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Dr Bob

So glad to have #Apple Maps

Google Ads, the bane of our existence 😬
So evil 😈

Just what we need, more distractions while driving 🤔

Google Maps tests new pop-up ads that give you an unnecessary detour

“#GoogleMaps is testing a new ad format that could cause distractions while driving. It brings up a pop-up notification during #navigation that covers the bottom half of the screen with an unnecessary detour suggestion.

According to Higman, the ad popped up while passing a Royal Farms gas station, even though they did not search for a gas station or convenience store while setting their destination”

androidauthority.com/google-ma

So glad to have #Apple Maps

Google Ads, the bane of our existence 😬
So evil 😈

Just what we need, more distractions while driving 🤔

Google Maps tests new pop-up ads that give you an unnecessary detour

“#GoogleMaps is testing a new ad format that could cause distractions while driving. It brings up a pop-up notification during #navigation that covers the bottom half of the screen with an unnecessary detour suggestion.

Example of pop-up Google ad. Just what we need, more distractions while driving.
9 July at 9:00 | Open on vmst.io
Dieter Komendera

@drrjv @pixelpartner I can only encourage to give @organicmaps a try. At least in 🇪🇺Europe the Apple Maps data quality is often inferior to what Organic Maps/ @openstreetmap has.

9 July at 10:20 | Open on hachyderm.io
Dr Bob

Favorite new word: Enshittification

Congrats @pluralistic

2023 Word of the Year is “enshittification” – American Dialect Society

“The American Dialect Society, in its 34th annual words-of-the-year vote, selected “#enshittification” as the Word of the Year for 2023. More than three hundred attendees took part in the deliberations and voting, in an event hosted in conjunction with the Linguistic Society of America’s annual meeting.”

#Facebook, #Twitter, #Instagram, #TikTok #socialmedia #americandialectsociety #wordoftheyear
americandialect.org/2023-word-

Favorite new word: Enshittification

Congrats @pluralistic

2023 Word of the Year is “enshittification” – American Dialect Society

“The American Dialect Society, in its 34th annual words-of-the-year vote, selected “#enshittification” as the Word of the Year for 2023. More than three hundred attendees took part in the deliberations and voting, in an event hosted in conjunction with the Linguistic Society of America’s annual meeting.”

Text Shot: The term enshittification became popular in 2023 after it was used in a blog post by author Cory Doctorow, who used it to describe how digital platforms can become worse and worse. “Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. I call this enshittification,” Doctorow wrote on his Pluralistic blog.
7 January at 5:34 | Open on vmst.io
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Medea Vanamonde🏳️‍⚧️ ♀
Omnivore

@drrjv @pluralistic

I just realized that I've been reading that word as 'enshiFtification' (emphasis added), where things are shifted from their original purpose.

7 January at 16:16 | Open on hear-me.social
Rozzychan

@drrjv @pluralistic

Just for the record, I hate this word.

8 January at 1:47 | Open on fandom.ink
Dr Bob

Trans People Are in Grave Danger

“Unfortunately, with U.S. democracy heading toward a rather grisly death in 2025, and the high court amenable to laws allowing isolation and segregation of people, we may need to grapple with the unthinkable sooner rather than later.”

@damemagazine #trans #fascism #lgbtq #carlson #jorrogan
damemagazine.com/2022/03/15/tr

Text Shot: There won’t be death camps and cattle cars. Those are specific to a particular time and place in history. What I am seeing is that conditions in the U.S. will likely be there for a Republican-led effort to remove a class of people from American life via a combination of demonization, legal oppression and stochastic violence, with the goal of forcing all of them to either flee or hide who they are to avoid persecution. The GOP has completely demonized trans people to the point where they are depicted as an existential threat.
25 Mar 2023 at 19:18 | Open on vmst.io
Mark F. Buckley

@drrjv @damemagazine ... Jordan Peterson is batshit insane, a secular televangelist selling political paranoia rather than Personal Power. Paranoia is Power!

25 Mar 2023 at 20:01 | Open on vmst.io
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