In his first month as POTUS, Donald Trump has launched a wave of regressive govt orders, quickly frozen important federal funds, and instated Elon Musk as a de facto czar of federal workers. His coverage bulletins have focused LGBTQ communities, so-called “DEI” insurance policies, and federal companies tasked with humanitarian help and nationwide well being and safety. Together with these alarming strikes, Trump additionally took intention at a lesser-known evil: the identify of the physique of water off the southeastern coast of the USA.
What was as soon as (for hundreds of years) the Gulf of Mexico is now being referred to in 1984-style double communicate because the “Gulf of America.”
Tech corporations did little to push again on the identify change. Google introduced, virtually instantly, that it will change the title in Google Maps, and Apple adopted go well with not lengthy after. However a brand new extension for Chrome customers, titled “FixTheGulf”, could assist customers battle again as a substitute.
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Created by modder and iOS developer Bryce Bostwick and uploaded to GitHub on Feb. 15, the extension restores (or, as Bostwick says, “reclaims”) the Gulf of Mexico title to Google Maps with the press of a button. A easy, however impactful, use of digital instruments to defy the Trump administration’s aggressive coverage push.
“There are numerous scary govt orders being issued proper now,” the extension’s obtain web page reads. “This isn’t probably the most essential ones. But it surely is likely to be the best to defy.” Bostwick breaks down precisely the way it works — and the way builders can construct their very own — beneath:
