The logo is from Marvel comics. Schmidt is a Nazi SS Obergruppenführer in charge of special weapons development; his division is known as Hydra and is the revival of an ancient cult. After a drug-induced mutation, Schmidt is known as the Red Skull.

Don’t ask me any more questions, though; I’ll have already forgotten everything I just read!

Let’s hope it never meets the emotional support cat-in-shining-armor.

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Na-na-na-na, na-na-na-na, Bat Individual!

there MUST be a Kythera Mechanism lurking out there

Kythera is a much bigger island to search, give it time.

It’s also Microsoft’s get-out-of-jail-free card here; someone else ripped the ebooks, processed them, and uploaded them under a CC0 Public Domain license. “How were we meant to know the release wasn’t authorized?”

I agree that CoMaps and similar apps don’t have the feature set that signed-out Google Maps users are losing in this move by Google, so it’s not totally relevant.

I don’t agree with just calling CoMaps a navigation app in the sense of “how do I get to Point B”, though. In well-mapped areas it has business information including specifics about the shop/restaurant, opening hours, accessibility, payment methods, etc. It has points of interest that give information about a location’s history and culture, as well as ancillary information from Wikipedia/WikiData. It has information about green spaces, vehicles and bicycle parking, waterways, sports clubs and tracks/pistes, toilets and other public services, benches, water points, and a bunch more.

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Bixby’s only visual representation was a lowercase “b” in negative space on blue leaf/teardrop shape. S Voice was a microphone. It’s never had a humanoid avatar.

Siri’s was a handwritten “Siri” with a green circle for the dot on the “I”; after Apple bought it, it was a microphone and then an abstract blue/purple design. It’s never had a humanoid avatar.

Google Now wasn’t stand-alone and didn’t have any particular design - the button was a microphone in the Google palette. Google Assistant got an abstract set of circles in the Google palette. It’s never had a humanoid avatar.

So I guess we’re just talking about Cortana, unless I’ve missed any notable ones?

(Edit: Alexa didn’t have an avatar; the logo was a lowercase “alexa” in the Amazon style with the smirking Amazon arrow. Evi had a plain circle with a dot and an arc, like a cyclopean emoji. Ivona was a headless service.)

79 symbols if you count punctuation, casing, and accents.

It’s satellite imagery, yes, but from an oblique (high off-nadir) angle. The imagery is from DigitalGlobe, who are now Maxar.

It’s Maxar satellite imagery with a high off-nadir angle. European Space Imaging use it as an example in this article about ONA.

And by extension, Yule and Christmas, Ēosturmōnaþ and Easter, Samhain and Hallowe’en.

Bestiary of Dragons and Giants (1987)

Saruman accuses him of not consulting with the Order sooner:

The hour grows late and Gandalf the Grey rides to Isengard seeking my counsel.

and in the next scene:

The hour is later than you think.

Gríma echoes this to Théoden:

Late is the hour in which this conjurer chooses to appear.

Azog in The Desolation of Smaug says he should have come to Dol Goldur sooner:

You have come too late, Wizard! It is done.

And he arrives at Helm’s Deep in the very late stages of the siege, though it was precisely when he meant to.

Exhibit A:

Sorry, we’ve already assigned you the role of eggman.

I just flicked through a full month of their posts on Bluesky, assuming I’d find some that could plausibly be seen as harassment. I found nothing other than spotlighting of public representatives who have accepted Israeli lobby money, presented factually; the rest is pretty much all endorsements of alternative US governmental candidates.

Could you spotlight a few posts that demonstrate what you’re saying?

First archive of the page:

Respect

In the old days of feudal Japan, a samurai warrior would shout “Mi no hodo o shire!”, ‘Know your place!’ at anyone who dared to show insufficient respect. And with that, a sword would be brought swiftly down upon the poor unfortunate’s head. Well, you might not have to fear a sword any more but it would still be wise to always remember your place. Even if you don’t have the language skills, a softening of the voice, a discreet awareness of the other person’s personal space and undemonstrative body language go a long way showing respect.

Later versions seem to have “身の程を知れ”, but it looks like they changed the page a few times.

I can tell it’s a recent photo because it’s in a healthcare center and the computer’s running Windows Vista. They’ll get the upgrade to Windows 7 in a few years.