Good. Get punished. Don’t go along with it. If you start bowing and scraping so you won’t get ejected from the oval office, then that will enable that much more the gradual evolution that will lead you along with many other people to get “punished” in ways that are far more severe. Like, barges floating off of Gitmo or working in the fields on a prison labor system severe. It is insane to me that people are taking all of this so lightly and going along with it.
Even from the ideal pro-capitalist hat on; AP benefits from this. It might seem that short term they lose money by not having hot off the press news to sell, but long term they keep their credibility, which is ultimately the product they sell.
Anyone else finding their middle aged progressive values aligning with GDP more than ever?
Anyone else finding their middle aged progressive values aligning with GDP more than ever?
Pardon?
Any thoughts on how can I punish Google for renaming stuff in Google Maps? My company is already removing Google Analytics and Google Maps from our web site and has halted a planned migration to Google Workspace. And I have personally stopped using Chrome and Google Search which is just a cesspool of AI generated from garbage anymore anyway. But surely there must be more I can do…
Absolutely. That’s a good start. Mouseflow or one of its competitors honestly was always more useful to me than Google Analytics. Honestly, as far as I know, a huge share of their income still comes from search ads and YouTube. I think if you just avoid those things, you’re already doing more or less as much as you can.
Oh, also, publicize duckduckgo and friends over Google. Google search has become far less useful than it used to be, anyway.
Yeah been using Firefox for over a decade now. I just switched to duckduckgo about a year ago. It took about a month to get used to, but now I love it. Especially since I keep hearing how Google searches are getting worse and worse anyway. I still use youtube, but I don’t use the app and block all ads at least. I put blocks on my network for Google analytics and going to try and give up my Google email address… somehow? I am realizing quick how hard it is to completely cut yourself off from this one company.
Honestly, web analytics are just stupid unless your business is selling ads. Its just vanity outside of that business case
It’s useful to check how people are using your site, if they’re getting stuck or there are spots that are hard to navigate, things like that. That’s true irrespective of whether you’re selling ads. I think it’s just that the people who are making money off the thing are a lot more likely to be bothered to invest energy into making sure their users are having a productive experience.
Just keep pushing the groupthink to get out of Google. They can’t be trusted, now, more than ever.
Confirmed, the US is a sensitive country
Gives me a little extra respect for AP than before. Don’t comply with fascists. Make them show just how incredibly sensitive and ridiculous they are.
More respect for the AP? Them and Reuters are the two defacto news orgs that 95% of other news get their articles from lmfao.
I love AP, too. Even Reuters can get a little eyebrow-raising sometimes, but I find AP pretty consistently solid. They’re straight-up targeting the actual, real-deal journalists. ProPublica’s likely to be fucked with, too.
Oh, for sure. I’ve noticed a lot of other news sites simply citing them or republishing their content. To clarify, I didn’t mean what I said in any kind of “I didn’t respect them much before” kind of way. I heavily respect them, as well as ProPublica, like another person mentioned earlier. I just hold even more respect from them after this.
But I was assured by all the vocal defenders of that stupid bias bot that fiiiiiinally went away (payments must have dried up) that the AP and Reuters are left-wing rags.
AP and Reuters are Zionist rags. Certainly not left wing.
Reuters was the primary source which spread lies about the Maccabi hooligans who were beating up people in Amsterdam being the “victim of Pogroms”.
Also, don’t accept or repeat their narratives.
But I thought dead naming was cool? Now you want to use preferred names.
So Trump is offended that the AP deadnamed his gulf? Imagine that…
Not even deadnamed. The “name change” only impacts like a specific section of it, not the whole thing.
Child Throws Temper Tantrum Because He Didn’t Get His Way
FTFY.
I too, am not allowed into the Oval Office.
We should make our own Oval Office with blackjack and hookers!
Wait…the official one probably has those too. Blackjack, hookers, AND the Gulf of Mexico!
I wouldn’t want to belong in a place that accepts people like me.
Better that I’m not allowed in it, I think.
Me as well
Dozens of us.
Blocking the press is how the Trump admin can they make this absurd distraction a much bigger deal with no repercussions. The power of names is much diminished in these times. We need a better name vibe. call it Gulf of Slow The Fuck Down
Gulf of Punch Nazis
Any press still allowed in is just bootlicking government mouthpieces anyway.
So dumb. What a sniveling child.
Classic fashy behavior.
toss another lawsuit on the fire in 4… 3… 2… 1…
I know of at least one US government web page that still references “Gulf of Mexico”, but I don’t want to link it, because I’m very curious to see how long it can fly under the radar. I have a thing set up that checks the page regularly and will alert me whenever it changes.
Is there a way to set up archive.org or something like that to save regular snapshots without risking drawing more attention to it?
Install ArchiveBox. Even if you don’t have a home server or VPS, you can run it on your regular PC - it’s just a Docker container, or if you don’t like Docker, you can run the Python code directly. http://archivebox.io/
That way, it’s under your full control, and you keep all the data.
For tracking changes to sites, changedetection.io is free and open-source if you self-host it. Just their remotely hosted version costs money.
Setup a script to use wget to grab a copy of the page every six hours or so?
one is an international body of water, the other is wholly contained within the borders of the u.s. that’s why they went that route.
Side note: everyone called it Denali before Obama renamed it anyway, and everyone is doing to continue to call it Denali
That’s actually pretty pathetic
The Fourth Estate has been dead a long time now. Every once in a while you get someone that pushes back , but then they seem to get quietened.
