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  • Google Maps now shows the ‘Gulf of America’ – The Verge

    It made the change after the Trump administration formally changed the name today of the body of water spanning between the eastern coast of Mexico and the Florida panhandle. … Users in Mexico will continue to see “Gulf of Mexico,” while the rest of the world will see the original name with “Gulf of America” in parentheses.

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  • Why does Home Depot sell a white paint called Climate Change? – Curbed

    Last year, Emily Mediate found herself in a Virginia Home Depot, studying an array of off-white paint chips all with names like Frost and Bakery Box, Harmonious and Vintage Linen. She was planning to paint her deck and picked up a calm, generic beige. Then she noticed its name: Climate Change. “It threw me off,” she said. Mediate is an executive at a nonprofit with an environmental push; she sees climate change as a catastrophe, not a décor project. “It’s like naming a color after a disease,” she said. “I keep wondering, Who did this, and what were they thinking?”

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  • 52 things I learned in 2024 – Tom Whitwell

    4. Film studios now add CGI effects to behind the scenes footage to hide how much CGI has been used to make the film. … 35. People whose surnames start with U, V, W, X, Y or Z tend to get grades 0.6% lower than people with A-to-E surnames. Modern learning management systems sort papers alphabetically before they’re marked, so those at the bottom are always seen last, by tired, grumpy markers. A few teachers flip the default setting and mark Z to A, and their results are reversed. … 47. In 2024, around 10% of Anguilla’s GDP will come from fees for its .ai domain name.
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  • Did OpenAI just spend more than $10 million on a URL? – The Verge

    People hoarding “vanity domains” is a tale as old as the Internet itself. Just a few months ago, AI startup Friend spent $1.8 million on the domain friend.com after raising $2.5 million in funding. Having just raised $6.6 billion, OpenAI dropping more than $10 million —in cash or stock — is just a drop in the bucket.

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