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ctkatz ,

who else but a genius would buy a social media company, remove the things that made it functional and useful, reintegrate and allow to overpopulate elements that made it worse, and destroy a multi-billion dollar icon and name render useless a word that the thing you bought created and is universally understood because he thinks calling stuff X is cool?

not only a genius but ta soooper genius.

ctkatz ,

I wouldn't buy one. good job. elon destroying your brand name.

ctkatz ,

what are the chances it would have been way overpriced compared to it similar competitors?

Fast food restaurant Wendy’s plans Uber-like surge pricing, with digital menu boards that change prices depending on demand (edition.cnn.com)

Fast food restaurant Wendy’s plans Uber-like surge pricing, with digital menu boards that change prices depending on demand::The price of a Wendy’s Frosty could soon fluctuate throughout the day as the chain looks to introduce Uber-like surge pricing on its menu.

ctkatz ,

there's a lesson that I learned in college that I still follow today: never eat lunch at lunchtime. unless I'm traveling I'm not eating at peak periods anyway so I really wouldn't be affected by this pricing change.

I still don't like it though. unless that wendy's is the only game in town (literally) this isn't going to be good for business.

Passenger sees Boeing 757-200 “wing coming apart” mid-air — United flight from San Francisco to Boston makes emergency landing in Denver (www.cbsnews.com)

Passenger sees Boeing 757-200 “wing coming apart” mid-air — United flight from San Francisco to Boston makes emergency landing in Denver::A United Airlines flight to Boston was diverted to Denver because of an issue with the plane's wing.

ctkatz ,

the last time I was on an airplane was december 31, 2000.

nothing since that time has encouraged me to break that boycott.

ctkatz ,

people are wondering if bluesky will end up like twitter. I'm not for one reason, twitter didn't start going to shit until elon took over, fired the content mod team, and let the neo nazis, porn bots, and cryptobros run rampant. twitter before elon was fairly functional and useful.

when they eventually scale up I can see bluesky being what pre elon twitter was, especially with content moderation.

SpaceX execs are accused of joking about sexual harassment and firing workers for speaking up, report says (www.businessinsider.com)

SpaceX execs are accused of joking about sexual harassment and firing workers for speaking up, report says::Seven former employees say SpaceX execs joked about sexual harassment and fired workers for raising concerns, Bloomberg reported.

ctkatz ,

didn't elon just have twins with a tesla staffer or am I misunderstanding? cause if that's true I can very much see that kind of thing going on at spacex too.

the government should investigate that, and they really could do it since spacex has that multibillion dollar government contract.

Kids Don’t Think Congress Has Their Best Interests In Mind With Their Grandstanding ‘Protect The Children’ Hearing (www.techdirt.com)

Kids Don’t Think Congress Has Their Best Interests In Mind With Their Grandstanding ‘Protect The Children’ Hearing::We’ve covered a few stories this week related to the Senate hearing on “kids safety” and there’s going to be a lot more in the coming weeks as those same Senators grandstand and yell about “protect...

ctkatz ,

I could have told them that. congress knows about school shootings and child poverty and healthcare and ineffective methods of teaching and they overwhelmingly choose not to do anything about it.

legislating mentions of homosexuality and transgenders out education doesn't protect kids. refusing to acknowledge history to "protect" one subset of kids feelings doesn't protect kids. and using kids as political chips because they don't have agency doesn't protect kids. it really and solely protects the old establishment which is becoming smaller and more irrelevant to society every day.

I don't have kids myself but I would tell them that anyone who claims to speak for you you need to listen to what they are saying and decide for yourself if they are speaking for you. because I am for damn sure the vast majority are only appealing to the parents, not the kids.

ctkatz ,

the lesson that I'm afraid is being taught is that if we vote for our leaders and our leaders not only do nothing but act like they are or will do something just to get elected that voting is meaningless. I don't want to perpetuate the thought that nothing will change so don't bother voting because then nothing really will change.

An ‘official organization’ on X is just openly glorifying Hitler — X’s verification system is being exploited by accounts that pay to promote their views, including that Hitler wasn’t so bad (www.vice.com)

An ‘official organization’ on X is just openly glorifying Hitler — X’s verification system is being exploited by accounts that pay to promote their views, including that Hitler wasn’t so bad::X's verification system is being exploited by accounts that pay to promote their views, including that Hitler wasn't so bad.

ctkatz ,

and what's elon going to do about it? fucking nothing.

chances are he's given them a follow.

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    ctkatz ,

    elon should be ecstatic that there is no viable scaled alternative to his site because I am sure pissing off probably one of if not the most powerful woman on the planet and her legions of fans is not good for business.

    and because there's no alternative he's not incentivised to do anything about it so the problem will persist.

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