i mean maybe, but the question is why would they want to get out of it? jack wasn't ceo anymore, the board only cares about maximizing value for shareholders, the business was getting worse... xp
― 龜, Tuesday, 25 July 2023 12:14 (ten months ago) link
The new logo makes this site feel like a bum strip club in Providence, Rhode Island.— ༘ (@beefytopdog) July 25, 2023
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 July 2023 12:15 (ten months ago) link
It‘s a new subgenre of posting already.
gonna be honest this new widget design looks like an app for a membership only human trafficking gentlemen’s club headquartered in Budapest pic.twitter.com/HNND7QGYTn— Qanon Latifah (@ch1w33th3d0g) July 23, 2023
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Tuesday, 25 July 2023 13:02 (ten months ago) link
lol
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 July 2023 13:04 (ten months ago) link
The bird was called Larry. Have some respect everyone and call him by his name.― Alba, Tuesday, July 25, 2023 bookmarkflaglinkit's pretty incredible that he's doing this - throwing away the one advantage twitter has over rivals, eg its incumbency and brand recognition - at the exact moment his competitors have launched their own versions― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, July 25, 2023
― Alba, Tuesday, July 25, 2023 bookmarkflaglink
it's pretty incredible that he's doing this - throwing away the one advantage twitter has over rivals, eg its incumbency and brand recognition - at the exact moment his competitors have launched their own versions
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, July 25, 2023
Two excellent posts!
Had never heard of "Larry" before.
― the pinefox, Tuesday, 25 July 2023 13:09 (ten months ago) link
xpostIt is patently clear that Musk is incompetent. He has also become socialized in the right wing echo chamber where they are still desperately clinging to the notion that the public actually has a silent majority of fervent Nazi sympathizers, they just need a coherent outlet for a new 21st century tech-friendly fascism. He probably does legitimately believe there’s a solid customer base for this nonsense — and frankly the way Reddit has captured so much of random online culture as it is literally taken over by the alt-right indicates there may be something to that. However it’s also possible that some of these notions are being fed to Musk by more clear-thinking members of the 88 club, or yes even by those with some actual experience at destroying open and democratic media. It really does seem like a concerted effort to take down good faith public discourse, whether that’s wisdom Musk accidentally received from the detritus of decades of attacks on the ‘liberal media’, or whether it’s more directly targeted, is a conundrum. I will say Musk like Trump seems to me an almost ideal mark for psychological manipulation, if some agents of anti-democratic interests were so inclined.
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Tuesday, 25 July 2023 13:14 (ten months ago) link
they should go back to the original logohttps://logo.com/image-cdn/images/kts928pd/production/5c1ecc6182f13c7c81092956161eca68c3fcab3e-3840x2160.png?w=1080&q=72
― jaymc, Tuesday, 25 July 2023 13:15 (ten months ago) link
Piklr
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 25 July 2023 13:20 (ten months ago) link
just setting up my x the everything app
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 July 2023 13:44 (ten months ago) link
It is patently clear that Musk is incompetent. He has also become socialized in the right wing echo chamber where they are still desperately clinging to the notion that the public actually has a silent majority of fervent Nazi sympathizers, they just need a coherent outlet for a new 21st century tech-friendly fascism. He probably does legitimately believe there’s a solid customer base for this nonsense — and frankly the way Reddit has captured so much of random online culture as it is literally taken over by the alt-right indicates there may be something to that. However it’s also possible that some of these notions are being fed to Musk by more clear-thinking members of the 88 club, or yes even by those with some actual experience at destroying open and democratic media. It really does seem like a concerted effort to take down good faith public discourse, whether that’s wisdom Musk accidentally received from the detritus of decades of attacks on the ‘liberal media’, or whether it’s more directly targeted, is a conundrum. I will say Musk like Trump seems to me an almost ideal mark for psychological manipulation, if some agents of anti-democratic interests were so inclined.
However it’s also possible that some of these notions are being fed to Musk by more clear-thinking members of the 88 club, or yes even by those with some actual experience at destroying open and democratic media. It really does seem like a concerted effort to take down good faith public discourse, whether that’s wisdom Musk accidentally received from the detritus of decades of attacks on the ‘liberal media’, or whether it’s more directly targeted, is a conundrum. I will say Musk like Trump seems to me an almost ideal mark for psychological manipulation, if some agents of anti-democratic interests were so inclined.
pretty booming post - worth remembering that the general public doesn't have to be rah-rah nazis for nazis to win, they just need to be easily led.
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, 25 July 2023 13:49 (ten months ago) link
There were many other designs and even other names, with Twitter beating out alternatives like "twitch" and "smssy"! Two of the runner-up designs had the tagline "an Odeo thing" directly under the name, but the final design didn't include any association with the parent company.
From: https://logo.com/blog/twitter-logo
Smssy ftw
― Alba, Tuesday, 25 July 2023 13:54 (ten months ago) link
we couldve had smssy
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 July 2023 13:56 (ten months ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f4/SassymagCover.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 25 July 2023 13:58 (ten months ago) link
Cute Bot Alert!
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Tuesday, 25 July 2023 13:59 (ten months ago) link
understanding the daddy love-hate vibe *flips sassy open to that article*
― ꙮ (map), Tuesday, 25 July 2023 14:21 (ten months ago) link
https://archive.org/details/sassy-4-92/page/60/mode/2up
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Tuesday, 25 July 2023 14:24 (ten months ago) link
tweets should now be called "kisses" and retweets should be "hugs"xoxoxoxo
― Look closely, that is all. (doo dah), Tuesday, 25 July 2023 14:39 (ten months ago) link
likes should be called tugs
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Tuesday, 25 July 2023 14:42 (ten months ago) link
Now I want a smssy logo t-shirt
― jmm, Tuesday, 25 July 2023 15:00 (ten months ago) link
imagining an alternate world where twitter is bought by gen x icon jane pratt and turned into sasser
― ꙮ (map), Tuesday, 25 July 2023 15:17 (ten months ago) link
It is patently clear that Musk is incompetent. He has also become socialized in the right wing echo chamber where they are still desperately clinging to the notion that the public actually has a silent majority of fervent Nazi sympathizers, they just need a coherent outlet for a new 21st century tech-friendly fascism. He probably does legitimately believe there’s a solid customer base for this nonsense — and frankly the way Reddit has captured so much of random online culture as it is literally taken over by the alt-right indicates there may be something to that.However it’s also possible that some of these notions are being fed to Musk by more clear-thinking members of the 88 club, or yes even by those with some actual experience at destroying open and democratic media. It really does seem like a concerted effort to take down good faith public discourse, whether that’s wisdom Musk accidentally received from the detritus of decades of attacks on the ‘liberal media’, or whether it’s more directly targeted, is a conundrum. I will say Musk like Trump seems to me an almost ideal mark for psychological manipulation, if some agents of anti-democratic interests were so inclined.
I agree with a lot in this post, but I truly want the idea that social media sites are "a town square" or a place for "public discourse" to die. These companies, all of them, are privately owned, operated for profit, and virtual, and aren't designed to serve the public, but the coffers of large corporations. I'm tired of this small rhetorical flourish continuing unabated as conventional wisdom when it is demonstrably false.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Tuesday, 25 July 2023 16:25 (ten months ago) link
Twitter is a town square where only 10% of the town actually shows up, and even then, half of *that* is just snake oil salesmen and the rubes the frequent them
― sean paul akerman (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 25 July 2023 16:34 (ten months ago) link
tbf that's how town square things work, too
― mh, Tuesday, 25 July 2023 16:36 (ten months ago) link
Sometimes you get a Church of the Sub-Genius guy
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Tuesday, 25 July 2023 16:38 (ten months ago) link
lol yeah it's easy to overromanticize actual town squares. In ours, you typically get one guy playing musical saw reasonably well, one guy playing Middle Eastern fiddle not so well, random preachers condemning people for letting their daughters out of the house wearing shorts, assorted panhandlers, the steel drum guy, and farmers' markets twice a week. It is not a place of high-minded discourse, except for the occasional political march or rally.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 25 July 2023 16:57 (ten months ago) link
one guy playing musical saw reasonably well
Is that where you're locked in a room and forced to listen to Dave Matthews?
― pplains, Tuesday, 25 July 2023 16:58 (ten months ago) link
"i wanna play a SONG"
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 25 July 2023 17:11 (ten months ago) link
deleted my 2 accounts. first full day without twitter in a while (I had an account for many years but only started really actively using it around 2018). does this mean I have to go to primary sources for my news now and not get it delivered to me by angry 12 year olds?
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Tuesday, 25 July 2023 17:12 (ten months ago) link
“I don’t like being harassed at my private home. I’ve been doxed so many times by the left and right, I have a constant flow of people pulling over, taking pictures, even leaving death threats in my mailbox,” Buchanan wrote.
NEW from me: I spent five days in Wewahitchka, Florida, the home of Catturd. There I learned that the mysterious MAGA influencer is essentially unknown in his own backyard--and heard from the man himself, Phillip BuchananThe debut of Hi-Res at @dailydot https://t.co/Ha4lWHPEHv— Claire Goforth (@claire_goforth) July 25, 2023
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 July 2023 17:15 (ten months ago) link
his followers are claiming the writer "doxxed" him.
...
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 25 July 2023 17:20 (ten months ago) link
litterdoxxed
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Tuesday, 25 July 2023 17:41 (ten months ago) link
Ok what
Eventually he fronted a rock band with an extremely silly, fruit-themed name, which gigged at establishments like Bullwinkle’s Saloon in Tallahassee and Bubba’s Pizza in Panama City Beach, and was reportedly on the radar of the Dust Brothers, producers who worked on Beck’s Odelay.
Surprised(?) RS would publish this without confirming with the source!
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 25 July 2023 17:49 (ten months ago) link
wondering where this was reported
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Tuesday, 25 July 2023 17:58 (ten months ago) link
app keeps crashing on my phone, they must be trying to push an update for the logo
― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Tuesday, 25 July 2023 19:02 (ten months ago) link
It's common to have "shita" in a Japanese name, so naturally people use it for their account name. Apparently "X" didn't take that in account when they decided to mass suspend users that has "shit" in their account name and so many Japan users are getting suspended. pic.twitter.com/oXtJRQcNoh— ハイガイ / AJ (@highgai) July 25, 2023
― chihuahuau, Tuesday, 25 July 2023 20:16 (ten months ago) link
why would they be banning that at all?
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 25 July 2023 20:57 (ten months ago) link
Does anyone know a really, really good copyright lawyer
― ✖, Tuesday, 25 July 2023 21:02 (ten months ago) link
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 July 2023 21:04 (ten months ago) link
booming
― 龜, Tuesday, 25 July 2023 21:05 (ten months ago) link
hahahaha
― frogbs, Tuesday, 25 July 2023 21:07 (ten months ago) link
Waitwait so "cat turd" is fine but "shit" is not? FFS.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 25 July 2023 23:21 (ten months ago) link
Banning "shit" in user names after 17 years of it being fine is exactly the kind of BS I would expect from this "free speech" advocate.
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Tuesday, 25 July 2023 23:48 (ten months ago) link
make my words
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F16-dY6acAEJGoo?format=jpg&name=medium
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 26 July 2023 01:38 (ten months ago) link
I am become X. Destroyer of birds.
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Wednesday, 26 July 2023 01:42 (ten months ago) link
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/hxIAAOSwj1Njy40I/s-l1200.webp
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 26 July 2023 02:11 (ten months ago) link
I'm guessing the "shit" ban came after he saw a post by @ElonShit or some such
― Chyiv Kyiv (Fetchboy), Wednesday, 26 July 2023 02:56 (ten months ago) link
the twitter bird may be gone but we’ll always have our state bird 🖕— New Jersey (@NJGov) July 25, 2023
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 26 July 2023 03:15 (ten months ago) link
looks like Elon just gifted the original @x with this snazzy brand new, easy to remember handle https://t.co/lTiJyPY11Z pic.twitter.com/mLmpOqDbds— Matt Binder (@MattBinder) July 26, 2023
― ⓓⓡ (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 26 July 2023 03:35 (ten months ago) link
Weird to read a blue tick correcting a piece.
Oh my god. The @Guardian needs to issue a correction here, as quickly as possible, for this sloppy reporting.https://t.co/J6AOSw5Azt— Dr. Jonathan Foley (@GlobalEcoGuy) July 25, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 26 July 2023 07:01 (ten months ago) link
idgi, why is that weird?
― jaymc, Wednesday, 26 July 2023 23:07 (ten months ago) link