@elonjet people has to take cars for emission control every once in a while. Might be a good time to do the same for private jets, and charge an environmental tax. This is beyond any civilized environmental standard
"In the waning days of the Cold War, Rainer Sonntag helped fuel a neo-Nazi movement that still plagues Germany today. He was also a Communist spy—and worked for Vladimir Putin."
Magic Earth is an alternative to Waze and Google Maps with crowdsourced traffic and road hazard information
As part of a #BigTechDiet, I've been hoping to find an alternative to #Waze and #Google Maps - a navigation app that can tell me about slowdowns, hazards, and speed traps based on reports from other users. Today, I learned about Magic Earth.
It's proprietary, but not from FAANG or a company subject to the government of China, Russia, or Five Eyes countries. It collects minimal user data and has a good privacy policy. There are versions for both Android and iOS, and the Android version works without Google services.
I would say just buy TomTom Go, only 20 euros a year and no Google BS. Or if you really don’t want to pay use Amigo, it’s also from TomTom with the same life traffic etc.
Getting old sucks, not just because some things are physically more difficult, but because sometimes our favorite hobbies follow a diverging track that makes partaking in them increasingly difficult, mentally.
@scopique I've thought about this as a post-50 gamer. Not much appeals to me anymore. The genres I'm interested in have changed but more than anything AAA games have little appeal to me any longer. Indy games have replaced the hardcore shooter, strategy, and even RPG for me.
At the same time, games with a "hardcore" or ironman-type mode are more appealing. Maybe something to do with growing up on 80s games with no saves.
tl;dr Books, most likely generated by an LLM, were being sold on Amazon under Jane Friedman's name. The same books were added to her Goodreads profile. Amazon initially refused to remove the books. If it's happening to her, it's definitely happening to other authors.
The sea in #Normandy looks different if you’ve chosen (a local bookstore accommodated) to read #Condé, #Glissant, and a book on regional entanglements in the #transatlantic slave trade and the slave economies. #slavery#history
Glissant, in his “discours antillais”, talks about “inquiète tranquillité”:
“The uneasy tranquillity of our existences, by so many obscure relays tied to the tremor of the world.”
Drei Wochen hinter meinem Zeitplan habe ich nun auch endlich Baustelle 2 des Großprojekts Habil-Fertig-Schreiben geschafft. Jetzt kann das Wochenende kommen!
@MichiganPal I’ve just started the Red House by Roz Watkins. I’m only a few chapter in but am so far enjoying it, after a couple of false starts on books that failed to keep my interest. It is about a dark topic but hopefully will be suspenseful rather than grim.
It does have the below quote, which my greyhound-adjacent part-whippet would resent if she could bestir herself from her bed…