Steve Geee 🤘Jul 26, 2023
Anirvan Chatterjee

via @scalzi:

“Twitter was a place, with people…Musk took a city with thriving neighborhoods and decided to run a fucking interstate through the most interesting parts of it, and the interstate doesn’t actually go anywhere good; it just runs from Bitcoin Town to Fascistburg”

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2023/07/24/preparing-my-x-it/

Preparing My X-it

Overnight, not unlike an NFL owner silently absconding with a whole football team to move it to a new town, Elon Musk decided to change the name of Twitter to “X,” which, for those of y…

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Jul 26, 2023 at 1:29amBuffer
Show threadScott the F is implicit BaxterJul 26, 2023
@anirvan @scalzi Dumb rich kid always wanted to drive a boat so he bought one and fired the crew and started sailing athwart gale winds.
Show threadMastodon MigrationJul 26, 2023

@anirvan @scalzi Welcome to both of you! Maybe you can help us build Mastodon into the open social media platform that the world really needs right now. We are different. A little more complicated and a lot more egalitarian. We have great conversations and people are generally pretty polite. Give it a chance, roll up your sleaves, and become a part of the future you dream of.

#welcome #mastodonmigration

Show threadCrowJul 26, 2023
@scalzi @anirvan Xcrement.
Show threadDalimil Gala 🇨🇿 🥥Jul 26, 2023
@crow @scalzi @anirvan Xitter
Show threadMrCopilotJul 26, 2023
@anirvan @scalzi #StillTooTsunami
" not unlike an NFL owner silently absconding with a whole football team"
Show threadThe Wolf SpiritJul 26, 2023
@anirvan @scalzi One of the better descriptions I've seen of Twitter and its Muskification.
Show threadLiberalTalkingPointsJul 26, 2023
@anirvan @scalzi did they even do a trademark search before they pulled this out? i'm guessing there is a prior owner out there if it's possible to tm a letter in the alphabet.
Show threadxs4me2Jul 26, 2023
@anirvan @scalzi Intentionally…