Really this is where AP drew the line?
this post was submitted on 11 Feb 2025
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Trump will rename them for this
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?
Use archive.is and manually save it every hour?
archive.org is subject to takedown requests, so its pointless.
I hate news articles so much. "The (underlined) Associated Press said" ahh, this must be a link to the actual quote, I'll read that. Nope! Just a link to their website. At least it's not as bad as other sites that link to other random articles.
The worst are the outlets that appear to outright refuse to link to anything but their own site... It will reference something, and instead of the link actually going to the thing, it goes to the last article they posted on the thing. Ugh. Few things make me leave a news site faster.
Better than "Download the app to read the article"
Low bar.
Child Throws Temper Tantrum Because He Didn’t Get His Way
FTFY.
Seems like the AP isn't counting the lights in the official manner. There's five lights. It's official. It's not something there's any need to stubbornly disagree about, Picard.
Tell is Donald Trump is a whiny piss baby without telling us he's a whiny piss baby.
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
Gulf of America (Gulf of Mexico)
that's backwards..
Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of ~what used to be~ America)
Major map providers are rolling out the change of name gradually worldwide.
Openstreetmap still uses the correct name.
Organic map is good. But not yet as rich as Gmaps for developing small countries.
In Southern Chile, Organic Maps was leagues better than Google. GMaps was basically unusable. So yeah, it depends where you are (and how many Germans live/travel there 😁).
I live in Bangladesh 🇧🇩
Just send them to Denali...
Snowflakes 🙄
Any press still allowed in is just bootlicking government mouthpieces anyway.
But I thought dead naming was cool? Now you want to use preferred names.
Good for them
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