Google has decided to rename Lake Ontario in the US. Please uninstall Google Maps.

While I understand they’re pulling data from the US government, they have no actual legal obligation to comply. This is entirely a choice an executive at Google made.

Did you know: When you click a link on Google and then go there Google tracks your location and links it to all your ads. This feature is called Local Search Ads, and you can hit Google’s pocketbook directly in protest by not having Google Maps installed.

When you have Google Maps installed Google is always tracking you. That tracking data feeds into a lot of products: things like mapping cell and wifi networks to geolocations, ads, recaptcha, search, and more. Google stores a profile of who you are, where you live, where you work, who you visit, etc.

If uninstalling is too much for you go to your Google account and disable Location History in privacy settings. Alternatively, click your user profile icon and turn on incognito mode, which disabled tracking and other features.

This will reduce the data linked to your profile (though, in reality, there’s no assurance this does anything, like when that disabled Nest camera was used by the FBI last year).

Browsing without an account does not have the effect. If you simply log out you have no privacy limitations enabled.

Guard the Leaf is a Canadian who (used to be?) in Malaysia who got so incensed about the USA's unprovoked attack on Canada that he started a YouTube channel to rant about it. (It was demonetized, naturally, since apparently telling people the truth about the USA and Canadians' feelings about it is against community norms. While rampant racism is protected speech.)

He now has that channel, a discord server, a substack, and presence on a lot of other little non-American social media sites. He's developed quite a following and keeps up daily rants about the USA vs. Canada.

And he brought up a really good point here.

In the first Trump presidency, Trump levied tariffs on two major Canadian products. Then Biden came in, and while sure, Biden used friendlier words toward Canada the tariffs never came down.

Now the Great Blue Hope Himself, Gavin Newsom, is prevaricating when directly asked if he'd undo the Trump attack on Canada.

Demoncrats are no better than their Repugnican counterparts. They're both the faces of American fascism. The Demoncrats are just more polite about it.

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Think about this given what happened this week with the fascist US government designating Autistici/Inventati – an anti-fascist Italian .org providing internet support to activists – as terrorists, sanctioning them, and knocking them off the Internet (solely by weaponizing Executive Order 13224 which was established shortly after 9/11 to target ruthless assassins)

This doesn’t just concern domains. If you’re an anti-fascist or anti-genocide org or group, the fascist US government can designate you a terrorist group and sanction you thereby cutting you off from banking, hosting, and almost all other infrastructure providers with zero due process in the EU.

The US government possibly is starting to identify decentralized media infrastructure as a threat to its survival. (or the big tech's survival and starting a crackdown - remember when Meta Caught Paying Nazis to Post on Facebook?)

List of TLDs controlled by Digital Identity, Inc.:

Business

• .limited
• .ltd
• .management
• .network
• .partners
• .sarl
• .services
• .solutions
• .ventures
• .support
• .associates
• .business
• .careers
• .center
• .consulting
• .company
• .enterprises
• .gmbh (company with limited liability, German legal entity)
• .group
• .industries
• .international
• .企业 (enterprise)

Education

• .academy
• .church
• .education
• .institute
• .mba
• .school
• .schule (school)
• .university
• .degree

Entertainment

• .bingo
• .bet
• .casino
• .dating
• .dog
• .events
• .games
• .movie
• .lotto
• .show
• .singles
• .theater
• .actor
• .band
• .dance
• .live
• .poker
• .rocks
• .studio
• .video
• .游戏 (games)
• .娱乐 (entertainment)

Financial

• .accountants
• .capital
• .cash
• .claims
• .credit
• .creditcard
• .estate
• .exchange
• .finance
• .financial
• .fund
• .global
• .holdings
• .insure
• .investments
• .llc
• .loans
• .money
• .report
• .tax

Fun Domains

• .cool
• .exposed
• .fail
• .black
• .red
• .gripe
• .jetzt (now in German)
• .ninja
• .blue
• .pink
• .wtf (WTF means usually "what the fuck" in internet slang)
• .life
• .green
• .pet

Healthcare

• .care
• .clinic
• .dental
• .dentist
• .doctor
• .healthcare
• .hospital
• .rehab
• .rip
• .surgery
• .vet
• .vision

Home and Construction

• .plumbing
• .lighting
• .repair
• .tools
• .cleaning
• .builders
• .construction
• .contractors
• .works
• .glass
• .parts
• .pro
• .supplies
• .supply
• .tires

Legal

• .legal
• .attorney
• .lawyer

News and Information

• .bio
• .chat
• .directory
• .fyi (for your information)
• .info
• .memorial
• .tips
• .reviews
• .news
• .media
• .today

Photography

• .camera
• .equipment
• .gallery
• .graphics
• .photography
• .photos
• .pictures

Political and Military

• .democrat
• .republican
• .vote
• .army
• .airforce
• .voto
• .navy
• .family

Real Estate

• .apartments
• .camp
• .community
• .condos
• .farm
• .house
• .immo
• .land
• .lease
• .maison
• .properties
• .rentals
• .villas
• .haus (house)
• .mortgage
• .immobilien (property)

Sports and Fitness

• .bike
• .coach
• .football
• .golf
• .hockey
• .pro
• .run
• .soccer
• .team
• .tennis
• .training
• .ski
• .futbol
• .rocks
• .expert
• .guru
• .fan
• .fitness

Style and Fashion

• .boutique
• .clothing
• .diamonds
• .florist
• .furniture
• .gold
• .jewelry
• .salon
• .shoes
• .style
• .toys
• .watch
• .moda (people/organizations interested in fashion and style)

Technology

• .codes
• .computer
• .domains
• .systems
• .technology
• .engineer
• .engineering
• .energy
• .mobi
• .solar
• .software
• .网站 (web)
• .移动 (mobile)

Travel and Geography

• .travel
• .city
• .cruises
• .flights
• .guide
• .holiday
• .asia
• .irish
• .place
• .reise (travel)
• .viajes (trip)
• .tours
• .town
• .vacations
• .reisen (travel, plural or verb)
• .voyage
• .cab
• .limo
• .zone
• .world
• .taxi

Shopping and Retail

• .bargains
• .cards
• .cheap
• .coupons
• .deals
• .delivery
• .direct
• .discount
• .express
• .gifts
• .gratis (free)
• .plus
• .shopping
• .tienda (store)
• .sale
• .promo
• .kaufen (buy)
• .market
• .auction
• .forsale
• .商店 (shop/store)

Food and Beverage

• .cafe
• .catering
• .coffee
• .kitchen
• .pizza
• .recipes
• .restaurant
• .vin (wine)
• .wine
• .fish
• .pub

Marketing and Communications

• .agency
• .digital
• .email
• .marketing
• .media
• .productions
• .social
• .studio

Read Autistici/Inventati's history on the article The Server Called Paranoia: Defend Autistici/Inventati Before September 25 by We Will Free Us, an antifascist media collective.

There's also a book publicly available: +KAOS: Ten Years of Hacking and Media Activism (archive.org) by Autistici/Inventati

#AutisticiInventati #AICrackdown20

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has awarded a $16.7 million contract to purchase 6,000 pairs of gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks, saying officers would use them to control detainees and protesters who resist.

So I write letters when I am grumpy with organizations, I got grumpy with the CBC and wrote them and the ombudsman of CBC letters.

Pearl Milling is a Product of Canada. The others are Product of USA. I've been using Pearl since the first wave of tariffs (it's just as good). I have returned to turning Product of USA products upside down.

Trump is the big dumb, I guess I am going to need to break and make sure Google Maps does not change the name at least not here in Canada.

The move is reminiscent of his move last year to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the "Gulf of America."

After more than a year of getting the cold shoulder from Canada, the American booze industry is feeling the heat. Exports of booze from the US to Canada were less than half in 2025 than they were a year earlier.

I imagine putting stickers of his face near American goods would make folks remember that he's doing his best to screw us over...

Seems like an effective way to encourage others to boycott American, what do you think?

The best time to have made Canada digitally sovereign would have been before an American president announced his intention to annex Canada and began explicitly deploying America's tech companies to attack his geopolitical adversaries.

The second-best time is now.