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  • Dan_Rachevaski@beehaw.org
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    He got a company and a social media that is remarkable, and recognizable, and even has an action verb related to it, “tweet, to tweet, tweeting”.

    And he decided to piss on it and create the X app. Adding insult to injury is that it’s again, another techy black and white logo. Of course, because that’s the silicon valley trend isn’t it, black and white clean minimalist corporate logo, no soul, no community, just corporate all along.

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    alright now we’re gonna have quite a big discussion as to what “x server” means. x11? twitter?

    “guys x servers are down!”
    “have you checked your .xinitrc? did you start x?”
    “whats an x innit racecar? the x servers are down!”
    “how do you use x without knowing what an .xinitrc is… oh”

    meanwhile reddit gonna rename themselves to “wayland”

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      No rich person is actually smart, they are all addicted to money and can’t get help over it. But their moves in the business world are all calculated, this guy is doing exactly what he wants to do and their goal is to make money not to lose them.

    • TheYang@lemmy.ml
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      Depends.

      If he thinks Twitter is irreperably dying, this may be a way, in which he can get out of repaying the loans he used to (partially) fund the buyout of twitter.

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        If you’re thinking this an “artist formerly known as Prince” sort of thing where Prince got out of a contract, I’m sure all the debt holders have the proper legal verbiage to have agreements remain valid in the event of a name change.

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          The lenders lawyer arrives at the Twitter office:

          Lawyer: This is Twitter, is it?

          Musk: (with a fake mustache) No, it’s X.

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              That makes me think of the theory about Saudi Arabia and probably other countries have had it in for Twitter since Arab Spring.

              So this is just Elon doing as instructed: “Make Twitter disappear, but make it look like an accident”

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          depends how the loans worked.
          I was assuming his majority shares of X (ex Twitter) collateral.
          And that that he could just go “yeah, go on, collect on your collateral, I don’t mind”, because it’s not worth anything anymore.

          But admittedly I have no Idea how the contracts were drawn up, if this is possible and if his other money would be available to collect on.

      • milkjug@beehaw.org
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        At some point some creditor should be desperate enough to do a margin call, since the loan collateral is next to worthless.

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    @chiz X is so easy to search in internet. So many results; it gets never boring! Very unique name and brand.

    Spez: Write it down, write it down! Let’s rename Reddit to Z! Employee: Why Z? Spez: What do you mean why? Does X make any sense to you too? Employee: All right, I should have never questioned you.

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    Pay $44 billion for a brand

    Literally destroy the brand

    This is more baffling than accidentally destroying the brand, like he’s been doing.

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    Space-X, X AE A-12, trying to create a company named X since the 90’s…

    guys, I think elon musk is obsessed with Speed Racers Racer X. Why else would X be such a prominent motivator for this creature?

    Any theories? Deal with the devil made at a crossroads? Or maybe he just was really used to railroad crossing signs as a kid and wants to relive those memories?

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      Yeah this really makes sure Twitter will be x’ed.

      He really put afterburner on that dumpster fire.

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    if a good enough X logo is posted tonight, we’ll make go live worldwide tomorrow

    Christ, imagine being on the dev team that has to make this happen in a day.

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      good enough, musk?

      edit: wait the actual logo looks basically the same as this but without the orange ring