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A downturn in international travel to the US may last beyond summer, experts warn (Rio Yamat/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/international-travel-us-decline-trump-canada-fd1b3fc3225703ee3e521754a171ecfb
http://www.memeorandum.com/250901/p51#a250901p51

I'm up to 109,977 CSP points, 87,182 United Miles, 30,000 Hyatt Bonus Rewards, and 102,218 Venture X miles. (It's the power of the Welcome Bonus.) By the end of the year, I want to get Hyatt up to 60,000 and then I should be able to cover hotels on the CSP and Hyatt points and cover airfare on the other two for two weeks in Japan. I'm travel-hacking the shit out of my 2026 trip.
#Travel #TravelHacking #CreditCardPoints

London Heathrow Airport Summer Landside Ambient (2025-07) - Ambient busy big holiday time airport nowhere near any aircraft. #fieldRecording #travel #airport -

London Heathrow Airport Summer Landside Ambient (2025-07)
Ambient busy big holiday time airport nowhere near any aircraft. #fieldRecording #travel #airport

Street network sub-patterns and travel mode
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19648

Street network sub-patterns and travel mode
Urban morphology has long been recognized as a factor shaping human mobility, yet comparative and formal classifications of urban form across metropolitan areas remain limited. Building on theoretical principles of urban structure and advances in unsupervised learning, we systematically classified the built environment of nine U.S. metropolitan areas using structural indicators such as density, connectivity, and spatial configuration. The resulting morphological types were linked to mobility pa…

Luskentyre Beach on the Isle of Harris is one of the many beautiful beaches in Scotland
https://www.mirror.co.uk/travel/ive-travelled-world-david-attenborough-35811964#Echobox=1756595018

'I've travelled world with David Attenborough but one of my top places is on our doorstep'
Chadden Hunter has spent the last 25 years travelling the world with the likes of Sir David Attenborough and has visited some of the most remote and beautiful places on the planet

Streaming shows and watching online videos like we have data to waste. 🥺 🤷
#mindless #habits #travel

Travel Regrets: 10 European Destinations I Won't Ever Visit Again & Where To Go Instead https://www.wanderluststorytellers.com/tra

Travel Regrets: 10 European Destinations I Won't Ever Visit Again & Where To Go Instead
Read our honest take on 10 European destinations that didn't live up to the hype – and the nearby alternatives that stole our hearts.

Had my talk on Small Web accepted at #why2025 but I hadn’t realised (my bad) that not only do you have to cover your own travel and accommodation but you also have to buy a ticket to speak. I’m sorry, as part of a tiny two-person not-for-profit working for the common good, I can’t afford to pay to speak at events. I’m not Deloitte. So I sadly had to withdraw my talk.
If any conferences do w…

EU preps biometric checks for foreign visitors https://therecord.media/eu-preps-biometric-checks-travel

Went to get some vaccinations before some travel and found that I don’t get a Covid update because it’s not changed since my last one last September, but I did get flu.

They're showing Threads again tonight on BBC 4 (watch it if you haven't seen it)
I didn't realise they're planning a remake though. I'm already terrified.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2

Primer: A classic SciFi movie that I finally have to watch.
»Primer is a 2004 American independent science fiction film about the accidental discovery of time travel. The film was written, directed, produced, edited and scored by Shane Carruth in his debut feature. Carruth also stars with David Sullivan.«
🎬 https://www.youtube.…

A look at Radio Garden, a free website and app launched in 2016 as an art project, which streams feeds from 37K radio stations worldwide; the app has 3M MAUs (Sebastian Modak/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.

"The Freilich Competition ... for students to demonstrate creative ways to use data visualization to present complex problems in the Earth and space sciences." $3,000 travel grant to attend and present at #AGU25! Apply by 10 September. #geology ⚒️🧪

Caoilinn Hughes - following in Joyce's railway tracks.
https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/aug/26/train-travel-following-in-james-joyce-tracks-to-trieste

In a letter to staff, CEO Eddie Wu says Alibaba is merging its food delivery platform Ele.me and online travel agency Fliggy into its core e-commerce business (Wency Chen/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-t…

Alibaba folds delivery app and travel agency into e-commerce group
CEO Eddie Wu said the restructuring ‘marks a strategic upgrade from an e-commerce platform to a comprehensive consumer platform’.

Shouldn't tap-in/out be enough? Do we really need to track people's GPS?
This could become a security risk.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/sep/01/tap-in-tap-out-rail-ticket-trial-to-streamline-f…

Sonnet 027 - XXVII
Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed,
The dear repose for limbs with travel tired;
But then begins a journey in my head
To work my mind, when body's work's expired:
For then my thoughts--from far where I abide--
Intend a zealous pilgrimage to thee,
And keep my drooping eyelids open wide,
Looking on darkness which the blind do see:
Save that my soul's imaginary sight
Presents thy shadow to my sightless…

One year to the day this "car-breakdown mishap that led to an adventurous bus journey" happened:
#India #travel #adventure

Updating my CV to list time travel as a hobby

Kellogg will travel to Kyiv for Ukraine's Independence Day: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/23/kellogg-will-travel-to-kyiv.html

GATSim: Urban Mobility Simulation with Generative Agents
Qi Liu, Can Li, Wanjing Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23306 https://arxiv.or…

GATSim: Urban Mobility Simulation with Generative Agents
Traditional agent-based urban mobility simulations rely on rigid rule-based systems that fail to capture the complexity, adaptability, and behavioral diversity characteristic of human travel decision-making. Recent advances in large language models and AI agent technology offer opportunities to create agents with reasoning capabilities, persistent memory, and adaptive learning mechanisms. We propose GATSim (Generative-Agent Transport Simulation), a novel framework that leverages these advances …

at_migrations: Austrian internal migrations (2002-2022)
A network of migrations between municipalities in Austria, from 2002 to 2022. A weighted directed link from source to target indicates a migration flow from these two municipalities. Edges are annotated with migration volume (number of people), nationality, sex, and year.
This network has 2115 nodes and 2908569 edges.
Tags: Social, Economic, Travel, Weighted, Politlcal, Timestamps, Metadata

Multi-Waypoint Path Planning and Motion Control for Non-holonomic Mobile Robots in Agricultural Applications
Mahmoud Ghorab, Matthias Lorenzen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23350 h…

Multi-Waypoint Path Planning and Motion Control for Non-holonomic Mobile Robots in Agricultural Applications
There is a growing demand for autonomous mobile robots capable of navigating unstructured agricultural environments. Tasks such as weed control in meadows require efficient path planning through an unordered set of coordinates while minimizing travel distance and adhering to curvature constraints to prevent soil damage and protect vegetation. This paper presents an integrated navigation framework combining a global path planner based on the Dubins Traveling Salesman Problem (DTSP) with a Nonlin…

Hitchhiking Rides Dataset: Two decades of crowd-sourced records on stochastic traveling
Till Wenke
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21946 https://

Hitchhiking Rides Dataset: Two decades of crowd-sourced records on stochastic traveling
Hitchhiking, a spontaneous and decentralized mode of travel, has long eluded systematic study due to its informal nature. This paper presents and analyzes the largest known structured dataset of hitchhiking rides, comprising over 63,000 entries collected over nearly two decades through platforms associated with hitchwiki.org and lately on hitchmap.com. By leveraging crowd-sourced contributions, the dataset captures key spatiotemporal and strategic aspects of hitchhiking. This work documents the…

Evasive Random Walks and the Clairvoyant Demon
Aaron Abrams, Henry Landau, Zeph Landau, James Pommersheim, Eric Zaslow
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21929 htt…

Evasive Random Walks and the Clairvoyant Demon
A pair of random walks $(R,S)$ on the vertices of a graph $G$ is {\it successful} if two tokens can be scheduled (moving only one token at a time) to travel along $R$ and $S$ without colliding. We consider questions related to P. Winkler's {\it clairvoyant demon problem}, which asks whether for random walks $R$ and $S$ on $G$, $Pr[\ (R,S) \mbox{ is successful }] >0$. We introduce the notion of an {\it evasive} walk on $G$: a walk $S$ so that for a random walk $R$ on $G$, $Pr[\ (R,S) \mbox{ is s…

I see these images in my browser all the time. All sorts of them. I’ve never clicked on one, ever, but they still show up. I admit to being curious about this one, but since I don’t travel or stay in hotels anymore I don’t really need to know. Still, if anyone knows why it’s a good idea to wrap the doorknob in foil I’d appreciate the enlightenment.

Job listing...
"London (Remote)"
Also job listing...
"Required to travel to London office most Mondays"
#Facepalm #Work #JobListingHell

Avatars and Environments for Meetings in Social VR: What Styles and Choices Matter to People in Group Creativity Tasks?
Anya Osborne, Sabrina Fielder, Lee Taber, Tara Lamb, Joshua McVeigh-Schultz, Katherine Isbister
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21780

Avatars and Environments for Meetings in Social VR: What Styles and Choices Matter to People in Group Creativity Tasks?
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many professional entities shifted toward remote collaboration and video conferencing (VC) tools. Social virtual reality (VR) platforms present an alternative to VC for meetings and collaborative activities. Well-crafted social VR environments could enhance feelings of co-presence and togetherness at meetings, helping reduce the need for carbon-intensive travel to face-to-face meetings. This research contributes to creating meeting tools in VR by exploring the effe…

Hvis du af en eller anden besynderlig årsag skulle finde på at tage til USA, skal du passe på, når du udfylder ESTA-visumfomularen. #USA https://www.

70-year-old might have to cancel vacation after accidentally labeling himself a terrorist on visa form
Yes, that question really does exist.

The Warp Drive: Superluminal Travel within General Relativity
Osvaldo L. Santos-Pereira
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20348 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.20348…

The Warp Drive: Superluminal Travel within General Relativity
In 1994, Miguel Alcubierre proposed that the well-known special relativistic limitation that particles cannot travel with velocities higher than light speed can be bypassed when such trips are considered globally within specific general relativistic frameworks, using a warped region of spacetime in the shape of a bubble that transports particles with mass traveling through spacetime with superluminal speed. Although initial results indicated this scenario as nonphysical, since it would seem to …

11 Gorgeous Places Americans Can Visit Right Now Without Passport or Immigration Drama https://themodernfield.com/epic-places-americans-visit-without-pass…

11 Gorgeous Places Americans Can Visit Right Now Without Passport or Immigration Drama
Got that travel bug, but your passport is gathering dust? Or maybe you just realized it expired. Don't worry. I've been there. You don't have to put your dreams of an epic getaway on hold.

Raiders Could Face Patriots Without Star Player After Injury Update https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/las-vegas-patriots-christian-gonzalez-update/?adt_ei=[email]

"The life of microplastic: how fragments move through plants, insects, animals - and you"
#Plastic #Plastics #Microplastics

Alfven wave propagation from the photosphere to the corona: temporal evolution against stationary results
Roberto Soler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21758 https://

Alfven wave propagation from the photosphere to the corona: temporal evolution against stationary results
Recent observations have confirmed that a significant fraction of the coronal Alfvenic wave spectrum originates in the photosphere. These waves travel from the photosphere to the corona, overcoming the barriers of reflection and dissipation posed by the chromosphere. Previous studies have theoretically calculated the chromospheric reflection, transmission, and absorption coefficients for pure Alfven waves under the assumption of stationary propagation. Here, we relax that assumption and investi…

Holidays To Switzerland Travel Podcast - Plan Your Swiss Vacation
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/holidays-to-switzerland-travel-podcast/

Meine liebsten OpenStreetMap-Angebote
* #Mapy - fast wie Google Maps (mit Kommentare, Routen, Umgebung) https://mapy.com/de/zakladni?source=osm&a…

For no reason, here’s a piece I wrote in 2018 about the #SupremeCourt for @… on #race,

Travel ban decision follows the Supremes' record of racial classification
(RNS) — The high court’s ruling Tuesday is not surprising. When it comes to welcoming people to America, the court almost never acts for the rights promised in the U.S. Constitution without first denying them.

Amazon in Germany has Synchronicity now! That's one time-travel movie I've always wanted to see as it has been held up as one of the genre's best.
Well, one thing's clear immediately: they loved Bladerunner. Music, city, night, rain...
#scifimovies

Mongolia: 7 Days Gobi Desert Itinerary #travel - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/efOSlKWyQkg

I had to email someone so I found the email address on their web site and it ended in aol.com and I was hesitant because I wasn't sure emails could travel back in time 25 years.
Just kidding! I was actually worried the domain had expired.

Slomads Rising: Stay Length Shifts in Digital Nomad Travel, United States 2019-2024
Harrison Katz, Erica Savage
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21298 https://ar…

Slomads Rising: Stay Length Shifts in Digital Nomad Travel, United States 2019-2024
Using every U.S. Airbnb reservation created from 1 January 2019 through 31 December 2024, weighted by nights booked, we document a lasting shift toward longer stays after the COVID 19 shock. Mean nights per booking rose from 3.7 before the pandemic to a stable 4.1 to 4.4 after 2021; the median increased from two to three nights and the weighted standard deviation nearly doubled to seven nights, indicating a heavier tail. Negative binomial regression shows that, relative to the restriction perio…

Propagation of the Madden-Julian oscillation as a deterministic chaotic phenomenon
Daisuke Takasuka, Tamaki Suematsu, Hiroaki Miura, Masuo Nakano
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23195 …

Propagation of the Madden-Julian oscillation as a deterministic chaotic phenomenon
The Madden-Julian oscillation (MJO), a gigantic tropical weather system, is marked by eastward travel of cumulus cloud clusters over the Indo-Pacific region and often causes severe weather and climate events worldwide. The physics and predictability of MJO propagation remain elusive, partly because of little attention to untangling roles of multi-scale processes relevant to the MJO. Here, we reveal the chaotic nature of MJO propagation arising from cross-scale nonlinear interactions, based on 4…

If you have a green card and get a single pot conviction, you have to either naturalize or never travel internationally.
Here's the relevant section from a legal practice advisory on this issue.
https://bsky.app/profile/reichlinmelnick.bsky.social/post/3lv47…

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)
Yep, but he travelled abroad, which is what got him. That made him "inadmissible," not "deportable." So if you have a green card and get a single pot conviction, you have to either naturalize or never travel internationally. Here's the relevant section from a legal practice advisory on this issue. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

On The Road - Train to Xi’An II 🚞
在路上 - 去西安的火车 II 🚞
📷 Minolta Hi-Matic AF
🎞️Kentmere Pan 200
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

One of the reasons I appreciate walking, biking, and public transit so much (aside from just being a more joyful/connected way to travel, and better for our environment) is because they starve so many absolutely awful billionaires/corporations/oligarchs of profit. Oil companies, car manufacturers, large chain stores..
https://

That is a really good deal for a business class seat from Chicago to Tokyo.
#Travel #TravelHacking #Japan

Figures from a new T&E UK report: public charging prices have gone up (and not come down), shaping the perception of expensive public #EV charging.
And: in some areas public charging points are out of order longer than in others

Street network sub-patterns and travel mode
Juan Fernando Riascos Goyes, Michael Lowry, Nicol\'as Guar\'in Zapata, Juan Pablo Ospina
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19648 htt…

Street network sub-patterns and travel mode
Urban morphology has long been recognized as a factor shaping human mobility, yet comparative and formal classifications of urban form across metropolitan areas remain limited. Building on theoretical principles of urban structure and advances in unsupervised learning, we systematically classified the built environment of nine U.S. metropolitan areas using structural indicators such as density, connectivity, and spatial configuration. The resulting morphological types were linked to mobility pa…

Ukraine considers easing travel ban for men ages 18-24, parliament speaker says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/19/ukraine-considers-easing-travel-ban.html

CityHood: An Explainable Travel Recommender System for Cities and Neighborhoods
Gustavo H Santos, Myriam Delgado, Thiago H Silva
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18778 https://…

CityHood: An Explainable Travel Recommender System for Cities and Neighborhoods
We present CityHood, an interactive and explainable recommendation system that suggests cities and neighborhoods based on users' areas of interest. The system models user interests leveraging large-scale Google Places reviews enriched with geographic, socio-demographic, political, and cultural indicators. It provides personalized recommendations at city (Core-Based Statistical Areas - CBSAs) and neighborhood (ZIP code) levels, supported by an explainable technique (LIME) and natural-language ex…

Yeah, this is not surprising…
“Airlines and Trump Administration Backpedal on Protections for Travelers With Wheelchairs”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/travel/wheelchair-flights-delta-united-american.html
Archive: …

Airlines Challenge Protections For Travelers With Wheelchairs
A landmark rule to expand the rights of disabled air travelers has been hamstrung by a lawsuit from major airlines and delayed enforcement by the Transportation Department.

https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkxz3L_kU5vrtzEKOqPyi3kUwq9rUgLIaNC?si=MP55xr9icG8X9Gvh
Imagine if someone discovered “car culture” for the first time and was expecting to walk outside where people were trying to travel in their vehicles

I will be running a navigation workshop at The Overland Event, 28th - 31st August near Oxford.
This is such a great place to hear stories of adventure. The speaker list is the biggest over ever seen.
https://www.overlandevent.com/overland

Overview | The Overland Event | Motorcycle Travel Event
If you're interested in motorcycle travel, the Overland Event is the one show you won't want to miss. Conceived and planned by the people who bring you the quarterly Overland Magazine, the Overland Events are designed to excite...

Continuous Map Matching to Paths under Travel Time Constraints
Yannick Bosch, Sabine Storandt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18354 https://

Continuous Map Matching to Paths under Travel Time Constraints
In this paper, we study the problem of map matching with travel time constraints. Given a sequence of $k$ spatio-temporal measurements and an embedded path graph with travel time costs, the goal is to snap each measurement to a close-by location in the graph, such that consecutive locations can be reached from one another along the path within the timestamp difference of the respective measurements. This problem arises in public transit data processing as well as in map matching of movement tra…

If you like hard dictatorships, that is.
https://flipboard.com/@euronews/travel-4habctqcz/-/a-THFEbJ7TRSO8zgmFoYMzqw:a:89340020-/0

Why Turkmenistan is one of Central Asia’s best-kept secrets
For travellers keen on venturing beyond the familiar, Turkmenistan offers a unique land rooted in ancient nomadic traditions, Silk Road history and …

BiListing: Modality Alignment for Listings
Guillaume Guy, Mihajlo Grbovic, Chun How Tan, Han Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20396 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

BiListing: Modality Alignment for Listings
Airbnb is a leader in offering travel accommodations. Airbnb has historically relied on structured data to understand, rank, and recommend listings to guests due to the limited capabilities and associated complexity arising from extracting meaningful information from text and images. With the rise of representation learning, leveraging rich information from text and photos has become easier. A popular approach has been to create embeddings for text documents and images to enable use cases of co…

Venezuelan Little League team denied travel visas to U.S. for World Series (Vivian Ho/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/07/26/venezuela-little-league-travel-ban-visa/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250726/p21#a250726p21

It's pretty funny that the weird AI nostalgia videos ask people to return to 1985, when one of that year's big movies was a time-travel comedy that portrayed 1985 as a shitty wasteland compared to the 1950s.

Payday tomorrow. As well as now having to fund my son's train travel into sixth form college, pay into the College Fund (£75 - could be worse) and buy him some new clobber, I'm going to book tickets to see Eric Ravilious – Drawn To War, being screened in a pub in Pembridge as part of Flicks in the Sticks. The new furniture I'd like is going to have to wait but that's no great hardship.

Hey @… - do you have any Infos about bed length? I would love to travel more at night, but with 1,98m it is annoying 🫥
I would love to be able to find suitable connections

IDEA: on one-way streets, let's make the sidewalks one-way too! To walk in the other direction, you'd first travel one block perpendicularly, to the next street over.
Or maybe that would be ridiculous and we shouldn't do bike lanes that way either? Hard to say

For All Time (2000-10-18 Time Travel, 1890s, Romance) : Internet Archive
https://archive.org/details/for-all-time-2000-10-18-time-travel-1890s-romance (2000, 1u29)
Maffe Sci-Fi die gedeeltelijk in het heden (2000) speelt en gedeeltelijk in …

Combined Stochastic and Robust Optimization for Electric Autonomous Mobility-on-Demand with Nested Benders Decomposition
Sten Elling Tingstad Jacobsen, Bal\'azs Kulcs\'ar, Anders Lindman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19933

Combined Stochastic and Robust Optimization for Electric Autonomous Mobility-on-Demand with Nested Benders Decomposition
The electrification and automation of mobility are reshaping how cities operate on-demand transport systems. Managing Electric Autonomous Mobility-on-Demand (EAMoD) fleets effectively requires coordinating dispatch, rebalancing, and charging decisions under multiple uncertainties, including travel demand, travel time, energy consumption, and charger availability. We address this challenge with a combined stochastic and robust model predictive control (MPC) framework. The framework integrates sp…

Doesn't want us to leave, doesn't want people coming in.
Visa integrity fee: What to know about new travel fee to enter the US
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/18/visa-integrity-fee-what-to-know-about-new-travel-fee-to-enter-the-us-.html

He'll keep it up until Americans won't be allowed to travel.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-weighs-adding-36-countries-travel-ban-memo-says-2025-06-15/

The world would be a better place if we were more like cats.
Just the reduction in travel alone from everyone sleeping 20 hours a day would drastically reduce our carbon emission!

"Don't Go To America: Your Data Puts You At Risk."
#travel

Don't Go To America: Your Data Puts You At Risk.
No, that trip to Disneyland really isn't worth it.

I am sad to be one of the Canadians who’ve chosen to avoid discretionary travel to the US, under the current government, that they’re talking about in this video.
As a comparison, here are my in-the-US discretionary spends for the first halves of 2023, 2024, 2025. This does not include air travel or accommodation. This is in-person spending on things like restaurants, gas, entertainment, parking, food.
2023Q1Q2: 1763.97 USD
2024Q1Q2: 1455.82 USD
2025Q1Q2: 172.12 USD

TransLink is investing $145 million to improve local transportation infrastructure across Metro Vancouver through its Local Government Funding Programs. The programs collaborate with municipalities to co-fund upgrades that enhance sustainable travel options like walking, biking, rolling, and transit.
This year’s investment includes more than $65 million to maintain and repair the Major Road Network. These roads include more than half of the busiest bus routes in Metro Vancouver
1…

Sunset Around The World
- sunrise and sunset can be inspiring sights wherever you go -
#Travel #Photo Series
https://

Sunset Around The World #Travel #Photo Series
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

A Maine Resort Town Feels the Pressure of Trump's Immigration Crackdown (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/travel/maine-wells-ice-immigration-tourism.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250728/p35#a250728p35

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When we travel from deep-blue states to deep-red states,
the ‘Fox-Book’ media diet increases by about 10 percentage points.
Likewise, the diet of political ignorance (no political media consumption) increases by about 3.5 percentage points.
Summing these two diets, we get a roughly 14-point swing in media consumption across the state partisan spectrum.
Obviously, this 14-point swing is not Orwellian: there is no state population that receives all of its political infor…

Partisan Politics and the Road to Plutocracy – Economics from the Top Down
In this essay, I take a deep dive into the history of American plutocracy and its conspicuously Republican roots.

It’s ok, anyone stupid enough to *voluntarily* travel to the US will be stupid enough to pay this fee.
(I sympathise with those of you who are forced to go; not everyone has the privilege of being able to refuse.) https://m.ai6yr.org/@ai6yr/114876352417719220

#128 on the 2025 Global Peace Index. Nice going America. 🇺🇸 🙄
#USA #peace #happiness #sad #sarcasm

RETAIL: Towards Real-world Travel Planning for Large Language Models
Bin Deng, Yizhe Feng, Zeming Liu, Qing Wei, Xiangrong Zhu, Shuai Chen, Yuanfang Guo, Yunhong Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15335

RETAIL: Towards Real-world Travel Planning for Large Language Models
Although large language models have enhanced automated travel planning abilities, current systems remain misaligned with real-world scenarios. First, they assume users provide explicit queries, while in reality requirements are often implicit. Second, existing solutions ignore diverse environmental factors and user preferences, limiting the feasibility of plans. Third, systems can only generate plans with basic POI arrangements, failing to provide all-in-one plans with rich details. To mitigate…

Venezuelan Little League team denied entry into US amid Trump travel ban (Aaron Pellish/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/25/trump-travel-ban-little-league-00477894
http://www.memeorandum.com/250725/p125#a250725p125

Looking through the OpenWRT wiki from 2016 to get some information about a travel router I have (and worked on reversing the firmware on). Find a couple forum posts referenced from that time. Hmm, yes, good info...wait...hey, that's my post. *I'm* cited on the wiki. Fuck. I have gotten dumber in the last nine years.

Hertz and other car rental agencies are increasingly relying on scanners that use high-res imaging and AI to flag even tiny blemishes, angering some customers (Gabe Castro-Root/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/travel/rental-car-ai-scann…

Hertz and Other Rental Car Agencies Turn to AI for Damage Detection
Hertz and other agencies are increasingly relying on scanners that use high-res imaging and A.I. to flag even tiny blemishes, and customers aren’t happy.

This headline tells you where the US is heading, fascism. Also it tells us to avoid any travel to the US if possible.
"SCOTUS allows Trump admin to deport people to random countries with no notice"
https://www.lawdork.com/p/breaking-scotus-allows-trump-admin

SCOTUS allows Trump admin to deport people to random countries with no notice
Justice Sotomayor called the order a "gross ... abuse" of the court's authority. Also: Law Dork in the media.

Exclusive: U.S. confirms nation's first travel-associated human screwworm case connected to Central American outbreak (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/us-confirms-nations-first-travel-associated-human-screwworm-case-connected-2025-08-25/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250825/p61#a250825p61

Refugees from travel ban countries must be allowed to enter US, Seattle judge rules • Washington State Standard
https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/07/14/refugees-from-travel-ban-countries-must-be-allowed-to-enter-us-seattle-judge-rules/

Everything AI In Travel
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

From Translink
With more Canadians opting to be tourists in their own country this summer, TransLink is making it easier (and a lot more fun) with a series of Transit-Friendly Summer Tours throughout Metro Vancouver.
More than 50 curated tours will be launched over the course of this summer, each of which offer unique ways to see different parts of Metro Vancouver while taking transit, cycling, or walking.
see full post at

Could Anything Be More Bigoted Than Trump's Travel Bans? (Harold Meyerson/American Prospect)
https://prospect.org/politics/2025-06-23-trumps-bigoted-travel-bans/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250623/p57#a250623p57

YouTube rolls out a tool to let some creators upload different thumbnails for each video dubbed into a different language, to help expand their global audience (Dan Whateley/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/youtube-te

YouTube is testing a new feature to help videos travel globally
YouTube is testing a new tool to let creators switch out thumbnails for videos in different languages, helping their content spread globally.

In New York City, outer Brooklyn and outer Queens might as well be in different universes from each other.
The city has a plan to change that: a light rail line that would repurpose freight tracks to make travel from Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, to Jackson Heights, Queens, take about 40 minutes --
and connect 17 different subway lines.
Whether the train will even be built at all depends in part on revenue from the city’s embattled congestion pricing plan.
But, if realized, th…

Opinion | New York Is Planning a Train Line to Connect Its Transit Deserts. We Walked All 14 Miles of It.
What would light-rail service change about the space that keeps us apart?

14 Mountain Towns in the U.S. So Beautiful They Feel Like Heaven on Earth
#travel
https://themodernfield.com/best-smal…

14 Mountain Towns in the U.S. So Beautiful They Feel Like Heaven on Earth
We all get that deep urge to swap city noise for the scent of pine. I know I have. Hence, I am always on the search for the best small mountain towns in the US. 

They didn't just take the fun out of flying. They loaded it up with pain and misery. Greedy ba$tard$. 😠
#travel #flying #greed

Vice President JD Vance is set to travel to Los Angeles today (June 20) amid tensions in the city over the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.
Vance will “tour a multi-agency Federal Joint Operations Center,
a Federal Mobile Command Center, meet with leadership and Marines, and deliver brief remarks,” according to a readout of the vice president’s travel plans.
The trip comes after Los Angeles had been rocked with significant anti-ICE protests for which Donald Trump…

Ken Paxton blocks San Antonio from funding out-of-state abortion travel (David Zimmermann/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3448669/ken-paxton-blocks-san-antonio-funding-out-of-state-abortion-travel/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250620/p84#a250620p84

Trump signed a proclamation Wednesday evening to ban travel from several countries, citing security risks.
The ban will fully restrict entry of nationals from 12 countries:
Afghanistan; Myanmar, also known as Burma; Chad; Republic of the Congo; Equatorial Guinea; Eritrea; Haiti; Iran; Libya; Somalia; Sudan; and Yemen.
People from seven countries will have partial restriction:
Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela.
The proclamation i…

Trump signs proclamation to ban travel from 12 countries
President Donald Trump signed a proclamation Wednesday evening to ban travel from several countries to the US, citing security risks.

Trump Travel Restrictions Bar Residents Needed at U.S. Hospitals (Roni Caryn Rabin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/health/medical-residents-travel-ban.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250618/p163#a250618p163

Europe’s Leaders Avoided A Giveaway to Putin, but Emerged Without a Clear Path
The leaders dropped everything to travel to Washington
to ensure President Trump didn’t force a bad deal on Ukraine.
A road map for peace remains elusive.
The seven European leaders put forward a show of support for Mr. Zelensky and unity with each other.
They won a potentially vital, if vague, expression of support from Trump for postwar security guarantees for Ukraine
and sid…

Europe’s Leaders Headed Off Giveaway to Putin, but Emerged Without a Clear Path
The leaders dropped everything to travel to Washington to ensure President Trump didn’t force a bad deal on Ukraine. A road map for peace remains elusive.

36 More Countries May Be Added to Trump's Travel Ban (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/us/politics/trump-travel-ban.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250616/p142#a250616p142

A massive volcanic eruption in Indonesia sent ash and smoke miles into the sky,
grounding flights, blanketing villages, and prompting evacuations as authorities remain on high alert.
Though no casualties have been reported, the volcano’s ongoing activity has disrupted travel and rattled residents in a region familiar with eruptions.

Volcano erupts in Indonesia, grounding flights and forcing evacuations
A massive volcanic eruption in Indonesia sent ash and smoke miles into the sky, grounding flights, blanketing villages, and prompting evacuations as authorities remain on high alert. Though no casualties have been reported, the volcano’s ongoing activity has disrupted travel and rattled residents in a region familiar with eruptions.

The Trump administration is thinking about adding 26 more countries
—most of them African
—to his travel ban list.
The Washington Post obtained a Trump administration memo that would give the 26 countries listed 60 days to capitulate to State Department demands.
Some countries were flagged for having “no competent or cooperative central government authority to produce reliable identity documents or other civil documents,”
or “government fraud.”
There was …

Trump Wants to Ban a Quarter of the World From Traveling to the U.S.
If put into effect, it could jeopardize future events like the 2026 World Cup and 2028 Olympics.

Trump administration considers adding 36 countries to travel ban list (Adam Taylor/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/06/14/trump-travel-ban-expansion/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250614/p68#a250614p68