a position where they either tip their hand to a terrorist group that happens to control the US at the moment and lose their freedom, or tip their hand to the world and lose their grift (and probably their freedom anyway. Republicans might be as stupid as they think the world is, and as easily manipulated as they are manipulative themselves, don't exactly care for having that thrown back at them in practice in such a high profile way.

I can't. Mostly because he understood the emoluments clause. Probably helped that he had experience going into the job.

("She's right". Rose Wang is a she.)

Corporations have no gender. People speaking on the corporation's behalf should not be afforded the humanity they presume outside the role.

If Bluesky was actually serious about what they're saying, then they'd have adopted open standards, like ActivityPub, which was already ratified as the protocol for social networks before Bluesky even was dreamed up by Jack in the first place, as the protocol on which it runs. But no, they invented ATProto for the express purpose of outsourcing their hosting costs to idiots while retaining full moderation control over the whole thing.

Bluesky is part of the same problem they're trying to pin exclusively on GAFAM. All corporate control is the enemy of the public.

The US is betting on magic to catch insider trading in prediction markets.

I'm not sure a single-cab half-bed is going to really attract an audience, because people who need a pickup tend to need a full bed. Suburban posers and other performatively but not actually blue-collar folks aren't going to like it because it doesn't seat as many people and doors as a sedan. And farmers are plenty happy with their imported Daihatsu Hijets and Honda Actys. It's also not 1980 anymore, people understand each car you own is a $10k/year hole in the road into which you pour money, so being a two-car household is only A Thing where so little investment has been made to undo the damage of dedicating every public space to the movement and storage of cars that staying is only slightly more viable to moving someplace livable.

They'd have been smarter to start with the 1990s Toyota Van as a starting place for a body design and going from there, since the only major difference between the family hauler and blue collar work versions was the family hauler version had two removable bench seats and four more windows, and the work version had a provision to put in the bench seats.

Agreed. iFixIt should start posting "how to remove your vehicle's modem" howtos.