New logo for Elon Musk’s social network strobes over San Francisco neighbourhood, prompting complaints and mobilising building inspectors
It is hard to come up with a better metaphor for a pathological need for attention than a 20 foot tall icon, shining brighter than the sun, and strobing into elderly people’s apartments.
Why is everything Elon does, or by extension Twitter, newsworthy? I’m so sick of hearing about this fucker every day.
The only thing he’s ever really been good at is getting attention. And fair play to him - here we are talking about him
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.
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.
What do you recommend in place of Connect?
I’m using jerboa until boost for lemmy comes out.
I just reinstalled it. Works great, and I can actually see my inbox!
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.
He wants attention cuz daddy no longer gives him it
That’s because his daddy is giving it to his step-daughter.
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.
Jfc. What a shit show In case anyone needs a source:
Is daddy what he calls Grimes?
I would be shooting that fucker every night with an air soft rifle.
I’m just imagining Kramer’s apartment inChicken Roaster.
I love how even the news isn’t calling Twitter “X,” even when it’s talking about the stupid giant pulsating X Elon put up as a giant DivorcedMan signal.
What an insecure aged boy Musk is
He’s showing us how much smarter he is than the rest of us and why he deserves the billions he has.
I wish this place had a sarcasm font so it doesn’t seem like someone is actually dense but instead is being quite funny. So hard to tell these days
this place
We should have implemented a sarcasm flag in the English language, like in Lojban, where unmarked jokes, sarcasm and offhand remarks are syntactically incorrect. However, English is a natural language undergoing evolution and generally does not conform to new prescriptive rules.
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You really need a font to detect that as sarcasm?
Sadly these days, it’s too real a statement for someone
Wannabe dictator acts like a giant crybaby and tries to get attention, to the surprise of absolutely no one.
Why doesn’t it surprise me that Elon didn’t give a shit about his neighbors?
He a narcissist.
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.
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.
It’s not like a man who got rich off slave labor mining for emeralds would have compassion for other people, right?
" 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.
Calling it X literally ruins billions of dollars in branding. Don’t stop your enemy while they’re making a mistake
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?
How about calling it ex-Twitter?
Ten.
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”.
No. Bad lemming. 🔫
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.
https://feddit.de/post/1985167
Looking at the sign in daylight drives that home too.
God that’s hideous.
Brand X is the most appropriate name for that site.
That’s very annoying sign. Why it has to pulsate? That company should be fined.
Why it has to pulsate?
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.
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?
He was asked that and said they’re called Xs now. Yes, it’s incredibly stupid.
I saw somewhere they are trialing renaming Tweets to Posts
Devoid of any personality.
I love that name, I’ll call it that from now on and see if it catches on
Xeets. About as thoughtful as the logo.
Pronounced skeets
Isn’t that Blue Sky?
That name only makes sense because they used to be called “tweets”. I thought Elon was intentionally purging all the bird-stuff.
Xcrements
X gon’ give it to you…?
what
Fuck waitin fo you to get it on ya own
X gon deliver it to ya yeah
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.
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.
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.
He just Musk’d up the neighborhood.
He’s worse than a Spaceball
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It’d be a real shame if any of those neighbors snuck onto the roof and did some unauthorized remodeling of their own.
In the US, you would get arrested or shot before meaningfully changing the symbol. In the Czech Republic, an artist group did just about that on the president’s residency and faced no charges.
Just bring a clipboard and reflective vest, nobody will bother you. It’s like a cheat code for unauthorized access.
Why the downvotes? It’s true. It does not work all the time (taking down Elon’s “𝕏” is too daring) but you can avoid suspicion 90% of the time. That’s how I stole neodymium magnets from a public noticeboard using a reflective vest, a random timetable printout and a screwdriver. (They had switched to glued-on notices anyway so the magnets were left unused in a corner, and playing with magnets makes my inner kid happy.)
Somebody’s mad at me so they’ve been going through my profile and voting a bunch of comments down to zero / slightly negative (or as close as they can get with ~30 accounts).
You know, like an adult does.
Standard r/ActLikeYouBelong stuff
That’s basically what the artist group did. They pretended to be construction workers on the scaffolding (including hard hats), turning the ❤ into a ❓by adding a lamp and covering the left half.
They also pretended to be electric repairmen, replacing pedestrian traffic light symbols with people in weird positions (peeing or tripping), and as roof tilers at Prague Castle again, replacing the 100-year-old presidential flag with a pair of giant red shorts to caricature our then-president’s pro-Russian views and shamelessness. Very cool and chaotic neutral, which I approve. (Username czechs out)
If it’s stupid and it works, it’s not stupid. Interesting stuff in that wiki article and a ballsy move with the faked nuke video. That’s not something I’d want to have to defend in court, particularly if people think it’s real and injure themselves or others in a panic. Anyone seeking to follow in their footsteps should pay attention to the old advice: Czech yourself before you wreck yourself.
Unlike first world countries, our citizens never received training on how to act in case of nuclear blast. There are bunkers but few people know where they are and how to access one, and nobody has any in their backyard. We have sirens that officials could use to broadcast emergency messages and tell people what to do but they obviously weren’t activated. So the only thing that happened was several distressed old people calling the station.
Tbh the camera was asking to be hacked. Somehow they knew that its broadcast equipment was in an insufficiently secured building and the connection between the camera and transmitter was unencrypted, plain old PAL video. For the hack, they only needed to capture some normal video from the cam or film a nearby location, edit it, store it on a portable video player (they used a laptop with perhaps a video-out peripheral but most digital cameras from back then will do), gain entry to the facility, connect the player, and use a portable analog TV and ordered list of cycled-through locations in the Panorama program to press play at the right moment. About as technically advanced as something I could do if I had the balls, lol. Needless to say, all remote cameras were upgraded to digital soon after that.
Pretty cool, nice to know that it at least gave the people in charge a reason to make some upgrades. As for the panic thing, I was thinking more about the actions of those who would take it at face value and try to “settle some scores” or raid the local
Wal-Martsupermarket before the next bombs fell on their heads. We’ve got a lot of people and there’s a percentage of the population who will choose to do the dumbest possible thing at the drop of a hat.The artists did have the courtesy of including their URL at the bottom of the screen so people who knew about the Internet knew it was fake. Also if the sirens did not activate on their way to the supermarket (don’t say Walmart if you mean a general supermarket pls), they would reconsider. Anyway, not many people actually watch a program that is literally just mountain panoramas and weather information, the geopolitical situation was quite stable back then, and anyone with a bit of common sense would realize that the Giant Mountains would not be a prime target for any attack.
