Twitter neighbours complain of lit-up ‘X’ sign working at high intensity

It's not like a man who got rich off slave labor mining for emeralds would have compassion for other people, right?

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.

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.

He wants attention cuz daddy no longer gives him it

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.

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.

The only thing he's ever really been good at is getting attention. And fair play to him - here we are talking about him

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.

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?

Calling it X literally ruins billions of dollars in branding. Don't stop your enemy while they're making a mistake

How about calling it ex-Twitter?

Brand X is the most appropriate name for that site.

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.

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 removed who throws a tantrum when the media spotlight is off him for longer than 5 minutes.

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.

Why it has to pulsate?

The neighbors.

It feels more and more like a cry of help "Look at me! Please look at me!"

So boring urgh

His dad was the first one to prove they weren't a poor South African family because Elon, in his infinite assheadedness, put up a bounty for people to claim he wasn't actually a poor.

He's showing us how much smarter he is than the rest of us and why he deserves the billions he has.

Destroying property is a no no in the states. Ironically if children were slaves (therefore property) we might actually get somewhere in having better laws protecting them from getting shot

Yep, that’s what he said, but that was an out so he could reverse course if the criticism was too loud

what

Fuck waitin fo you to get it on ya own

X gon deliver it to ya yeah

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.