MapQuest stood up to President Donald Trump, and now its app is reaping the rewards.

The “OG of online mapping,” as the company calls itself, announced on Thursday that it would not change the name of Lake Ontario on its maps to Lake America, despite Trump’s executive order directing the U.S. Department of the Interior to update the lake’s name in the U.S. geographic naming service. As a result, MapQuest’s mobile app downloads soared, sending the iOS app to the No. 4 position on the U.S. App Store’s Top Charts for apps (not including games) as of Monday morning on the U.S. east coast.

MapQuest also reached the No. 8 position overall in the U.S. App Store across both apps and games, and it became the No. 1 Navigation app in the United States.

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[–] 135 points 2 months ago (18 children)
  • restarted war with Iran
  • food safety is plummeting in the US
  • citizens and immigrants are being locked up and deported, mostly for being the wrong skin color
  • AI bubble is getting closer to popping and wiping out literally all of your savings
  • everything from soda to aircraft set to go up in price after Trump fucks with aluminum supply from Canada
  • Jared Kushner is strategizing with Democratic leadership
  • the FCC will start going after news reporters who run stories that make Trump look bad even when they’re objectively true
  • still no Epstein files (or arrests)
  • flock cameras still gaining momentum
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  • [–] 23 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

    For that final one, there was a post earlier about how Flock lost contracts only for city councils to replace them with a different surveillance provider.

    It'd be better to divorce Flock from the real issue: i.e. "Neighborhood surveillance is pushing forward".

    We can't let rat-bastards who would sell out their towns and cities pretend the grievance is just against Flock and not against all of the surveillance.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    They lost them to Axon, which at least currently do not aggregate the data between districts. So still bad, but less bad

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago* (2 children)

    AI bubble is getting closer to popping

    i knew AI was a bubble but i hadn’t heard the other part. what’s happened besides the end of “tokenmaxxing”?

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago*

    Nvidia feels the need to further escalate the cricular financing, vastly increasing its own exposure when the bubble bursts. That would be incredibly stupid for them to do unless they think they have to do it, to keep the market from imploding on itself. This kind of financial engineering should be illegal, but it isn't.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago

    In addition to the other comment about Nvidia's circular financing, token prices are sliding as competition is increasing, while datacenter construction and operating costs are only going up. Companies are running low on money to the point where even the megacaps like facebook and google are issuing new shares for the first time in over a decade. These are companies which have collectively dumped trillions of dollars into share buybacks and held a trillion in cash on hand by the time AI came around.

    Once the venture capital money is spent but the bills still keep coming, one bad earnings report will confirm what everyone is expecting. People will lose faith of the future growth that these valuations are built on, which will crater the stock prices and wipe out at least 20% of the S&P500 at a minimum.

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  • the FCC will start going after news reporters who run stories that make Trump look bad even when they’re objectively true

    I haven't seen anything specific about this, just that dozing diaper dementia donny the daughter diddler goes off on toddler-like tantrums anytime anyone isn't stroking his ego...

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  • [–] 15 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Too expensive unless you can predict exactly when the bubble is going to burst.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    The market can remain irrational longer then you can remain solvent

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago*

    I am an anti-capitalist and I think about investing in the stock market similarly to how religious people view gambling (e.g. not just sinful in an abstract sense, but an actively terrible financial idea in the short term, too).

    Ever notice how there are like… regular market collapses? And the only people making a lot of money are very obviously doing insider trading?

    Anyone who has ever invested in the stock market has already lost more money than I ever will.

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