Musk dumps remaining Twitter-branded stuff in auction
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It's propping up one of the wonky server racks and is now essential infrastructure.
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Yes. That's kind of a requirement to be in marketing or sales at the vast majority of companies. It's all about manipulation in pursuit of income at any cost.
NPR just fun with it this morning calling it "the company formerly known as Twitter". It's as awkward as Prince's temporary rebrand but with considerably less thought put into it.
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Snarky Robot
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Post in the lounge thread. There's already a line and I am not going to remember you asking me here.
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At the bottom of the article, there's a blue box with the caption "Tweet this". Now imagine it as "X this"...
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Isn't she doing exactly what she's supposed to? She's being a consistent, positive force in a messy transition, ensuring customers who are buying ads that X is a new start with new moderation tools and a safe place for their business.
I'm thinking this is all part of the strategy and what their team is assuming the most likely way to keep the company alive for the next few months / years.
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And thank for for continuing to call this dumpster fire Twitter in the headlines so we know what you're talking about. It's still Twitter, not Elmo's 14-yo boy whim of making the company completely un-recognizable ('X'). Or at least add 'aka Twitter' like you do with FB and Meta. Don't give them (Elmo or Zuck) the satisfaction of successfully pulling off their malicious big switcheroos.
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I find this so depressing. Admittedly I don't use social media a lot, but many of my friends say they found Twitter to be really useful for this work
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It seems increasingly incapable of functioning as a one thing app, let alone an everything one.
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I for one really look forward to Musk releasing his "everything app".
It'll make it so much easier to ignore a whole chunk of his right wing ego trip enabled dumpster fires by simply not installing one handy app!
Thanks Elon!
It'll make it so much easier to ignore a whole chunk of his right wing ego trip enabled dumpster fires by simply not installing one handy app!
Thanks Elon!
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Anton Longshot
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At a glance it looks like she doesn't "have to" do this at all but WANTS TO.
Furthermore from what I've seen of her the loss of her soul/essence is self-inflicted.
Scary AF and I'd probably run away if I met her on the street. Brrr.
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No, no, you see, this is entirely different. Last time he was going to try and make a bank, but one you could use only via a website. This time he wants to make a combination messaging service/social media/ride share/payment platform, all in one app, because these are clearly all things that people are just crying out to all be jammed into a single app.
But seriously, he still seems to believe that the original X.com didn't fail because it was a horribly bad idea and the focus groups all thought that X.com sounded like an adult website, it failed because he was stabbed in the back. This is his attempt to prove that he really was a genius all along. And, uh, yeah, we can all see how that's going.
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He sees WeChats popularity in China and truly believes Americans will just fall in line. Without him understanding WHY WeChat exists and is popular in the first place.
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Her vacuous word vomit does not merit inclusion in any reputable outlet. Even more than Elon himself, we know her words mean nothing since a) Elon can and does undermine her on a whim b) she‘ll say anything to get what she wants c) she’s a corrupt and venal Trump admin crony d) most likely she’ll be out on her ear before the year is out.
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I'm down, why does Tiktok and Wechat exist and why is it popular in the first place?
Why are there versions for users in China as well as versions for users outside of China?
Do you think the India ban will change how users feel about these apps?
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Only thing I can think of doing with it is cat furniture. I'm sure my cat would love another place he can climb on so he can watch to see if we're going to give him food.
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More NFT, Crypto and Elon edgelord spam, can't wait!
...oh wait, nevermind, I closed my accounts when Twixxer moved security behind a paywall.
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It's pretty much standard practice at an industrial liquidation for items like the building logos that will require licensed contractors to comply with local regulations to remove & basic severance of liability for a third party's action should the buyer try to save money by not complying with local law.
Normally found in the detailed auction program to ensure bidders are aware of the complications for items that will require uninstalling at buyer expense for transport. Just not commonly reported in news stories.
Other variations include things like the saw line of a saw mill. It is a massive installation and would be sold as is, buyer will disassemble on site at their own expense and remove it from the property with an agreed time limit on the removal.
Auction buyers bid while aware of the additional costs. They discount the amount they are willing to bid by the estimated cost of taking the auction lot home.
Disassembly or uninstallation are unnecessary expenses for the seller. For the buyer, they are just part of the cost.
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Nope. The winning bidder is required to remove them. That is stated in the auction announcement and will be restated, in legalese, in the documents the buyer will have to sign to complete the purchase.
Failure to comply will result in the sale being cancelled, likely with an optional penalty deducted from the payment refund that would cover the cost of selling them to a local scrapyard. Losing bidders can also be notified of the availability of the item.
This is standard practice for installations sold at auction.
Don't be a defaulting auction buyer. Auctions tend to make defaulting buyers regret their actions in order to minimise the number of such problems.
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Unless it is disclosed prior to sale as part of the buyer's responsibilities, the buyer simply removes the signs exercising "reasonable care" and the building owner is responsible for any work needed on the wall where the sign was mounted.
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Facebook Messenger and many other IMs have been doing "No phone number required video calls" for decades now. All you need is an account on an IM that connects to the IM the other party is on (not sure if it is still a thing, but there were several IMs that did cross network video chat). This isn't innovation, it's more like revealing your ignorance of the market you want to take over.
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An "everything app" only sounds desirable to a) the avaricious goober who thinks he'll make money off of it, b) hackers, c) phishers, and d) intelligence agencies.
Why would I trust this libertarian nut to robustly comply with regulations about banking, investment, healthcare, licensing, and whatever else "everything" covers?
Why would I trust this libertarian nut to robustly comply with regulations about banking, investment, healthcare, licensing, and whatever else "everything" covers?
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He has enough trouble complying with regulations in literally anything he does as-is.
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If you're speaking English, an initial x followed by a vowel is sounded as letter z by default. Xylophone is the best known X word. They tend to be anglicised Latin and very common in medical terminology.
This rule is far older than latinized Mandarin/Cantonese.
Exceptions such as Xiaomi (which is latinized Mandarin) are learned on a case by case basis.
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The ONLY reason moron Musk is in the news is this stupid fool has money to burn and everybody likes a good bonfire. Otherwise, we're being entertained to the height of stupidity on display by a narcistici meglomaniac billionaire who craves non-stop attention at any cost.
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With the new rebrand, it is now an x-sink.
An ex-sink is a sink in the past tense.
Therefore the sink is now a-sunk.
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I have a vivid memory of hanging the ENRON letters from a ladder at a trade show before they went under. I wonder what happened to them?
edit; The letters, not the company!
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Sometimes the only purpose of your life is as a warning to others, and we're beginning to see that applies to pretty much everyone with a personal net worth exceeding seven figures regardless of how much good they do for society or humanity as a whole.
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The whole X concept seems like a clear contravention of competition laws across the EU, US and UK (to varying degrees). Yes, it will take 10+ for any of the regulators to find the budget and political willpower to actually do anything, but it seems unavoidable. "Absolute Free Speech" Musk took no time at all showing how flexible his preached principles were...
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