Hopefully... So we won't have this guy mentioned 10 times per day everywhere.
this post was submitted on 20 Aug 2023
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There is a Browser extension called: "Block The Rich", which blurs every headline and image about a major billionaire so you can avoid them.
I feel like Musk is >3/4 of all annoying billionaire stuff at this point. When was the last time you even heard a quote from Bernard Arnault?
Also bezos and trump are blocked
Oh, that's fair I guess. Trump's not technically a billionaire but he does make a big stink, and Bezos is a major contributor to the 1/4.
It's just generally annoying rich peopel which get way to much news coverage and are generally annoying people
Well it's not because of his wealth, is more because Twitter/X news have become really boring.
Unlike news about the Boring Company, which always was 🫣
"The sad truth is that there are no great 'social networks' right now," he said on X.
None that he owns, at least...
And this guy still has millions of fans, as if he was the god of technology. I can't understand some people.
Simping for narcissists seems to be humanity's strongest trait.
We do do it a lot. I'm not sure why, hornyness and tribalism are our other invariants, and those don't enter into it directly.
Cults of personality tie your identity to the target, such that at some point they could literally shoot someone in the streets and it'll still be excused. To do otherwise would break your ego which most people aren't willing or prepared to do.
Oh no!
Anway...
Can we fast forward to the moment when this actually happens, please?
He ordered some h1-b slave to turn off the server with the database of all the url shortened until 2014. How much money this move can save? $500 per year? How many gigabytes a database with all the URLs shared in 3 years can be?
0.01GB
I sure hope it fails. I hope he becomes poor and destitute. I hope his sycophants wake up from their self-delusion about him and he is effectively lost to time. He is a useless, waste of existence.
Reddit was pretty great. Anyways...
I think rebranding Twitter as x was pretty stupid. I wouldn't have minded it if x was like a parent app and it was "Twitter by X" or something. But now they're just alienating their users.
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Meta launched its X rival called Threads on July 5 and quickly amassed more than 100 million signups, Time magazine reported, citing data from Sensor Tower.
Musk's efforts to purge the platform of bots and turn it into a "super-app" don't yet appear to be working.
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In May Fidelity wrote down the value of its stake in the company then still known as Twitter, giving it a value of about $15 billion – or just a third of what Musk paid, The Wall Street Journal Reported.X didn't immediately respond to a request for comment from Insider, made outside normal working hours.
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@gsa4555 seeing this everywhere from people complaining that all they see is posts of Elon - honestly they’re the only folk posting