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This week's net.wars, "The Gulf of Google" sees a new way to splinter the Internet; watches panic over a new Chinese reasoning model; thinks Silicon Valley has its cause and effect backwards; and asks, "Did Trump just screw data flows between the EU and US - again?": https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2025/01/31/the-gulf-of-google/ #NetWars #AI #Privacy #DataProtection
net.wars · The Gulf of GoogleIn 1945, the then mayor of New York City, Fiorello La Guardia signed a bill renaming Sixth Avenue. Eighty years later, even with street signs that include the n
@wendyg Did you see this excellent and civilised nerd discussion in a community that accepts places can have more than one name… https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/gulf-of-america-gulf-of-mexico/124571
OpenStreetMap Community Forum · Gulf of America - Gulf of MexicoThe USGS will be subject to the executive order that is (or is said to be planned on) signed today. The US will officially refer to the body as the Gulf of America. It isn’t the alternative name, it is the name used by America. The US doesn’t dictate all English speaking countries to use the name, so any \*:en tag isn’t quite right. And anything that uses name:en_us or the like isn’t likely to be displayed to American viewers of the map (at least in the standard carto). Like Ian said, this will ...
@drdrmc I didn't. Thanks.