Elon Musk kills off Twitter's 'Larry Bird' logo in favor of an 'X'

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Muskrat should hire these gals to write him a jingle

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AFAIK Elon has two ex-viwes and he lives in Texas. Grimes needs to cover that song.

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Yes. That is good. It’s making money for someone isn’t it? What other definition of good is there?

What? You think doing good works to improve people’s lot now is good? Well let me tell you that you are stealing from the future if you do that. That money needs to get into the hands of the Very Smart People (we know who they are because they are very rich) who can do the most good with it.

Bet you never thought of that eh? You’re just living in the world rather than playing 5D chess and outstaring Roku’s Basilisk.

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He didn’t even get a permit to take down the sign!

“The only problem was that Musk hadn’t secured the correct permits for the crane now blocking the street, according to a witness at the scene. Officers with the San Francisco Police Department quickly arrived and started “shutting it down,” he tweeted. The half-finished removal operation left only the sign reading just “er.””

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I’m unable to read the full article, but I find this answer to the “why” of Elon’s Twitter shenanigans compelling.

Here’s my answer: this framing misses the true shape of Musk’s project, which is best understood not as a money-making endeavor, but as an extended act of cultural vandalism. Just as he graffitis his 420s and 69s all over corporate filings; and just as he paints over corporate signage and office rooms with his little sex puns; so does he delight in erasing the Twitter that was.

All of this has been clear since at least November, when Musk gleefully mocked a stack of Black Lives Matter T-shirts that he found in a company closet. Yes, Musk regularly issues grandiose pronouncements about how Twitter will someday become a WeChat-style “super app,” ensure the future of civilization, and so on. But at its core, Musk’s misadventure at Twitter has been reactionary: an ideological purge of the employees he saw as “woke” and entitled; a gleeful inversion of industry standards around content moderation; a hollowing out of the free product; and a redistribution of the company’s attention and wealth toward right-wing users.

Viewed through this lens, it’s only natural that Musk would conclude his project by destroying the one aspect of the old Twitter that still remained: its name. And so on Sunday night, before the crane arrived, the company projected its new logo — an apparently off-the-shelf Unicode character — onto the side of the building it currently occupies.

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So someone told me. I just like to look at the cute videos of people’s pets on xHamster.

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What do you think of the citrus recipes on Lemon Party?

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Let’s see. I wish X X hadn’t spoiled Twitter.

Yeah, that’s a bit better.

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Season 3 No GIF by Paramount+

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“X is the future state of unlimited interactivity – centered in audio, video, messaging, payments/banking – creating a global marketplace for ideas, goods, services, and opportunities,” she continued. “Powered by AI, X will connect us all in ways we’re just beginning to imagine.”

those are definitely all words

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Well, 𝕏 is a letter, but most of it is words.

X: The Creature From X!!!

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we could start spelling the word sxam with an x

sxam, sxammers, sxam artists

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S𝕏AM would be useful for identifying a specific type of scam

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The S𝕏AMs have already started…

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