I don’t think my lurking counts as breaking the rules, I’m just fulfilling my commitment late.
Thankfully corporations aren’t people.
Pretty sure the US law doesn’t even understand that. Don’t they have 2nd amendament rights?
Citizens united and some other cases mean that:
- Cooperations have first amendment rights
- Donating money is a form of speech protected by the first amendment
- therefore bribery is legal as long as it goes through PACs and is not obviously quid pro quo
There’s just something so pathetic about failing to start your dream company called X in 1999, and then twenty years later when your ultra rich buying some other company and renaming it X to try and finally feel like you won, you did it, you made a globally important social media company called x. The struggle is over. At last.
globally important
This is continually decreasing.
It’s even funnier that the website itself is still using “twitter” as URL.
Twitter didn’t even want to change its name, that was forced on it by its abusive owner.
Speaking of abusive owner, I saw a Cybertruck in the wild for the first time today. Pictures and videos don’t do justice to how fucking atrocious those things are.
I did as well. My housemate that was with me asked if Tesla was doing some sort of promotion where people could just drive the things around. She didn’t believe anyone would willingly buy something that looks like it was made for a '70s sci Fi C-movie.
You’re correct that videos and pics don’t manage to capture the true hideousness of that thing. Can’t wait for the lawsuits when someone inevitably runs into a pedestrian with that front wedge. It’s also weirdly smaller than I expected it to be. The one I saw parked next to a crossover car/SUV and was barely bigger than that thing.
Small brain: Calling it X
Big brain: Calling it twitter
Galaxy brain: Not acknowledging that shithole at all
https://nitter.poast.org still works
the only way to get it to work now iirc is to have it puppet actual accounts rather than guest accounts so it’s a bit harder to do, but privacydevel made a fork that can do that
But he can start paying me if he wants me to call it X or whatever. I’d do so. For some $8 a day.
