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   Brett Cannon (brettcannon@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 07:15:45 JST Brett Cannon

   I feel like the people getting mad at map apps for changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico for them are getting mad at the wrong thing. It's like when people would get mad at me about Python 3 during the 2->3 transition. It was actually never about me or Python 3, but about the person's manager not letting them migrate.

   I get why people are mad about the rename, but get mad at the person who made the rename official for America geography and not the people following the US standard.

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     Glenn (glennsills@dotnet.social)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 08:10:05 JST Glenn

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     • your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

     @blogdiva @brettcannon One of the Project 2025 things, and one of the things that Trump has been going on about lately is a sovereign wealth fund. It appears to me that such a fund would come from taxpayers' money and would mostly be a political slush fund. The administration could spend the money however they want, and of course, all the big tech companies are going to want some of that "investment" money.

     Google's "don't do evil" motto has changed to "meh, it's just bidness".

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     your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 (blogdiva@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 08:10:06 JST your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

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     the POTUS has no right nor jurisdiction to change geographical names. if US Congress wanted to change the name, it would have to enter into diplomatic negotiations with Mexico and all the countries bordering the gulf. that means, entering negotiations with the Organización de Estados Americanos and ultimately the United Nations.

     so, Google didn’t have to comply with the whims of a wannabe dictator.

     it is absolutely right for people to attack Google for supporting this coup

     @brettcannon

     AnthonyJK-Admin and Paul Cantrell repeated this.
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     Cassandra Granade 🏳️‍⚧️ (xgranade@wandering.shop)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 14:27:35 JST Cassandra Granade 🏳️‍⚧️

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     • your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

     @blogdiva @brettcannon

     > so, Google didn’t have to comply with the whims of a wannabe dictator.  

     This, this, this. Tech companies are going to be told by this administration to do a bunch of truly heinous shit. Our survival depends on not preemptively complying. Resisting a unilateral and illegal name change should have been an easy case, a chance to show that the administration can't just get away with extralegal bullying.