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Osmose 11 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: NERV Disaster Prevention

Since a lot of people seem confused, this is a real disaster prevention app made in partnership with the Japan Meteorological Agency that's been on app stores since 2019: https://www.gehirn.co.jp/en/news/2019-09-01/01-press-nervapp...

Their Japanese Twitter account has 2 million followers, the branding hasn't really caused enough confusion in Japan to hinder them: https://twitter.com/UN_NERV

fungi 11 months ago | [–]

https://unnerv.jp/about/more

they have an excellent mastodon instance

LeoPanthera 11 months ago | [–]

And was in the news today because their Twitter account hit the API limit and so was unable to send out emergency warnings.

dmix 11 months ago | [–]

They apparently failed to register with as a public utility which bypasses the API restrictions https://x.com/un_nerv/status/1741794666218180929

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