New logo for Elon Musk’s social network strobes over San Francisco neighbourhood, prompting complaints and mobilising building inspectors

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Why doesn’t it surprise me that Elon didn’t give a shit about his neighbors?

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72 points

It’s not like a man who got rich off slave labor mining for emeralds would have compassion for other people, right?

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30 points

He a narcissist.

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Libertarians think it’s their sacred duty to be belligerently annoying with their property as possible.

Literally had one tell me that defending property rights is a stronger moral imperative than helping someone dying of thirst the other day.

That would of course change the moment they were the thirsty ones.

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You are absolutely spot on when it comes to right wing neo-libertarians. But off base when it comes to actual libertarians. And you can use this small point to infuriate any Rothbard acolyte you come across. If you suggest that they aren’t libertarian, and instead just deeply selfish. Having that fact pointed out. Will wound them on a deep personal and emotional level. Because they’ve built their life around having plausible deniability for being assholes.

Actual left libertarians tend prioritize the freedom of everyone. Not just themselves and their property. Many left libertarians refrain from voting out of principle and not just laziness. Voting for something, no matter how much they like it. Could negatively impact someone else’s freedom. The anarchist end get pretty squirrely sometimes still. But on the whole they’re not all that bad. Nothing like their pretend right wing counterpart.

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113 points

Why is everything Elon does, or by extension Twitter, newsworthy? I’m so sick of hearing about this fucker every day.

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Because Twitter is something many people use and is part of our lives. The terms tweet and retweet is in our lexicon and a lot of breaking news appear on twitter. It’s clearly important to us and as evidenced by Mastodon, Blue Sky, and Threads, we humans want a form of twitter. I agree and it has some utilitarian use. There’s something “internety” about short blips of info with quick vids if necessary that anyone can access.

It may not seem important, but with Google trying to push DRM browsing, their search algo shitting itself, reddit crapping itself, Youtube being Youtube, etc. the old internet as we knew it is dying. The old internet being the free one we knew that wasn’t centralized, full of forums, and felt a different kind of alive. I think that’s why the news for Twitter is important.

Now, do we need to know about the people complaining about the X sign? Maybe not, i kind of don’t think so, but it is nice to have a record of it for future reference. It most likely didn’t need to reach my all/local page but people upvoted it.

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18 points

He wants attention cuz daddy no longer gives him it

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Is daddy what he calls Grimes?

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9 points

That’s because his daddy is giving it to his step-daughter.

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People down voting you don’t know that Musks dad is fucking his now pregnant step sister that he raised (groomed) since she was a child.

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As I clicked to load comments, I thought to myself that there hasn’t been a single article that presented anything he’s done with Twitshit as positive. I wondered if that’s bias or whether he’s fucked up on every change. But you’re right. I’m ready to stop hearing about it. It sucks when children are billionaires.

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I’m really looking forward to having content filter options. I don’t want to block technology or news, I just want to filter out anything that mentions Twitter, Elon, Musk, and quite a few other key words. I think connect for lemmy has this option, I just couldn’t stand the UI.

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2 points

What do you recommend in place of Connect?

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I’m using jerboa until boost for lemmy comes out.

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The only thing he’s ever really been good at is getting attention. And fair play to him - here we are talking about him

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" X user @itsmefrenchy123 said they would be “LIVID” over the bright logo, imagining it “right across from your bedroom”. "

No! It’s a twitter user. Not an X user. Don’t give that clown the satisfaction.

Edit: On the other hand, you all make very good points.

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47 points

I’m all for calling it X.

Twitter is dead. Calling it X will drive that home.

Also, Twitter has amazing brand equity. Much of Twitter’s value was the brand. If this idiot is dumb enough to throw that away, I’ll gladly help him burn money.

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4 points

https://feddit.de/post/1985167

Looking at the sign in daylight drives that home too.

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3 points

God that’s hideous.

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45 points

I’d say it’s better if we just stop caring. If he wants to lose Twitter’s brand equity so bad, why don’t we let him?

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21 points

Calling it X literally ruins billions of dollars in branding. Don’t stop your enemy while they’re making a mistake

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7 points

How about calling it ex-Twitter?

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8 points

Ten.

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I finally got your joke. It’s a reference to Apple’s futile efforts to make everyone say “O-S-Ten” instead of “O-S-X”.

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No. Bad lemming. 🔫

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Brand X is the most appropriate name for that site.

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58 points

All Elon has to do is… nothing. He doesn’t have to come up with ‘hilarious’ tweets, he doesn’t have to make an everything app, he doesn’t need to run any of his companies. He could retire right now and just do whatever he felt like in his private life.

But he’s such a needy little attention whore that he won’t do that.

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If he does not want to be in charge of a non-profitable company, why bring the responsibility upon himself? Oh yes, because Tesla is involved in scandals and any investment is better than that.

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You’re saying all that as if he couldn’t have done the very same thing like 25 years ago back in the 90s. Technically, he never had to become an “entrepreneur” in the first place… daddy’s apartheid emerald mine gave him a cushy little trust fund to live off for the rest of his life without anyone ever knowing anything about him. But sadly, he’s a spoiled little bitch who throws a tantrum when the media spotlight is off him for longer than 5 minutes.

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That’s very annoying sign. Why it has to pulsate? That company should be fined.

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It what?

glowing, pulsing and strobing

Holy shit. It cycles through a bunch of animation presets like a giant fucking set of high beam Christmas lights or a modded out Nissan Z.

In not even going to link a video, because it comes dangerously close to the photosensitive seizure threshold in some parts. Also because the video was in a tweet.

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was in a tweet

I doubt that’s what they’re officially called anymore. No idea what Musk thinks they should be called now. X-cretions?

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Xcrements

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5 points

Xeets. About as thoughtful as the logo.

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I love that name, I’ll call it that from now on and see if it catches on

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I saw somewhere they are trialing renaming Tweets to Posts

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He was asked that and said they’re called Xs now. Yes, it’s incredibly stupid.

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Why it has to pulsate?

The neighbors.

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