Musk failed to get the necessary permits to change Twitter’s building signage to X, and the police shut it down just in time for “er” to remain.

https://lemmy.today/post/147558

Musk failed to get the necessary permits to change Twitter’s building signage to X, and the police shut it down just in time for “er” to remain. - Lemmy Today

The awesome Taylor Lorenz reports this on Mastadon. Highly recommend to follow her if you like these updates about what’s going on.

That man is repeatedly showing the world how stupid he actually is and how little he actually understands about running a company. He has never been in a situation like this where he wasn’t surrounded by a bunch of people playing babysitter and doing all the leg work to try to actually get his shit ideas to work. IIRC I saw somewhere this morning that he hadn’t even figured out what to call tweets and retweets, he really hadn’t thought any further than changing the logo and repeating the same lame idea he had 30 years ago.

ABAM (All Billionaires Are Morons)

ABAM (All Billionaires Are Morons)

Bill Gates is actually a very smart, and nowadays even pleasant, man.

He has not always be pleasant. Don’t fall for the post-retirement PR spin
"Nowadays even pleasant" clearly implies he wasn't always pleasant though.
It’s easy to act pleasant when you no longer have anything to gain from being awful

You say that, but look at the cadre of billionaires who no longer have anything to gain from being awful… but still are.

Old habits die hard?

That is a good point. I think most of them are just plain awful people who enjoy causing negatively influencing the world, while others are only awful when it benefits them.