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In the vernacular of @pluralistic: Google Maps changing ‘Gulf of Mexico’ to ‘Gulf of America’ is geopolitical twiddling.

https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/19/twiddler/

> If you’re an analog grocer changing the prices of eggs, you have to send minimum-wage teenagers racing around the store with pricing guns to sticker over the old prices.
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> If you’re Amazonfresh, you just twiddle a dial on a digital control panel and all the prices are changed instantaneously.

Big Tech is now twiddling with international borders.