DocBug https://www.docbug.com/blog Intelligence, media technologies, intellectual property, and the occasional politics Sat, 15 Feb 2025 19:03:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 Gulf of Mexico https://www.docbug.com/blog/archives/1189 https://www.docbug.com/blog/archives/1189#respond Sat, 15 Feb 2025 19:03:04 +0000 https://www.docbug.com/blog/?p=1189 On desktop Google Maps, if you add “&gl=CA” to the end of your URL then the Gulf of Mexico will be correctly labeled (albeit with the “freedom fries” version in parentheses). You can also get the old name back on both Google and Apple maps using a VPN set to Canada. (Unfortunately the hack doesn’t work for the iPhone apps.)

]]> https://www.docbug.com/blog/archives/1189/feed 0 “You won’t have to vote again” https://www.docbug.com/blog/archives/1147 Wed, 31 Jul 2024 20:07:36 +0000 https://www.docbug.com/blog/?p=1147 A lot of ink has been spilled about how Trump told a crowd at Turning Point Action Believers’ Summit “In four years, you don’t have to vote again, we’ll have it fixed so good you’re not going to have to vote.” Given his history it’s understandable when people worry this was a not-so-subtle hint that Trump plans to become a dictator (and not just “on day one”).

But what if we take him at his word that all he meant was after four more years of Trump they’ll be so happy they won’t need anything more? What does a world that makes the “beautiful Christians” that attend these kind of summits say “Yup, that’s pretty much everything I wanted” look like?

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