…and now the bird logo is back on the site (on desktop, at least - the mobile site is still showing me the X he doesn’t own), so I assume Elmo finally came down from his 72-hour ketamine high and realized he was gonna get sued for trademark infringement.
Obviously not true.
Which one of those is this?
Part of Musk’s revolving greatest hits is that engineers are dumb and will solve the wrong problem and optimize its solution. I can’t help but think every change he has made at twitter has been solving a non-existent problem.
The guy is a relatively smart man, but once you observe how someone in that lifestyle is insulated from just about every petty annoyance in life you can predict that it’s just a matter of time before he’s so disconnected from reality that a shitshow like this likely to happen.
Never mind on that. Apparently one of my browser extensions now auto-replaces the X logo with the bird logo.
Carry on, folks.
Objection! Assumes facts not in evidence.
The history described in the Mastodon thread I posted above reflects a combination of arrogance and stupidity that got Musk forcibly removed from Paypal back in 1999. And now Musk is attempting to resurrect almost precisely the very same ideas that failed so hard before, and he is spectacularly failing again.
In other words, this is not a single isolated shitshow that might have been eventually expected to happen to anyone — it’s pretty conclusive evidence that, at least in this general area, Musk has been consistently idiotic for almost 25 years, and he’s simply lacked opportunities to demonstrate what a dummy he is.
To quote a xeet that I can’t find just now; “Billionaires shouldn’t exist because when one of them has a midlife crisis it becomes EVERYONE’S problem.”
Being a Democrat, clearly a child molesting groomer! As evidenced by her being on Twitter, a website notorious for allowing posters of kiddy porn to use the site.
Channeling my inner QAnon, conservative, Republican.
Elmo steals a longtime user’s handle, offers him Twitter merch in exchange:
Or is that X merch? Whatever the fuck that is.
What sort of problem is he solving by allowing someone with a history of posting child porn, rape for cry eye, back on the platform? This isn’t hard post content of child rape get banned, arrested, tried, and imprisoned. He (musk) allows wild conspiracy theories about “trafficking” and “grooming” on the platform, indeed pushes that shit himself, and he gets genuine child porn posted and shrugs it off. It really is sick.
That’s not what I said. I said X was a reminder, not that it was objectionable per se.
I’m not on Facebook, because they are bad actors who continually have privacy scandals where they promise to do better, then don’t. I am on Threads (owned by the same company) because I support their efforts to build an alternative to twitter. Also on Mastodon, Post, and Spoutible. (Next on list: Blusky) It’s sort of like the way I’m not a vegetarian, but I try to purchase meat from platforms that respond to animal welfare pressures, eg Niman Ranch.
I’m not keen on sharing a platform with actual child abusers and fascists, but sharing a platform isn’t the same as endorsement.
My ethics are grounded on reformism, not purity tests. YMMV.
Here are some people I follow on twitter. Kamil Galeev, Paul Krugman, Brian Schatz, Josh Marshall, Noah Smith, TipsWatch, this list on the Ukraine War, and a list I’ve put together that I visit when the Fed makes an announcement. When these folks move to another platform, I’ll mostly likely will already be there.
Ok, what the fuck is so important in your life that you are mingling with fascists and actual child abusers to get it? Is your dealer still on Twitter?
GTFO.
LOL: Nice troll. I don’t encounter any of them, and I explicitly listed non-fascists that I do encounter. Do you use google Librarian? I’ve heard actual child abusers do the same. Why do you do that Librarian? Is your dealer on Google? Stop supporting death squads.
Nope, I quit using Google (as
far as feasible for me*) -4 years ago. I do not knowingly do business with organizations I consider evil.
*my Garmin still used Google maps. Other service I use might be using services from Google I do not know about.
More on pedo guy Elmo; the photos Lucre posted were from a video depicting the torture and sexual abuse of a one-year-old and were live for four days before Elmo did anything about it.
Lucre has celebrated his being unbanned by accusing Elmo of covering up Obama birther theories, and then posted an AI-generated nude photo of AOC.
This is a handy website providing an exhaustive list of promises and broken promises from Musk over the last decade or so. Right on top of the list is “Twitter will be forming a content moderation council with widely diverse viewpoints. No major content decisions or account reinstatements will happen before that council convenes.”
Gee, I wonder if that council, which never materialized, would have approved of reinstating someone who posted CSAM to “raise awareness”
Whatever replacement search engine you use is still also used by child abusers. The point is, the standard you are posing is absurd. And the way you are proposing it makes you come off like the asshole. You’re not merely encouraging people to leave, but attacking them for not doing so. You come off more like you want to crow about how much better you are than to encourage others to follow your footsteps.
Like it or not, there’s a lot of inertia there. Not everyone who I might need or want to be in contact with has left the platform. And, frankly, I find it absurd to allow some billionaire or some bigoted assholes to make me have to leave something I get use out of.
I do use Twitter less than I did before (which was already far less than most people). People in general are already using Twitter less than before. It is dying out. Attacking people who haven’t completely abandoned it yet doesn’t accomplish anything. It’s just a purity test, and purity tests tend only to create animosity between those who would otherwise be allies.
OK, this is trivial compared to child rape, it is just stealing from a blind person and when asked by the press what about it answering with a poop emoji, becuse that is what one answers to the press, but nonetheless, that shows on how many levels Twitter is evil:
And getting worse because of a musk-rat. Not to boast about it, but I have been saying this forever. But I admit I did not imagine it could get so much worse.
When it was Twitter–they were Tweets.
Now that it’s “X”–eXcrements?
