#fuck elon musk

[wilwheaton]

#fuck elon musk

[polka-spots]

Apparently the government is preparing to go after Musk for being a dick about the recent stabbings, let's go! The government is ACTUALLY doing something for once!

#auspol #fuck elon musk

[theabstruseone]

I slept in and just woke up, so here's what I've been able to figure out while sipping coffee:

Twitter has officially rebranded to X just a day or two after the move was announced.

The official branding is that a tweet is now called "an X", for which there are too many jokes to make.

The official account is still @twitter because someone else owns @X and they didn't reclaim the username first.

The logo is 𝕏 which is the Unicode character Unicode U+1D54F so the logo cannot be copyrighted and it is highly likely that it cannot be protected as a trademark.

Outside the visual logo, the trademark for the use of the name "X" in social media is held by Meta/Facebook, while the trademark for "X" in finance/commerce is owned by Microsoft.

The rebranding has been stopped in Japan as the term "X Japan" is trademarked by the band X JAPAN.

Elon had workers taking down the "Twitter" name from the side of the building. He did not have any permits to do this. The building owner called the cops who stopped the crew midway through so the sign just says "er".

He still plans to call his streaming and media hosting branch of the company as "Xvideo". Nobody tell him.

This man wants you to give him control over all of your financial information.

Edit to add further developments:

Yes, this is all real. Check the notes and people have pictures. I understand the skepticism because it feels like a joke, but to the best of my knowledge, everything in the above is accurate.

Microsoft also owns the trademark on X for chatting and gaming because, y'know, X-box.

The logo came from a random podcaster who tweeted it at Musk.

The act of sending a tweet is now known as "Xeet". They even added a guide for how to Xeet.

The branding change is inconsistent. Some icons have changed, some have not, and the words "tweet" and "Twitter" are still all over the place on the site.

TweetDeck is currently unaffected and I hope it's because they forgot that it exists again. The complete negligence toward that tool and just leaving it the hell alone is the only thing that makes the site usable (and some of us are stuck on there for work).

This is likely because Musk was forced out of PayPal due to a failed credit line project and because he wanted to rename the site to "X-Paypal" and eventually just to "X".

This became a big deal behind the scenes as Musk paid over $1 million for the domain X.com and wanted to rebrand the company that already had the brand awareness people were using it as a verb to "pay online" (as in "I'll paypal you the money")

X.com is not currently owned by Musk. It is held by a domain registrar (I believe GoDaddy but I'm not entirely sure). Meaning as long as he's hung onto this idea of making X Corp a thing, he couldn't be arsed to pay the $15/year domain renewal.

Bloomberg estimates the rebranding wiped between $4 to $20 billion from the valuation of Twitter due to the loss of brand awareness.

The company was already worth less than half of the $44 billion Musk paid for it in the first place, meaning this may end up a worse deal than when Yahoo bought Tumblr.

One estimation (though this is with a grain of salt) said that Twitter is three months from defaulting on its loans taken out to buy the site. Those loans were secured with Tesla stock. Meaning the bank will seize that stock and, since it won't be enough to pay the debt (since it's worth around 50-75% of what it was at the time of the loan), they can start seizing personal assets of Elon Musk including the Twitter company itself and his interest in SpaceX.

Sesame Street's official accounts mocked the rebranding.

#twitter #twitterpocalypse #twitter fail #elon musk #fuck elon musk

[nothing-an-iratze-cant-fix]

Guys, Elon released his stupid AI on Twitter and the first thing his idiot devotees did was ask it if trans women are really women and they are losing it over getting the correct answer back.

Now it’s recounting Elon’s lies for people too

This may be the only AI bot I’ve ever liked.

#twitter #bird site #fuck elon musk #grok #fuck ai everything

[the-alpine-glow]

fuck elon and fuck x, formerly twitter

#196 #r196 #rule #/r/196 #r/196 #shitpost #shitposting #twitter #fuck elon musk #elon musk

[textsfromthefifthbasement]

I love it when anons/guests find my works and kudo/leave reviews, but given the new revelation that Elon Musk is using bots to mine AO3 fanfiction for a writing AI without writer's permission, my works are now archive-locked and only available for people with an AO3 account.

#the phantom of the opera #phantom of the opera #anti-ai #fuck elon musk #fanfiction

[ecrivainsolitaire]

Fantastic Beasts is suspended indefinitely.

Musk is begging for cash because he made the stupidest purchase in internet history.

Zucky Wucky is hemorrhaging cash because the Metaverse goal of becoming the NFT successor of real estate speculation was met with the deserved mockery at how stupid it was.

Trump is finally being properly prosecuted for crimes he unquestionably and very inconspicuously committed.

Alex Jones owes a billion dollars to Sandy Hook victims.

The Tories are imploding in a schism that might actually result in the collapse of the British empire.

Putin has ran out of army and crawled pathetically to the corner a tiny insurgent army pushed him towards, decades of military propaganda burnt away in months.

Prime Minister Shinzō Abe died with no glory.

The GOP is so confused after the Trump era they don't even know how to run their grifts anymore.

Rings of Power was such a mediocre release Amazon could potentially drop Prime Video altogether.

Turns out 2022 was really the "find out" year. It took a while but I'm loving this season finale so far.

#fuck trump #fuck jk rowling #fuck elon musk #fuck jeff bezos #fuck mark zuckerberg #fuck the tories #fuck the gop #fuck alex jones #fuck shinzo abe #fuck putin #fuck around and find out #2022

[netscapenavigator-official]

Have y’all heard that Tesla is removing turn signal stalks and gear selectors from their cars as a “feature.”

They did it with the Model S and X earlier this year, and they’re about to refresh the Model 3 to do the same. Since the Model 3 and Y share about 75% of the same parts, it’s safe to assume it’ll get the same treatment very soon, too. Meaning, 100% of Tesla’s lineup is about to have zero stalks on the steering column.

You activate turn signals via CAPACITIVE touch buttons on the steering wheel, and you don’t shift the car at all. The car decides what direction it thinks you want to go, using AI. You can override it’s “thinking” on the touch screen.

Headlights and windshield wipers are also screen-only now.

#wtf #car #cars #tesla #fuck tesla #elon musk #fuck elon musk #ai #artifical intelligence

[bunbunmaru-shimbun]

Twitter community notes are so done with people's shit when even the fact checkers broke down.

Bonus: Here's a snipped out version of the Twitter Community Note for your own needs.

#Out of Character #Twitter #Elon Musk #what the fuck #Community Notes #Twitter Community Notes #Twitter Drama #fuck elon musk

[thesevenumbrellas]

Celebrities publicly spoke against paying for blue checks on Twitter.

Elon gave them blue checks for free without asking or notifying them.

Elon admitted to giving them free blue checks on Twitter by claiming he was “personally” paying for them.

These celebrities who publicly said they didn’t support the blue check scam can now sue him for forcing them to publicly endorse his product against their will.

Which he’s publicly admitted to doing on his own platform.

#elon musk #twitter #fuck elon musk

[minyicho]

#twitter #twitter news #twitter update #twitter drama #funny twitter #twitter apocalypse #elon twitter #elongated muskrat #elon musk #elon musk twitter #elon mask #fuck elon musk #twitter memes #twitter jokes #twitter meltdown #minyicho #funny #funny shit #funny memes #meme #memes #tweet #funny tweets #tweets #lol #lmao #haha #humour #comedy #jokes

[wilwheaton]

The brands are right. No one gives a f—k about X anymore, and no one will be outraged when you — yes, you, Elon Musk — have finally killed it. The days of serial tweeters like me lamenting the days of Twitter Classic are over. We’ve gone elsewhere and use X only sparingly, and only as a necessary evil. Without us, and without any advertising support, X will soon make no money of any sort, and you’ll be left only with the occasional $8 a month from @FreedomBob69. Oh wait, but here’s more reality for you, Elon! The Cybertruck is already not only a laughingstock, it’s also barely existent on the eve of its launch and, by your own admission, won’t turn a profit until a year and a half from now at the earliest. The Boring Company, established to make the Hyperloop a reality, has only built a glorified parking ramp in Vegas after burning through nearly $800 million in VC funding. Tesla’s revenues are sinking as the big automakers roll out their own EVs that are more appealing than your four-wheeled bachelor pads. Your company SpaceX will fail in its doomed mission to make humans a multiplanetary species, and its rockets won’t stop blowing up. And your biography sucked. So it’s over for you, Elon Musk. You are a public failure of a man. You’ll still be rich, but you no longer matter. That’s all you really wanted out of this, wasn’t it? You bought Twitter because you thought that owning it would make you the most special person in the whole wide world, only to reveal yourself as an unremarkable s—thead with no good ideas. You drove everyone away, including the companies that could have propped up your reputation for another five minutes. Whether you’ll ever understand this is of no concern to me, or to anyone else. You’ve shared your bucket, and it has nothing but holes in it. So, for Bob Iger, and for the rest of humanity, let me say: Go f—k yourself, Elon. Go. F—k. Yourself. Is that clear?

The end of Elon Musk

#fuck elon musk #delete twitter

[dissociatingdumbass]

Elon Musk is so fucking stupid... I hope his disgusting ass get sued to hell and back.

#rip twitter #x japan #fuck elon musk

[napsskai]

fresh new art on this dusty old place!!

#deltarune #kris deltarune #susie deltarune #lancer deltarune #noelle holiday #? #hi again hehe #my art #fuck elon musk #btw

[bethanythebogwitch]

Between musk losing tons of money and his reputation, the submersible, the strikes, and now Burning Man, 2023 really is turning into the year of stupid rich people fucking around and finding out

#fuck elon musk #stupid rich people #titanic submersible #burning man #wga strike #sag aftra strike

[nimona-antifa]

I can't wait for Elon Musk's rebranding of Twitter to "X" to inevitably not take. He's gonna write some tweet about how awful it is that people can't just call it by the right name it's not that hard and the comments will just be full of what little trans people are left there saying "HMMM I WONDER WHAT THAT COULD POSSIBLY BE LIKE" And roasting him. It'll be glorious.

#twitter #fuck elon musk #elongated muskrat #elon musk