Wednesday, June 17, 2020

Get around safely with these new Google Maps features




Divorced general thinks bases should be named after officers who understand loyalty Duffelblog

 


Corporations Are Claiming “Black Lives Matter.” That Would Be News to Their Workers. Jacobin

The Illusion of a Rapid US RecoveryProject Syndicate. James K. Galbraith. Note this appeared before the market crash and advances arguments Galbraith has been consistently making.

Facebook says it doesn’t need news stories for its business and won’t pay to share them in Australia Guardian

 

MTA’s ‘very expensive’ homeless outreach effort a bust, inspector general finds NY Post


UK marks anniversary of Grenfell Tower fire that killed 72 Al jazeera



Get around safely with these new Google Maps features - Google Blog: “Getting from A to B can be more complicated these days. Because of COVID-19, it’s increasingly important to know how crowded a train station might be at a particular time or whether the bus is running on a limited schedule. Having this information before and during your trip is critical for both essential workers who need to safely navigate to work and will become more important for everyone as countries around the world begin to reopen.  In our latest release of Google Maps on Android and iOS, we’re introducing features to help you easily find important information if you need to venture out, whether it’s by car or public transportation.  Get alerts about important information – When you look up public transit directions for a trip that is likely to be affected by COVID-19 restrictions, we’ll show relevant alerts from local transit agencies. These alerts can help you prepare accordingly if government mandates impact transit services or require you to wear a mask on public transportation. Transit alerts are rolling out in Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Colombia, France, India, Mexico, Netherlands, Spain, Thailand, United Kingdom and the U.S. where we have information from local transit agencies, with more coming soon.  We’re also introducing driving alerts to notify you about COVID-19 checkpoints and restrictions along your route, like when crossing national borders (starting first in Canada, Mexico and the U.S.). You’ll see an alert on the directions screen and after starting navigation if your route is impacted by these restrictions.  When navigating to medical facilities or COVID-19 testing centers, we’ll display an alert reminding you to verify eligibility and facility guidelines to avoid being turned away or causing additional strain on the local healthcare system. Starting this week, alerts for medical facilities will be available in Indonesia, Israel, the Philippines, South Korea, and the U.S., and testing center alerts will be available in the U.S…”

… indoctrinating people with your fiction isn’t easy. You have to be subtle. That’s why I have a few great tips to help you manipulate your reader without his or her knowledge.

Ars Technica – Section 230 is the legal foundation of social media, and it’s under attack.”…To understand Section 230, you have to understand how the law worked before Congress enacted it in 1996. At the time, the market for consumer online services was dominated by three companies: Prodigy, CompuServe, and AOL. Along with access to the Internet, the companies also offered proprietary services such as real time chats and online message boards. Prodigy distinguished itself from rivals by advertising a moderated, family-friendly experience. Employees would monitor its message boards and delete posts that didn’t meet the company’s standards. And this difference proved to have an immense—and rather perverse—legal consequence…”


JACK WATERFORD. Punishing the ‘undeserving’ – the robo-debt fiasco

Heaven knows how the ultimate costs of the robo-debt fiasco will pan out. So far the Commonwealth has announced that it is paying back about three-quarters of a billion to nearly 400,000 people whose rights were trampled upon.Continue reading 


No public interest, it seems, in watching public money burn

The political cynic could easily imagine a string of reasons for ignoring calls for a royal commission or other inquiry into the robo-debt debacle.Continue reading 

 

Baltimore’s ‘Squeegee Boys’: ‘If We Don’t Go Out, We Don’t Eat’ KHN

If it ain’t broke: You share your oldest working gadgets BBC


US, Russia to start nuclear arms control talks this month AP

Europe, Russia and Attitudes Towards the ‘New Cold War’ Between US and China Valdai Discussion Club

MH17 Court Cartoon — Dutch Judge Presents Bombshell, the US Delivers Dud – No Satellite Evidence of Russian Shootdown John Helmer

Part Three: The schizoid world of a Soviet anti-communist propagandistYasha Levine, Immigrants as a Weapon