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Yeah and their lack of integrity is breaking their brand

It is fascism, but the name of a lake, which will revert Day 1 of a Dem administration, is trivial in the face of everything else going on. It’s an unpopular, impotent flail that spotlights Trump’s weakness.

Au contraire! Their ethical and moral center is "shareholder value."

The "base map" is what you see when you explore the map on the website. Nobody doing bulk data import is looking at that. I don't know what exactly they use, but it's more likely these files, so the question is when were they updated? www.usgs.gov/us-board-on-...

Google is a massively powerful corporation that has been at the forefront of the development of web-based information systems for almost 3 decades. The notion that it doesn’t have the technical expertise to disregard US GNIS mapping protocol is preposterous.

In a way, it’s taking the “engineers have no people skills” stereotype to the furthest possible extent: not only can we not communicate like normal people, we’ll push everyone possible (and their irrelevant opinions) out of the way in order to keep the money flowing like a crooked river.

OK, go ahead and be evil.

As of Monday, I’m now a Quester. @mapquest.com

It worked, they are now the #1 map app.

Tech leaders aren’t cowards as much as fine with fascism as long as it benefits them. Cowards to me implies that they’re fearful - I don’t think they’re fearful - I think they’re greedy.

Active collaborators is probably more accurate than cowards. They WANT this.

MapQuest is showing both Lake Ontario and Gulf of Mexico. Just like they're by law legally named. None of this nationalistic (and poorly thought of since "America" applies to the entire new world) and incorrect BS.

Interesting, when I checked them out this morning I saw they still had Lake Ontario but I forgot to check the Gulf of Mexico. So I guess they don't have a principled stance, they're just very slow

"Home of the Brave" Unless money

"we hate this but we did it anyway because what if he gets maaaaaad at us"

Lake of Assholes

Absolute fucking cowards in the federal branches and agencies including our U.S. Congress and Supreme Court, too 😡! Pathetic.

That said I should probably stop being so negative online about this stuff, because I'm sure some internet sleuth will link all of this back to my job hunt and screw up my ability to find gainful employment.

100%. Especially fuck surveillance companies though, and PMC's like Blackwater.

Techbros act like Trump is Homelander when he's not even The Deep.

All the more reason for Canada to resurrect and implement the Digital Services Tax it rescinded to placate Trump.

And they'll just as happily write a great scheduling app for the trains that run to the camps.

this is the thing that kills me… the people and institutions that have the power to push back…just won’t. Only individuals with very little power have the courage to stand up to bullshit and while there is power in numbers, institutional power is always greater. It’s fucked.

From @schumer.senate.gov to @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social to big law to msm to higher-ed to tech. We are on our own. As Coates said, tell your children who the cowards were.

They're acting like these chodes can even read a map. If you asked the president what states lake Ontario is in, he wouldnt be able to answer.

"we definitely think this is bad, we're just too cowardly to do anything about" is a much smaller distinction from "this is good actually" than Apple insiders would like us to believe. my wife remarked to me on this topic last night: "what's the point of fuck you money if not to say fuck you?"

Not sure it is cowardice. Cowardice is bad enough, but agreement is worse.

Mapquest got me to my appointment this morning!

not ‘cowards’ collaborators

They're not cowards they have actively supported Trump including donations They aren't doing this out of cowardness but rather genuine maliciousness

That whole "MANLY CEO ALPHA CLAWED HIS WAY TO THE TOP THROUGH GRIT & GUTS" narrative that got mainstreamed back in the 1980s looks more & more like a lie now, doesn't it? From "Gordon Gekko" to "spineless lickspittles" in the space of 40 years...😂🤷‍♂️

I've seen the argument that Google & Apple both just pull data from GNIS and necessarily defer to GNIS, but that "deferral" is a _choice_, and I'm also not clear on the bounds of such deference For example, last year the Mexican gov't complained Google's changes extended beyond US jurisdiction

To be fair, that's true across the entire U.S. corporate CEO class.

Brought to you by today’s republicans who are now really terrorists ⬆️

Apple’s fealty has Ternus off from future purchases.

So, let me get this right: It Trump continues on his hydronym rampage, he can, tomorrow, decide that the Potomac is called henceforth "The Cuntsplooge River" and Google and Apple with obediently amend? Got it.

proving they can openly lie because we have no global system , no one in power from any country is going to call them out, even though it is within their realm of responsibility. And not doing so. Hinders the american people to police their government. *cough cough* oh my did I say sumthin?

I keep pointing out that billionaires aren’t just really wealthy millionaires but another thing altogether — an existential threat to democracy in America.

Bing maps is holding the line!

fair

Cowards. And the country won’t forget.

@bencollins.bsky.social used to be Tim Onion, so…

Pants pissing bootlickers. Think different my ass